John Basson – Forensic Mental Health Services -Ethical, Clinical and Human Rights Issues

Day Two Mental Health Forum – Sydney (liveblogging) John Basson – Assoc Prof Uni NSW; Statewide Clinical Director Forensic Mental Health Justice NSW NSW and Vic – discussion of lock-up rates differ Discusses  Indigenous prisoners statistics – Sept qtr – 26% of the total population The story with young people is also very challenging Indig [...]

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Jim Coombs: The Co-incidence of Mental Illness and Incarceration

Jim Coombs – Magistrate in NSW courts  Day Two: TheMHS Summer Forum – Sydney Background information to Jim Coombs diverse career He mentions these are just his ‘personal’ views Discusses c-32 – criminal act – re mentally ill – the requirements today to allow this discharges have become more and more detailed There are many [...]

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Laura Collister: Participation in Employment and Education

Laura Collister, GM Rehab Services, Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria Liveblogging series from our Summer Forum Background on MIFV Community based service. Offering services such as residential rehab, home based outreach, day programs, respite programs and more Growing interest in peer-related services – currently piloting peer based recovery services Peer based Helpline General education for adults [...]

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Australian of the Year: Prof McGorry at TheMHS Summer Forum

Day Two of  TheMHS Summer Forum Prof Ian Hickie introduces Prof Pat McGorry  • Discusses the lead up to Pat winning – he was in Ireland when he was nominated for the Victorian of the year. • There has been movement away from obvious celebrity such as Aust of the year sports stars – i.e. [...]

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Prof Steven Segal

Day Two -TheMHS Summer Forum Prof Segal speaks about mental health issues and housing issues: The state mental hospital – one thing true was that is was guaranteed housing, it was a public works and patronage, public welfare offen in rural areas, industry profit – in the past we had railways and steamship links – [...]

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Graham Meadows – Special challenges: gender, geography and access to treatments

Graham Meadows – Prof of Adult Psychiatry Monash Uni, Vic Discussing value systems equity and justice Equity – the quality of being equal or fair Its been known that there are complexities of planning for mental health services. Chart – distribution of resources for public mental health care in Victoria 1997 – next chart shos [...]

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Mary O Hagan: Balancing human rights, risk and social inclusion

Mary O Hagan – NZ and Intl consultant in mental health and the recovery approach. Poster image shown ‘ choice not force’ Judy Chamberlin US introduced Mary to the survival movement Where is the collective atonement for historical and contemp blunders and abuse? in mental health What is compulsion? mental health legislation establishes the circumstances [...]

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Prof Steven Segal: Coercive Treatments & Mental Health: community treatment orders – what value?

Our next speaker is Professor Steven Segal from the University of California Berkeley: IOPC – requires compliance with the order – take meds, live in particular apartment, go to counselling sessions what are the consequenes of non compliance – admit to psych hospital for care, How widespread are the orders? Aus, NZ and the US, [...]

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Cheryl Kernot Session – Summer Forum

Video link at the Summer Forum  Cheryl Kernot – topic The Changing Social Landscape: The following was live-blogged at the TheMHS Summer Forum new sectoral relationships new organisation forms new forms of finance why is all this happening now? combination of factors we have increase in wealth, increased life expectancy, under collapse of faith in [...]

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TheMHS Summer Forum Sydney: Live Blogging – First Session

Today I am live blogging from the TheMHS Summer Forum in Sydney. The forum called The Right to Care that Works runs for two days. The speakers are now forming on stage and we are kicking off very soon. Not all sessions will be blogged – those done are chosen on availability of timing – [...]

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