Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville;School of Nursing and Midwifery, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;Blackwell Publishing AsiaEarly Intervention in PsychiatryReavley NJ, McCann TV, Jorm AF. Actions taken to deal with...
Despite recognition of the extremely high rates of mental illness among custodial populations and the fact that Indigenous people represent around one-quarter of Australia's custodial population, little is known about the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody. Mental ...
It highlighted that Australia's mental health system was "completely inadequate" to the task of ensuring patients such as Cauchi received continuing care. "It is true that he wanted to move cities but in that case thehealth careshould have been set up for him at his destination," McGorry s...
Australian pride in our universal health system is partly derived from our belief that services should be most available to those who most need them. Logically, this should apply just as much to mental health as to other parts of the health system. Butour new researchfinds Australia's mental ...
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This thesis follows up a cohort of 117 caregivers of children with CF, initially recruited in 2007 from three CF clinics in the states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Caregivers completed a survey about child problem behaviours and their own mental health. The baseline survey...
parents’ countries of birth, length of time in Australia, language(s) other than English spoken at home and religion. Although a range of other factors such as existing chronic conditions and socio-economic status can also be associated with health outcomes, these were not measured in the surv...
The human and economic costs of mental illness in Australia can no longer be ignored. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports that 26.5% of adolescents (one in four young people in this age group) will experience a mental health problem. In spite of this, rates of helpseeking...
Despite the magnitude and potentially serious consequences of mental illness and disorders, access to services is a significant problem. In 2007, the Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program (MHNIP) was implemented to improve access to mental health care in Australia. Mental health nurses are engaged ...
As a country we have plenty of psychologists – compared to other countries we are positively swimming in them (1 per 700 head of population in Australia vs 1 per 1500 head of population in the UK). What we need more of is “non-psychologists” practicing c...