Community mental healthMedical Journal of Australia
community mental healthfacilities are present in 51.7% of the low-income and in 97.4% of the high-income countries. Countries such as Australia, Canada, Finland, Norway, the UK, and the United States, among others, have well-established community care facilities. Some Latin American countries ...
aims to contribute to the development of a more sustainable Australian rural community mental health workforce by comparing the findings from a literature search investigating impacting factors on retention with the experiences of community mental health service managers running services in rural Australia....
Advances in Mental HealthCosgrave C, Hussain R, Maple M. Factors impacting on retention amongst community mental health clinicians working in rural Australia: a literature review. Adv Ment Health 2015; 13: 58-71. doi:10.1080/ 18374905.2015.1023421...
communitymentalhealth,disability,need,outcome.AustralianNewZealandJournalPsychiatry2000;34:850–855MareeTeesson,Lecturer(Correspondence)NationalDrugAlcoholResearchCentre,NewSouthWales,Sydney2052,Australia.Email:m.teesson@unsw.edu.auJillGallagher,PsychologistPrevention,EarlyInterventionRecoveryServices,Sydney,Australia...
This type of service is, however, still relatively new in Australia and New Zealand, and it has rarely been fully integrated into a comprehensive catchment area community and hospital mental health service. This paper has two aims. Firstly, it describes an innovative assertive community mental ...
There is consensus that services supporting people with complex emotional needs are part of a mental health care system in which change is needed. To date, service users’ views and co-production initiatives have had little impact on the development of i
A multiple baseline trial was undertaken in two groups of community mental health services in New South Wales, Australia (2011–2014). A 12-month practice change intervention was sequentially implemented in each group. Outcome data were collected continuously via telephone interviews with a random sam...
METHOD: A community survey of 4824 adults was carried out in Canberra, Australia. Measures covered anxiety, depression, suicidality, alcohol misuse, positive and negative affect and a range of risk factors for poorer mental health. RESULTS: The bisexual group was highest on measures of anxiety, ...
This review aimed to (1) describe the types of targeted community-based mental health programmes evaluated in Australia to support children aged 1–9 years exhibiting internalising and/or externalising symptoms and (2) examine their impact on children’s internalising and externalising symptoms and...