Better Outcomes in Mental Health
(also known as ATAPS)
Your GP may refer you under the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Initiative. Although this referral is very similar to the Mental Health Care Plan, it is subsidised by the Greater Metro South Brisbane Medicare Local, and hence there is no cost to you. Your GP will assess the availability and your eligibility for this referral. This Better Outcomes referral has specific eligibility criteria which must be met for referral and there is a set time frame in which the sessions must be utilised
Issues that can be treated under the ATAPS/Better Outcomes Initiative are:
Alcohol use | Drug use |
Chronic psychosis | Acute psychosis |
Bipolar | Depression |
Phobias | Panic attacks |
Generalised anxiety | Mixed anxiety and depression |
Adjustment disorder | Dissociative (conversion) disorder |
Unexplained somatic/bodily complaints | Neurasthenia (Chronic Fatigue) |
Eating disorders | Sleep problems |
Sexual disorders | Attention Deficit |
Conduct disorder | Enuresis |
Bereavement | Mental disorder, not otherwise specified |
Issues that can be treated under the ATAPS/Better Outcomes Initiative FOR CHILDREN (under 12 years old) are:
Attachment difficulties | Encopresis |
Depression | Enuresis |
Adjustment disorder | Bereavement |
Anxiety – including:
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Childhood behavioural disorders – limited to:
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Elective Mutism (or Selective Mutism) | Tics (e.g. Tourette’s syndrome) |
Sleeping difficulties | Substance use (e.g. glue sniffing, alcohol and drugs) |
Somatoform disorder | Dissociative (conversion) disorder |
Neurasthenia (Chronic Fatigue) | Sexual issues – including but not limited to Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood |
Feeding problems | Emotional difficulties with onset specific to childhood |
Eating disorders | Contextual factors – including but not limited to:
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