This paper presents the Northern Territory’s Top End Sub Acute Care Trial designed to reduce pressure on the psychiatric inpatient unit at Royal Darwin Hospital…
adminMay 21, 2015
Grief, Loss, And The Healing ~ A Brief Awareness “ Mifla Way- Ilan Pasin Or Our Way-Island Protocol”
Cultural and traditional protocols for grief and loss in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area (TS&NPA) can only be described as unique in any…
adminMay 21, 2015
The Catherine Mahoney Aged Care Psychiatry and Neurosciences Unit at St Joseph’s Hospital is dedicated to the care of aged consumers with mental health illness…
adminMay 21, 2015
beyondblue: the national depression initiative has included in their priority areas those with the lived experience of depression, anxiety and related substance-use disorders. The lack…
adminMay 21, 2015
Over the past decade or more, a lot of work has been done in the Northern Territory to try to improve on-the-ground services to address…
adminMay 21, 2015
This paper discusses what the impacts of ‘reaching out’ and ‘connecting’ to communities can have on new clinicians who are working in rural and remote…
adminMay 21, 2015
Problem Gambling (Problem Gambling) is essentially a hidden problem. Nonetheless, screening for Problem Gambling is not a standard part of the clinical risk assessment protocol…
adminMay 21, 2015
Recent aggregated statistics confirm our experience as Aboriginal health service providers and researchers that Aboriginal people in the Eyre Peninsula region of SA are living…
adminMay 21, 2015
Since its establishment in 2002, the Mental Health Review Tribunal has been concerned by the number of consumers not attending their hearings to participate in…
adminMay 21, 2015
There is a growing body of evidence showing people with mental illness experience higher rates of heart disease, obesity and diabetes than the general population.…
adminMay 21, 2015