Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder (MPD/DID) results from overwhelming, life-threatening trauma at an early, sensitive childhood age. A personal narrative is presented to exemplify the…

Within mental health services, the entrenched nature of smoking activity within all settings is overwhelming. Smoking is a tool serving many purposes for both…

This paper presents the findings from a case note review of people who have come into contact with Community Mental Health Services in two regional…

This paper addresses an approach to developing a systematic and valid framework for evaluating the effectiveness of empowerment interventions at multiple levels or settings in…

This paper will discuss pacific perspective of health, illness and traditional treatment of those illness. In particular it will describe and discuss types and causes…

The Ward 7 Patients' Group Evaluation presents a rights based model for management and staff of mental health facilities wanting to offer patients/clients/residents access to…

A system to enable earlier identification and intervention with adolescents at high risk has been developed by the High Risk Adolescent (HRA) Reference Group in…

Research on the assessment of adults with dual disability is severely limited in Australia, particularly regarding those who use the public mental health systems. The…

In December 1997 the employees of Second Chance received an award from the Governor General, Sir Hardie Boyes for providing a rehabilitation service of excellence. …

The current research had two components with corresponding aims. The difference between two carer specific psycho-educational programs and their effect on the quality of life…