Centre for Mental Health Nursing

2023

Huckshorn, K. A., LeBel, J. L., Duxbury, J., & Hamilton, B. (2023). Restraint and Seclusion. In A. Tasman, M. B. Riba, R. D. Alarcón, C. A. Alfonso, S. Kanba, D. M. Ndetei, C. H. Ng, T. G. Schulze, & D. Lecic-Tosevski (Eds.), Tasman’s Psychiatry (5th Ed., pp. 1-19). Springer. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42825-9_2-1

2022

Mullen, A., Browne, G., Hamilton, B., Skinner, S. and Happell, B 2022, 'Safewards: An integrative review of the literature within inpatient and forensic mental health units.,' Int J Ment Health Nurs, vol.31, no.5, pp. 1090-1108. doi:10.1111/inm.13001

Hayes, C., Simmons, M., Palmer, V., Hamilton, B., Simons, C. and Hopwood, M 2022, 'Key features of adolescent inpatient units and development of a checklist to improve consistency in reporting of settings,' JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, pp. 27-. doi:10.1111/jpm.12856

Killaspy, H., Harvey, C., Brasier, C., Brophy, L., Ennals, P., Fletcher, J. and Hamilton, B 2022, 'Community-based social interventions for people with severe mental illness: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of recent evidence,' WORLD PSYCHIATRY, vol.21, no.1, pp. 96-123. doi:10.1002/wps.20940

Lakeman, R., Foster, K., Hazelton, M., Roper, C. and Hurley, J 2022, 'Helpful encounters with mental health nurses in Australia: A survey of service users and their supporters.,' J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs, . doi:10.1111/jpm.12887

Hurley, J., Foster, K., Campbell, K., Edan, V., Hazelton, M., Kennedy, H., Roper, C. and Lakeman, R 2022, 'Mental health nursing capability development: Perspectives of consumers and supporters,' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, pp. 14-. doi:10.1111/inm.13074

2021

Sabrinskas, R., Hamilton, B., Daniel, C. and Oliffe, J 2021, 'Suicide by hanging: A scoping review,' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, vol.31, no.2, pp. 278-294. doi:10.1111/inm.12956

Oostermeijer, S., Brasier, C., Harvey, C., Hamilton, B., Roper, C., Martel, A., Fletcher, J. and Brophy, L 2021, 'Design features that reduce the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health facilities: a rapid systematic review,' BMJ OPEN, vol.11, no.7, pp. 17-. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046647

Ryu, H., Hamilton, B. and Tarrant, B 2021, 'Early career mental health nurses' emotional experiences in specialist eating disorder units, Victoria, Australia,' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, vol.31, no.1, pp. 230-239. doi:10.1111/inm.12955

Andrews, S., Hamilton, B. and Humphreys, C 2021, 'A Global Silence: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Aboriginal Mothering Through Domestic and Family Violence,' AFFILIA-FEMINIST INQUIRY IN SOCIAL WORK, vol.37, no.4, pp. 585-604. doi:10.1177/08861099211055520

Fletcher, J., Brophy, L., Pirkis, J. and Hamilton, B 2021, 'Contextual Barriers and Enablers to Safewards Implementation in Victoria, Australia: Application of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research,' FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY, vol.12 pp. 15-. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.733272

Brasier, C., Roennfeldt, H., Hamilton, B., Martel, A., Hill, N., Stratford, A., Buchanan-Hagen, S., Byrne, L., Castle, D., Cocks, N. and Davidson, L, et al. 2021, 'Peer support work for people experiencing mental distress attending the emergency department: Exploring the potential,' EMERGENCY MEDICINE AUSTRALASIA, vol.34, no.1, pp. 78-84. doi:10.1111/1742-6723.13848

Roennfeldt, H., Wyder, M., Byrne, L., Hill, N., Randall, R. and Hamilton, B 2021, 'Subjective Experiences of Mental Health Crisis Care in Emergency Departments: A Narrative Review of the Qualitative Literature,' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, vol.18, no.18, pp. 22-. doi:10.3390/ijerph18189650

Hopkins, J. F., Hamilton, B. E., Prematunga, R. K., Ennis, G., Fairest, K. and Houghton, J 2021, 'Action learning sets for supporting postgraduate mental health nurses' transition to professional practice: A qualitative study,' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, vol.30, no.3, pp. 770-780. doi:10.1111/inm.12844

