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Our Journal: newparadigm
The Spring 2008 edition of newparadigm, the Australian journal on psychosocial rehabilitation, contains a collection of pieces focus on Women and Mental Health. Sometimes challenging, yet hopeful, this edition provides a comprehensive insight into the complex world of mental illness from a diverse range of women's perspectives and we're sure you'll agree that this unique edition will stimulate and inspire. As always, we are keen to hear your reflections on the issues raised in this special edition.
All enquiries about the content of newparadigm should be directed to Kristie Lennon, Resources Coordinator at (03) 9519 7000.Or email Kristie: k.lennon at vicserv.org.au
Order a subscription online via the Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria (VICSERV) bookstore.
Issues Contents
| September 2006 | |
| Features more papers from VICSERV Richmond Fellowship ASPAC Conference 2006 | |
| Title | Author |
Conference Paper: The Stories of Hope Project |
Hanson Jeong |
| Conference Paper: The holding of hope
|
Peter McKenzie |
| Conference Paper: To the poles and back
|
Peter Heslop |
| Poetry from darker corners | Susan Pepper |
| Creative Writing: No screams | Mishka McIntosh |
| Creative Writing: Leaving him | Barbara Garvie |
| June 2006 | |
| VICSERV Richmond Fellowship ASPAC Conference 2006 edition | |
| Title | Author |
| The politics of asylum |
Sandy Jeffs |
| People with mental health disorders in the criminal justice system
|
Eileen Baldry, Leanne Dowse |
| Hearing with heart: moving towards recovery with members of the deaf community
|
Richmond Fellowship Queensland |
| Empowerment to inclusion: consumer and carers in partnership with ACT Healthpact, a community funding program |
Leanne Craze, Barry Petrovski |
| Working together in partnership: a consumer-driven recovery project called "Our House"
|
Ruth Klee, Janine Denham |
| Being a member of a therapeutic group: experiences of people with a mental illness | Penelope Teran, Clare Wilding |
| March 2006 | |
| Title | Author |
| Community inclusion: from theory to practice |
Mark Jackson |
| Help! I believe in community inclusion - but how can I do it? | Neil Barringham |
| CAMHA reflections on partnerships, inclusion and capacity building | Karen Fairhurst |
| Faith Communities Mental Health Project | Bruce Ferriday |
| Intentional befriending: being a volunteer in the Compeer program |
Elaine Hopper |
| Volunteer visiting within a respite model | Dee McAtee & Michelle Marler |
| On creative arts therapy and depression | David Eckel |
| Bush adventure therapy | Shelley Wright |
| December 2005 | |
| Title | Author |
| Co-occuring substance use disorders: implications for
psychiatric disability services and workers |
Gary Croton |
| Look both ways: training in dual diagnosis | Molly Galea |
| Spinning threads across the divide | Bridget Roberts |
| Why dual diagnosis proposals will never work | David Webb |
| Comorbidity in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programs for young people | Carly Johnson |
| My Journey | Faith Day |
| "Your Choice": an inpatient group for people with coexisting mental illness and substance misuse | Shane Sweeney & Melanie Mossman |
| Older adults with a dual diagnosis: addressing a blind spot | Kathleen Ryan |
| The relationship between cannabis and psychosis | Prof David Castle |
| Cannabis, amphetamines and mental illness | Michael Cole & Kathleen Ryan |
| Some sources for information on Dual Diagnosis | |
| New Paradigm survey feedback | Susan Pepper |
| September 2005 | |
| Title | Author |
| Psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery: exploring the relationship
|
Susan Pepper |
| We are the evidence: consumer perspective in research | Cath Roper |
| Research establishment | Merinda Epstein |
| Consumer advocacy across the world | David Webb |
