Chair: Maree Teesson
Speaker: Merinda Epstein
Please see below for link to powerpoint presentation download.
Merinda is a mental health consumer
She will give a presentation from the consumer and expert/professional position
Works for Our Consumer Place – in Melbourne - interested in BPD and self-harm
Has been lobbying around BPD for 24 years for most of the time have been [...]
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Speaker: Pat McGorry
Chair: Maree Teesson
Pat McGorry discusses his interest in this area:
work in early psychosis – data showing that we can reduce suicide within the first five years – intervention.
His experience also included reading an article in The Age about group of parents that met to talk to others about child loss. He met with [...]
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Featured Symposium: 7 September, 2011
Panel: Prof Malcolm Battersby,Helen Glover and Alain Topor
To exercise self management the speakers changed the title of today’s presentation to “Looking after yourself”
Malcolm used an analogy to explain self management as having a time and a place – as being introduced to an aeroplane and given a manual and invited to [...]
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7 September, TheMHS Adelaide
HelpingProfessionals- What do they do? (According to the people they helped)
“Believe those who are seeking the truth beware those who find it”
In psychiatry, there is seldom one truth- its important that we respect the work of finding truth and the individuality of the truths found by each person.
In exploration of recovery – [...]
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TheMHS 2011, September 7 – 2011
Ending Self Stigma: A Promising New Intervention to Reduce Internalized Stigma Regarding Mental Health Problems in Aust and US
Presented by Alicia Lucksted, Amy Drapalski, Keith Mahar and Mark Crowley
Introductions from the team regarding their roles in the project and backgrounds.
Discussion of Societal Stigma – the negative regard that people with [...]
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Our conference is just around the corner and while we concentrate on sharing information and looking at best practice within mental health we also like to mix it up with some fun.
These are just a few our the highlights from the upcoming mental health conference:
SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS – 2011
TheMHS Visual Arts Exhibition: “Conversation Pieces” – look [...]
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Did you know our annual mental health (non profit) conference is being held in Adelaide this year? From 6-9 September.
This is our 21st conference and this year the theme is Resilience.
View more about the topic
Read about our keynote speakers
Interested in having a booth at the theMHS conference get in fast!
Interested in registering online to secure [...]
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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 Policy, Program Design, [...]
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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 in which a [...]
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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
Discussion of colonisations – worldwide- unsafe [...]
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