Beyond pills and CBT – an existential approach to managing anxiety in General Practice

Developing a Community of Practice in Child & Youth Refugee Mental Health.

The Joys and Challenges of Providing General Practice Services to Refugees and Asylum Seeker Patients.

Building Health Capital – An Integrated Approach to Refugee Health: lessons learned from refugee health services in South East Qld over the past 20 years.

Community Engagement with People from Refugee Backgrounds: Learning from the Refugee Health Advisory Group (G11)

Mood disorders in General Practice – as simple as DSM, SSRI & CBT?

In the past decade mental health, and depression in particular, has received a great deal of attention both in the general and medical media. Awareness of depression has markedly increased, attempts have been made to reduce its stigma, and a lot of effort has gone into educating GPs.   No-one would argue that this has not been a positive development. However it has lead on occasions to an oversimplification, where all bad moods are depression, and depression always responds to evidence based treatment with CBT & an SSRI.

Mental health nurses in general practice

The need for communities to access appropriate mental health care is consistently increasing the demand on General Practitioners who are already under-resourced to meet current health care expectations. The majority of people with a mental illness live and receive treatment in the community where General Practitioners are estimated to see 75 to 90 percent of patients with mental illness across the full range of illness severity (Keks et al 1997).