| Improvements in rhetoric but the practice still lags a long way behind | Merinda Epstein |
| Mental health services in Malta | Joe Cassar |
| Viewpoints: When the helper hurts | Christine Osborne |
| Viewpoints: Poetry - The stigma; A priority of madness; Space gliding | Pam Schmidt |
| Viewpoints: A wonderful imperfect fit; A value system I value | Helen Collins |
| Viewpoints: The Unwanted Boarder | George Wenther |
| Book Review: A Lifelong Journey by Sarah Russell | Reviewer: Susan Pepper |
| Book Review:The Outsider and Broken Beaks by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer | Reviewer: Susan Pepper |
| June 2005 | |
| Title | Author |
| Moves me forward - pulls me forward | Paul Grieves |
| Encompassing respect | Frances Bhathal |
| An invitation to contribute . . . | Margaret Griffin |
| An intersection on the road to recovery | Brian Howley |
| Staying well with bipolar disorder | Sarah Russell |
| The therapeutic relationship between spiritual and mental health | Suzanne Bosisto |
| Expanding choices for smokers with a mental illness | Kristen Moeller-Saxone, Glen Tobias, Kim Helyer |
| Systems problems associated with service provision to people with dual disability | Paul O"Neal, Fiona McDermott, Alun Jackson, Mark Oakley-Browne |
| Book Review Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature by Richard Bentall | Reviewer: David Guthrie |
| March 2005 | |
| Title | Author |
Specialist statewide mutual support and self help agencies
defining the model |
ARAFEMI Victoria The Compassionate Friends Eating Disorders Foundation Post&Ante Natal Depression Association (PaNDa) Anxiety Recovery Centre Victoria GROW |
| Regarding Recovery | Ruth Hayward |
| Providing consumers with the right information at the right time | Leonie Walsh |
| Consumer evaluation of Mental Health Services: the process and products | Lindsay Oades, Linda Viney, Gillian Malins, Jon Strang, Yvonne Eman |
| From Signposts to Pathfinders by Allan Pinches |
Reviewed by Merinda Epstein&Yoland Wadsworth |
| Beyond the Divide by Marg Brooks | Reviewed by Janice Chesters |
| Everyday Goddess by Katherina Rapp & Karen Masman | Reviewed by Susan Pepper |
| Not like him | George Wenther |
| December 2004 | |
| Title | Author |
| Sunshine Friends Quilters Group |
Ellie Fossey, Paige Irwin, Leisa Cassidy, Louisa King, Liana Cahill, Jane Jess, Emily Lescun, Leanne Parker |
| Can recovery be measured? |
A panel discussion with Dave Clarke, Larry Davidson, Barbara Hocking, Mary O'Hagan, Phil Eddy, Sandy Jeffs, Kali Paxinos, Graham Meadows, David Chong |
| Recovery: challenging the paradigm - a consumer perspective. |
Arana Pearson |
| Community education: A collaborative approach in the west | Western Region Community Education Team |
| Co-existing intellectual disability and mental illness: the other dual disability | Paul O'Neal, Fiona McDermott, Alun Jackson, Mark Oakley-Browne |
| Viewpoint From my haven | Peter Casey |
| September 2004 | |
| Title | Author |
| NewSynthesis Partnerships: Developing consumer-collaborative visions and strategies in community mental health services. Click to download rtf file: 5kb Article abstract Click to download rtf file: 48kb Chapter 1 |
Allan Pinches with Sue Robertson |
| A learning journey - as a consumer and active board member | Interview with Julie Anderson |
| Service planning based on integrity, open and honest communication | A conversation with Arthur Papakotsias |
| We consumers are often doing it for ourselves! | An interview with Tim McKay |
| Let's get systemic! A growing theme in consumer participation | An interview with Liz Carr |
| Abilities come in all shapes and sizes, and consumer participation programs need to recognise that | An interview with Kaye Semmens |
| A range of backgrounds and skills: a good approach | An interview with Cheryl MacDonald |
| June 2004 | |
| Title | Author |
| Recovery: recovering the paradigm |
Larry Davidson |
