Two documents that will be of interest to those attending the IIMHL Leadership Exchange are the following:
Te Puawaitanga: Maori Mental Health National Strategic Framework , which includes additional links to other Maori Health Publications, and A Pacific Perspective on the NZ Mental Health Classification and Outcomes Study (Microsoft Word format),
prepared for the Mental Health Commission by Fuimaono Karl Pulotu-Endemann, Magila Annandale and Annette Instone provides a Pacific perspective on the policy implications arising from the New Zealand Mental Health Classification and Outcomes Study (CAOS). The paper summarises the CAOS evidence focussing on Pacific-specific information.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Researchers Urge New Treatments for Homeless Scripp Howard News Service story reprinted at
PsycPORT - "Among people suffering from mental illness, up to 15 percent are homeless, according to a new study. At the same time, government mental-health experts noted that up to half of all people with mental illness also have substance-abuse problems. They issued new guidelines calling for simultaneous treatment of both problems. The study linking mental illness and homelessness appears Tuesday in the February issue of the
American Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers at the University of California-San Diego examined the housing status of more than 10,000 people with serious mental illness treated by San Diego County Adult Mental Health Services in 1999 to 2000."
Childhood Abuse Common Among Manic Depressives Reuters Health story at
Yahoo - "Nearly half of patients suffering from manic depression, or bipolar disorder, may have been abused as children, scientists say in a new report. Emotional, physical and sexual abuse, or a combination of them, are linked with the condition, which causes dramatic mood swings and changes in behavior. 'Our results suggest that a history of severe childhood abuse is to be found in approximately half of adults with bipolar disorder,' said Dr Joseph Goldberg, of the Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, New York. About a third of patients in his study, which is reported in the
British Journal of Psychiatry, had suffered multiple forms of abuse. "
Campaigners attack mental health reforms (UK)Story in
The Guardian - "The government today faced calls to scrap the draft mental health bill as campaigners opposed to its controversial proposals mounted a rally in London. More than 500 people are attending the rally organised by the Mental Health Alliance - a coalition of 60 charities, mental health patient organisations and professionals, including Mind and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Delegates at the rally, held at a conference centre near the Houses of Parliament, blasted the draft bill as 'failed in concept and practice'."
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