Centre for Psychiatric Nursing

• 2019 VCMHN Program Release

  The program for the 20th Annual Victorian Collaborative Mental Health Nursing Conference is now available!

  21 Jun 2019 News
• 4/5 Forums - 23 July 2019
  21 Jun 2019 News
• Rai Waddingham- "Rethinking ‘empowerment’ and ‘recovery’ (overcoming disempowerment and oppression)"

  On Monday 11 February 2019, the CPN were thrilled to host Rai Waddingham as she presented her thought-provoking session ‘Rethinking empowerment and recovery (overcoming disempowerment and oppression) to the Mental Health nursing, academic and research community.Rai who has spent a good portion of her life in and out of psychiatric hospitals, now sees herself as a survivor. She is a freelance trainer, writer and an active member of a variety of UK based committees.The session explored the critical perspectives on the concepts of recovery and empowerment in mental health, ways in which these concepts play out in modern mental health services and oppression and disempowerment within mental health services.Taking inspiration from other civil rights movements, she discussed ways we can work together to recognise and overcome these issues.Feedback: “Rai was an awesome presenter, mediating the session brilliantly, drawing out the points people were making and underlining useful concepts”“Excellent training about oppression found within treatment and recovery. Rai offered her personal view and also enabled an honest discussion.”“Rachel was an inspiring speaker and has given me much to think about and pass on in every aspect of my work.”

  06 Mar 2019 News
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  26 Feb 2019 News
• Co-production: putting principles into practice in mental health contexts

  This new, open-access resource aims to inform and support the implementation of co-production initiatives specifically within the Victorian mental health context.

  05 Apr 2018 News
• Meet the CPN team

  A series of short videos about who we are & why we're passionate about working in mental health.

  19 Dec 2017 News
• Safewards Victoria at 10th Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry

  Contingent of Victorian Safewards trainers & researchers attend EVIPRG Congress; A/Prof Bridget Hamilton to Chair international Safewards Community of Practice

  19 Dec 2017 News
• 2018 Rollout of Psychotherapy Essentials to Victorian AMHs

  Phase One of the CPN’s rollout of Psychotherapy Essentials to community MH nurses is on track for the first half of 2018.

  19 Dec 2017 News
• MH Nursing Graduate Programs Research Project

  This year's 'Graduate Survey' of Victorian public mental health services is a 'preliminary step' to further CPN research into graduate MH nurse program offerings across the state.

  19 Dec 2017 News
• CPN consumer academics present at 2017 Service Users Academia Symposium

  2017's Symposium in NZ attended by contingent of CPN-affiliated consumer academics; 2018's to be hosted by the CPN in Melbourne

  19 Dec 2017 News
• Dr Haley Peckham on neuro-plasticity, trauma & experience

  Dr Peckham's keynote "The Talking Cure is Biological" was very well-received at the 2017 Collab Conference. View the video here in full.

  19 Dec 2017 News
• Involuntary treatment, Australian law & real lives: a public conversation

  Cath Roper and Prof. Bernadette McSherry discuss the legal framework and lived experience of involuntary treatment in Australia

  19 Dec 2017 News
• Dr Finbar Hopkins awarded PhD for research into maternal & child mental health

  CPN Nursing Lecturer Dr Finbar Hopkins awarded PhD for thesis exploring maternal representations from pre-pregnancy to early motherhood.

  19 Dec 2017 News
• 'Check out' from the Recovery Library: Tools for taking stock

  Resources to help MH services & practitioners assess the degree to which their practice promotes autonomy & self-determination for service users

  19 Dec 2017 News

Journal articles refereed

Fletcher, J., Spittal, M,. Brophy L., Tibble H, Kinner S., Elsom S., Hamilton B., Outcomes of the Victorian Safewards trial in 13 wards: impact on seclusion rates and fidelity measurement (2017) International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 26(5), pp. 461 - 471

Penno, S., Hamilton B., Petrakis M., (2017), Early intervention in psychosis: Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) outcomes from a five-year prospective study. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2017.07.003

Niels Buus, N., Hoeck, B., Hamilton, B., (2017) Nurses’ shift reports: a systematic literature search and critical review of qualitative field studies. Journal of Clinical Nursing, doi: 10.1111/jocn.13655

McKibbin G., Humphreys C., Hamilton B., (2017) “Talking about child sexual abuse would have helped me”: Young people who sexually abused reflect on preventing harmful sexual behaviour. Child Abuse and Neglect, 70: 210-221

Corbett, R., Elsom, S., Sands, N., Prematunga, R. An exploratory investigation of sexual health screening in the first 12 weeks of case management in populations with severe mental illness (2017) International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 26 (2), pp. 160-169.

