EOI_Submission_Guidelines__Forms.pdf

The closing date for submission is 5pm Friday 24 September 2010.

She said many treatments had emerged over the years, from different models of counselling and therapy along with acute hospital care, though there was little evidence to show which approach was best.

“Currently, there are a whole range of treatments and we don’t have any evidence that one is any better than the other,” Dr Byrne said on Friday.

“... We’re really trying to gather some evidence so we can say to people, with confidence, that we have evidence that this or that treatment is helpful.”

Dr Byrne is seeking around 200 adult volunteers who have an eating disorder and who are based in Sydney, Adelaide or Perth.

Participants will receive ten months of free treatment - in one of three different front-line therapies developed independently and used by some to tackle anorexia in different parts of the world.

The research will compare Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, developed at Oxford University; Maudsley Anorexia Nervosa Treatment for Adults (MANTRA), developed at London’s Maudsley Hospital; and New Zealand’s Specialist Support Clinical Management for … MORE...]]> Announcements, Mental Health 2010-08-24T03:46:20+00:00 http://csgpn.com.au/news/entry/callan_park_mental_health_workshop/ http://csgpn.com.au/news/entry/callan_park_mental_health_workshop/#When:04:32:18Z On Wednesday 25 August a workshop will be held at Balmain Town Hall from 6:30pm to explore a range of different mental health services that could be offered at Callan Park.

Mental Health Master Plan Workshop

If you are unable to attend the workshop, comments on the website regarding the newer proposals put forward are very welcome. A document outlining these proposals should be available after the workshop next Wednesday.

Mental Health Month 2010.

New headspace sites

Vijay Ramanathan Phone: 8752 4915

Julie McLean-Murray Phone: 8752 4905

Dianne Deschamps Phone: 8752 4923

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• Gay friendly GPs

Consumer Medication Brochure Series

• CMB Antipsychotic Medications
• CMB Benzodiazepine
• CMB Bipolar
• CMB Clozapine
• CMB Depression

For more information regarding our Mental Health project, please contact Karen Frost on 8752 4910.

Guideline 1

For healthy men and women, drinking no more than two standard drinks on any day reduces the lifetime risk of harm from alcohol-related disease or injury.

Guideline 2

For healthy men and women, drinking no more than four standard drinks on a single occasion reduces the risk of alcohol related injury arising from that occasion.

Guideline 3

3A Parents and carers should be advised that children under 15 years of age are at the greatest risk of harm from drinking and that for this age group, not drinking alcohol is especially important.
3B For young people aged 15–17 years the safest option is to delay the initiation of drinking for as long as possible.

Guideline 4

4A For women who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, not drinking is the safest option. 
4B For women who are breastfeeding, not drinking is the safest option.

Alcohol has a complex role in Australian society. Most Australians drink alcohol, generally for … MORE...]]> Announcements, Critical Information, Mental Health, Preventive Health 2009-04-02T04:21:43+00:00 http://csgpn.com.au/news/entry/mood_disorders_in_general_practice_-_as_simple_as_dsm_ssri_cbt/ http://csgpn.com.au/news/entry/mood_disorders_in_general_practice_-_as_simple_as_dsm_ssri_cbt/#When:01:14:40Z Mood disorders in General Practice - as simple as DSM, SSRI & CBT?

The webcast
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.
Clinical reality in general practice is rather different. We see a wide range of low moods, only some of which are unipolar depression. Many belong to other diagnoses, and many, despite being very significant, struggle to fit neatly any single DSM category. General practice is messy and our patients rarely conform to the neat case studies of typical education modules. And treatments may be evidence based, but the patients to whom we offer them are rarely the same as those carefully selected folk from whom the evidence was gathered.
This talk tries to step … MORE...]]> Announcements, Critical Information, Mental Health 2009-03-30T01:14:40+00:00