AICAFMHA:
promoting mental health for young Australians
Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association Ltd
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News in Brief - Issue #29 (14/12/2002)
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The final COPMI Project update for this year is online now.
Please note upcoming conference:
Helping Families Change Conference 2003: from clinical trials to population health
19th to 21st February 2003, Manly Pacific Parkroyal Hotel, Sydney
*Early Bird rates apply for all registrations received by 18th January 2003*
Conference Registration Brochure available at website: http://www.pfsc.uq.edu.au/
View flier.
The Board and staff of AICAFMHA extend their wishes to you all for a safe and happy Festive Season and rewarding New Year. News In Brief will return in mid-January 2003.
24th Australian Family Therapy Conference: Relationships, Reconciliation & Children
Radisson Playford Hotel, Adelaide, Monday 20th-Thursday 23rd October 2003
Keynote Speakers: Arnon Bentovim & Gillian Calvert
For further announcements & information contact the Conference Chair: Malcolm Robinson
at malcolm@bowerplace.com.au
'Call for Papers' for the Ninth Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect to be held at the Sydney Convention Centre from 24 - 27 November, 2003. PDF available.
In SA:
CROSSROADS' CONFERENCE: CELEBRATING THREE SUCCESSFUL YEARS
organised by COMIC (Children of Mentally Ill Consumers)
at the Glenelg Function Centre, (next to the Glenelg Football Club)
Brighton Road Glenelg, 18 February 2003, 9.00AM TO 5.00PM
For bookings and further inquiries contact Nerrelle and Paola
Email: comic.admin@bigpond.com
Download PDF of flier.
Call for papers:
10th annual Building on Family Strengths Conference!
The conference will be held June
26 to June 28, 2003 at the Hilton Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pgConference.shtml
Beyond the Rhetoric in Early Intervention Conference
26 - 28 March 2003, Hilton Hotel, Adelaide, South Australia
phone: +61 8 8204 2777 or +61 8 8463 4098
fax: +61 8 8204 9883
email: conference@agd.sa.gov.au
http://www.voc.sa.gov.au/EI_Crime_Prevention/EI_Home.asp
European Society For Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
12th International Congress, 28 September - 1 October 2003
Paris C.N.I.T., La Défense, France
Further details can be obtained from the Congress website, http://www.escap2003.com
Two items from the Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA):
Firstly, assistance is being sought for a project initiated by the Special Population Groups
workgroup, a subgroup of the National Consumer and Carer Forum. The workgroup has identified
consumers with comorbidity and their associated carers as the special population group on which
they would like to focus.
It is proposed the Special Population Groups workgroup will produce an information pamphlet to
assist mental health consumers and carers on admission to a mental health service.
Should anyone have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call either Grace Groom
or Steve Morris on 02 6285 3100.
Additional information.
Secondly, the MHCA is undertaking a Commonwealth funded project to train, educate and support consumers and carers in becoming surveyors able to effectively participate in review teams for the National Standards for MHS accreditation. Training is likely to occur in Canberra during mid 2003. Further information is available from Steve Morris on 02 6285 3100. Readers are invited to start considering whether they know of consumers/carers who may be interested in participating.
Medscape has created the ADHD Resource Center, which contains a collection of the latest medical news and clinical articles on the topic, to promote a better understanding and treatment of this disorder. Visit at http://www.medscape.com/pages/editorial/resourcecenters/public/adhd/rc-adhd.ov .
*** From NSW Commission for Children and Young People:
INQUIRY INTO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH NO ONE TO TURN TO FINDINGS RELEASED.
The Inquiry into the best means of assisting children and young people with no one to turn to
spoke with over 700 children, young people, parents, carers and people that work with or on
behalf of young people to find out:
* who kids get help from
* how they go about getting that help
* why they feel comfortable about it
* what would make it easier for kids with problems to get help.
You can read the report of the Inquiry by visiting www.kids.nsw.gov.au/publications/reports.html
From SANE Australia:
MRI scan for psychosis shows promise - view media release.
EVALUATION FINDINGS
Gold Coast - Referral Pathways For Young People At Risk Of Self Harm/Suicide Project
View report summary.
From Auseinet:
'Mental Health and Work: Issues and Perspectives' is now available for downloading from the
Auseinet site at: http://www.auseinet.com/resources/auseinet/mhw/index.php
Given that this is a fairly large document, each section is available to download separately
O'Hanlon, A., Ratnaike, D., Parham, J., Kosky, R. & Martin, G. (2002). Building capacity for mental health: A two and a half year follow-up of the Auseinet reorientation of services projects. Adelaide:Auseinet. http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/resources/auseinet/bcmh.pdf
The Victorian Parenting Centre has published topics related to children and television, electronic games, the internet, mobile phones and trauma and the media. These research based information resources can be downloaded free of charge from our website at www.vicparenting.com.au.
