TheMHS Achievement Award Series: The VirtualClinic

In this series we interviewed Nickolai Titov, PhD, MA, PGDipClinPsyc Senior Lecturer of CRUfAD at the School of Psychiatry, UNSW at St Vincent’s Hospital who discussed his winning mental health program – The VirtualClinic. Q&A 1. Tell us a little about your program?  The VirtualClinic is a joint initiative of St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, and [...]

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New website – Evidence based mental health treatment for children and adolescents

Based in the US the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53 of the American Psychological Association) have produced a new website called Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment for Children and Adolescents. The site only looks at the effectiveness of different kinds of psychotherapy — not other kinds of [...]

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World Mental Health Day – October 10

Just around the corner, World Mental Health Day. The Day promotes more open discussion of mental disorders, and investments in prevention and treatment services. The treatment gap for mental, neurological and substance use disorders is formidable especially in poor resource countries. Physical and mental health are intertwined. There is a real need to deal with [...]

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TheMHS Achievement Awards Series: City Women’s Supported Accommodation

Today we interviewed Kara Holmes about her winning program. 1. Tell us a little about your program? City Women’s Supported Accommodation is one of two programs provided by B Miles Women’s Foundation. City Women’s Supported Accommodation provides accommodation and support to women who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, and are living with a [...]

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TheMHS Achievement Award Winner Series:Isabell Collins

1. Tell us about your winning award       The award was the Exceptional Contribution to Mental Health Services in Australia   2.            What was the inspiration for the work you do?      Consumers have been the inspiration.      3.            Please give me an anecdote about how the program is working?   The VMIAC provides individual, [...]

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TheMHS Conference 2010 – Closing Address by Professor Pat McGorry and Closing Ceremony

Glen Doyle introduced the Dharug people and sang a traditional greeting song of the peoples of the Sydney Basin. Members of the management committee gave thanks to the workers and participants at the conference, and highlighted successes at the conference. Alan Rosen pointed to the attendance of the new Federal Minister for Mental Health, the [...]

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TheMHS Conference 2010 – Session 102 – Why we need both National and State Mental Health Commissions: lessons from New Zealand, Western Australia and Canada

Alan Rosen, Peter McGeorge, Hon. Helen Morton MLC, Eddie Bartnik On the eve of an upcoming report comparing mental health commissions across the world Alan Rosen (http://bit.ly/4uNKHj) chaired a symposium on the successes and lessons learned by Peter McGeorge, (Past Chair of the New Zealand Mental Health Commission) and Eddie Bartnik (Acting Head of the [...]

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TheMHS Conference 2010 – Session 102 – 1. Seclusion and Restraint

Seclusion and Restraint Project: The National Mental Health Seclusion and Restraint Project (NMHSRP): How well have we done and where are we going? John Allan, Kirsten Breed, Douglas Holmes, Peter Norrie, Wendy Kipling, Len Lambeth, Marc Reynolds and Ian Wilson. The NMHSRP commenced in 2007 as a collaborative initiative between the Australian Government and State [...]

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TheMHS Conference 2010 – Keynote speech – Alain Topor – Evidence-based recovery. Helping professionals – the consumer’s knowledge

ALAIN TOPOR Stockholm University Department of Social Work Psychiatry Stockholm South Helping professionals: What do they do? Alain is presenting a lively and humorous presentation. Alain says that his favourite sessions have made him “depressed” at the conference – those presentations which showed that we still need to make the argument that passion and joy [...]

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TheMHS Conference: Personal Narratives – Merinda Epstein

The first speaker was Merinda Epstein who gave a paper entitled ‘The power of language: co-opting the consumer imagination’. She discusses language being a powerful tool and mentioned that things are changing from a decade ago when she gave a paper ie less  stigma but there is still more to achieve. She discusses Consumer Place [...]

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