Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria
(VICSERV) Online Document Library
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National Consumer and Carer Forum of Australia, Consumer and Carer Participation Policy; A framework for the mental health Sector. Canberra 2004.
The document is intended as an example of best practice for a consumer and carer participation policy. http://www.mhca.org.au/Publications/documents/ConsumerandCarerParticipationPolicy.pdf (pdf file 240 KB)
The Mental Health Statement of Rights and Responsibilities is a report of the Mental Health Consumer Outcomes Task Force adopted by Australian Health Ministers in March 1991. This statement aims to ensure that consumers, carers, advocates, service providers and the community are aware of their rights and responsibilities and can be confident in exercising them.
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/Publishing.nsf/Content/mental-pubs/$FILE/mhstatement.pdf(pdf file 129 KB)
The National Mental Health Plan (NMHP) 2003-2008, July 2003. The NMHP 2003-2008 draws on information from a number of sources, including the Evaluation of the Second National Mental Health Plan and broad consultations within the mental health sector and the community.
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/Publishing.nsf/Content/mental-pubs/$FILE/nmhp0308.pdf (pdf file 1364 KB )
Relationship between mental illness and psychiatric disability
The World Health organisation's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health can be found at http://www3.who.int/icf/icftemplate.cfm
The beginners guide (23 pages) is a good place to start.
http://www3.who.int/icf/beginners/bg.pdf (pdf file 220 KB)
Workers
Strengthening Our Foundations: Service user roles in the mental health workforce
This report makes recommendations from a project which looked at the role and workforce development requirements of service users in the mental health workforce. Interview schedules for service users and participants, and demographics, are appended. Prepared for the Mental Health Commission by Chris Hansen. 45 pages.
http://www.mhc.govt.nz/publications/2003/Strengthening%20Our%20Foundations.doc (Word file 260 KB)
Recovery Competencies for New Zealand Mental Health Workers, 2001
This paper is an elaboration of the recovery principals set out in the Mental Health Commission Blueprint for Mental Health Services in New Zealand. It attempts to describe the competencies mental health workers need to acquire when using a recovery approach in their work.
http://www.mhc.govt.nz/publications/2001/Recovery_Competencies.pdf (pdf file 550 KB)
Dual Diagnosis
Co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders: An investigation of service system modifications and initiatives designed to provide an integrated treatment response by Gary Croton of the Eastern Hume Dual Diagnosis Service. This is the report of research undertaken on a travelling scholarship undertaken in 2004, with recommendations for service delivery in Victoria. Report of research
Recovery
Online Recovery Toolkit Auseinet:
Practical resources to assist jurisdictions, service providers, consumers and carers to implement a recovery approach. Auseinet has developed a 'recovery toolkit'. This online collection contains examples of recovery based activities, practical tools, protocols and an online discussion forum
http://www.auseinet.com/toolkit/
Sharing responsibility for recovery Creating and sustaining recovery-oriented systems of care for mental health, June 2005. Queensland Health paper(pdf file 500 KB)
Our Lives in 2014: A recovery vision from people with experience of mental illness
The purpose of this vision was to guide the development of the NZ Ministry of Health's second mental health plan and to influence the overall development of the services and sectors that affect people with mental illness.
http://www.mhc.govt.nz/publications/2004/MCH_Our_Lives_Final(b).pdf (pdf file 631 KB)
Oranga Ngakau - Getting the most out of mental health services
Produced as a recovery resource for service users, Oranga Ngakau was written by service users who have recovered from their mental health problems. This booklet gives general information about services so you can find your way round them more easily. Many helpful information sources and references are listed, as well as recovery and guidance tips. 40 pages.
http://www.mhc.govt.nz/publications/2004/Oranga_Ngakau.pdf (pdf file 774 KB)
Review of recovery literature: a synthesis of sample recovery literature by Ruth O Ralph & Edmund Muskie.
The purpose of this paper, which is the result of collaboration between several different groups, is to review the different types of literature on recovery in mental health, both published and unpublished, and to provide examples of each type.
http://www.nasmhpd.org/general_files/publications/ntac_pubs/reports/ralphrecovweb.pdf (pdf file 100 KB)
Employment issues for people with a psychiatric disability
Making it real - some consumer consideration for PDRS and specialist agencies in developing employment related programs, Allan Pinches. An extended version of the article in New Paradigm, March 2004. http://www.alphalink.com.au/~alpin/cons_employ_consids_Pinches.pdf (pdf file 50 KB)
Research
Various articles from Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.
A new article is added from each quarterly edition.
http://www.bu.edu/prj/features.html
Harding, C. M. (2003). Changes in schizophrenia across time: Paradox, patterns, and predictors. In: Carl Cohen (Ed). Schizophrenia into later life: Treatment, research, and policy. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 19-42.
http://www.bu.edu/resilience/examples/harding2003.pdf (pdf file 1.16 MB)
DeSisto, M. J., Harding, C. M., McCormick, R. V., Ashikaga, T., & Brooks, G. W. (1995a). The Maine and Vermont three-decade studies of serious mental illness: I. Matched comparisons of cross-sectional outcome. British Journal of Psychiatry, 167(3), 331-338.
http://www.bu.edu/resilience/examples/
DeSisto, M. J., Harding, C. M., McCormick, R. V., Ashikaga, T., & Brooks, G. W. (1995b). The Maine and Vermont three-decade studies of serious mental illness: II. Longitudinal course comparisons. British Journal of Psychiatry, 167(3), 338-341.http://www.bu.edu/resilience/examples/
Harding, C. M. (1994). An examination of the complexities in the measurement of recovery in severe psychiatric disorders. In R. Ancil (ed).
http://www.bu.edu/resilience/examples/
Mental health promotion
The potential of creative arts as a medium for mental health promotion in schools: an exploration of meaning making, belonging and identity using creative processes, Patricia Morgan, Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand,http://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/resources/MHPCreative.doc (Word document 122KB)
A review of Mental Health Promotion Literature and analysis of evidence to inform mental health promotion practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Lewis Williams, Tim McCreanor, & Helen Moewaka Barnes.
http://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/resources/MHPliteraturereview.doc (Word document 249 KB)
Teenage Health Issues
An e-book by leading researcher from Victoria University, Professor Dot Bruck,
called Teenage Sleep: understanding and helping the sleep of 12-20 year olds
available through Victoria University electronic publications repository.
Online journals
The Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health
AeJAMH is a forum for advancing promotion, prevention and early intervention (PPEI) approaches to mental health. It is a peer reviewed, online, open access journal.
http://www.auseinet.com/journal/index.php
Kitchener B & Jorm A 2000, Mental Health First Aid Manual.
In order to help people provide initial support for someone with a mental health problem, the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University has developed a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training course. This is the manual.
http://mhfa.com.au/course_manual.htm
