Are you coming to our TheMHS mental health conference? it is only weeks away and these are some of the featured Symposia.
1. Early Intervention supporting resilience
Building resilience in young people, families and communities is the focus of this symposium which brings together several important early intervention strands. There is solid evidence to indicate that better outcomes [...]
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In the next few weeks we will be presenting Q&A from our keynote speakers for the annual TheMHS Mental Health conference in Adelaide – so stay tuned to find out more!
Haven’t registered yet? it is not too late but don’t miss out !
http://www.themhs.org/2011-conference/registration-fees-
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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 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Our Summer Forum is fully booked (24 & 25 Feb) and we know that some of you have unfortunately missed out.
Please note that our team will be blogging key sessions from the event so be sure to check into this blog each day. It may not be quite the same as being there but we [...]
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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 Mar 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Two of our Mental Health Summer Forum speakers Mary O’ Hagan and Steven Segal were interviewed on ‘All in the Mind’ – ABC Radio National regarding their views on coercive treatments. They joined ‘Stephen’ a mental health consumer who had previously been on a Community Treatment Order (CTO).
You can go to the interview here http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2010/2828006.htm [...]
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Posted in Awards TheMHS on Sep 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
This week I spoke with Marianna Wong from VETE based in North Ryde, NSW. The VETE program won Gold in the Specialist service /part of larger service award.
Q&A
1. Tell us a little about your program
Vocational Education Training & Employment (VETE) Service is funded by NSW Health to all the Area Health Services (AHS). No prescribed [...]
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Today we interviewed Erwin Van Asbeck from the Toi Ora Live Art Trust in New Zealand. The program won Gold for the Consumer Provided Services Category in the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Achievement Awards.
Tell us a little about your program
Toi Ora Live Arts Trust is a creative arts centre for people with experience of mental ill [...]
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The Spirit of Recovery (live blogging from conference)
Discussion of tree- seeds of trauma and healing are often cross generational
Promoting recovery is about a truth and reconcilation process on individual and society level. Society needs to be more respectful of distress
As we tell our stories society should become more understanding
As clinical psychologist now – first experience [...]
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