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Australia's National Mental Health Workforce Strategy 2022-2032 addresses critical workforce shortages across mental health professions. With a 32% current shortfall growing to 42% by 2030, the ...

This systematic review analyzed four studies examining nonpharmacological interventions to reduce aggression, conflict, and restrictive practices in acute mental health settings. Combined ...

Australia's National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan outlines a $2.3 billion investment across five pillars: prevention/early intervention, suicide prevention, treatment, supporting ...

This 2024 environmental scan examines lived experience engagement in public sector policymaking, particularly mental health contexts. It reviews current approaches, frameworks, and mechanisms ...

These Australian national principles guide mental health services in communicating with consumers and carers about restrictive practices. Developed in 2016, they emphasize that restrictive ...

This document outlines national principles to eliminate mechanical and physical restraints in mental health services. It emphasizes recovery-oriented, trauma-informed care with restraint as last ...

The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses launched the "Safe in Care, Safe at Work" toolkit in 2019, funded by the National Mental Health Commission. The toolkit aims to enhance staff safety, ...

The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses developed "Safe in Care, Safe at Work" framework to reduce seclusion and restraint in mental health services. It adapts the Six Core Strategies ...

The National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum's position paper advocates for eliminating restrictive practices (seclusion, restraint, involuntary treatment) in Australian mental health ...

Victoria's Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes and Performance Framework guides transformation of the state's mental health system following Royal Commission recommendations. The framework uses ...