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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between Intent and Illness: A Look at Malingering vs. Factitious Behaviours

BJPsych Open
Aims: Presented is a 33-year-old gentleman with a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) well-known to mental health services, including inpatient, community, liaison, and psychological care teams, with a long-standing history of ...
Amy Anyi
doaj   +1 more source

Hjelpsomme relasjoner. En kvalitativ undersøkelse av samarbeidet mellom brukere med alvorlige psykiske lidelser og rusproblemer og fagpersoner i to oppsøkende team

Nordisk Tidsskrift for Helseforskning, 2015
Helpful relations. A quality study about the alliance between users with serious mental health problems and health care professionals in two outreach teams.
Turid Møller Olsø, Arve Almvik, Reidun Norvoll   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson, Karen R. Fisher, Julian Laurens, Alinka Fisher, Sabrina Forte, Katrina Reschke, Rosemary Kayess   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of community mental health nurses in an integrated primary care service: An observational cohort study

International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances
Background: The movement of community mental health nurses into primary care is important for the delivery of primary care integrated teams. There is little evidence or guidance on how integration should be implemented, or on the effectiveness of mental ...
Mark Kenwright, Paula Fairclough, Jason McDonald, Louisa Pickford   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn, J. Gilroy, S. Peter, F. Talbot, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, B. Rambaldini, A. Haines, M. Lincoln   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A community-based treatment and rehabilitation pathway for people with mental disorders recently convicted of an offence

BJPsych Bulletin
People with mental disorders can receive treatment in the community. Some, however, fall out of services and into the criminal justice system, running the risk of imprisonment and a deteriorating mental health cycle.
Lara Arsuffi, Kerry Ozcelik, Clare Bingham, Pamela J. Taylor, Mignon French   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychotherapy training in a community mental health team [PDF]

Psychiatric Bulletin, 1995
A one year training post at senior registrar level in psychotherapy in a developing community mental health team is described, not only for its relevance to training at all levels but also as an example of how general psychiatry and psychotherapy can work together to promote good psychiatric practice in a community team.
openaire   +1 more source

Positive practice positive outcomes: a handbook for professionals in the criminal justice system working with offenders with learning disabilities (2011 ed.) [PDF]

, 2011
Updated version of the handbook by the same name published by CSIP in 2007. "This handbook is intended as an introduction to working with offenders with learning disabilities. This group includes police suspects and defendants in court.

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Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn, Vanessa Langenberg, Kristy Harper, Libby Callaway, Hilary O'Connell, Eleanor Kennett‐Smith, Natasha Layton   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source