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Suicide prevention and first aid
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- Introduction - Suicide prevention and first aid
- Early detection of risk – Suicide and the relationship with mental disorders
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- Suicide prevention – Ongoing care for patients and self-care for GPs
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- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – Mental health education and training
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Resources for training providers
- Mental health training standards 2023–25: A guide for training providers
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- Beyondblue resource
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- Delivering mental health care in general practice: Implications for practice and policy
- Contact Us
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- Home
- About Us
-
Information for GPs
- Mental health training standards 2023-25: A guide for GPs
- Focussed Psychological Strategies training subsidy
- GP mental health treatment plans
- COVID-19 and mental health in general practice
- GP mental health training and education
- Become a GP provider of FPS
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- GPMHSC how-to guides
-
Information for Training Providers
- Mental health training standards 2023-25: A guide for training providers
- FPS Training Provider Grants Program
-
Developing and accrediting mental health activities
- What is the process for accrediting MHST/FPS activities with the GPMHSC?
- The new triennium reaccreditation process
- Application submission requirements
- Developing Mental Health Skills Training (MHST)
- Developing Focussed Psychological Strategies Skills Training (FPS ST)
- Developing Mental Health CPD
- Developing FPS CPD
- GPMHSC Quality Assurance Program
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Information for Consumers and Carers
- Mental Health Training and Education
-
Resources
- Mental health training standards 2023-25
-
Resources for GPs
- Eating Disorder Plan templates
- Mental health training standards 2023–25: A guide for GPs
- Trauma-informed care resource hub
- GP Mental Health Treatment Plan Templates
- Focussed Psychological Strategies (FPS) mentorship program
-
Suicide prevention and first aid
- Disclaimer
- Recommended citation
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction - Suicide prevention and first aid
- Early detection of risk – Suicide and the relationship with mental disorders
- Talking about suicide and mental health issues
- Suicide prevention – Risk assessment in general practice
- Suicide prevention – Ongoing care for patients and self-care for GPs
- Suicide prevention and first aid resource tool kit
- After suicide
- Communication between medical and mental health professionals
- Telepartnerships in mental health
- Working with the Stepped Care Model
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – Mental health education and training
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS)
- Tips for seeing your GP – consumer resource
- External resources for GPs
- Mental health MBS item number descriptors and rebates
-
Resources for training providers
- Mental health training standards 2023–25: A guide for training providers
- Training provider information videos
- Mental health treatment plans – a consumer’s perspective
- Beyondblue resource
- Education for GPs providing care for patients at risk of suicide
- Education for GPs providing mental health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Education for GPs providing mental health care for refugee populations
- Education for GPs providing mental health care for rural and remote populations
- Seeking a consumer and carer representative in mental health
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Delivering mental health care in general practice: Implications for practice and policy
- Contact Us
- Trauma-informed care resource hub
Details of MHST
Within the context of general practice, MHST provides GPs with:
• the skills to recognise and assess mental illnesses* in order to prepare evidence-based GPMHTPs
• the skills to monitor and review the patient’s progress
• insight into the perspective of people who have experienced mental illness
• insight into the perspective of non-professional carers caring for people living with mental illness.
When GPs achieve MHST accreditation, they are eligible to provide services using following MBS item numbers: 2715 and 2717. See Appendix 1 for further details about these item numbers.
The two MHST pathways
In order to cater for GPs’ diversity of skills, experience and interest, there are two options for completing MHST: the MHST Primary Pathway; and the MHST Modular Pathway.
The MHST Primary Pathway
This is the most common pathway GPs take to become accredited with MHST, and is designed for:
• general practice registrars and other doctors entering Australian general practice
• GPs who need a refresher on core mental health skills as part of their CPD.
Required education
To satisfy the requirements of the MHST Primary Pathway, GPs must complete:
• a six-hour (at minimum) MHST Primary Pathway activity that is accredited by the GPMHSC (this can be via e-learning or face-to-face structured interactive learning activity)
• the relevant predisposing activities
• the relevant reinforcing activities.
Learning outcomes – MHST Primary Pathway
After completing the MHST Primary Pathway, GPs will be able to:
1. identify and manage treatment for mental health issues experienced by patients
2. develop evidence-based and needs-based GPMHTPs in consultation with patients and carers, and incorporate the perspectives and needs of the patient, their carers and others in the patient’s network so that subsequent care providers consider these perspectives and needs
3. review GPMHTPs in consultation with patients and carers
4. use practice systems to identify local services and resources that safeguard patient safety and help to provide holistic mental healthcare to patients
5. use relevant MBS item numbers relating to the provision of mental healthcare by a GP who has completed MHST.
The MHST Modular Pathway
Developed in response to the increasingly complex mental health issues that patients present with, this pathway is designed for more experienced GPs who have a particular interest in mental health.
To satisfy the requirements of the MHST Modular Pathway, GPs must complete one Core Module (CM) (three hours) plus one Clinical Enhancement Module (CEM) (four hours).