Associate Professor Stephen Parker and Professor Carol Harvey were keynote speakers at the third NSW Rehabilitation Psychiatry Network Forum, held 29 March 2022, partly face-to-face and partly online. It was chaired by Dr Nick Burns.
The program included a presentation by Associate Professor Stephen Parker, Griffith University, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, School of Medicine:
Evaluation of a community residential program in Brisbane - Bridging the research paradigm into clinical practice
This presentation explores alternative staffing configurations for community-based residential rehabilitation services. It looks at the consumer expectations and experience as well as staff expectations and experience and the data related to service effectiveness.
[Associate Professor Stephen Parker has consented to his presentation in PDF form being uploaded to the PCLI website.]
Professor Carol Harvey, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and NorthWestern Mental Health also presented:
Evidence for Working with Families: Incorporating a Vigorous Model of Family Psychoeducation into Models of Care
She concluded that families are potential partners in rehabilitation. They have their own needs due to impact of Severe Mental Illness on them in their caring role which should be specifically and intentionally addressed. Addressing family needs and (at least some of) the consumer’s needs for rehabilitation can both be achieved through family involvement, for which there is robust evidence.
[Professor Carol Harvey has consented to his presentation in PDF form being uploaded to the PCLI website.]
The Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System: contemporary evidence, practice and policy in rehabilitation psychiatry.
The Royal Commission recommended establishing a new rehabilitation pathway for people living with mental illness who require ongoing intensive treatment, care and support. The new rehabilitation pathway includes care in the community, based on the Assertive Community Treatment model, two new bed-based rehabilitation models of care, supported housing and Regional Multiagency Panels.
[Professor Carol Harvey has consented to her presentation in PDF form being uploaded to the PCLI website.]
