Menzies School of Health Research

PROJECT MANAGER	Dr Tricia Nagel
PROJECT START/FINISH DATES	2003-2009
For more information about this project please contact	carolyn.thompson@menzies.edu.au

The Australian Integrated Mental Health Initiative in the Northern Territory (AIMhi) was a 5 year action research project that engaged with managers, service providers, Aboriginal Mental Health Workers and communities to explore mental health in remote communities and to find new ways to deliver services. This was the largest mental health research project to date in the NT. It established base line measures, explored understandings of mental health from the community perspective, developed service based strategies for improved cross cultural assessment, conducted the first Indigenous mental health clinical trial of a new brief psychotherapy, and developed a range of resources for service providers and the community linked with a training program.

Summary of Projects

AIMhi Baseline measures in Indigenous mental health, 2003: explored hospitalisation data in the Top End and conducted a service provider survey of community mental health issues
AIMhi mental health story teller mob: developed stories and multi media resources in Indigenous mental health
Indigenous mental health relapse prevention trial: a clinical trial in Indigenous remote communities which tested effectiveness of ‘motivational care planning’
Audits of Best Practice in Chronic Disease Extension: developed a mental health audit tool for remote services
‘Yarning about mental health’: Developed remote service provider training in cross cultural approaches to mental health
AIMhi – Cowdy project: a current randomised controlled trial exploring the effectiveness of ‘motivational care planning’ as a discharge intervention in the acute in patient setting.

For more information about the AIMhi project and to access AIMhi resources please click on the links below.

AIMhi Journals
Care Plans
Flip Charts
General Publications
Stories of Recovery
Resources Order Form