Webinar date and time: Monday 19 March 6.45pm AEDT. Registrations available shortly. A recording will be available by 21 March 2012. Better recognise the early warning signs of perinatal mental health issues and core pathways to effective mental health treatment. Understand...

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Tuesday 7th February 2012 at 7.15pm AEDT. Join the webinar (registrants only). Registrations have closed. Recordings will be available shortly. Better understand the key principles of intervention and the roles of different disciplines in providing integrated primary c...

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Upcoming MHPN webinar. Perinatal Mental Health: working together, working better. Monday 19th March 2012 at 6.30pm AEDT. Registrations open soon.

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Momentum for the Psychs on Bikes trans-Australian motorbike epic in April is building. Early indicators suggest a potential field of up to 30 for the two wheeled marathon, with 11 weeks’ marketing left before a key turns in an ignition. The event is the brainchild of Sydney...

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MHPN currently supports two multidisciplinary Balint groups in Elsternwick. These groups are facilitated by Ruth Dunn, a psychologist and Balint group facilitator, and coordinated by Hilary Ash. The groups meet bi-monthly, on a Tuesday and Wednesday night. MHPN is accepting expre...

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In the 2011-12 Budget, the Gillard Government brought in changes to the Better Access program to deliver a mental health package that better targeted and supported some of the most disadvantaged people in our community. The changes to Better Access allow us to rebalance our inve...

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Research has shown that people who love, care for or support a person with depression can experience significant stress and are at greater risk of developing mental health problems themselves. It also shows that they are interested in learning and strengthening coping and self-ca...

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Enhancements to our website means members can now conveniently search and register for MHPN network meetings online. Just log in, click on ‘Find a network meeting’ from the Home page, select your state and register to attend the meeting of your choice.  

MHPN is working with Diabetes Australia - Vic and Gambler’s Help (City) to establish new multidisciplinary mental health networks with a special interest focus. You are invited to express interest in joining either of the following proposed Victorian-based networks. Diabetes and...

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Latest stats: 18,000 attendances by clinicians at network meetings; 450+ interdisciplinary mental health networks established across Australia. 4,400 online community members; Over 33,000 attendances at workshops and networks since the project’s inception. Webinar series: Ov...

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Wishing all our members, partners and supporters a very happy and safe 2012! We look forward to another year supporting networks and running many more of our popular mental health webinars. Our next is Mental health and substance abuse presentations - Register now!

 

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As a publicly declared survivor of child abuse, Dr Cathy Kezelman has had a significant period of time to reflect–and act–on the subject of complex trauma. Dr Cathy Kezelman is the director of Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA).She is also the author of Innocence Revisited, a me...

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When your network covers an area the size of Germany, anything that cuts distance, time and cost from your training budget comes as a bonus. According to Julee Nelson, Executive Officer/Coordinator of the Carnarvon MHPN, using October’s MHPN Complex Trauma webinar to bring far-fl...

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The Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN) is gauging interest in establishing a Victorian psycho-oncology network. This network will draw together clinicians who provide services to clients with cancer and a co-existing mental health issue.    Dr Jeremy Couper, H...

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For the first time, the MHPN annual report will be published in an online format only. The decision responds to a clear indication that our many readers are happy to receive the information online rather than through resource-absorbing print. For an ‘At a glance’ summary of our ...

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The lives of people experiencing psychotic illness have improved markedly compared with 12 years ago, according to a national survey of psychotic illness, published in late November. A media announcement from the Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, said he joined...

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Media release Renewed Federal funding will see a unique mental health initiative consolidated throughout Australia. In a major acknowledgement of the value of MHPN’s work towards encouraging interdisciplinary practice, the Department of Health and Ageing recently approved a new...

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Hilary Ash has needed a wheelchair for 25 years after a car accident left her with quadriplegia. It has not stopped her pursuing an active career in social work, and more recently coordinating not one but two MHPN networks. And now she has offered to introduce other coordinators ...

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Professor Allan Fels AO is better known for his long and distinguished stewardship of the corporate watchdog, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. But the newly appointed chairman of Australia’s first National Mental Health Commission has a very personal acquaintance ...

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