The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice: Volume 9 Issue 2

Exploring the educative potential of eating disorder memoirs

Margaret McAllister, Donna Lee Brien, June Alexander, Trudi Flynn

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential benefits that books, and specifically memoirs, may offer mental health students, positing that first person testimonials may…

Physician associate: new role within mental health teams

Kaybinder Gill, Sabina Kauser, Kalsum Khattack, Fiona Hynes

The purpose of this paper is to outline the role of a new healthcare professional, the physician associate (PA), within the developing National Health Service (NHS), particularly…

Evaluating the impact of a nationally recognised training programme that aims to raise the awareness and challenge attitudes of personality disorder in multi-agency partners

Gary Lamph, Cameron Latham, Debra Smith, Andrew Brown, Joanne Doyle, Mark Sampson

An innovative training initiative to raise the awareness of personality disorder and enable more effective working with people with personality disorder who come into contact with…

A charter for trainers in the prevention and management of workplace violence in mental health settings

Brodie Paterson, Kevin McKenna, Vaughan Bowie

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a Delphi study of trainers in the prevention and safer management of violence in mental health settings that sought to…

Perinatal mental health cultural responsiveness training – an evaluation

Kimberley Wriedt, Daryl Oehm, Brendon Moss, Prem Chopra

Women from culturally and linguistically diverse communities face barriers to accessing perinatal mental health care. Victorian Transcultural Mental Health (VTMH) is a state-wide…

Australian overseas trained psychiatrists’ perspective of up-skilling programme

Pam McGrath, Saras Henderson, Sidney Cabral, David Crompton

The purpose of this paper is to report research findings on the perspectives of overseas trained psychiatrists (OTPs) on the “The Overseas Trained Specialist Up-Skilling…