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promoting mental health for young Australians
Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association Ltd
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News in Brief - Issue #3.14 (02/08/2003)
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Please remember to complete your membership application. If you need a tax
invoice, send details to secretary@aicafmha.net.au and I'll post one out to you.
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you one. We have over 1900 subscribers to this list now and need ¼ of you to
become members to achieve our target. It costs less than $1 a week to join.
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titles.
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Help Yourself: to move out of depression and anxiety |
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Your Social Baby: Understanding babies' communication from birth |
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The COPMI Project update is online. You are invited to participate by providing feedback relating to the Draft Principles and Actions For Services and People Working With Children of Parents With A Mental Illness document. See update for details. Responses due by 1st Sept 2003.
What?s On?
There is now a Call out for Papers for the Lifecourse Perspectives: Building
Theory, Evidence and Practice on the 9th International Health Summer School
website, which can be found at the following link:
http://www.hlth.qut.edu.au/ph/summer_school_p2_courses.jsp
Please forward all inquiries to Dr Jan Nicholson at j.nicholson@qut.edu.au
1st Mental Health & Wellness Ecology Conference "Mental Health
Ecology for the 21st Century"
30 September - 2 October 2003,University of
New England Armidale NSW
Australia The conference aims to: Highlight mental health and wellness as a
significant area of health promotion and education in communities at
local, national and international
levels (fostering an all-of-community approach)?
More details at http://www.une.edu.au/campus/confco/mhc/
CONNECTIONS: Past, Present and Future
The Capital & Coast and
Hutt Valley District
Health Boards
New Zealand Conference
10 - 12 September 2003
The
Duxton Hotel, Wellington,
New Zealand
Enquiries to jenny.ferguson@huttvalleydhb.org.nz
Registration form
and prelim program available.
Children as Partners:A Conference on Youth Participation
10-12 November 2003, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Monday 10th
Youth Forum - ALL DAY Opening &
Youth Art Exhibition - EVENING Tuesday
11th Workshops, Wednesday 12th Workshops
If you are interested in attending the
conference, join the Conference mailing list to receive the latest news,
updates and registration information (program details and costs
finalised in August), by emailing:
childrenaspartners@plan.org.au
http://www.plan.org.au/contents/newsinfo/Events/Conference2003.asp
The Child as Builder of Humanity
Montessori Conference
26-28 September 2003, Sydney
www.aaaa.net.au
Transforming Trauma: Critical, Controversial and Core
Issues
The Delphi Centre in collaboration with The Cannan Institute
and the Trauma Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital, will convene
the 'Transforming Trauma: Critical, Controversial and Core Issues' conference from 12 to 14 September
2003 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Melbourne.
http://www.delphicentre.com.au/conference/organisers.htm
FAMILIES LIVING WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA
GET
PAID TO PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH
This inter-generational PhD study seeks to
explore the life stories including positive (resilience) and negative experiences of families
with a member who has schizophrenia. Participants from each family would
include the 1st generation - grandparent/s, the 2nd generation - the adult
children (i.e., the person with schizophrenia and any siblings) and the 3rd
generation - the adult children's children (i.e., the grandchildren) who are 12
years of age or older.
Payment is $15 per hour for two 2-hr interview
sessions for each family member
plus completing several self-report measures.
If you would like further
information about
this research, please contact the researcher, Simone Garnsey on 08
9266 7135 or email S.Garnsey@curtin.edu.au (Curtin University, WA)
Mental Health News
The Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) would like
to know what you think about the youth issues that are of interest to
the community, in particular to young people directly; and to understand the view
of the relevance of different skills and seek an understanding of programs
to help enhance those skills. The survey will only take a couple of minutes to complete
and will help us to get an understanding of these issues.
The
information gathered from this survey will help inform FYA's own strategies and policies, as
well to provide input to committees and other
groups FYA are part of.
Responses
due by 7th August 2003.
Download a copy of the survey.
AeJAMH - The Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health - Volume 2 Issue 2 (July 2003)is now online at http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/journal/vol2iss2/index.php
In 2002, the Queensland Crime and Misconduct
Commission launched a section on its main CMC website named the CMC Paedophilia
Resource Portal which was an initial attempt to provide organisations and
individuals with information in a range of areas relating to criminal paedophilia.