| The art of the professional: learning to become a person |
Denise Wissmann |
| Recovery for whom? |
John Watkins |
| Is that my health you want to promote? |
David Mithen |
| Is that my health you want to promote? |
Cath Roper |
| Congratulations. You've got the job! The challenge of coping begins - reflections of a
support group for people with a mental health issue who are employed |
Jacqueline Gordon&Jane Nguyen |
| March 2004 | |
| Title | Author |
| Hi - good to meet you. Tell me, what do you do with yourself? |
David Clarke |
| Making it real: some consumer considerations in developing employment related programs |
Allan Pinches |
| What's going on? Navigating a complex and challenging employment policy maze | Lucy Macali |
| Participating lives: learning more about consumers' aspirations and options for meaningful employment and other forms of occupation | Ellie Fossey, Wanda Bennetts, Sharon Saunders et al. |
| The Social Firm: employment as an integral part of rehabilitation | Caroline Crosse |
| When will they build a ramp for us? | The Jobseeker Group, JobCo Employment Services |
| Book Reviews :Employment and psychiatric disability | Susan Pepper |
| December 2003 | |
| Title | Author |
| The Madwoman in this poem | Sandy Jeffs |
| What are my voices really telling me? | Jim Poulter |
| Choosing the domain of rehabilitation | John Dutton |
| Fintry Bank Inc: a supported long-term accommodation and outreach program for people -- with a pastoral care ethos Artwork of Stephen Berryman 1 2 |
Neil Horsbugh |
| Together let's help non-English speaking people who suffer a mental illness |
Hua Cao |
| First Aid in Mental Health | Betty Kitchener |
| The Specialist Residential Rehabilitation Program | Liz Crowther |
| September 2003 | |
| Title | Author |
| Self, soul and spirit - Suicidology's blind-spots? |
David Webb |
| VICSERV Training Needs Survey: Focus Groups Report | David James |
| The Voices of Experience: reflections on working in psychiatric disability rehabilitation and support services | |
| Arts-based practice in psychosocial rehabilitation |
Neami Splash Art Studio The Artful Dodgers Studio Susan Pepper |
| The Stables Art Studio, Prahran Mission | Amanda Laming |
| Book Reviews When angels cry Sight Unseen |
Elaine Hopper |
| June 2003 | |
| Title | Author |
| Make yourself at home: people living with a psychiatric disability in public housing | Rebecca Jones, Janice Chesters, Meredith Fletcher |
| Measuring Consumer Outcome in a community rehabilitation and support service | Glen Tobias, Tom Trauer |
| Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria: staying true to our history of suppporting families. | Gerard Reed |
| Family and friends group in a community care unit | Sharyn Clarke |
| Depression: soul's quest for depth and wholeness | Maureen Roberts |
| Viewpoint: A not so fairytale | Brian Howley |
| Viewpoint: Wednesday evening | David Rosel |
| April 2003 | |
| Title | Author |
| The experiences and opinions of carers | John Lammers |
| The carer needs to be heard | Anon. |
| The important, but often hidden, role of young carers | Vivienne Colegrave |
| The Family Connexions Project | Julian McNally |
| Women's Healthy Living Project | Catherine Davison |
| Viewpoint: Recovery at the zoo | Brian Howley |
| Viewpoint: Real selves and professional practice | Carolyn Phillips |
| Research Update: Alternative Health Care Practices | |
| February 2003 | |
| Title | Author |
| Psychosocial factors in recovery from bi-polar: a personal journey of discovery | Geoff Nutting |
| Complementary therapies | Susan Pepper |
| Recovery my way | Elizabeth Williams |
| Less nonsense A story of recovery | |
| Is silence golden? the issue of confidentiality | Sandy Jeffs |
| COPES: Carers Offering Peer Support Early | Liz Ward |
| Towards an understanding of dual disability: Intellectual disability and mental illness | Paul D. O'Neal |
| December 2002 | |
