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Australian Rural Mental Health Symposium

Written by Brittany George | May 16, 2010 9:11:00 PM

SYDNEY, Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach - Wednesday 29th September - Thursday 30th September 2010
New Perspectives on Rural and Remote Mental Health

• Policy initiatives
• Primary interventions
• Promoting recovery
• Preventing relapse
The symposium will explore new perspectives within the P4 parameters by way of individual symposium papers, keynote presentations, and workshops.
Using this template the Symposium streams will address;
• Trauma, anxiety, depression and suicide (policy, primary interventions, promoting recovery, preventing relapse).
• Service accessibility, delivery and networks in rural mental health
• Indigenous mental health issues, from policy to treatment delivery
• Community resilience following natural disasters
• Government policies and initiatives
• Building capacity through NGO and clinical partnerships

Visit the Symposium website here