Tag: Mental Health
Mentally ill man cleared of health worker's murder
A man has been found not guilty of the murder of a health care worker in northern New South Wales due to mental illness.[MORE]
Care to suffer under mental health plan: nurses
The New South Wales Nurses Association will start a community campaign aimed at stopping plans to replace mental health nurse managers in the Illawarra with non-clinical staff.[MORE]
Push for melancholia to be listed as illness
Melancholia has been out of favour for more than 20 years after being dropped from the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual for mental illness in 1980. [MORE]
Job seeker service to help mentally ill
A new service is being rolled out on the New South Wales south coast to help people with diagnosed mental illnesses find employment.[MORE]
Partnership aims to improve suicide response
Police and Anglicare have formed a partnership to improve the response to suicides in the Kimberley.[MORE]
MP demands more mental health beds
A Queensland MP says the Government needs to prepare for an influx of mental health patients in the Wide Bay region.[MORE]
Dragun inquest hears drug side effects under reported
An inquest into the death of a newsreader on anti-depressants has heard there is an 'under-reporting' of the side effects of prescription drugs in Australia.[MORE]
Appeal for man missing from mental health unit
Police are hoping the public can help them find a man who has absconded from a mental health facility at Randwick in Sydney's east.[MORE]
Qld Health corrects mental health claims
Queensland Health has denied that 25 clients from a youth and mental health service were suddenly left without care in central Queensland.[MORE]
Scientology 'putting lives at risk'
Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry joins growing calls for a Senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology.[MORE]
Mental health misses out in reforms: critic
The President of the WA Association for Mental Health has criticised the Federal Government's health reform plan.[MORE]
Newsreader's inquest told of mental health crisis
Inquest into death of TV newsreader Charmaine Dragun hears that someone commits suicide in Australia every 4 hours.[MORE]
Mental health mentoring service
The Federal Government has announced an extra $1.3 million in funding for mental health services in Tasmania.[MORE]
Health fund cuts benefits for high demand treatments
Newcastle-based health fund NIB has removed benefits from some of its policies in response to a 60 per cent increase in the number of people undergoing surgery for obesity.[MORE]
SA Health defends mental health deaths
SA Health has defended a departmental report which says 40 people died after discharge from South Australia's mental health system last year.[MORE]
Mental health service faces funding fight
A service that helps north coast people with mental illness and substance abuse problems will close at the end of June unless government funding is renewed.[MORE]
Social Inclusion Unit to go if Liberals win
South Australia's Aboriginal Affairs Minister Jay Weatherill has attacked a Liberal plan to dismantle the Government's Social Inclusion Unit.[MORE]
Health focus in SA poll pledges
A promise of a Women's and Children's upgrade and debate over mental health facilities.[MORE]
Funds to help foster new mental health service
The Western Australian Association for Mental Health has welcomed more than $1 million in Federal Government funding to boost services in the south-west.[MORE]
Rudd pledges $10m for mentally ill
The Government announces an extra $10 million to help mentally ill people.[MORE]
Art used as mental health therapy
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is hoping rural communities in central west Queensland embrace a new therapy to help with mental health issues.[MORE]
Alzheimer's gene sharpens young minds
The genetic variant linked to Alzheimer's can also improve the brain function of carriers when they are younger.[MORE]
Weighing up the risks of reporting suicide
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We tiptoe around the issue of suicide but still hundreds of young people lose their lives.[MORE]
Public urged to look for suicide signs
Lifeline South Coast says a high rate of suicide in Australia could be reduced by the community taking more responsibility in helping others who are suicidal.[MORE]
New mental health rehab for combat veterans
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is setting up a new rehabilitation program which it hopes will stop soldiers suffering from mental health problems from leaving the service.[MORE]
