The Toolkit, published on the Agency for Clinical Innovation’s website, covers topics such as managing grief and trauma, common psychological and emotional issues experienced by people with a SCI, and strategies for handling challenging behaviours.

It also highlights ways to distinguish between grief and depression, and has a number of brief standardised tools to help clinicians assess mood, anxiety, pain, trauma, substance use and psychosis. Accompanying the toolkit is a Brief Psychosocial Clinical Assessment Tool.