Sands, N., Elsom, S., Corbett, R., Keppich-Arnold, S., Prematunga, R., Berk, M., Considine, J. (2017) Predictors for clinical deterioration of mental state in patients assessed by telephone-based mental health triage International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 26 (3), pp. 226-237.

Rao, S., Broadbear, J. H., Thompson, K., Correia, A., Preston, M., Katz, P., Trett, R. (2017). Evaluation of a novel risk assessment method for self-harm associated with Borderline Personality Disorder. Australasian psychiatry, DOI: 10.1177/1039856217707390

Buus, N., Hamilton, B., (2016) Social science and linguistic text analysis of nurses’ records: a systematic review and critique. Nursing Inquiry 23: 64–77

Goh, S.M.Y., Westphal, A., Daws, T., Gascoigne-Cohen S., Hamilton, B., Lautenschlager, N., (2016) A retrospective study of medical co-morbidities in psychogeriatric patients. Psychogeriatrics. 16 (1): 12–19.

Byrne, L., Roper, C., Happell, B., Reid-Searl, K., (2016), The Stigma of Identifying as Having a Lived Experience Runs Before Me: Challenges for Lived Experience Roles, Journal of Mental Health, p 1 - 7

Brophy, L., Roper, C., Hamilton, B., Tellez, J., McSherry, B., (2016), Consumers’ and their supporters’ perspectives on barriers and strategies to reducing seclusion and restraint in mental health settings, Australian Health Review 40 (6): 599-604.

Brophy, L., Roper, C., Hamilton, B., Tellez, J., McSherry, B., (2016), Consumers and their supporters’ perspectives on poor practice and the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: results from Australian focus groups, International Journal of Mental Health Systems 10(6)1-10

Lima, S., Jordan, H.L., Kinney, S.,   Hamilton, B., Newall, F., (2016) Empirical evolution of a framework that supports the development of nursing competence. Journal of Advanced Nursing 72(4), 889–899.

Lima, S., Newall, F., Jordan, H.L., Hamilton, B., Kinney, S., (2016) Development of competence in the first year of graduate nursing practice: a longitudinal study. Journal of Advanced Nursing 72(4), 878–888.

Kinner, S., Harvey, C., Hamilton, B., Brophy, L., Roper, C., McSherry, B., & Young, J. (2016). Attitudes towards seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: Findings from a large, community-based survey of consumers, carers and mental health professionals. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 1-10.

Tonso, M.A., Prematunga, R., Norris, S.J., Williams, L., Sands, N., Elsom, S.J. (2016) Workplace Violence in Mental Health: A Victorian Mental Health Workforce Survey International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 25 (5), pp. 444-451.

Sands, N., Elsom, S., Colgate, R., Haylor, H., Prematunga, R. (2016) Development and interrater reliability of the UK Mental Health Triage Scale International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 25 (4), pp. 330-336. DOI: 10.1111/inm.12197

Roper, C., McSherry, B., Brophy, L., (2015), Defining seclusion and restraint: legal and policy definitions versus consumer and carer perspectives, Journal of Law and Medicine, 23:297-302

Happell, B., Byrne, L., McAllister, M., Lampshire, D., Roper, C., Gaskin, C. J., Martin, G., Wynaden, D., McKenna, B., Lakeman, R., Platania-Phung, C. and Hamer, H. (2014), Consumer involvement in the tertiary-level education of mental health professionals: A systematic review. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 23: 3–16.

Other articles

McSherry, B., Brophy, L., Hamilton, B., Roper, C., Tellez J., (2017), Reducing Seclusion and Restraint: Hearing from consumers and their supporters, The Health Advocate, 41:34-35

Peckham, H., (2013). Epigenetics:The dogma-defying discovery that genes learn from experience. International Journal of Neuropsychotherapy, 1, 9-20. doi: 10.12744/ijnpt.2013.0009-0020

Book chapters

Roper, C. (in press), Capacity does not reside in me, Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions: Law, Medicine and Society, Routledge

Roper, C. (2016) Is partnership a dirty word? In Russo and Sweeney (eds), Searching for a Rose Garden, Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies, PCCS Books, Monmouth, UK

Trett, R., & Peckham, H. (in press). Psychotherapeutic practice in mental health nursing. In K. Edward & I. Munro (Eds.), Mental health nursing dimensions of praxis (3 ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Trett, R., & Peckham, H. (in press). Personality Disorders. In K. Edward & I. Munro (eds), Mental health nursing dimensions of praxis (3 ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.