The paper discusses Family/carer issues in a Mental Health Service from a Family Advisor position.
A need for more support and education to family/whanau…
Since August 1999, carers have been employed at our Service as Peer Supports and Consultants through COPES. This paper will illustrate that whilst there are…
Mental health service clients who have sought advice to quit smoking have not felt that they have been well served by telephone quit services. Likewise,…
Psychiatry has a long history of isolation, control and containment. Over the last few decades these barriers have been falling. The Consumer Movement (Mental Health)…
Relationships are an important element in the healing and recovery process. A caring nature, the ability to establish rapport and genuine desire to help people…
While unemployment rates remain high among people with a psychiatric disability, an increased focus on rehabilitation in the last two decades has resulted in increasing…
This is a qualitative study of ten consumer consultants working in Area Mental Health Services in Victoria, exploring their perspectives on their areas of influence,…
It is widely acknowledged that the needs of consumers should guide service development, however, there has been relatively little progress made in this area. We…
Neami, a Community Rehabilitation and Support Service in Melbourne, has implemented the clinical version of the Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) as their main needs…