Stepped Care: Psychological Services For Underserviced And Hard To Reach Groups

For people with moderate or severe mental health illness

• Targeted to underserviced groups:
  • People living in Rural and Remote Regions
  • Culturally and Linguistically Diverse People
  • LBGTI community
  • Children
  • People at risk of suicide
  • Women with perinatal depression
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
    
    
• GP and Specialist primary referral pathway but provisional referrals available to facilitate access to services whilst arranging GP or specialist review
  
  
• Delivered by qualified Mental Health Professionals, Psychologists, Mental Health Social Workers, Mental Health OTs, Mental Health Nurses, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners
  
  
• Evidence-based psychological intervention, similar to ATAPS program 
  • Up to 18 individual sessions
    
  • Up to 12 group sessions