AICAFMHA:
promoting mental health for young Australians
Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association Ltd
ABN 87 093 479 022


Latest Resources

These are the most recent five resources that have been added to the AICAFMHA website.

Cumulative Harm: The effects of chronic child maltreatment (presentation)
 - Cumulative harm may be caused by an accumulation of a single adverse circumstance or event, or by multiple different circumstances and events
- The unremitting daily impact of these experiences on the child can be profound and exponential, and diminish a child?s sense of safety, stability and wellbeing
View at http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/pubs/presentations/2010/bromfield.pdf

Posted:Mar 12, 2010
Supporting Transition to Adulthood Among Youth with Mental Health Needs: Action Steps for Policymakers
 This Policy Brief calls attention to the challenges faced by youth and young adults with mental health needs during their transition to adulthood and provides information to help policymakers at the state and local level develop and improve service delivery systems for this population.
View at http://www.ncwd-youth.info/policy-brief-02.

Posted:Feb 26, 2010
Live Well with Bipolar
 6 week online course
In this course you will learn how to identify your own signs of oncoming illness and how to put the brakes on. We also show you how to make safety nets, in case the brakes fail! We cover collateral damage to work and relationships and reveal ways to bring routine and rhythm into your life. You?lll make a Living Well Plan to record all you learn and decide. $212 per participant, $424 per pair (working in pairs for the course)
Details at www.twotreesmedia.com

Posted:Jan 29, 2010
TRANSCRIPT OF LIVE CHAT WITH PROFESSOR IAN WEBSTER AO
In December LIFE hosted a live chat session on the livingisforeveryone.com.au website with Professor Ian Webster AO, one of Australia's leading voices in suicide prevention. The topic was 'men and suicide prevention.'
After receiving a significant response from website visitors who were unable to attend the live chat session, LIFE reminds all subscribers that a transcript of the event is now available to read online.
Professor Webster AO, who is currently Chair of the Australian Suicide Prevention Advisory Council, responded to a range of questions about men and suicide prevention in Australia, including questions concerning rural and remote communities, alcohol and other drug use and psychological and emotional pain.
Mental health questionnaire for young service users
 Friday 11 December 2009 10:53
The experiences of children and young people using mental health services may soon be measurable using a tool developed at King's College, London.
The Children and Adolescent Service Experience (ChASE) will ask service users aged nine to 17 and their main carers to complete 15 questions about their experiences of therapy. These will cover what young people thought of their therapist, what happened during their sessions, and whether they felt therapy had helped them.
Dr Crispin Day, head of the Child and Adolescent Mental Heath Services Research Unit at King's College, said it was important to know how satisfied young service users were. "A poor experience of treatment is associated with poor mental health outcomes and early termination," he said.
Day said ChASE questionnaires offer professionals "a powerful new way of measuring that satisfaction" in children and young people who can "reflect on their experiences and contribute to decision making in complex and sophisticated ways".
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/12/11/113414/tool-to-gauge-childrens-experiences-of-mental-health-services.htm

Posted:Dec 18, 2009