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 #9 (09/02/2002)

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AICAFMHA News 

AICAFMHA is pleased to welcome Jill Williamson to the position of director on the AICAFMHA Board. Jill, a clinical psychologist, is the Youth Development Coodinator for the Tablelands Child and Youth Mental Health Service and represents Queensland on the Board of Directors. 

AICAFMHA will be presenting and holding consultation sessions for the national initiative at the coming “Holding it all Together” conference in Melbourne during April. Registration brochures for this landmark conference concerning Children of Parents with a Mental Illness are now available. Contact enquiry@prcc.com.au for a copy. 

What’s On?

For those of you who do not subscribe to the Vichealth email discussion list: On Monday Feb 4 VicHealth will launch more of Together We Do Better. VicHealth has joined forces with the Department of Education, Employment and Training (DEET), the Centre for Adolescent Health, Kids Help Line, Mind Matters and The Alannah and Madeline Foundation to put bullying behavior under the spotlight as a significant mental health issue for all Victorians.
The ad - Do we ever get over it?", deals with the health effects of bullying behaviour. The ads can be seen in newspapers and bus shelters.
http://www.togetherwedobetter.vic.gov.au 

Research Participants Needed!
Do you have five or more years experience working with people who have a developmental disability and severe problem behavior?
We are looking for people to participate in a study who have at least five years professional experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities who display severe problem behaviors.  Your assistance is needed to view and rate brief video clips of individuals with a developmental disability and severe problem behaviors.
Details at: http://www.cofc.edu/~marcie/mmpage3.htm or contact Dr. Marcie Desrochers at Desrochersm@cofc.edu or (843)953-3840 Department of Psychology, College of Charleston, SC 29424 

Holding it all Together: First national conference for all involved in meeting the challenges for children and families where parents have a mental illness, Melbourne, 21-24 April 2002
Registration brochure and program now available
Contact enquiry@prcc.com.au for details and a copy of the brochure.  

Mental Health News

Mental Health Promotion and Work: Issues and Challenges
What Does Promoting Mental Health Mean in Relation to Work? - A Monograph
Auseinet and VicHealth, jointly, call for expressions of interest from interested groups and individuals to contribute to an edited publication of essays, articles, photographs, cartoons, poems, plays, good practice programs, articulating the relationship between mental health, mental health promotion and work.
All intending contributors are asked to contact Jill Knappstein at Auseinet 08 8404 2999, Jill.Knappstein@fmc.sa.gov.au , for an Information Package before submitting an abstract.
Closing date for abstracts March 8th 2002
Final date for draft submissions May 31st 2002
Publication September 2002 

If you are interested in the 24 CAMHS Innovation Projects (in UK), you will find some useful information at the following 2 URLs.
There are 2 articles from the YoungMinds Magazine at: http://www.youngminds.org.uk/professionals/MHG/
There is information about 3 of the projects at: http://www.doh.gov.uk/newsdesk/inside/jan2002/index.html
This is the DoH's Newsdesk, so not sure how long it will be available from this URL. 

StigmaWatch is an anti-stigma campaign initiated by SANE Australia
a charity helping those affected by mental illness. The current report (in PDF) will be available on the AICAFMHA website shortly. Information about StigmaWatch can be found at http://www.sane.org . 

NSW Health embarked upon a consumer consultation process to establish a mechanism for consumers to reach government - the result appears to be the establishment of The Health Participation Council chaired by Wendy McCarthy. Details at http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/policy/participate/commitment.html  

Resources

Mental Health Promotion and Young People: Concepts and Practice Edited by Louise Rowling, Graham Martin and Lyn Walker
For more information : McGraw-Hill Australia 02 9415 9888 or cservice_sydney@mcgraw-hill.com  

Coming soon........
STOP FIDGETING! The Life Skills Guide For the Hunter Rookie
By Judith H. Gade
In approximately 4 months a new book will be released to help teens with Attention Deficit Disorder.
For those of you who would like to be notified of the website when it is up and running , which will have an excerpt, please pass on this e-mail address (or e-mail!) to people who would like to know more....stopfidgeting-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
or email ADDventurous [addventurous@froggy.com.au] for details. 

From MedPulse:
CHILDHOOD ABUSE, FAMILY DYSFUNCTION STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WITH SUICIDE ATTEMPTS Adverse childhood events, from abuse to incarceration of a family member, strongly influence the risk of suicide attempts throughout a person's life span, according to study results reported in the December 26th issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/46492.rhtml?srcmp=psy-122801  

Mental health services for children and adolescents (British Medical Journal article)
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7329/114

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