Download page as PDFUnder the Mental Health Act 2014, the Chief Psychiatrist publishes guidelines to support clinicians to provide safe and high-quality mental health care.
Guidelines published by the Chief Psychiatrist are designed to provide clinicians with guidance and strategies in providing safe, high-quality mental healthcare. Clinicians are legally required to take guidelines into account when making treatment decisions.
Several of these guidelines have a corresponding set of standards governing clinical practice and should be read in conjunction with one another.
Guidelines published by the Chief Psychiatrist
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- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guidelines for the Administration of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in WA
- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guideline for Audiovisual Communication
- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guideline for ensuring compliance with the Mental Health Act 2014 by mental health services and compliance with approved forms
- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guideline for further opinions
- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guideline for making decisions about whether or not a person is in need of an inpatient treatment order or a community treatment order
- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guideline for making decisions under section 26(3)(a) about whether or not a place that is not an authorised hospital is an appropriate place to conduct an examination
- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guideline for the preparation, review and revision of treatment, support and discharge plans
- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guideline for Prescribed Medical Practitioners
- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guidelines for the Sexual Safety of Consumers of Mental Health Services in Western Australia
- Chief Psychiatrist’s Guideline for the Use of Detention and Restraint in Non-Authorised Healthcare Settings