Chronic pain sufferers risk addiction
Health groups are calling for greater oversight for prescription painkillers amid concern sufferers are at serious risk of addiction.
Improving rural mental health support
Updated Mon 14 Jul 2014, 11:40am AEST ABC Rural By Virginia Tapp A health professor in north west Queensland, says mental health support for...
Abstracts closing soon - Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium
The number of Australians experiencing mental health problems in rural and remote areas is estimated to be comparable to major urban centres....
Culturally responsive frameworks influencing practice and informing our health workforce
Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA), the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander allied health peak body, leads the way in influencing...
A Contributing Life – workforce and specific challenges for regional, rural and remote Australia
The focus of the National Mental Health Commission’s national review has been to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of programmes and services...
Marijuana Addiction
Some smokers do develop all the symptoms of an actual addiction after chronic marijuana use.
An evaluation of the implementation of the Australian ATAPS Suicide Prevention Services
The Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) Suicide Prevention initiative is an Australian Government-funded primary mental healthcare...
Anxiety and addiction
Anxiety In contrast to fear, which is a response to a realistic immediate danger, anxiety is a fearful response occurring in the absence of a...
The headspace best practice framework
Mr Nic Telford, Evaluation Manager, headspace will provide an overview of the research, outline the best practice framework and demonstrate how these...
Music Therapy in Addiction Recovery
In the treatment of addictions, music has been established as an adjunctive, highly adaptable modality that is valuable in the holistic approach...