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A Guide to Working with Young People who are Refugees

Kit (available nationally)
Available in: English

Strategies for providing individual counselling and group work.

A Time to Care - Helping People with Dementia and their Families

Booklet
Available in: English, Chinese, Croatian, Vietnamese

The booklet provides information to help people with dementia and their families.

Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities (ADEC)

Pamphlet
Available in: English, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Turkish, Vietnamese

The pamphlet contains information who can be assisted by ADEC and the programs and services provided.

Activities for people with Dementia

Fact sheet, Pamphlet (available nationally)
Available in: English, Chinese

This help sheet provides information about planning and providing activities for people with dementia.

Advances in Transcultural Nursing

Book (available nationally)
Available in: English

Focuses in the centrality of cultural competence to the effective provision of care. Edited by John Daly and Debra Jackson, University of Western Sydney

Anorexia Nervosa: Australian and New Zealand guide for consumers and carers.

Compact disc, guide (available nationally)
Available in: English

Guidelines for adolescents and adults who have anorexia nervosa or who believe they are at risk. It may help family and friends to understand the illness and treatment options.

Are you feeling good today?

Fact sheet, Pamphlet (available nationally)
Available in: English, Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Italian, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Vietnamese

Strategies for good mental health and wellbeing.

Ask the Children

Booklet
Available in: English

Children's Lives in Immigration Detention Centres

Assessing Mental Health Across Cultures

Book (available nationally)
Available in: English

Provides a framework for mental health professionals and students to obtain an in-depth understanding of a client whose cultural background is different from their own. By Lena Andary, Yvonne Stolk and Steven Klimidis

Auseinet Online Recovery ToolKit

Kit (available nationally)
Available in: English

This online collection contains resources to assist jurisdictions, service providers, consumers and carers to implement a recovery approach. The need for these resources came out of a series of consultations around the Discussion Paper "Pathways of Recovery: Preventing Relapse" (prepared for the National Mental Health Promotion and Prevention Working Party).

Baby Map - How to play with children 0 to 3 years of age

Booklet
Available in: Arabic, Bosnian, Serbian, Spanish, Vietnamese

The Baby Map encourages parents to participate in their children’s development and enjoy raising their children. The Baby Map was initially developed to assist refugee families, after the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS) identified families who had experienced torture and trauma often had diffi culty communicating within the family.

Benzo - Safer Using

Pamphlet
Available in: English, Vietnamese

A pamphlet about Benzodiazepines and safe use.

Benzodiazepines - Safe use of minor tranquillisers and sleeping pills

Pamphlet
Available in: English, Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Khmer, Macedonian, Pashto, Polish, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese

A pamphlet with information about benzodiazepines, including risks of inappropriate use and withdrawal symptoms.

Beyond Words

Booklet (available nationally)
Available in: English

A valuable resource that provides a model for delivery on promoting mental health issues and learning from culturally diverse communities. The resource is based on the successful “No more Mualagh” project which worked with the Afghani community to help Afghani people living in rural Australia learn more about depression, how it is treated and how to safely use medicine their doctors give them. Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA), National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) and Associate Professor Nicholas Procter from the University of South Australia conducted the project, with funding from the National Prescribing Service (NPS) under the Community Quality Use of Medicines Rural Project Scheme.

Produced by MMHA

Beyond Words: Lessons on translation, trust and meaning from the No more ‘mualagh’ project

Book (available nationally)
Available in: English

Beyond Words, Lessons on translation, trust and meaning from the No more ‘mualagh’ project is based on the successful “No more ‘mualagh” project which worked with the Afghani community to help Afghani people living in rural Australia learn more about depression, how it is treated and how to safely use medicine their doctors prescribe them.

Bipolar Disorder

Factsheet (available nationally)
Available in: English, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese

Information about Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder: Australian and New Zealand Treatment guide for consumers and carers

Compact disc, Guide (available nationally)
Available in: English

Guide written by consumers and carers and mental health professionals to answer the priority questions consumers have about treatments for bipolar disorders and living with the condition. It is a research summary and plain English version of Australian and New Zealnd clinical practice guidelines for treatment of Bipolar Disorder.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Pamphlet (available nationally)
Available in: English

SANE Australia have produced a resource to assist in understanding Borderline Personality Disorder, what are the symptoms, what treatment is available and how you can get further information.

Brain Injury and its Treatment

Pamphlet
Available in: English, Arabic, Italian, Vietnamese

This pamphlet provides information about brain injury and its treatment.

Brain Injury and Recovery

Booklet
Available in: Arabic, Greek, Indonesian, Spanish, Vietnamese

This booklet provides information about brain injury and recovery.