The National Health Privacy Working Group - a sub group of the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council - was established to develop a strong and effective health specific privacy framework. The key to this framework is the National Health Privacy Code. Details at http://www.health.gov.au/pubs/nhpcode.htm
From British Medical Journal:
Systematic review of involving patients in the planning and development of health care
Mike J Crawford, Deborah Rutter, Catherine Manley, Timothy Weaver,
Kamaldeep Bhui, Naomi Fulop, and Peter Tyrer
BMJ 2002;325 1263
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/325/7375/1263?etoc
Involving users in the delivery and evaluation of mental health services: systematic review
Emma L Simpson and Allan O House
BMJ 2002;325 1265
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/325/7375/1265?etoc
Blaiklock, Alison J., Cynthia A. Kiro, Michael Belgrave, Will Low, Eileen Davenport and Ian B. Hassall (2002)
'When the Invisible Hand Rocks the Cradle: New Zealand Children in a Time of Change'
Innocenti Working Paper No. 93. Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
This paper investigates the impact of economic and social reforms in New Zealand since the mid-1980s on the well-being of children. These reforms were among the most sweeping in scope and scale in any industrialized democracy. Their impact has not been systematically monitored by government.
The paper outlines the reforms and associated changes in the situation of New Zealand children.
At http://www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/iwp93.pdf
TITLE: MEDIA RELEASE - 2002 - CHILD PROTECTION AUSTRALIA 2001-02: FIRST NATIONAL RESULTS Health
and Ageing Portfolio
URL: http://www.aihw.gov.au/media/2002/mr021204.html
SNIPPET: Child protection cases include instances where children have been abused, neglected or
harmed. Co-author of the report, Ms Helen Johnstone, said 20,557 children were on care or protection
orders in June 2002 compared with 15,718 children in 1997.
From Vic Health Promoting Mental Health Network: media item
WILD CHILD OR MILD CHILD: EARLY YEARS SET THE PATTERN
Child welfare experts say a national strategy is needed to help parents raise their children.
Increasingly experts in child behaviour are becoming convinced that positive experiences in the
early years is the key to being healthy later in life. Since the 1970s, key indicators of child
health including juvenile crime, behaviour problems, drug abuse, obesity, sexual abuse and neglect
are increasing. According to the Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, one in four teens
now has a mental health problem. People who deal with the growing number of disturbed and unhealthy
children are warning that the situation has reached a crisis point. Professor Frank Oberklaid,
director of the Centre for Community Child Health in Melbourne says that the nation is rapidly
developing an underclass of children and teen who are likely to be dependent on welfare payments
throughout their life. There is lots of international research which shows that investing in early
intervention reduces rates of delinquency and ill-health later in life. The US, Britain and Canada
have national intervention schemes aimed at toddlers.
Age p13 3/12
National Rural Health Alliance E-forum - 6 December 2002
In this issue:
* Next round of RAMUS Scholarships
* Southern Sights and Services Study Tours
* WA State Rural Health Conference
* Internet Survey for all Health Managers in Australia
* NACCHO Calls for Overhaul of Major Health Program
* New Aged Care Places for Rural and Regional Australia
* Interprofessional Education Symposium Proceedings
* Extracts from ABC Health-Updates
* When Emergency Strikes the Emergency Locum Service Delivers
* Australians can have their say about Health Privacy
* Some California Physicians will be paid for Online Advice
* 7th National Rural Health Conference
* Contribution and subscription information and disclaimer.
View forum.
From BMJ, a number of articles (including one from Oz and one from NZ) on mental health issues and cannabis use:-
Cannabis and mental health
Joseph M Rey and Christopher C Tennant
BMJ 2002;325 1183-1184
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7374/1183?etoc
Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study
George C Patton, Carolyn Coffey, John B Carlin, Louisa Degenhardt,
Michael Lynskey, and Wayne Hall
BMJ 2002;325 1195-1198
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/325/7374/1195?etoc
Self reported cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia in Swedish
conscripts of 1969: historical cohort study
Stanley Zammit, Peter Allebeck, Sven Andreasson, Ingvar Lundberg, and
Glyn Lewis
BMJ 2002;325 1199
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/325/7374/1199?etoc
Deliberate self harm in adolescents: self report survey in schools in
England
Keith Hawton, Karen Rodham, Emma Evans, and Rosamund Weatherall
BMJ 2002;325 1207-1211
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/325/7374/1207?etoc
Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal
prospective study
Louise Arseneault, Mary Cannon, Richie Poulton, Robin Murray, Avshalom
Caspi, and Terrie E Moffitt
BMJ 2002;325 1212-1213
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7374/1212?etoc
The full study findings are now available for Building Strong Families: A Preliminary Study from YMCA of the USA and Search Institute on What Parents Need to Succeed. Go to http://www.search-institute.org/families/ to review the full study findings.
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