Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
A new report calls for a whole-of-system response that sees women who are misidentified as predominant aggressors having their own safety needs acknowledged and addressed.
The new Neuromedicines Discovery Centre (NDC) aims to develop psychiatric drugs and approaches to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies for common mental illnesses.
Researchers are exploring the medical frontier of psychedelics, and their use in facilitating psychotherapy for common mental illnesses.
Researchers say professional services must be proactive, and provide targeted prevention and intervention initiatives to children and parents living with parental mental illness.
The experts uncover some of the policies and initiatives needed for change, and the role of localised actions as part of the solution.
Developing specialist youth mental health hubs is vital if we’re to address the growing mental health emergency of young people’s depression and anxiety.
New research is exploring the experiences of young people who use violence in the home.
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Speaking from her own experience, Julie Dempsey has become an authoritative voice in improving mental health care.
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Royal commissions can deliver valuable outcomes to society through classic influence strategies.
The mental health of young women is far more sensitive to unemployment than the mental health of young men.
Expanding suicide prevention frameworks to include aged care residents, aligning nursing home life with community living, and improving residents' access to mental heath services is a good start.
In this episode of A Different Lens, Monash academics explore what’s being done to improve mental health care and address the rise in mental health disorders.
Around 6000 Australians aged under 65 live in nursing homes, cut off from their families and peers, with inadequate support for their disabilities.
A study reveals that filicide is a regular occurrence in Australia, not a rare one.
A new report reveals alarming statistics regarding male self-harm, and how first responders feel ill-prepared to deal with patients in mental crisis.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and PM Scott Morrison pack the 2019 Federal Budget full of goodies as they push towards an election.
Regulating physical restraint of the elderly in nursing homes is a step in the right direction, but more still needs to be done to educate the sector on alternatives.
By the time the aged care royal commission's recommendations lead to improvements in our nursing homes, four cohorts of residents will have died. Here's why.
We need to think about the problems that men and women face not as competing priorities but as part of the same toxic social problem.
The Victorian centre's effectiveness will be muted unless it includes experts on violence against women.
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