Mission
The National Consultancy for Prevention and Early Detection (LSP) programme maintains an up-to-date catalogue of preventative interventions for mental illness and addiction for the benefit of government, policymakers, mental health agencies, health and social services professionals and the general public. The catalogue includes information about the status of the interventions, about administering them, and about their scope and application. The intensive monitoring of activities and developments involving health promotion, prevention and early detection forms the basis of collaboration with the field of practice. The purpose is to improve the present efforts through standardisation, building an evidence base and broadening the reach of the activities. The prevention and early detection programme is part of the Trimbos Institute’s Centre for Prevention and Brief Interventions. The centre has its own website containing important information for professionals involved in mental health promotion and addiction prevention (see www.trimbospreventie.nl).
Principal tasks
- Maintaining contacts with health promotion and prevention workers, researchers and policymakers
- Overseeing standardisation processes for preventative interventions
- Developing new preventative interventions in cooperation with mental health or addiction services
- Creating systematic knowledge bases for health promotion and prevention programmes in the mental health and addiction sectors
- Implementing effective or best-practice programmes
- Data collection and monitoring with regard to health promotion activities
- Provision of information via a helpdesk
Focus areas
- Depression and anxiety
- Children whose parents have mental health or addiction problems (COMPI/COAP)
- Informal carers: relatives and other people who are caring for people with mental illness
- Preventative interventions relating to problem drinking
- Primary care
- Work-related mental health issues
