Multicultural Psychological Therapies Program (MPT)

Multicultural Psychological Therapies Program

Brief Overview

The Multicultural Psychological Therapies program offers culturally safe and tailored structured psychological intervention for people who experience mild to moderate mental health condition.

Criteria

Multicultural background living in the Brisbane North and South region.
All age groups, children, young people and adults
Experiencing mild to moderate mental health condition.
Experiencing language and cultural barriers to access mainstream psychological therapies.
Not eligible for NDIS.

Service Delivery

We provide a specialist culturally appropriate service model to help meet client needs who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health condition with language and cultural barriers:

Our mental health practitioners are cross cultural experts and most come from multicultural backgrounds themselves. We are therefore able to ethnic match many clients.
We deliver a co-therapy model where we match clients with well-trained Multicultural Peer Support Workers (MPSWs) in therapy sessions to work with mental health practitioners to facilitate and strengthen therapeutic engagement to overcome language and cultural barriers.
Where we can’t match our practitioners and multicultural peer support workers by language and culture we will provide an accredited interpreter.

Location

WWG Clinic at Woolloongabba
Springwood Hub
Logan Hub
Stratphine Hub

Delivery Mode

Face to face
Internet based
Telephone

Psycho-social support (North region)

Brief Overview

The Multicultural Psychological Therapies Program also provides some psychosocial support to people with severe mental health conditions and associated reduced psychological functioning to live independently, safely and productively. Individual and group sessions are provided.

Psychosocial Groups

Art therapy
The Our Minds Matter group is a skill focused group based on DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) focusing on:
o Mindfulness skills – Set of skills to help focus attention and live life in the present.
o Emotion regulation – Learning to understand, recognise and have control over emotions.
o Distress tolerance – Learning skills to deal with crisis in a more effective way, without making things worse.
o Interpersonal effectiveness – Learning skills to manage relationships and to deal with conflict.