Forensic mental health staff trial aims to assist EDs
South Australia will trial a plan to employ forensic mental health staff to better manage people in the state’s court system, in a move designed to alleviate demand on public hospital emergency departments. The 12-month pilot project, which has been based on the introduction of Court Liaison Services in many states across Australia, and in [...]
Women 40% more likely than men to develop mental illness, study finds
Women are up to 40% more likely than men to develop mental health conditions, according to new analysis by a clinical psychologist at Oxford University.…
‘Club Drug’ Ketamine Lifts Depression in Hours
The largest study to date confirms that ketamine — a “club drug” that is also legally used as an anesthetic — could be a quick…
Mental Health Gets Final Reform Funding
National youth mental health foundation, Headspace will deliver a new youth treatment service as the final element of the Federal Government’s national mental health reform…
Honors go to those who support mental health
A group of Lincoln High School students received the CMHC Buddy Award during Centennial Mental Health Center’s celebration of Mental Health Month Wednesday in Fort…
ADHD May Prime Boys for Obesity
Getty Images ADHD has been linked to struggles with drugs and alcohol, less schooling and more arrests, but…
Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting – Chair’s Statement
Statement by Hon Rev. Dr John G N Seakgosing, Minister of Health, Botswana Ahead of the Commonwealth Heads…
Students stay silent about mental health problems, survey shows
Mental health charities fear students are suffering in silence. Photograph: Peter Lawson/Eastnews Press Agency Universities should do more…
Canada Hosts Panel on Mental Health at the World Health Assembly
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND–(Marketwired – May 20, 2013) - Experts from Canada, the US, Australia, Chile and Ethiopia took part…
The Healthy Debate About Mental Health
May 2013 may be remembered as a watershed (or maybe a Waterloo) in the history of psychiatry. Two…
