National Training – Initial Assessment and Referral (IAR) for Mental Healthcare

Details

The IAR Guidance and Decision Support Tool (IAR-DST) is an Australian Government Department of Health
and Aged Care initiative.

The objectives of the IAR Guidance and IAR-DST are:

• A person seeking mental health assistance has their experiences understood in the context of holistic assessment domains (the 8 domains). The 8 domains help distil essential assessment information and amplify key signals (e.g., red flags) critical for decision-making.
• A person’s treatment needs are aligned to a suitable intervention intensity based on the least intensive and least intrusive evidence-based intervention that will likely lead to the most significant possible gain (the 5 levels of care). The approach is designed to minimise the risks that arise
  through under-servicing (poor outcomes) and over-servicing (unnecessary burden of care for the individual).
• To provide a nationally consistent decision support tool to guide, but not replace, clinical judgement and consumer choice (the IAR-DST).

The workshop will focus on:

1. Introduction to IAR and the development of the National Guidance.
2. Orientation to the domains, levels of care, and decision support tool.
3. Clinical judgement and supported decision-making.
4. Application of the IAR in referral, assessment, and intake settings (practical activity using vignettes).

Learning outcomes

• Participants are familiar with the principles underpinning the national approach to stepped care.
• Participants have an awareness of and confidence in the IAR development process.
• Participants can apply the IAR Guidance in practice settings, using the domains and the decision support tool to generate a recommended level of care.
• Participants understand the Levels of Care and can determine regional services matched against the levels of care.
• Participants understand the principles of clinical decision-making and consumer choice and can practice following these principles and using supported decision-making strategies

Time: 12:30pm - 3:00pm

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