The Road Way: A Bottom Up Collaborative Approach To Connecting Young People And Their Families To Early Psychosis Services N North Queensland

Intervention in early psychosis has gained momentum over the past decade, with a growing body of literature describing best-practice principles and models of service (Herman-Doig…

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Barwon Health Early Intervention Service Group Programs

The onset of mental illness for young people often disrupts key areas of life including education, employment, social networks and self esteem. Barwon Health’s- Early…

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Training And Other Workforce Development Initiatives For The Nsw Ngo Mental Health Sector

In 2004 the Mental Health Co-ordinating Council of NSW (MHCC) commenced work on the NGO Development Strategy: Mental Health, an initiative funded by and run…

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Enhancing Connections With Non-Government Organisations (Ngos): The Early Discharge Program.

Changes within mental health service delivery demand the development of cost effective programs that reduce length of stay and provide better transition between discharge and…

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Asylum Seekers To Citizens: From Detention Centres To Independent Housing

The Refugee Support Program, a non clinical community support program, is a recent initiative of Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide. The program works with asylum…

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Family Law And Children With Mentally Ill Parents

This paper will examine the issues of assessing families going through the Family Law Court in cases of disputed residence of the children where one…

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Consumers And Carers Reaching Out And Connecting With The Mental Health Service

I have been employed by the South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service to assist in the development of structures, policies and procedures to…

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Academic Degrees, Clinical Experience And The Lived Experience: The Myth Of The Privileged Perspective

An unspoken debate at previous TheMHS Conferences has been the relative merits of the various epistemologies (ways of knowing) represented. Borrowing from philosophy of science…

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Shifting Mental Health Cultures: Reconnecting Consumer Rights With Everyday Service Provision

Admission to an in-patient psychiatric ward can be a challenging and confusing experience for many consumers, particularly those on their first time to hospital. Many…

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Recovery Themes In First-Hand Accounts Of The Experience Of Mental Illness: A Pilot Analysis

There is a great deal of interest in the concepts of recovery in the mental health arena. The recovery movement has originated from strong consumer…

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