Guides

• Clinicians Guide to the Mental Health Act 1996 Edition 4 2009
• The Chief Psychiatrist's Standards for the Authorisation of Hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1996
• ECT Consent Form
• Carers Guide to information sharing with mental heath clinicians: Communicating for better outcomes
• Communicating with Carers and Families: Information sharing for better outcomes
• The ECT Guide
• Medical Practitioners Guide to the Mental Health Act 1996
• Supplement to the Clinicians' Guide to the Mental Health Act 1996
• Flowchart for Medical Practioners
• Clinicians' Guide to the Mental Health Act 1996
• Community Treatment Orders: A Practioners' Guide
• Protocol Between Western Australian Police Service and the Mental Health Division
• Guidelines for Authorised Mental Health Practitioners

Pamphlets

• Rights Card
• Involuntary Detained Patients
• Voluntary Patients
• Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Community Treatment Orders
• Treatments
• Carers
• People Referred for a Psychiatric Examination
• Office of the Chief Psychiatrist

Mental Health Act Forms

Please note that these forms are password protected. Contact the Personal Assistant of the Chief Psychiatrist for further details.

• Emergency Psychiatric Treatment Form
• Form 1
• Form 2
• Form 3
• Form 4
• Form 5
• Form 6
• Form 7
• Form 8
• Form 9
• Form 10
• Form 11
• Form 12
• Form 13
• Form 14
• Police Assistance Form

Operationals Circulars

• Emergency Psychiatric Treatment and issues of consent.
• Chief Psychiatrist Delegations.
• Revocation of CTO
• Request for another opinion on psychiatric treatment
• Council of Official Visitors access to personal records
• Not acting on a Form 1 and Form 3
• Seclusion, restraint and time out
• Psychiatric examination at a non-authorised facility
• Use of SSRI and SNRI Antidepressants in Children and Adolescents - Provision of Information by the Chief Psychiatrist Under the Mental Health Act 1996
• Risk of Hyperglycaemia and Diabetes Mellitus Associated with Use of Antipsychotic Drugs
• Matters to be Reported to the Chief Psychiatrist
• Patients Access to Personal Records s160, s161 of the Mental Health Act 1996
• Completion of Transport Order

Newsletters

• INFORM NEWSLETTER Autumn/Winter 2009
• Chief Psychiatrist Forum 2008- Update on progress towards a new mental health act for WA
• Chief Psychiatrist Forum 2008- National and WA Safety and Quality initatives in Mental Health
• Chief Psychiatrist Forum 2008- Monitoring program
• INFORM NEWSLETTER Winter 2007
• INFORM NEWSLETTER Summer 06/07
• INFORM NEWSLETTER Vol 2 Ed 3 Autumn 2006
• INFORM NEWSLETTER Ed 4 Winter 2005
• INFORM NEWSLETTER Vol 2 Ed 2 Summer 2006
• INFORM NEWSLETTER Vol 2 Ed 1 Spring 2005
• INFORM NEWSLETTER Ed 3 Autumn 2005
• Inform Edition 2 (Summer)
• Inform Edition 1 (Spring)
• Jigsaw - March 2004
• Jigsaw - July 2003
• Jigsaw - April 2003
• Jigsaw - December 2002
• Jigsaw - September 2002
• Jigsaw - July 2002
• Jigsaw - April 2002

Annual Reports

• Appendix to Bi-Annual OCP Report 2003 to 2005
• Bi-Annual OCP Report 2003 to 2005
• DoH Annual Report- Highlights of the OCP 2004-2005
• Annual Report 2002 - 2003
• Community Treatment Orders- A Review

Mental Health Act (1996)

• Mental Health Act 1996: Reprint 12 January 2007
• Register of Authorised Hospitals December 2007
• Register of Authorised Hospitals in WA
• Governments Response to the Review of the Mental Health Act- Chief Psychiatrist presentation information
• Mental Health Act 1996

Mental Health Act Regulations (1997)

• Mental Health Regulations 1997

Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act (1996)

• Criminal Law (mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996
• Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996