Let's get talking toolkit

The Let’s get talking toolkit consists of seven tools and is intended for use by leaders, managers, therapists and practitioners across primary and secondary health care services. The toolkit supports planning and delivery of talking therapies using a stepped care approach.

Watch Let's get talking: Introduction for an overview of stepped care, then access the other tools as needed to support or enhance talking therapies delivery. You can link to the resources below – either click on the tool name in the diagram or under Resources.

Introduction

Planning

Resources

Let's get talking - Assessment: How to match talking therapies to peoples’ needs

This tool provides talking therapy assessment and screening guidance for practitioners.

View 4 downloads

Let's get talking - Introduction: A stepped care approach to talking therapies

An overview of a stepped care approach to talking therapies and an introduction to the Let's get talking tools from Te Pou.

View 3 downloads

Let's get talking - Planning: Develop or extend talking therapies delivery

This tools assists services to establish or extend their talking therapies delivery.

Let's get talking - Planning: Develop or extend talking therapies delivery
(504KB, pdf)
Let's get talking - Planning Word template
(443KB, doc)

Let's get talking - Practice support: Competencies, training and supervision for talking therapies delivery

This tool provides information to guide practitioners about the competencies, training and supervision needed to deliver talking therapies effectively in mental health and addiction services.

Let's get talking - Practice support: Competencies, training and supervision for talking therapies delivery
(845KB, pdf)

Let's get talking - Review: Progress and outcome measures to support talking therapies delivery

This tool provides information on progress and outcome measures to support talking therapies delivery, including suggestions of those which can be used for mental health and/or addiction presentations.

Let's get talking - Review: Progress and outcome measures to support talking therapies delivery
(717KB, pdf)

Let's get talking - Skills survey: Identify strengths and areas for development in talking therapies delivery

This tool supports services to identify workforce capacity and capability to deliver evidence-based talking therapies.

Let's get talking - Skills survey: Identify strengths and areas for development in talking therapies delivery
(409KB, pdf)
Let's get talking - Skills survey Word template
(441KB, doc)

Let's get talking - Therapy: A guide to evidence-based talking therapies

This tool provides information on the evidence base for various talking therapies.

Let's get talking - Therapy: A guide to evidence-based talking therapies
(932KB, pdf)

Stories

Depression: Let's talk | World Health Day

6 April 2017

The theme for this year’s World Health Day (organised by the World Health Organization) is depression. It’s a timely reminder that now, more than ever, people with depression need to be supported to seek and get help.

Pathways to talking therapies at Southern DHB

3 November 2016

Karen Ramsay (allied health director, mental health addictions and intellectual disability service, Southern DHB said leadership is her passion and that the work of leaders in the health system is to bring people along with them in the interests of providing the best possible care, and to involve service users in that care as well.

Let's get talking toolkit launch

19 October 2016

Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui is excited to announce the launch of the Let’s get talking toolkit. Three years in the making, the Let’s get talking toolkit is a suite of tools to support primary and secondary services deliver effective talking therapies.

‘Let’s get talking’ to reduce the cost of our nation’s mental health care

10 October 2016

Te Pou has launched Let’s get talking, a tool kit that supports the delivery of talking therapies – a low-cost, effective way to improve a person’s health and wellbeing.