Volunteering – Creating Pathways And Developing Roles

"Every year one in five Australians over the age of 15 years works as a volunteer" . Sound familiar! One in five Australians are said…

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The Effect Of Treatment And Clozapine As Quality Of Life In Schizophrenia

The Australian survey of people living with psychotic illness (1997-1998) found that only a minority of these people had attained a level of functioning and…

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What Have We Learned From Deinstitutionalisation In Australia?

FACTS project for Northern Sydney Health. The FACTS project involved pre , and post discharge follow up of 47 long stay residents as they moved…

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Sustainable Housing: A Key To Mental Health

The achievement of successful housing solutions for people with a mental illness or psychiatric disability has become a focus for the Queensland Government’s Department of…

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Early Psychosis: Involving Consumers In The Planning Implementation And Evaluation Of A Relative’s And Friends’ Education And Support

The purpose of this paper is to describe an education and support group run by the North Western Adelaide Mental Health Service for relatives and…

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Reorienting A General Mental Health Service Towards A Systematic Early Intervention Approach To Psychosis: Staff Attitudes, Changes In Service

This paper reports on the evaluation of the reorientation of Northern Sydney mental health services towards a systematic early intervention approach to psychosis, without additional…

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Empowerment: Enabling People With A Mental Illness To Integrate In The Community Through Recreation And Social Opportunities: A Community Based Perspective

The Schizophrenia Fellowship of SA (SFSA) is a non government community based organisation that aims to enable people with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses and…

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A Guidebook For Consumers: Putting The Tools And Skills Into The Hands Of Consumers And Carers

South West Healthcare, Psychiatric Services Division, uses the Integrated Mental Health Care model of service delivery throughout its community and inpatient services. This is…

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Changing The Culture Of GP/Mental Health Shared Care

Despite the convincing and optimistic rhetoric the development of sustainable GP/Mental Health Shared Care Programmes has been very slow and fraught with problems. This paper…

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A Bloody Good Program For The Too Bloody Difficult. The Collaborative Action Program between Mental Health Services For Older People, Adelaide Central Mission and the Royal District Nursing Service (SA)

In Australia the 'too bloody difficult' include those older Australians who have mental health problems, complex needs and behaviours that are too challenging for mainstream…

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