| Title | Author |
| What does recovery mean? | Ruth Ward |
| My road to recovery | Kelly Ryan |
| My journey of recovery | Terry Moloney |
| Participating in your own recovery | Rochelle Hine, Simone Favelle |
| Meditation and stress | Mary Dimech |
| Mindfulness meditation | ABC.net.au |
| Pathways to service systems' recovery | Members of the U&I research team |
| There's no life without spiritual life | Clare Wilding |
| Soul in crisis: why cultural healing must replace the 'mental illness' fiction |
Maureen B. Roberts Jungcircle.com |
| Rehabilitation | Ruth Hayward |
| Research Update: Media depictions of mental illness | |
| Renaming schizophrenia in Japan | ABC.net.au |
| October 2002 | |
| Title | Author |
| Exploring the relationship of alcohol and other drug use with spirituality | Michael Cole |
| Community Meals program | Simon Morris |
| Finding people to be there | Neil Barringham & Penny Barringham |
| Rehabilitation - what do you mean by this? | John Kroschel |
| Recovery without end? Reflections on a real case Socratic dialogue | Geoff Nutting |
| Research Updates Physical health Global suicide rates | |
| ViewPoint He's gone now: a reflection on friendship and suicide | Peter Casey |
| Small steps and photographs | Brian Garner |
| August 2002 | |
| Title | Author |
| Immigrant women and mental health issues | Lorraine Xavier |
| Why safety should be
sexy: a key dimension of service quality | Hans van de Graaff&Margaret Buchanan |
| The
Supporting Kids Project: an interagency collaborative approach | Debra Johnson&Loretta Foster |
| July 2002 | |
| Title | Author |
| Work: a self-affirming experience | Thomas Evans |
| 'the fruits
of their labours' | Sue Tarascio |
| Getting the job, keeping the job | Judi Stevens |
| Riding rough: the rollercoaster of work | Anon. (Consumer) |
| The role of
rehabilitation and support services in providing employment assistance | Marque Whitlock |
| Streets
ahead, but where are all the vendors? | Bill Manallack |
| Readiness for vocational change amongst individuals with a psychiatric disability - an overview | Rose Martin |
| Forms, funding and frustration: government reforms and Competitive Employment Training Services | Neil Barlow |
|
The many languages of suicide
|
David Webb |
| May 2002 | |
| Title | Author |
| Homelessness and mental illness | David Green |
| New hope for people in supported residential services | Mike Kelly |
| Housing Partnerships: getting it together | Elizabeth Fraser |
| Homelessness persons with psychiatric disabilities in a rural environment | John Dutton |
| At last - a shorter
Australian encyclopedia of consumer participation:
a review of The Essential U&I | Allan Pinches |
| February 2002 | |
| Article Title | Author |
|
Rehabilitation/Support/Psychiatric Disability/Mental Illness/Mental Health:What's
in a Name? | David Clarke CEO VICSERV |
| Making dreams a reality: the Sovereign House Holiday program. | Jackie Warner&Julie Rowse |
| Plenty of miles, plenty of smiles: the Clusterers Bike Club. | Kevin Sullivan &Steve Richards |
| 70/30: exploring medication and counselling from a consumer perspective. | Liam Buckley, Peter Keogh, Mitch Musulin |
|
Depression: a psychospiritual perspective. | David Webb |
| December 2001 Recovery: Supervision: Physical illness: Residential Rehabilitation | |
| Title | Author |
| Beyond recovery: the rites of passage | Brad Grimmer |
| Professional supervision | Andree "Estrange and Ana da Silva |
| Duty to care physical illness in people with a mental illness | Rebecca Coughlan, David Lawrence, D'Arcy Holman, Assen Jablensky |
| Making a Significant Change (MASC): a rural residential rehabilitation service for the Grampians region | Carmel Johnson and Ivan Thorne |
| October 2001 TheMHS Awards 2001&2000 | |
| Title | Author |
| 2001 Gold Award:Rehabilitation Services St Luke's Anglicare Intensive home based outreach service |
Phil Eddy&Marg Brooks |
