Resources
College mental health fact sheets
Chronic Illness and Depression
Mental illness: facts from fiction
What is a mental health nurse?
College brochures
Chronic illness and depression
Credentialing for mental health nurses
Presentations
Larry Davidson: Contribution to Mental Health Reform
Introducing the Mental Health Commission of NSW
Medication safety
Medication Safety - Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
National Medicines Policy - Department of Health
Quality use of medicines strategy - Department of Health
Medication Safety: safety and quality improvement guide - Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Reducing adverse drug events in mental health services - Department of Health
By other organisations
iphYs: HeAL declaration
MHPN: Starting a network
MHPN: Coordinator guide
MHPN: Network support fact sheet
Mental Health Coordinating Council: Recovery oriented language guide
Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia: Understanding mental illness and violence
SANEAustralia: Suicide prevention and recovery guide
SANEAustralia: A life without stigma
CFMHN: Frequently asked questions from the Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses
AHPRA: Recency of practice
AHPRA: Enrolled nurses and medicine administration
Mental Health Council of Australia: Refugees and asylum seekers in immigration detention
World Mental Health Day: Mental Health Facts
World Federation for Mental Health: Cancer and mental illness
World Federation for Mental Health: Diabetes & depression
World Federation for Mental Health: Heart Disease and Depression
World Federation for Mental Health: Obesity and mental illness
World Federation for Mental Health: Respiratory Diseases and mental illness
Various Organisations: Suicide and Suicide Prevention in Australia June 2010
Websites
Professional Indemnity Insurance information for nurses
At Ease - Department of Veterans' Affairs
healthdirect
Mental Health Professionals Network
Mental Health Teaching and Learning Clearinghouse
mindhealthconnect
Australian Health Pracitioner Regulation Agency Reports
Blogs
Articles of interest
Ordinary chat and therapeutic conversation: phatic communication and mental health nursing
By P Burnard
Published in the Journal of Pyschiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2003, 10, 678-682
Making Queensland history: noteworthy people and achievements in mental health nursing
By McAllister, M., Happell, B., & Bradshaw, J. (2010)
Published by University of the Sunshine Coast
Weight Expectations: the pressure to be thin
By Alexandra Christie
Published in Honisoit
Personal stories by people with a mental illness, their families and friends
From the Western Australian Mental Health Commission
Your stories
From the Mental Health Foundation UK
Providers of care in Australia
By ABS
Published in Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings, 2009 (cat. no. 4430.0).
Strategies for reducing stigma toward persons with mental illness
By David L Penn and Shannon M Couture
Published in World Psychiatry 2002 February; 1(1): 20–21
Stigma of mental illness and ways of diminishing it
By Peter Byrne
Published in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
Videos
For more videos in the DVA mental health series, see the College's YouTube channel.
Photo credits
The photos used on the College's website and throughout its publications are largely sourced through our annual photography competition.
Below is a list of the fantastic photographers who have submitted works for the competition:
- Distan Bach
- Maggie McIntosh
- Gillian Hickey
- Sue Press
- Deb Spurgeon
- Margaret Prescott
- Chris McNair
- Michelle Snowball
- Steven Springett
- Sharon Delahunty
- Susan Kaplan
- Lisa Whitworth
- Eloise Johnson
- Claire Harris
- Cindy Mathers
- Christine Walsh
- John Riley
- Michael Farrell-Whelan
- Katie Laurie
- Christine Walsh
- Bronwyn Looyestyn
- Jenette Seagrott
- Limor Weingarten
- Cath Hoge (see her work at www.flickr.com/photos/cath_hoge)
- Mary Goyns
- Marian de Wit
- Beth Flanagan
- Mich Martin
- Ben McKinnon
- Frank Pearson
- Wendy Scott