4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium Archives - The Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association

Brittany George November 21, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, ANZMHa, Dr Kairi Kolves, Hon Mark Butler, suicide

Suicide in Rural & Remote Areas of Australia Report Lauched

The report was requested by the Australian Suicide Prevention Advisory Council (ASPAC) and funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. This report will assist the Council in their formation on advice to the Minister for Mental Health and…

Brittany George November 7, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, ANZMHa, James Cook University, Mental Health Nursing, Prof Russell Hawkins, Psychology Board of Australia

Capacity building in rural and remote areas is hampered by the lack of availability of trained supervisors

Capacity building in rural and remote areas is hampered by the lack of availability of trained supervisors for clinical psychology and other mental health students in rural and remote locations. Difficulties also exist with the current mental health workforce who…

Brittany George November 1, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, ANZMHa, environmental health, Gelaye Nadew, Psychiatric morbidity

The role of basic environmental factors in the development of psychiatric morbidity: introducing environmental mental health assessment tools

Dr Gelaye Nadew Psychiatric morbidity is linked to complex interactions of social, environmental and biological factors. Social and biological factors have been given comparatively better attention while environmental issues are paid a partial consideration, especially when considering rural and remote communities.…

Brittany George October 26, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, ANZMHa, Ballarat Health Services, Dr Julie Rowse, Neurobiology, therapeutic interventions

Childhood Trauma and Neural Development. Indicators for interventions with special reference to rural and remote environments

Advances in Neurobiology and Neuropsychotherapy in understanding the development of the young brain have demonstrated the need for early intervention to address childhood trauma and subsequent detrimental neural development. The prevailing paradigms of psychopharmacological and cognitive based interventions as first…

Brittany George October 23, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, ANZMHa, BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER, DBT, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

A Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)Program in a Rural Community Mental Health setting

In Australia the recent development of draft guidelines for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) will set a standard for the provision of services for people with this disorder. It is therefore timely to review programs that are in…

Brittany George October 15, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, Australian Insitute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Dr Kairi Kolves, Prof Diego De Leo, suicide

Predictors of suicide in rural and remote areas: A psychological autopsy study in Queensland

The aims of the study are to: assess suicide predictors in rural and urban regions by comparing suicides to sudden-death controls; and, compare the differences between rural and urban suicides. The Psychological Autopsy method was utilised to investigate suicides over…

Brittany George September 2, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, ANZMHa, Gary Sharp, intervention, Outreach Team Rural Alive and Well Inc., Rural men

Rural Alive & Well: focusing on people first

Rural Men and their families are often left to climb back through the gaps of systems and duly ignored and forgotten. I would ask at what expense and to whom! Educational opportunities and resources for rural communities is an effective…

Brittany George August 30, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, ANZMHa, Deputy CEO Sane, Dr Paul Morgan

Help at the End of the Line? What does analysis of rural and remote calls to SANE Helpline tell us about mental health needs in the country?

The SANE Helpline is a national 1800 and online service providing information, advice, and referral to people concerned about mental illness. Every year, the Helpline takes thousands of calls from people in rural and remote Australia who are worried about…

Brittany George August 28, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, ANZMHa, Associate Professor Peter Harvey, Flinders University, gambling problems, Mental Illness

The complex phenomenon of disordered gambling: emerging approaches to diagnosis and treatment in rural communities

Associate Professor Peter Harvey provides an overview of the phenomenological and methodological aspects of a treatment programme available for people who have serious gambling problems. A CBT based graded exposure therapy treatment programme is currently being provided for people with…

Brittany George August 27, 2012 4th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, Alexandra Gartmann, ANZMHa, CEO of the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal

The effects of natural disasters on rural communities: strategies for survival

The 2009 Victorian bushfires are arguably the greatest natural disaster Australia has faced. In early 2009, even while the emergency relief effort in response to the Victorian bushfires was in full-swing, the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) championed…