Background: Many developed countries, having invested massively in psychiatric hospitals in the past 150 years, are in the process of dismantling them. The central question…
Paul Nestor and Sandra Miller have worked as Consumer Peer Workers in rehabilitation and acute inpatient settings. Both are working as educators within early psychosis…
The Community Group Program (CGP), is a joint Mental Health/Education venture. Covering the Western, North Western Melbourne Metropolitan Region, the CGP provides schools with a…
This report is concerned with the development of a clinical instrument to assess client needs in relation to continuity of care. This index was developed…
ACE aims to build resilience, enhance coping skills & teach positive thinking styles in young people. It's an indicated depression prevention program. It's designed for…
Since the move from institutionalisation to community based mental health care, many families play a primary role in caring for relatives suffering from a mental…
Objective
While managed care has increased the emphasis on outcome driven treatment, empirical investigation of the determinants of outcomes in mental health self-help agencies (SHAs)…
Having four wonderful, seemingly healthy, children was the most important and fantastic thing that has happened in my life. When my two sons, then aged…