- TheMHS 2014 S096: Changing Mental Health Services Culture
Blog description: Presentation: Coming Out (of the goldfish bowl) - Breaking down the barriers and challenging the culture of mental health services.
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Speakers: Peri O'Shea, Cath Roper, Anne Francis.
- TheMHS 2014 S082: Featured Symposium – Mental Health Commissions: Expectations and Realities
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.
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S045: Workshop – Engaging Homeless Youth In their Mental Health Care
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...
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S057: Support & Self-managment
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...
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S055: Lifespan
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...
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S046: Young People
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...
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S044: Improving Indigenous People’s Mental Health Outcomes
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...
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S050: Understanding Stigma
Blog description: Jane Harwood, Angela Corry, Luke Van der Beeke
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S047: Workforce Development
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...
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S051: Recovery
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...
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S038: SANE Forums Launch
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....
READ MORE - TheMHS 2014 S047: Workforce Development Demystifying Strengths and Social Justice Principles
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...
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