Whether it is a ripple or a wave that’s created by an event, we are all affected by mental health – it’s everyone’s business. Commonwealth…

The Popao or outrigger canoe has been used as a metaphorical model for mental health service users’ and professionals’ shared understanding of the treatment process…

Thirty five thousand people are reported missing to police and non-police agencies each year in Australia. Research conducted by the Australian Institute of Criminology and…

Children of parents with mental illness often face responsibility for the primary or secondary care of their parents and/or younger siblings. There are differing perceptions…

How often does it happen to you that you see someone loitering along the shop-front footpaths, muttering to themselves under their breath, wearing dirty clothes…

This paper demonstrates how the tailored medication information forum through verbal and written approaches, has resulted in a promising and satisfying outcome from the Vietnamese…

The Understanding and Building Resilience (U&BR) Project is a mutli-level suicide prevention project conducted by the Injury Control Council WA (ICCWA) in the rural South…

Outcome measurement has been mandatory in all Australian public mental health services since 2003. It is, however, a constantly changing and evolving area, with new…

Young women with Borderline Personality Disorder can be characterised as having emotional, interpersonal, behavioural, identity and cognitive dysregulation (Denman, 2001; Linehan, 1993; Bateman and Fonagy,…

Reflections Art Studio (RAS) is a therapeutic arts service, providing art facilities and instruction for people with persistent mental illness living in the community. RAS…