TheMHS Summer Forum – The Haven Project

- www.havenproject.com.au – The Haven Project is a relatively new service operating in South-West Sydney, aiming to provide respite, support and activities for mental health carers. The service is auspiced by Anglicare and coordinates the efforts of a number of services in the region. The service employs indigenous and multilingual workers and hopes to expand [...]

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TheMHS Summer Forum – Trauma, Victimization and PTSD in Women – Kathleen Brady

Kathleen discusses gender differences in PTSD diagnosis – women are almost twice as likely to experience PTSD, however this is largely due to differences in the types of traumatic experience experienced by women. For example, the rates of rape and domestic violence are far higher for women. Kathleen makes the point that in domestic violence, [...]

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TheMHS Summer Forum – Kath Thorburn and Michelle Everett: Implications for workforce education

Speakers: Kath Thorburn and Michelle Everett (NSW Insitute of Psychiatry) (Trailer shown for Healing Neen) We cannot offer recovery-oriented services without understanding the profound impacts of trauma. Trauma informed approaches are good for workers as well as consumers and carers (eg. addressing vicarious trauma). You can’t have one without the other, but you can change [...]

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TheMHS Summer Forum – Rosemary Purcell: Mental illness and violence – what’s the evidence and how can we improve forensic outcomes for young people

Speaker: Rosemary Purcell (Orygen Youth Health Research Centre) Rosemary has been looking at the research evidence between mental illness and violence in a forensic youth context. Are the rates of violence higher among those with mentall illness? In the 1960s and 1970s there were some minor correlations, though observed associations were minimised, if not outright [...]

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TheMHS Summer Forum – Ron Diamond – The Agitated Patient in the Emergency Department

Ron Diamond’s slide sets will be available on the TheMHS website: www.themhs.org Ron argued that often traditional goals centre around eliminating violence through sedation, seclusion and restraint. Ron argues that a more modern way is to solve the problem without violence, placing the use of medication in the emergency department as one of many tools, [...]

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