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COPMI Project Update - 24/10/2003
Psychiatrists Subgroup
The importance of ensuring that psychiatrists contributed to the COPMI initiative was recognised at an early stage of the COPMI project and the Psychiatrist's Subgroup of the COPMI Reference Group has been working steadily on a number of fronts. A group has been developing a draft College Position Paper for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) regarding children of parents with a mental illness. Others in the group have been investigating the range of input into the psychiatric trainee program in different states regarding the parents with a mental illness and their children (with a view to making recommendations for the future). Group members made presentations at the RANZCP Congress in 2003 and to the Strategic Planning Group for Private Psychiatric Services (SPGPPS). Four members of the group have also collaborated to submit an article about mental health and parenting for publication in "Australasian Psychiatry", the bulletin of the RANZCP.
As the Subgroup is mainly composed of psychiatrists in the Child and Adolescent field, they have invited a range of Adult psychiatric service providers to become "COPMI champions". The COPMI champions will assist in any of a number of ways including
If you know of any psychiatrists providing services to adults of child rearing age (either in public or private practice) who you believe are or potentially could be "COPMI champions" please let me know.
Elizabeth Fudge
Project Manager,
COPMI Initiative
Ph (08) 8161 6859
Fax (08) 81616983
fudgee@wch.sa.gov.au
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