2014
The Aim of this document is to classify the terms and the acronyms used widely within the
Neami Blackburn, Koonung Mental Health Centre, Whitehorse Community Health Service and Eastern Health Drug and Alcohol Service.
The purpose of this document is;
1.
To explain any terminology which may or may not be familiar to the reader
2.
Easily accessible booklet for new and current staff with adequate information of
Acronyms and Glossary from the above mentioned organisations.
3.
To improve time management.
4.
To avoid confusion and thereby improving quality of service provided to the consumers and organisations.
5.
To be used as a working document and terms be added as necessary.
Aalia Mohamed Irfan Khan
Student - 17816131
Occupational Therapy
La Trobe University.

CRM
CRSW
DDx
D2DL
DSP
EDVOS
HBOS
HASI
HACC
MIF
PHaMS
PD
MHCSS
RRSP
SRS
THM
VMIAC
NYCH
AOD
AIMhi
ASSIST
ASIST
BASIS 32
BHEPS
CALD
CATT
CCT
CCU
CHL
Alcohol and Other Drugs
Integrated Mental Health Initiative
Alcohol Smoking Substance Involvement Screening Tool
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
Behavioural and Symptom Identification Scale
Box Hill Early Psychosis Service
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team
Continuing Care Team
Community Care Unit
Community Housing Limited
Collaborative Recovery Model
Community Rehabilitation & Support Worker
Dual Diagnosis
Day to Day Living
Disability Support Pension
Eastern Domestic Violence Outreach Service
Home Based Outreach Service
The Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative
Home and Community Care
Mental Illness Fellowship
Personal Helpers and Mentors Program
Professional Development
Mental Health Community Support Service
Recovery and Resource Services Program
Supported Residential Service
Transitional Housing Managers
Victoria Mental Illness Awareness Council
National Youth Coalition for Housing
ACT
ADL
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Activities of Daily Living (can be: Personal/ PADL’s or Domestic /DADL’s or Community /CADL’s
Assessment of Motor & Process Skills (O/T Ax tool) AMPS
ANMF
AMHS
Australian Nursing & Midwives Federation
Area Mental Health Service
ARAFEMI Association of Relatives and Friends of the Emotionally & Mentally Ill
ARC Australian Research Council
ATOR
BIST
BPD
BPAD
CAMHS
At Time Of Report
Behavioural Intervention Support Team
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bipolar Affective Disorder
Child /Adolescent Mental Health Services (no longer used/ refer CYMHS)

CBT
CMHC
CYMHS
COS
CRAM
CRCCU
CROP
Hx
IECHS
IPU
IPRSS
IRP
IVO
KK meals
LSP 16
MSE
MACNI
MAICD
MBCT
MHCA
MHAPD
MHT
MIF
MSTS
Mx
CM
CMT
CTO
DACSA
DBT
DHHS
DSH
DSP
DSS
EACH
ECT
EEG
ECG
ECHO
EDAS
EDM
ETOH
FAPMI
FTD
FOC
HACSU
HONOS
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Community Mental Health Clinic
Child Youth Mental Health Service
Change of Shift
Clinical Risk Assessment and Management
Canterbury Road Community Care Unit
The Community Recreation Outreach Project (A Boroondara Council initiative)
Case Manager
Case Management Team
Community Treatment Order
Domestic And Community Skills Assessment (OT Ax Tool)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Department of Health and Human Services
Deliberate Self Harm
Disability Pension Support
Disability Support Scheme/ Department of Social Security
Eastern Access Community Health
Electro Convulsive Therapy
Electro Encephalograph
Electrocardiograph
Echocardiogram
Eastern Drug and Alcohol Services
Early Discharge Management
Alcohol
Families and parents with mental illness
Formal Thought Disorder
Focus of Care
Hospital and Community Services Union
Health of the Nation Outcomes Scales
History
Inner East Community Health Service
In Patient Unit (Upton House, IPU1, IPU2)
Individual Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Support Service
Individual Recovery Plan (replaces ISP “Individual Service Plan”)
Intervention Order
Katrina’s Kitchen Meal (used CRCCU only)
Life Skills Profile
Mental Status Examination
Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative
Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
Mental Health Council of Australia
Mental Health Accommodation Pathway at Discharge
Mental Health Tribunal
Mental Illness Fellowship
Mobile Support and Treatment Services
Medication Management

