Publications

The Public Health Agency (PHA) Training Framework for Mental Emotional Health and Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention is in line with the Northern Ireland Mental Health Strategy and Protect Life 2 Strategy.

The Alcohol MOT is designed to support those working in primary care to carry out alcohol brief interventions. There is extensive evidence to show that primary care-based brief interventions are very effective at reducing drinking at both hazardous and harmful levels. MOT Part 1 enables patients to work out if they are drinking at hazardous or harmful levels. MOT Part 2 helps motivate and support patients to reduce their drinking. Both tools are designed so that a practitioner can work through them with a patient, or a patient can work through them alone.

The Talking really helps campaign evaluation provides post-campaign evaluation results based on the findings from a quantitative survey with a representative sample of the adult population.