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Blog description: Presentation: Coming Out (of the goldfish bowl) - Breaking down the barriers and challenging the culture of mental health services.
Speakers: Peri O'Shea, Cath Roper, Anne Francis.

Blog description: Opened by Alan Rosen from TheMHS National Committee, this symposium featured talks by the Hon Helen Morton, the WA Minister for Mental Health, Disability and Child Protection, instrumental in founding the Mental Health Commission in 2010, and the Commissioners from the four Mental Health Commissions around Australia - Commonwealth, WA, QLD and NSW.

Blog description: You can read an abstract for the workshop here. Haylee Clarke and Anthony Collier presented on engaging with young poeple experiencing mental health problems. They...

Blog description: 1. “Mental health overwhelms everything else”: Facilitators and barriers to health||self-management by people living with mental illness Colleen Fisher, Mohan Isaac, Vivien Kemp, Sharon Lawn, Shane Bailey This study...

Blog description: Knowing what to do and being able to do it: How mental health services influence the strategies parents use to support young people with mental...

Blog description: This session cover four presentation topics, each of which is outlined below. You can also read an abstract for the session here. 1. Effective implementation...

Blog description: The abstracts for this session can be viewed here. Josephine Gray and Ash Omar presented ‘Negotiating space between cultural and clinical’. The Aboriginal Mental Health...

Blog description: Jane Harwood, Angela Corry, Luke Van der Beeke

Blog description: Attracting Allied Health practitioners to work in rural mental health services: An evidence informed approach. Keith Sutton, Kent Patrick, Darryl Mayberry Keith Sutton discussed an...

Blog description: How can mental health services practically embrace the recovery principle of “nothing about me without me”? Lessons from the Barwon experience. You can read an abstract...

Blog description: SANE Forums: A new on-line peer- to-peer support service for people living with mental illness and for carers. Presented by Paul Morgan and Faruk Avdi....

Blog description: Demystifying strengths and social justice principles with workers and consumers to enhance relationships and practice. Speaker(s): Peter Smith Peter opened his discussion with the sub...