PRN
PTSD
PIR
RDNS
RCTO
RIB
Rx
SAD
SECU
SRS
Sx
THC
TOR
Tx
UDS
VATMI
VCAT
WRAP
YAMHS
NGO
OCAIRS
OH&S
OOA
OOH
OT
PARCS
PD
PHAMS
PBS
PJC
Non-Government Organisation
Occupational Circumstances Assessment Interview Rating Scale
Occupational Health and Safety
Out of Area
Office of Housing
Occupational Therapy
Prevention and Recovery Centre Service
Personality Disorder (usually referred to as BPD)
Personal Helpers & Mentor Program
Pharmaceutical benefit Scheme
Peter James Centre (Eastern Health’s Aged Care Facility)
(pro re nata/Latin) “As needed”/ pertaining to medication (usually)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Partners in Recovery
Royal District Nursing Service
Revoked Community Treatment Order
Rest in Bed
Treatment
Schizo-Affective Disorder
Secure Extended Care Unit (@ Austin Hosp.)
Supported Residential Service
Symptoms
Tetrahydrocannabiol/ Chemical term for Marijuana (& derivative)
Time of Return a.k.a. Time of Report
Treatment
Urine Drug Screen
Victorian Aid to the Mentally Ill
Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal
Wellness Recovery Action Plan
Young Adult Mental Health Service
B.

BoM
CAG(s)
CEO
WCHS Board of Management
WCHS Community Advisory Groups(s)
WCHS Chief Executive Officer
CHOPER Community Health Outreach Program Eastern Region (WCHS program)
CoW
CPN
CQI
CSM
City of Whitehorse
Clinical Placement Network
Continuous Quality Improvement
WCHS Corporate Services Manager (now called General Manager Corporate
Services)
EMR Eastern Metro Region
EMR DISC Eastern Metro Region Diabetes Initiatives Steering Committee (formally EMR
DSIG –group)
EMROHN Eastern Metro Region Oral Health Network
FASA Funding and Service Agreement
FO
FYI
GDCD
WCHS Finance Officer
For Your Information (WCHS staff newsletter)
Goal Directed Care Planning
GLC
GLG
Good Life Club (WCHS program)
WCHS Good Life Gym
GMCS/SS WCHS General Manager Corporate Services/ Support Services
GMHD WCHS General Manager Health Development
GMPHC WCHS General Manager Primary Health Care
GMSD WCHS General Manager Service Development (formally SPM)
HAT WCHS Health Access Team
HDM
HPWG
WCHS Health Development Manager (now called General Manager Health
Development
WCHS Health Promoting Workplace Group
HR
HRO
ICC
ICR
ICT
IDEAS
IECP
Human Resources
WCHS Human Resources Officer
Integrated Care Coordinator
Integrated Care Response
Information Communications Technology
Integrated Diabetes Education & Assessment Services
Inner East Primary Care Partnership
IHP
IHPP
Integrated Health Program
WCHS Integrated Health Promotion Plan
ITO WCHS Information Technology Officer
Men’s Shed WCHS Men’s Health program
MMC
MT
NSP
OHS
OS
OT
Men Making Change Program
WCHS Management Team (formal executive forum & procedure –approval body)
WCHS Needle Syringe Program
Occupational Health and Safety
WCHS Operational System (re WCHS procedures)
Occupational Therapy
PAID
PDs
PHCM
Problem Area in Diabetes (standardized assessment tool)
WCHS Position Descriptions (staff)
WCHS Primary Health Care Manager

