Specialised mental health service
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Object Class |
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| METEOR identifier: | 268984 |
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| Definition: | Specialised mental health services are those with a primary function to provide treatment, rehabilitation or community health support targeted towards people with a mental disorder or psychiatric disability. These activities are delivered from a service or facility that is readily identifiable as both specialised and serving a mental health care function. |
| Context: | Hospitals and community mental health establishments and residential mental health establishments. |
| Specialisation of: | Service/care event |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The concept of a specialised mental health service is not dependent on the inclusion of the service within the state or territory mental health budget. A service is not defined as a specialised mental health service solely because its clients include people affected by a mental disorder or psychiatric disability. The definition excludes specialist drug and alcohol services and services for people with intellectual disabilities, except where they are established to assist people affected by a mental disorder who also have drug and alcohol related disorders or intellectual disability. These services can be a sub-unit of a hospital even where the hospital is not a specialised mental health establishment itself (e.g. designated psychiatric units and wards, outpatient clinics). |
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