The Impact of a Short-Term Mental Health Intervention Delivered in an Australian Prison: A Multi-Cultural Comparison

Effectiveness of Community-Based Outreach Interventions for Individuals Living with Mental Ill-Health in Australia: A Systematic Review

“…(3) Explore how small group and one-on-one opportunities for experiential learning could be adapted to reinforce and consolidate the content into weekly workbook exercises through peer group discussion or direct contact between instructors and participants investigation of mediation or moderation efects based on demographic characteristics, mental health status, relationship characteristics, and program adherence [50]. For example, cultural background was found to infuence the efectiveness of some mental health interventions [78,92]. Future research might consider how to select participants for trials of targeted preventive interventions [83] and whether diferent participants respond to diferent forms of interventions based on factors such as symptom severity [104].…”

“…Our analysis of included study outcomes demonstrates that some light-touch interventions were efective in improving psychosocial health [75]; reducing the incidence of suicide and self-harm [84,93]; reducing symptoms related to depression [89,92], generalised anxiety [76]; and posttraumatic stress disorder [90]. A tailored 8-week meditation-based program in the public-sector work environment proved to be an efective, efcient, and low-cost inclusion within an organisation's health promotion repertoire to help improve the staf's mental health [101].…”

“…Tere was a similar experience with interventions via organisational health promotion programs which attributed high compliance to the fexibility and accessibility of the program [80,94,101]. Other institutional settings where light-touch interventions were feasibly administered to large groups were universities [79,103], military institutions [72,81,90], and prisons [65,92,93].…”