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News in Brief - Issue 4 (17/11/2001)

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AICAFMHA News

The AICAFMHA AGM will be held on Tuesday 27^th November at 1pm in Adelaide. Financial AICAFMHA members are invited to participate – contact Sue Garvin at secretary@aicafmha.net.au or on 08 8132 0786 for details.

The final hardcopy newsletter has hit mailboxes – please note the invitation to suggest a name for the association (email: feedback@aicafmha.net.au) and the enclosed membership application form. To view the newsletter online, go to http://www.aicafmha.net.au/newsletters/ .

The hardcopy newsletter will now be discontinued with AICAFMHA News In Brief taking it’s place. Encourage work colleagues to subscribe by entering their email address at http://www.aicafmha.net.au/ or contacting the association (secretary@aicafmha.net.au).

If you would like something mentioned in AICAFMHA News In Brief, contact Sue Garvin at secretary@aicafmha.net.au with the details. Please note, items submitted for commercial purposes will attract an advertising fee.

What’s On?

*** DEADLINE EXTENSION***  The 3^rd International Conference on Child & Adolescent Mental Health (ICCAMH) has extended the deadline for abstracts until mid-December 2001. Go to http://www.iccamh.com/ for further information. 

INVITATION to Queensland subscribers:
A unique opportunity to participate in a state-wide video conference with Professor Clyde Hertzman from 11.45am -1.45pm Wed 21 November 2001 at various locations.
Professor Clyde Hertzman, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia, is Associate Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and a Lawson Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
For further information contact the Commission on: telephone (07) 3247 5525, fax (07)3247 5507 or email wmaster@childcomm.qld.gov.au 

Mental Health News

From Medscape MedPulse: FIRST ATTEMPT AT EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR ADHD New treatment guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics are intended to assist primary care physicians in managing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in school-age children. Brown Univ Child & Adol Behav Ltr 17(11):1, 3-4, 2001 http://psychiatry.medscape.com/44795.rhtml?srcmp=psy-110901
Go to http://www.aap.org/policy/s0120.html to view the policy paper. 

Resources

The Children of Parents Affected by a Mental Illness Scoping Project Report is now out of print. The report remains available to download from the association website at http://www.aicafmha.net.au/projects/children.htm . Please contact Sue Garvin on 08 8132 0786 for information about unfilled orders.

Can you help?
Reshma Sood is a probationary psychologist currently conducting research into the relationship between depression in parents and behavioural difficulties in their preschool children, as part of doctoral studies in Psychology at La Trobe University.
Currently, Reshma is having a great deal of difficulty in recruiting parents (especially fathers) of young children who are experiencing depression and asked us for help.
If any AICAFMHA News subscribers have parents who might be interested in participating or would like further information, please contact Reshma Sood at  R.Sood@latrobe.edu.au

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