- ABI - Acquired brain injury
- ACE - Barwon Health (2003). ACE Guidelines: Assessment Care & Evaluation (Version 3). Geelong, Victoria: Barwon Mental Health Service
- ACSO - Australian Community Support Organisation
- ADGP - Australian Divisions of General Practice
- AERF - Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation
- AOD - Alcohol and other drugs
- APS - Australian Public Service
- ASIST - Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
- ASSIST - Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test
- ATSI - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- BASIS - Behaviour and Symptom Identification Scale, a consumer self-rated outcome measure
- BSI - Brief Symptom Inventory, a brief psychological self-report symptom scale
- BTOM - Brief Treatment Outcome Measure, a questionnaire for clients receiving methadone and buprenorphine treatment
- CALD - Culturally and linguistically diverse
- CBT - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, an online database Top of page
- CMI Mental Health Client Management Interface, a database that stores all client service-level information collected by public clinical mental health services in Victoria
- Cochrane Library - The Cochrane Library publishes systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions
- CQI - Continuous Quality Improvement
- DACAS - Drug and Alcohol Clinical Advisory Service. 24-hour specialist telephone consultancy service for alcohol and drug practitioners and health and welfare workers
- DARE - Database of Reviews of Effectiveness
- DAS - Disbility Assessment Schedule
- DDCAT - Dual Diagnosis Capability in Addiction Tool
- DETA - Department of Education, Training and the Arts, Queensland
- DHS - Department of Human Services, Victorian Government
- DoHA - Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government
- DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- EMBASE - Excerpta Medica Database, a biomedical and pharmacological database
- EQuIP - Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program
- HEADDSS - Home & Environment, Education & Employment, Activities, Drugs, Sexuality, Suicide/Depression, a psychosocial interview for adolescents
- HoNOS - Health of the Nation Outcome Scales, a tool that measures the health and social functioning of people with severe mental illness
- Informit - A database of Australasian scholarly research
- IRIS - Indigenous Risk Impact Screen
- K-10 - Kessler-10, a self-report questionnaire that measures psychological distress
- KPI - Key Performance Indicator
- LSP-16 - Life Skills Profile, a measure of those aspects of functioning which affect how successfully people with schizophrenia live in the community or hospital
- Medline - The US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences
- MH - Mental Health
- MHSF-III - Mental Health Screening Form–III Top of page
- MINI - Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview
- Mirikai - A specialist alcohol and other drug treatment program in Queensland that works on a Therapeutic Community model. The local Aboriginal meaning of Mirikai is 'a place of peace'.
- NADA - Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies, the peak organisation for the nongovernment drug and alcohol sector in NSW
- NGOTGP - Non-Government Organisation Treatment Grants Program, DoHA
- OATSIH - Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, DoHA
- OCD - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- QIC - Quality Improvement Council
- PDRS - Psychiatric Disability Rehabilitation and Support program, Victoria
- PsyCheck - A mental health screening instrument designed for use by clinicians who are not mental health specialists
- PsycINFO - An abstract database that provides systematic coverage of the psychological literature
- PTSD - Posttraumatic stress disorder
- QMS - Quality Management Services
- SAMHSA - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, USA
- SAW - Frank, L. and Pead, J. 1995, New concepts in drug withdrawal: A resource handbook, Services for alcohol and drug withdrawal (SAW) Monograph No.4.
- SCoTT - Service Coordination Tool Template, Victoria
- SHADES - Self Help Anxiety & Depression Education Sessions
- Skip logic - Skip logic allows custom paths through a survey that respondents follow depending on their response to a particular question
- SIMS - Service Information Management System, a sector-wide database in Western Australia
- SPSS - Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
- SUD - Substance use disorder
- SWITCH - Victorian Government Department of Human Services database
- WANADA - Western Australian Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies
- WHS - Workplace Health and Safety
- Y-BOCS - Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale