Guidelines
- Physical Health Care for People Living with Mental Health Issues – NSW Health 2021
- Clinical Guidelines for the Physical Care of Mental Health Consumers – University of Western Australia, April 2011 (pdf)
Benefits of physical activity
- Exercise therapy for mental illness – UNSWTV, Dr Simon Rosenbaum (YouTube)
- The relationship between organised recreational activity and mental health – Gillian Street and Ray James, Curtin University (url)
Nutrition and mental illness
- The alarming link between mental health and weight gain – UNSWTV, Scott Teasdale (YouTube)
Screening tools
- Clinical Algorithm for monitoring metabolic syndrome in mental health patients – The University of Western Australia, updated 11 Mar 2011
- Screening Form – The University of Western Australia, updated 11 Mar 2011
Smoking cessation
- Mental Health and smoking – Quit Victoria
- Bupropion: a prescribed medicine – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Quitting services and products – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Mouth Spray – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Gum – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Inhalator – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Lozenges – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Nicotine Patches – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- “Quit can help you succeed, wherever you’re at.” – Quit Victoria (url)
- Online Training – Quit Victoria (url)
- Training and resources for mental health services – Quit Victoria
- Appointment Card – Quit Victora (pdf)
- The Stress Cycle of Smoking – Cancer Council NSW (pdf)
- Benefits of Quitting consumer poster – Quit Victoria (PDF)
- Benefits of Quitting staff poster – Quit Victoria (pdf)
- Benefits of Quitting postcard – Quit Victoria (pdf)
Fact sheets and information
- Physical health and mental wellbeing: evidence guide – Mental Health Commission of NSW (pdf)
- The role of paediatricians in the provision of mental health services to children and young people – The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Oct 2016 (pdf)
- No Mental Health Without Oral Health – The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, May 2016
- Oral disease contributes to illness burden and disparities – The Medical Journal of Australia, Mar 2018
- Positive Cardiometabolic Health: an early intervention framework for patients on psychotropic medication – HETI, NSW Government, 2011 (pdf)
- Physical Health Research Project 2014 – Mental Health Coordinating Council & University of Sydney (pdf)
- Physical health and care for people with mental health conditions – National Mental Health Commission, 2018 (pdf)
- ACMHN CPD Portal: Mental Health Professional and development for nurses, by nurses. – Australian College of Mental Health Nurses
- Physical Health of People with Mental Illness – The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (url)
- Mental Health Stepped Care Model –Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (url)
- Chronic Pain and Mental Health: An interdisciplinary case study panel discussion for GPs – Mental Health Professionals Network (url)
- Mental Health and Diabetes – Mental Health Professionals Network (url)
- e-Mental health in Practice: Online training for health professionals – Black Dog Institute (url)
- Smoking and Mental illness – a guide for health professionals – Department of Health and Ageing, Australia (this could replace one of the Quit Vic resources) (pdf)
- Mental illness and chronic conditions – ACDPA and Equally Well 2020
Reports
- Keeping Body and Mind Together – Improving the physical health and life expectancy of people with serious mental illness, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (pdf)
- The economic cost of serious mental illness and comorbidities in Australia and New Zealand – Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 2016 (pdf)
- Beyond the Fragments: Preventing the Costs and Consequences of Chronic Physical and Mental Diseases – Health Policy Collaboration, Victoria University, Dec 2015 (pdf)
- RANZCP Physical Health Consensus – Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2017 (pdf)
- A collaborative approach to improve the assessment of physical health in adult consumers with schizophrenia in Queensland mental health services – Plever, S et al Australas Psychiatry, 2016 Feb:24(1):55-61. (url)
- Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drug Workforce Strategic Framework: 2018 – 2025 – Government of Western Australia Mental Health Commission (pdf)
- When musculoskeletal conditions and mental disorders exist together – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government
- The no-drug approach to mild depression – Harvard’s Men’s Health, Harvard Medical School
- National Men’s Health Strategy 2020–2030 – Department of Health, Australia
- Co-occurring mental health and alcohol and other problems – Western Australian Association for Mental Health
- Interactive Body Map – The Conversation (url)
- Social and Emotional Wellbeing – a guide for children’s services educators – Beyond Blue (url)
Medication and mental illness
- Medication and mental illness – The Mental Health Commission of NSW (YouTube)
Other resources
- Effectiveness of a brief lifestyle intervention targeting mental health staff: analysis of physical fitness and activity in the Keeping Our Staff in Mind study, BMJ Open Sports & Exercise Medicine (2020) 6
