Phoenix Australia has a range of useful resources to help you in your work with people who have experienced trauma, whether you are a volunteer, workplace peer or manager, community worker, or mental health practitioner.

 

Table of Contents

  • Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Fact sheets, booklets and a phone app for client and family education
  • Clinician manual and DVD on conducting imaginal exposure in PTSD
  • Online training programs
  • Links to common assessment tools
  • Screening tools
  • Annual literature scan
  • Searchable list of Phoenix Australia’s journal publications [link to Resources – Research articles page], with abstracts
  • Evidence Compass

 

Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Click here [link to Resources – PTSD Guidelines page] to visit the Guidelines information page to download or order the following resources:

  • The complete Guidelines
  • Guidelines summary – a summary of the recommendations for practitioners
  • A practitioner guide to treatment – a handy guide for practitioners who work with children and adolescents who have been affected by trauma
  • Recovery after Trauma – A guide for people with posttraumatic stress disorder
  • Joel and the Storm – A story for children who have experienced trauma
  • What the ? – A guide for teenagers who have experienced trauma
  • Helping my Children after Trauma – A guide for parents
  • Practitioner resource pack for practitioners working with young people
    – includes 1 x Guidelines Summary, 1 x Practitioner Guide, 2 x Parent guide, 2 x Teenager guide, 2 x Child storybook. Presented in a durable PVC wallet.

 

Resources for people affected by trauma

The following resources can be downloaded, or you can order printed copies. See our Fact sheets & booklets [link to Recovery – Fact sheets & booklets page] page

Fact sheets:

Booklets:

  • Mobile phone app – PTSD Coach Australia

This smart phone app is for sufferers of PTSD or posttraumatic stress symptoms. For more information, including a clinician guide, visit the At Ease website www.at-ease.dva.gov.au. The app is free from iTunes [link to https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ptsd-coach-australia/id596597393?mt=8] and Google play [link to https://play.google.com/store/search?q=PTSD coach Australia].

 

Clinician DVD: Treating traumatic stress: Conducting imaginal exposure in PTSD

This easy-to-follow clinician manual helps practitioners to use one of the best available interventions for PTSD – imaginal exposure, as recommended in the Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of ASD and PTSD [link to Resources – PTSD Guidelines page]. Go to our imaginal exposure DVD page [link to Practitioners – Resources – Clinician manual and DVD page] to see more detail, view video clips, and order.

 

Online training programs

  • Case Formulation Training. This free online training program was developed by Phoenix Australia in partnership with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA). Designed for practitioners who provide treatment to veterans with mental health disorders, this training provides an insight into the unique veteran experience and the specific mental health issues veterans face. It will assist practitioners to make better sense of the often complex needs of veterans, and to develop a “road map” for more effective treatment.
    To access the Case Formulation Online Training program, visit the At Ease website[link to https://at-ease.dva.gov.au/professionals/].
  • Managing disaster and trauma-related mental health problems – an accredited online learning program for general practitioners with gplearning. This training was developed by Phoenix Australia in collaboration with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). This Active Learning Module (ALM) addresses topics including:
    • Common reactions following disaster or trauma
    • Providing support in the days and weeks following disaster or trauma
    • Recognising common mental health problems following disaster and trauma
    • Treating common mental health problems following disaster and trauma

To enrol, or for more information on the training program, visit gplearning [link to http://www.gplearning.com.au/].

 

Assessment tools

The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) website hosts a collection of assessment tools including interview protocols and self-report questionnaires such as the CAPS, PCL and Trauma History Scale. The website provides information about how to use each scale, its reliability and validity, scoring rules, and non-English translations. Anyone can browse the resources and information, but you need to be a member to download the actual tools. For more information visit www.istss.org/AssessingTrauma.htm

 

Screening tools for trauma and PTSD

  • Screen for PTSD [PDF – Screening_for_PTSD.pdf]
  • Brief primary care screen for PTSD [PDF – VADODScreen.pdf]
  • Screening for vulnerability [PDF – PosttraumaticAdjustmentScale.pdf]
  • Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire [link to http://www.som.uq.edu.au/childtrauma/ctsq.aspx]

 

 

At Ease Professional

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs At Ease Professional [link to https://at-ease.dva.gov.au/professionals/] website provides information on assessment and treatments, professional development, understanding the veteran experience, and DVA services and resources including PTSD treatment programs for veterans and military personnel.

 

Annual literature scan

Each year Phoenix Australia conducts a scan of the literature in the field of posttraumatic mental health that is particularly relevant to veteran and military populations. You can download the following reports as PDFs.

  • 2013 Literature Scan [PDF]
  • 2012 Literature Scan [PDF]
  • Integrated Literature Reviews 2002-12 [PDF]: DSM-5 changes; e-health interventions; longitudinal course of PTSD
  • 2011 Literature Scan [PDF]

 

Evidence Compass

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs Evidence Compass is a website which organises, reviews and synthesises the research literature relating to military and veteran communities http://www.evidencecompass.dva.gov.au/.