Whilst the feedback on the resource portal has been positive, ongoing review
has lead to its redevelopment.
The redeveloped website was launched Monday 28th July
2003 and is renamed the
Sexual Abuse Prevention and Information Site - www.cmc.qld.gov.au/SAPI.html
Find below a link to the August edition of
the Kids Help Line Newsletter. This newsletter covers the launch of Kids Help
Lines range of interactive visual tools to
enhance the online counselling service.
http://www.kidshelp.com.au/research/Newsletters/KHLNewsletterAugust2003.pdf
28 July 2003 Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Kay Patterson announced that the South Australian Aboriginal Health Council has been chosen to auspice Australia's first Centre of Clinical Research Excellence dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.
Child, Youth & Families Network: Our latest newsletter, which focuses on Early Intervention, is now available on the CYF website: http://www.hlth.qut.edu.au/ph/cyf/3_publications.htm
Resources
The July edition of RTC Updates is now online. There really are some excellent references listed in this publication, this issue includes notices about youth leadership and mentoring, child welfare and our own Aussie Siblings Project.
The impact of parental psychiatric disorder on children
Paul Ramchandani and Alan Stein
BMJ 2003;327 242-243
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7409/242?etoc
UW Report Shows Worrisome Link Between Child And Parental Mental Health Problems;
Strong Need For Family-Based Treatment
http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=news&id=38144
DIVISIONS OF GENERAL PRACTICE REVIEW RELEASED
Health and Ageing Portfolio
URL: http://www.health.gov.au/mediarel/yr2003/kp/kp03143.htm
SNIPPET: The Divisions of General Practice review
has been released today by the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing,
Senator Kay Patterson. The six person review panel was chaired by the
Honourable Ron Phillips, former NSW Minister for Health.
Depression Tops Australian GP's List
http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=news&id=38202
There were an estimated 10.8 million visits
to GPs for mental health-related conditions in 2000-01, especially for depression,
according to a report released by the Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare (AIHW).
Childhood Key To Adult Mental Illness
http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=news&id=38307
Almost half of all adult mental illnesses could be prevented if they were
treated in childhood, new research suggests.
The draft recommendations of the Outcomes Subgroup of the CAMHS External
Working Group contributing to the development of the Children's National Service
Framework (UK) are now available on the Department of Health web site:
http://www.doh.gov.uk/nsf/children/outcomesubgroupreport.pdf
From ABC Health Updates:
DIGITAL DOCTORS
With the advent of new technologies, more and more doctors are using telemedicine
to treat patients in rural and remote locations. In our feature
'Digital Doctors', Matthew Liddy asks: Is telemedicine the answer for the bush,
or just another case of second-best?
http://www.abc.net.au/health/regions/features/digital/default.htm
NEW MOTHERS NEED ACCESSIBLE MATERNITY SERVICES (Stateline Victoria:
25/07/2003)
http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/vic/content/2003/s910517.htm
CALLOUS UNEMOTIONAL (Health Report: 28/07/2003)
Parents who've had a bad day with the kids can occasionally be heard calling
them 'little psychopaths'. But for some families, it's far from a joke. The
degree of bad behaviour is so over the top that they know something is wrong.
The trouble is that the term 'psychopath' suggests there's nothing that can be
done. But one underlying trait in people who are aggressive, often criminally
so, and anti-social, is being increasingly recognised. Professor Mark Dadds
from the University of New South Wales looks at a measurable trait in children
called Callous Unemotional.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s907642.htm
From Medscape MedPulse:
Conference Coverage - Fifth International Conference on Bipolar Disorder
Read about advances in the treatment of bipolar depression, use of
anticonvulsants, and more.
Medscape 2003
http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/2430?mpid=16391
The Royal College of Psychiatrists have recently issued the following report:
Bridging the Gaps: Health Services for Adolescents (CR114) Published June 2003.
60pp.
The report describes the health needs that young people should expect to be met
by health service providers and proposes a strategy to meet them.
Copies can be downloaded at:
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/publications/cr/council/cr114.pdf
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