Mental Health

Ms Deepa Ramakrishnan1 1Forensic Hospital, Malabar, Australia People living with psychotic illnesses often experience distortions in their perceptions of sensory information and also experience hyper or hypo sensitivity to particular sensations.  Sensory modulation exploration targeting the vestibular, proprioception, tactile, auditory...

Mr Chi Cheng1 1Queensland Health, Ipswich, Australia Navigating Happiness is a 4-week practical skill group designed to help mental health service consumers, or almost anyone for that matter, as in introduction to how to live a more rich, full, and...

Mr Adrian Paton1, Mrs  Farah Shams 1Icare, Sydney, Australia, 2QBE, Sydney, Australia In 2019, 20 Youth Justice employees at Frank Baxter Centre suffered physical and psychological injuries from an inmate riot. This terrible flash point gave experts from icare, QBE...

Lila P. Vrklevski1,2, Kathy Eljiz2, David Greenfield2 1Department of Psychology, Concord Centre for Mental Health, SLHD-MHS, 2Australian Institute of Health Service Management, School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania Background: Multi-graded positions on community mental health teams have led...

Ms Lauren Hancox1, Ms Pui Shuen Lee1, Dr Natasha Armaghanian2, Dr Vasant  Hirani3, Ms Georgia Wakefield4 1Nutrition and Dietetics Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2Faculty of Medicine...

Mr Cameron Haigh1 1Metro South Health, Brisbane, Australia BACKGROUND: Cognitive impairment is a key factor limiting long term function and quality of life for individuals with mental illness. While a number of Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT) approaches have shown to...

Mr Dragos Ileana1, Mrs  Annette  Ruzicka1 1World Wellness Group, Stones Corner, Brisbane, Australia Historically, psychological approaches on treatment and their validity on wider population have been widely disputed since its first years of inception. Whilst most of the psychotherapy approaches...

Dr Fiona Hall1, Ms Catherine Stephens1 1Allied Heatlh Professions Office of Queensland, Department Of Health, Cairns, Australia Background: Exploring service models which optimise the expertise and scope of practice of mental health workforces and increase therapeutic, psychosocial and rehabilitative outcomes...

Ms Hannah Olufson1 1Queensland Health People living with severe mental illness (SMI) consume more energy dense, nutrient poor diets than the general population and have lower levels of nutrition literacy (Dipasquale et al., 2013; Teasdale et al., 2017). To provide...

Ms Julian  Whitmore1, Professor Catherine  Haslam2 1Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Community and Oral Health Directorate, Australia, 2University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia Background: Social engagement is key in protecting health, but challenging for those transitioning home after intensive...