| 2001 Gold Award: mental health promotion SANE Australia StigmaWatch |
Ann Nolan |
| 2000 Silver Award: Specialist service The Boarding House Team and its context |
Julie Millard &Linda Carroll |
| 2000 Bronze Award: Rehabilitation/Recovery Program or Service Recovery through partnership: MASH Trust |
Brad Grimmer |
| 2000 Bronze Award: Rehabilitation/Recovery Program or Service The Fremantle Intensive Rehabilitation Program |
Joukje Mulder, Neil Preston&David Castle |
| ViewPoint A portrait of peace |
a folktale |
| August 2001 Quality in PDRS Drop in Programs PSR in prisons | |
| Title | Author |
| Quality in Psychiatric Disability Support Services How good are PDS services: developing an evidence base for our work |
Dave Clarke VICSERV |
|
Where to quality? Strategic considerations for the PDS sector |
Russell Renhard |
| We know we provide a good quality service, but how do we prove it? A report on the VICSERV Quality Forum |
The Forum |
| Voices that no-one else can hear A consumer's reflection on a theatrical performance | Tim McKay |
| An outline of practice in drop-in programs | Mitch Musulin |
| Drop in or drop out? | Julie D. |
| Fitzroy around noon | David Buller |
| A challenging work environment | Wayne Harrington (interview) |
| ASCO Forensic Mental Health Outreach Support Program | Aidan Fahey&David Rose |
| Grendon: therapeutic community in a prison | |
| June 2001 Partnerships Carers | |
| Title | Author |
| Mutual help:An important gateway to wellbeing and mental health | Lizzie Finn&Dr Brian Bishop, Curtin University, W.A. |
| Growing partnerships | Cherie Convey, Work Force Placement Service |
| Carers Warning - caring is a health hazard |
Louise Gilmore Carers Association of Australia |
| The needs of the family | Elise Whatley, ARAFEMI |
| The carer experience: stages of need | Peter Sanders, hopesprings |
| ViewPoint Mental illness - a carer's perspective |
A family carer, ARAFEMI |
| ViewPoint Pass the parcel: the new psychiatric disability support services |
Ross Findlay, Consumer Consultant |
| April 2001: Violence, the Media and Mental Illness Childhood sexual assault Mental illness in adolescent literature | |
| Title | Author |
| Violence, mental illness and the media | Susan Rowland, VICSERV |
| The media and mental illness: a fraught relationship | Sandy Jeffs |
| The SANE StigmaWatch site | Barbara Hocking |
| Violence and mental illness: is there a link? | Tina Barat |
| Mental illness in adolescent literature: a depressing view | Susan Rowland |
| The long term effects of childhood sexual assault | Faye Wilson |
| Crimson Memories: the writing of Blood Relations | Sandy Jeffs |
| Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go ... | Cath Roper |
| February 2001 Exploring the Clubhouse model: Specialist Employment | |
| Title | Author |
| The clubhouse movement | Susan Rowland |
| My life story and how clubhouse has helped | Melanie, Bundaberg Clubhouse |
| Transitional Employment Fundamentals | Bromham Place Clubhouse |
| Why I stay a clubhouse member | Doris Wisniewski |
| Transitional employment | Marian Robertson, Stepping Stone Clubhouse, QLD |
| My TE Experience | Matias Sanchez, Bromham Place Clubhouse |
| Education Opportunities | Diamond Clubhouse, Kilkenney, SA |
| Clubhouse: a staff experience | Helen Nistico, Bromham Place Clubhouse |
| Education and learning: bridges to recovery | Sue Tarascio, VICSERV and Bromham Place Clubhouse |
| Employment - a long term goal | Nerida Nettlebuck, WorkSupply Company |
| Specialist employment services: what do you know | Lucy Macali, Work Force Placement Services |
| Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in adults | Barat, Tina |
| December 2000 | |
| Title | Author |
| Promoting cultural responsiveness in psychiatric disability | Ro Marks |
| Principles for multicutural practice | IAPRS |
| A survey of the cross-cultural training needs of psychiatric disability support services in Victoria | Barry Petrovski |
