Supervision is a process employed by most of the people-helping professions to provide ongoing teaching and support for practitioners and to safeguard clients. This paper…
This presentation by Carers of people with serious mental illness will demonstrate the importance in a “Recovery” environment of using a partnership approach which includes…
Journey Boards are a Visual Communication Tool introduced at Southern Mental Health as part of the Redesigning Care and Learn Thinking Initiatives. Background information identified…
The psychological wellbeing of the human service workforce plays an important role in the retention of skilled professionals and the sustainability of quality services. However,…
Definition of Advanced Directives
Advanced Directives are well known in some countries as a legally binding document that defines a person wishes about how, what…
Penina uliuli: Contemporary challenges in mental health for Pacific peoples (Culbertson, Agee, & Makasiale, 2007) is one of the few books published in the area…
Recruitment, training and retaining specialist mental health nurses is problematic for services across the globe. (Happell1999) In Australia, we are not immune to this variable.…
This paper describes a creative arts process that promotes active involvement by clients to change the physical presentation of an acute inpatient psychiatric unit.
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Recognising the need promote its role, goals and achievements as a advocacy body for Aboriginal people in a rural county South Australia location, the Wakefield…