Posted in Uncategorized2 on Feb 23rd, 2012 1 Comment »
Date: 23 February 2012
Chair: Maree Teesson
Speaker: Kate Sanders
Kate Saunders take the stage.
UK background:
- 200,000 presentations to UK hospitals
-top five cause of admission to hospitals
-one of the highest rates in Europe
-2/3 patients under 35 years
-women – highest rates seen in young women
-gradual decline of suicide rates over past years 1990-2008 (graphic shown)
-there is a range of [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Dec 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Our non profit Mental Health Summer Forum is fast approaching!
This year we are tackling the topic of self-harm in our society.
The forum will focus on understanding the issues, translating research into innovative practice, and moving towards hope, healing and recovery. How do we address the crisis of self-harm among young people? How should we [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Feb 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Speaker: Ron Diamond
Personality Disorder
we talk about personality characteristics
what is a personality disorder? means it routinely gets them in trouble, its problems in all areas and ongoing and its pervasive
there is a stigma around Borderline Personality Disorder more so than other labels such as schizophrenia etc
when we look at the DSM IV thrree of the characteristics [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Feb 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
TheMHS Mental Health Summer Forum: Tackling Aggression, understand, respond and prevent.
Speaker: Ron Diamond Medical Director of the Mental Health Centre of Dane County; Prof of Psychiatry at the Uni of Wisconsin and Consultant to the Wisconsin Bureau of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Chair: Professor Maree Teesson
Maree: We have had to turn people away we [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Feb 4th, 2011 No Comments »
Our TheMHS Summer Forum is fast approaching and this year the theme is Tackling Aggression: Let’s understand, respond, prevent
We have a great range of multidisciplinary speakers such as:
Penelope Coombes is Co-founder and Managing Director, The People for Places and Spaces. PPS specialises in collaborative place-making, urban revitalization and design facilitation to ensure cities, towns, streets and buildings are [...]
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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 have an excellent [...]
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Our mental health Summer Forum is on in Sydney 24&25 February 2011.
Read about some of our inspiring speakers:
Kathleen Brady
Kathleen Brady is Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is well known for her research in the area of psychiatric comorbidity and substance use disorders [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Nov 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
TheMHS organise two key events each year. We organise a mental health Summer Forum and an Annual Conference.
Our Summer Forum is fast approaching 24 & 25 February and is based in Sydney.
The topic this year is Tackling Aggression: Let’s understand, respond, prevent and we have a great lineup of speakers.
These are just a few:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Ronald J Diamond
Once [...]
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Posted in TheMHS on Feb 18th, 2010 No Comments »
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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Posted in TheMHS on Feb 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Today I am live blogging from the TheMHS Summer Forum in Sydney. The forum called The Right to Care that Works runs for two days.
The speakers are now forming on stage and we are kicking off very soon. Not all sessions will be blogged – those done are chosen on availability of timing – we [...]
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