PHCR
PHE
PHM
PROV
QAP
QM
QC
RMAD
Salpac
SDS
SPOT
WCHS
WGLC
WHET
Woogle
Primary Health Care Review
Public Housing Estate
WCHS Primary Health Manager
Public Records Office Victoria
Quality Awards Partners (distributor of QAP- Health Legal compliance software)
WCHS Quality Manager
WCHS Quality Coordinator
Residents Making a Difference (WCHS program)
WCHS Salary packaging contractor
WCHS Service Delivery System (re WCHS procedures)
Speech and Occupational Therapist
Whitehorse Community Health Service
WCHS Good life Club (WCHS Program)
WCHS Eco Action Team (non-current)
WCHS’s intranet
Whitehorse Community Health Service- Other general acronyms
DOHA
DPCD
ED
EFT
EICD
FOI
FV
GP
HACC
HARP
HMS
HP
INI
IT
LGA
AAQHC
ACHSM
AHRI
ANEX
AOD
ASIC
ATSI
Australian Association Quality Health Care
Australian College of Health Service Management
Australian Human Resources Institute
Australian Needle & Syringe Association
Alcohol and Other Drugs
Australian Securities & Investments Commission
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
ASM
BHI
CALD
CATT
Active Service Model
Box Hill Institute
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team
DH or DoH Victorian Department of Health
DHS Victorian Department of Human Services
DHSV Dental Health Services Victoria
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development
Emergency Department
Equivalent (effective) Full time (staff)
Early Intervention in Chronic Disease
Freedom of Information
Family Violence
General Practitioner
Commonwealth Home and Community Care
Hospital Admission Risk Program
Health Management System
Health Promotion
Initial Needs Identification
Information Technology
Local Government Area

MEGPN
MOU(s)
Melbourne East General Practice Network
Memorandum of Understanding
NADRASCA A disability services Organisation
Q&R Quality and Risk (committee)
RDNS
R&A
RM
SC
SCTT
Royal district Nursing Service
Risk and Audit (sub-committee)
Risk management
Service Coordination
Service Coordination Tool Templates (Victorian Government standardized set of tools available in print and embedded into the TrakCare system)
Socio-economic Indexes for Areas SEIFA
SPM
Titanium
Trakcare
Strategic Projects Manager
Victorian Government standard client database system for storing and accessing oral health records
Victorian Government standard client management system for storing and accessing information and records (non-Oral Health)
UR (number) Unique Record number
VAADA Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association
VAGO Victorian Auditor General Office
VHA
VHIA
VHIMS
VMIA
Victorian Health Care Association
Victorian Hospitals Industry Association
Victorian Health Incident Management System
Victorian Managed Insurance Authority
WHO
WWCC
World Health Organisation
Working with Children Check

BHMSTS
CATT
CCT
CYMHS
ECRU
ECT
FaPMI
MHCC
MSTS
OT
TTO
VMIAC
Box Hill Mobile Support and Treatment Service
Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team
Continuing Care Team
Child & Youth Mental Health Service
Eastern Clinical Research Unit
Electro Convulsive Treatment
Families Where a Parent has a Mental Illness
Mental Health Complaint Commissioner
Mobile Support and Treatment Service
Occupational Therapy
Temporary Treatment Order
Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council
D.
AA
ABI
ACT
ADCA
ADF
AOD
ARC
BPD
MDMA
MI
MSE
NIDS
NSP
SHARC
YSAS
Alcoholics Anonymous
Acquired Brain Injury
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia
Australian Drug Foundation
Alcohol and Other Drugs
Action for Recovery
Borderline Personality Disorder
CALDSUMHR Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Substance Use and Mental Health
Resource
CATT Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team
CBT
CCO
CDM
CPR
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Community Corrections Officer
Chronic disease management
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
DACAS
DOH
EDAS
FDH
IECHS
LSD
MAP
Drug and Alcohol Clinical Advisory Service
Department of Health
Eastern Drug and Alcohol Service
Family Drug Help
Inner East Community Health Service
Lysergic acid diethylamide
Media Awareness Project
3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine
Motivational Interviewing
Mental State Examination
National Illicit Drug Strategy
Needle Syringe Programs
Self Help Addiction Resource Centre
Youth Substance Abuse Service