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promoting mental health for young Australians
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News in Brief - Issue #3.01 (18/01/2002)
AICAFMHA News / What's On? / Mental Health News / Resources / Back to E-News index
Welcome back to News in Brief for the New Year?
The first COPMI Project update for the year is online now and provides an overview of events for the first part of the year. View here.
Call for papers for the ARCHI Toolkit Seminar, Innovation in Health Workforce Management
to be held in Alice Springs NT on 23-24 April, 2003.
Download (.doc).
For SA participants:
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,
18th February, 2003, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
Download registration brochure.
Registration is now available for the Beyond the Rhetoric in Early Intervention - Bridging the
Gap between Education, Health and Crime Prevention Conference, 26-28 March 2003 at the Hilton
Hotel, Adelaide.
Keynote Speakers include Prof Richard Catalano (US), Dr Clyde Hertzman (Canada), Prof Nick
Tilley (UK), Dr Fred Mathews (Canada), Prof Ross Homel (Qld), Assoc Prof Glenda Mac Naughton
(Vic), and Prof Graham Vimpani (NSW).
The Registration Brochure can be viewed / downloaded / printed at:
http://www.voc.sa.gov.au/EI_Crime_Prevention/EI_Registration.asp
If you would prefer a copy to be posted to you, please email conference@agd.sa.gov.au with
your postal address details.
**Early Bird registration rates are available until 31 January**
FYI:
Young Media Australia Helpline
Children and the media: Let's talk
Up-to-date and reliable information about the impact of the media on children
1800 700 357 (freecall)
www.youngmedia.org.au
SANE Australia media release:
It's official? drugs are not enough to treat schizophrenia
SANE Australia's call for a wider range of treatments to help people with schizophrenia, in
addition to medication, has received international backing from NICE - the UK-based National
Institute for Clinical Excellence
View full release.
PLE is about to launch a new mini-journal called Autism and Asperger's On-Line.
We are interested in receiving submissions of papers on the topic.
We are specifically interested in research, assessment tools, audit, review papers, service descriptions and case reports.
Our submission rules are at http://www.priory.com/rules.htm
Interested authors should write to drbengreen@hotmail.com
From: Dr Ben Green,
Editor in Chief, Priory Medical Journals
The Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network (Consumer Summaries)
http://www.cochraneconsumer.com/index.asp?SHOW=Topics
The Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network is a consumer organisation within the Collaboration
including individuals and consumer organisations from around the world. The Network supports and
develops consumer participation in the Collaboration, and helps make the information available to
consumers. The address above is for the complete list of topics which includes mental health,
although the dementias and addictions are treated as separate topics.
National Rural Health Alliance E-forum - 17 January 2003
In this issue:
* RIPAA Calls it a Day!
* Comments on Ageing
* Share your rural health experience with interested medical students
* GPS Urge Action on Summer Doctor Crisis
* WA State Rural Health Conference
* Nurses to step into GPs' shoes
* New Services for the Health Industry
* University Readies E-Health Courses
* 7th National Rural Health Conference
* Contribution and subscription information and disclaimer.
* Full text of RIPAA Calls it a Day!
View in full.
From MedPulse: (www.medscape.com/psychiatryhome)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, December 2002
Highlights of this month's Journal Scan include rapid treatment for suicidal adolescents, treating
girls with ADHD, and a case of body dysmorphic disorder.
Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health 7(2) 2002
New Study Examines "Real World" Antipsychotic Prescribing Practices for Children and Adolescents
Among psychiatric inpatient youth, physicians are known to prescribe atypical antipsychotics more
for aggression than for psychosis, and these clinicians agree closely with research experts on what
the optimal prescribing strategies are.
Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update 5(1) 2003
Psychiatric Impairment More Likely in Children With ADHD
Children with ADHD from psychiatric and pediatric practices display similar levels of ADHD
symptoms, comorbidity with mood, anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders, and cognitive,
interpersonal and academic impairments, Massachusetts researchers report.
Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter 18(12) 2002
Bulimia Linked to Seasonal Depression in Japan Study
People with bulimia nervosa appear to be at increased risk for seasonal affective disorder (SAD),
according to survey findings published in the January issue of the International Journal of Eating
Disorders.
Reuters Health Information 2003
Link Between MMR Vaccination and Autism Subject to Recall Bias
Since all the publicity of a possible association between measles-mumps-rubella vaccination and
autism, first suggested in 1998, parents of autistic children tend to recall the onset of
regressive symptoms as coinciding with MMR vaccination, UK researchers report.
Reuters Health Information 2003
ADHD Meds Do Not Lead to Future Drug Abuse
Children treated with stimulants are no more likely to later smoke, drink, or use illegal drugs.
Medscape Medical News 2003
FDA Approves Prozac for Pediatric Depression and OCD
The US Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it has approved Eli Lilly & Co.'s
Prozac (fluoxetine) to treat depression and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in children
and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years.
Reuters Health Information 2003
From RTC Updates - contents: (there are some very topical articles in here?)
** FORUMS--New bulletin board discussions on our web site
** BUILDING ON FAMILY STRENGTHS CONFERENCE--Call for presentations
** DATA TRENDS--Recent research summaries
** RTC PUBLICATIONS & PRODUCTS--Recently produced
** FROM THE WEB--Online information and sites of interest
View here.
From British Medical Journal:
Developmental precursors of child- and adolescent-onset schizophrenia and
affective psychoses: diagnostic specificity and continuity with symptom
dimensions
CHRIS HOLLIS
Br J Psychiatry 2003;182 37-44
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/182/1/37?etoc
Efficacy of Suicide Prevention Programs for Children and Youth
http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/hta/hta-publications/reports/suicide_prevention.pdf
By Bing Guo, and Christa Harstall.
Health Technology Assessment HTA26:Series A. Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research,
January, 2002.
Disaster Mental Health Response Handbook: An Educational Resource for mental Health
Professionals Involved in Disaster Management
http://www.nswiop.nsw.edu.au/publicat.htm
The New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry, and the Centre for Mental Health have collaborated
to produce this handbook.
New South Wales Health, July 2000
Resource Guide for Critical Incident Stress and Debriefing in Human Service Agencies
http://www.mentalhealth.org/publications/allpubs/SMA99-3323/99-821.pdf
Published by the Human Resources Branch, Victorian Government Department of Human Services,
May 1997.
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