| SPAREWARDS A medical science fiction | B.T.M |
| The Lifeskills package | Susan Brown, Julie Hidson |
| The service based consumer consultant:An occupational health and safety perspective | Ross Findlay |
| October 2000 | |
| Title | Author |
| In search of the great A-ha! | Michelle Galea |
| Competencies and culture | Steve Goldsmith |
| Masters in Social Work (Clinical) in Mental Health | Fiona, McDermott |
| Fieldwork placement as opportunities for services and staff | Frank Hytten |
| RMIT and VICSERV:aining workers and clients for social change | Julian Silverman |
| Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Sciences (Community Mental Health) | |
| Statewide education and training advisory group for psychiatric disability support | |
| Reflective practice in psychiatric disability support | Geoff Nutting |
| Depression prevention and recovery | Anonymous |
| Mence,W: From dual diagnosis to fringe dwelling | Michelle Galea |
| Disability and other skills | Sue Tarascio |
| June 2000 | |
| Title | Author |
| Mental illness and mental health: exploring definitions | Susan Rowland |
| Schizophrenia | Geoff Allan |
| What is mental illness? A psyhciatrist's perspective | Office of the Chief Psychiatrist |
| Mental illness: the definition in law | David Ring |
| What is mental illness? What is mental health? A personal perspective | Sandy Jeffs |
| Mental health: What is it? Who has it? | John Watkins |
| Mental health | Lorna Cleave |
| Mental illness | Brad Tilley |
| What is mental illness? | Consumers and survivors |
| Dimensions of mental health chart | Peter Sanders |
| What is mental health? | Mitch Musulin |
| Mental health more questions than answers | Lyn McKenzie |
| Mental health and spirituality | Dennis Halliday |
| Being sick (one person's story of psychiatric illness) | David Meyer |
| Perceptions of mental illness in the Vietnamese community | Thuy Dihn |
| What is mental illness | Doug Western |
| Mental illness in children and adolescents | Deborah Absler |
| From the pit of hell to the joy of paradise | Sue Tarascio |
| April 2000 | |
| Equity and access: A proactive approach to gender imbalance | Carolyn Dun and Mim Markovic |
| Women's access policy | Inner East Mental Health Serivces |
| Women getting a sense of entitlement to enjoyable and developmental activities | Peggy Ronnau, Diane Nally, Ellie Corbo |
| Mothers support program at Prahran Mission | Liz Yeomans |
| Creating a safe place | Sabin Fernbacher |
| The effect of domestic violence on a woman's mental health | Margot Scott |
| The triangle of adoption | Isabell Collins |
| The mental health of relinquishing mothers | Sue Hogan |
| The journey towards transformation: The need for differing mental health services for women experiencing a psychiatric disability | Maggie McGuiness |
| December 1999 | |
| Young people and psychosocial rehabilitation | Aroon Naidoo and Gillian Jarvis |
| Body image, eating disorders and mental health | Sophia Liddy |
| Concerns of families of young people experiencing mental illness | Judith Player |
| Therapeutic holding and containment: creating systems that work with 'at risk' youth | Lyndie Freestone |
| Psychosis: it happens | Bridget Clarke |
| Recovery group program | Kelda Cook |
| Mental illness education - Schools Education Program | Kim Freeman |
| Being a MIEA Presenter | Sian |
| Halcyon Youth Project | Astrid Kruse |
| The Netnation Project | Col Brokenshire |
| October 1999 | |
| Trying something different: exploring intranets | Kate Sommerville |
| To dance as if no one is watching: A tale of rescued dreams | Cath Roper |
| My ideal day program: An unchained imagination in full flight | Geoff Allen |
| The CALD Project: Informing cultural and linguistic diversity practices in PDS services | Ro Marks |
| How are you? The mental health and wellbeing of psychiatric disability support workers | Jill Gray |
