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Brief Interventions Toolkit Professional Development

Orygen Ltd

The Brief Intervention Toolkit (BIT) provides training for mental health and wellbeing professionals working in secondary schools to deliver psychosocial intervention to young people.

  • Online
  • Vic

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: VIC

Product type: Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Activity sheets; Professional learning; Learning modules

Contact details

Orygen Ltd
ABN: 85 098 918 686

https://www.orygen.org.au/Training/Training-packages/Brief-interventions-in-youth-mental-health

training@orygen.org.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Self-esteem and body image

  • Drug and alcohol education

  • Suicide and self-harm

Curriculum alignment

Prospective users

Audience: Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2)

Context: School or centre-based, Home-schooling

Main beneficiaries: Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

The BIT aims to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills to successfully deliver a brief intervention model within the school setting. The toolkit provides 9 evidence-based modules to use with and support young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health concerns. It focuses on mental wellbeing and skill development including:

  • sleeping well
  • mindfulness and relaxation
  • problem solving skills
  • understanding and managing my moods
  • communicating with confidence
  • understanding my anger
  • physical activity for wellbeing
  • understanding and accepting myself
  • nutrition for wellbeing.

Intended outcomes:

  • Increased clinician confidence, knowledge and skills to undertake interventions for young people with mild to moderate mental health concerns
  • Improved understanding of the evidence for use of brief interventions as an early intervention strategy for supporting young people presenting with mild to moderate mental health concerns
  • Improved timely access to evidence-based interventions for young people
  • Symptomatic relief and reduced psychological distress of young people
  • Improved capacity of young people to develop skills to manage their mental health and wellbeing

Workshop participants are engaged through a combination of didactic and interactive activities, designed to uplift their knowledge and provide opportunities to practice skills.

Training spans one day and can be delivered via online or face-to-face workshops. 2-3 virtual follow-up consultation sessions are included as part of the training (totalling up to 3 hours).

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules

Evidence

The BIT is based on a clinical trial of low intensity physical and psychological interventions for high prevalence mental health problems in young people. From this trial, the BIT was developed, comprising 9 skill-building and behavioural intervention modules based on a structured cognitive behavioural framework.