Recovery is seen as a journey of healing and transformation. It requires people who believe in and stand by the person in recovery. Recovery takes…

The aim of this paper is to inform people that Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is for all people, including Aboriginal people, and that DBT is…

Describes strategies used to recover from trauma (burnt 50 years prior). Five years ago was a fit teacher when trauma suddenly developed causing severe physical/psychological…

In 2011 The Seclusion Restraint Review committee (SRRC) requested the Consumer consultant undertake a survey of the Psychiatric Service Unit (PSU) consumers. Seclusions in PSU…

In this symposium we talk about our journey, as part of an area mental health service, towards trauma informed care. This first paper in the…