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The Registration Brochure for the 5th AICAFMHA/14th TheMHS Conference will be finalised this week so will hit the mail boxes at the end of the month. A program containing 14 invited and keynote speakers, special symposia, COPMI streams, workshops and a variety of presentations offers something for everyone with an interest in mental health from infancy to adulthood. Current details, including fees, hotels and speakers and pre-registration is available here.
This fortnights COPMI Project update is now available online. There is also a note from our consumer/carer representative included here.
The new AICAFMHA membership year is just around the corner. Details about subscriptions for 04/05 will be appearing shortly.
Mental Health Promotion Short Course
Monday 2nd to Friday 6th August 2004
This short course is run through the Department of Public Health at Flinders
University, Adelaide, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry at
University of Queensland and VicHealth.
Web Address: http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/PublicHealth/index.html
Cost: $990
Contact Trish Clark in the first instance to inquire if there are vacancies
in the short course and to tentatively book your place.
Email: public.health@flinders.edu.au
Check our our conference links for all the latest news on events.
Call to action:Youth mental health - Public Forum
Generating real responses to the hidden epidemic of youth mental health
problems in Australia So far the response to this crisis has been totally
inadequate. If someone in your family or someone you know becomes unwell
they probably will not receive treatment. This issue can no longer be ignored.
Come, be heard and get involved.
Supported by
Melbourne Town Hall
June 29 2004 Tuesday, 6:30-8:30pm
Swanston Street, Melbourne Victoria
Everyone welcome.
For more information phone: 03 9342 2938.
View flyer.
From ABC Health Updates:
THE LONG TERM EFFECTS OF STARVATION DURING ADOLESCENCE
(Health Minutes: (20/05/2004)
For around 900 days from 1941, Leningrad was under siege by Hitler's armies.
Hundreds of thousands of people died, many from starvation. Now 60 odd years
later, studies of the survivors may illuminate risks from such problems as
anorexia nervosa.
http://www.abc.net.au/health/minutes/stories/s1112354.htm
MARGARET AND PAULINE: RESILIENCE IN MENTAL ILLNESS (All In The Mind: (15/05/2004)
Margaret Cook and Pauline Miles are well known figures in WA's mental health
advocacy community. Born as identical twins in Wales, they grew up in the
UK with a mother with major mental illness and a shared history of abuse. Now
themselves parents of adult children, they reflect on their own experiences of
hospitalisation in psychiatric wards, the search for identity in suffering and
inspiration in healing, activism and awareness.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/stories/s1103053.htm
ALL IN THE MIND: Sick Doctors: A Report from the College of Psychiatrists
Conference Saturday 22 May, 1.30pm, Radio National
At last week's annual
conference of the country's peak body of psychiatry, the Royal Australian and
New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, participants were spilling out of the
door of one crucial session 'Sick Doctors'. Professor Carolyn Quadrio is
vigilant about exposing professional sexual misconduct within her profession.
Dr Jan McKenzie, on the Medical Disciplinary Tribunal for New Zealand, is
part of the way through an unprecedented study interviewing NZ doctors found
guilty of sexual misconduct with patients.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/default.htm
rtcUpdates for May 2004:
CONTENTS OF THIS UPDATE:
** 2004 BUILDING ON FAMILY STRENGTHS CONFERENCE
** FORUMS--The Work of the RTC: Past, Present, and Future
** RTC PUBLICATIONS & PRODUCTS--Recently Produced & Newly Available
Downloads
** SELECT RTC PUBLICATIONS CD-ROM--Our most popular and recent publications
now on CD
** DATA TRENDS--Recent Research Summaries
** FROM THE WEB--Online Information and Sites of Interest
View update here.
Sample articles include:
** Prevalence of Co-Occuring Disorders in Children
An issue brief from Rutgers University reports on findings of a new study
that reveals that "almost one-third of the 1.3 million children in the U.S.
mental health system (388,635) have been diagnosed with two or more
psychiatric disorders, a condition that makes them significantly more
difficult and expensive to treat."
http://www.ihhcpar.rutgers.edu/
** Responding to Bullying in Schools
This curriculum, developed by PACER Center, is designed to help teachers
and other professionals present parents with strategies for dealing with
bullying. It addresses how to define disability harassment, common views
about bullying and the types of bullying, the role of school policy in
responding to/preventing disability harassment, and more.
http://www.pacer.org/publications/bully.htm
** "Scaring Kids Straight" Found Harmful
The Campbell Collaboration reports that researchers have found that
attempts to scare kids straight by taking them on tours of prison
facilities, and interacting with adult offenders, does not prevent crime.
Findings announced two years ago showed that the experimental groups
attending these tours commit more crimes, on average, than the control
groups that received no intervention.
http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/doc-pdf/ssa.pdf
Now that research has been expanded and the new study findings again report
the same result: according to these experimental studies, doing nothing to
kids is better than exposing them to a juvenile awareness or "Scared Straight"
program.
http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/doc-pdf/ssr.pdf
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