Keynote Speakers – TheMHS Summer Forum – Feb 2011

Our Summer Forum is fast approaching (24&25 Feb 2011) and this year the topic is: Tackling Aggression – let’s understand, respond and prevent. The forum will explore the latest research findings on the relationships between mentalhealth, mental ill-health, and aggression and violence, substance use and aggression and violence, the role of medication and more. We [...]

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TheMHS Conference Highlights

Our annual mental health conference is fast approaching and I thought over the next couple of days I would share some of our upcoming highlights and abstracts from the conference. TheMHS Keynote – Anthony D. Mancini                                             Wednesday 15/9/2010 From: 1000 To: 1100  Venue: Bayside Auditorium B – L1 Keynote Presentation:  Infusing Recovery Principles into Public [...]

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Are you coming to the Conference?

REGISTER NOW!  TWO WEEKS TO GO BEFORE TheMHS Annual Mental Health Conference 14 – 17 September 2010  Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW 20 years strong: and now a renaissance Rebirth and renewal, lessons from history,mental health service reform, social justice and social inclusion, clinical issues, policies, funding, research, citizenship and lived experience, digital [...]

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Refugee and Aboriginal mental health highlighted

The following is an article written by journalist Giovanni Torre regarding the recent Mental Health Services conference in Perth. Refugee and Aboriginal mental health highlighted  By Giovanni Torre Delegates from around the world gathered for the 1st Australasian Refugee Health Conference in Perth 1-2 September 2009 to share knowledge to strengthen the fight against stigma and despair.   Dr Jill Benson, [...]

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Rufus May – Keynote Speaker TheMHS Conference

The Spirit of Recovery (live blogging from conference) Discussion of tree- seeds of trauma and healing are often cross generational Promoting recovery is about a truth and reconcilation process on individual and society level. Society needs to be more respectful of distress As we tell our stories society should become more understanding As clinical psychologist [...]

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Judy Atkinson – Keynote Speaker TheMHS Conference

TheMHS Conference – Thursday Live Blogging Judy Atkinson: Dadirri – song Listening to one Another – playing Justice making focus of Judy’s work Education needs to be turned around in the space Every child has rights to be loved protected fed – they have the rights, Discusses  Rs respect rights responsibilities and reciprocity and relatedness [...]

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TheMHS Conference has begun!

Well it is Wednesday and yesterday was a great start to the conference with speakers such as Kim Mulholland,  Dr Carmen Lawrence  and Jill Benson. Today we have a Welcome to Country and Opening ceremony in the morning followed by our MHS Achievement Awards – so stay tuned as I will be live-blogging during the [...]

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A short history of TheMHS

In 1990, at the conference of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), a handful of psychiatrists decided it was time for a broadly based, multi disciplinary forum.  The first THEMHS Conference was held “back to back” with the next RANZCP conference in Adelaide in May 1991. One hundred and seventy people [...]

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