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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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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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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Award Finalists Announced

2009 Mental Health Achievement Awards Finalists We are pleased to announce the Award finalists in the 2009 Achievement Awards competition.  The gold and Silver Award Winners in each category will be announced at TheMHS Conference Achievement Awards presentation, Wednesday 2nd September, 2009 in Perth.  The following list is in alphabetical order by organisation. The Achievement [...]

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Series: TheMHS Presenters: Gayle Corbould

In this series we will be interviewing a variety of our speakers at TheMHS Conference. This week we speak to Gayle Corbould, Senior Project Officer, Clinical Application Unit at the Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry,(CCRN). 1. Can you tell us a little about your background and how you came to the position you are [...]

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