Edan, V., Sellick, K., Ainsworth, S., Alvarez-Varquez, S., Johnson, B., Smale, K., Randall, R. and Roper, C 2021, 'Employed but not included: the case of consumer-worers in mental health care services,' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, vol.32, no.15, pp. 3272-3301. doi:10.1080/09585192.2020.1863248

Roper, C., O'Hagan, M., Kennedy, H. and Roennfeldt, H 2021. 'Ending restraint An insider view,' in Maker, Y. and McSherry, B (ed.), RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES IN HEALTH CARE AND DISABILITY SETTINGS, ROUTLEDGE. pp. 16-38.

Edan, V. and Maylea, C 2021, 'A Model for Mental Health Advance Directives in the New Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Act,' PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOLOGY AND LAW, vol.29, no.5, pp. 779-787. doi:10.1080/13218719.2021.1976302

Enticott, J. C., Shawyer, F., Brophy, L. M., Russell, G., Mazza, D., Wilson-Evered, E., Weller, P. J., Slade, M., Edan, V. and Meadows, G. N 2021, 'REFOCUS-PULSAR Recovery-Oriented Practice Training in Adult Primary Mental Health Care: Exploratory Findings Including From a Pretest-Posttest Evaluation,' FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY, vol.12 pp. 12-. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.625408

Kapp, S., Prematunga, R. and Santamaria, N 2021, 'The "self-treatment of wounds for venous leg ulcers checklist" (STOW-V Checklist V1.0): Part 2-The reliability of the Checklist,' INTERNATIONAL WOUND JOURNAL, vol.19, no.3, pp. 714-723. doi:10.1111/iwj.13668

Randall, R. and Kennedy, H 2021. 'Experience Near Definitions of Madness,' The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health, Springer International Publishing. pp. 1-3. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-12852-4_48-1

2020

Fletcher, J., Reece, J., Kinner, S. A., Brophy, L. and Hamilton, B 2020, 'Safewards Training in Victoria, Australia: A Descriptive Analysis of Two Training Methods and Subsequent Implementation.,' Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, vol.58, no.12, pp. 32-42. doi:10.3928/02793695-20201013-08

Haysom, Z., McKibbin, G., Shlonsky, A. and Hamilton, B 2020, 'Changing considerations of matching foster carers and children: A scoping review of the research and evidence,' Children and Youth Services Review, vol.118 pp. 19-. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105409

Hayes, C., Simmons, M., Palmer, V. J., Hamilton, B., Simons, C. and Hopwood, M 2020, 'A profile of adolescents admitted to a private inpatient unit and mental health outcomes,' Australasian Psychiatry, vol.28, no.5, pp. 563-567. doi:10.1177/1039856219875068

Kao, C., Aranda, S., Krishnasamy, M. and Hamilton, B 2020, 'Development and testing of a guideline document to provide essential information for patient decision making regarding cancer clinical trials,' European Journal of Cancer Care, vol.29, no.5, pp. 14-. doi:10.1111/ecc.13236

Tindall, R., Simmons, M., Allott, K. and Hamilton, B 2020, 'Disengagement Processes Within an Early Intervention Service for First-Episode Psychosis: A Longitudinal, Qualitative, Multi-Perspective Study,' Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol.11 pp. 12-. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00565

Daya, I., Maylea, C., Raven, M., Hamilton, B. and Jureidini, J 2020, 'Defensive rhetoric in psychiatry: an obstacle to health and human rights,' The Lancet Psychiatry, vol.7, no.3, pp. 231-231. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30534-6

Hayes, C., Simmons, M., Palmer, V. J., Hamilton, B., Simons, C. and Hopwood, M 2020, 'Experiences of an adolescent inpatient model of care: Adolescent and caregiver perspectives,' Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, vol.33, no.3, pp. 109-124. doi:10.1111/jcap.12266

Galvin, K. L., Featherston, R. J., Downie, L. E., Vogel, A. P., Hamilton, B., Granger, C. and Shlonsky, A 2020, 'A Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce the Effects of Cognitive Biases in the Decision-Making of Audiologists,' Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, vol.31, no.2, pp. 158-165. doi:10.3766/jaaa.18096

Scholz, B., Happell, B., Gordon, S., Warner, T., Roper, C., Ellis, P., Waks, S. and Platania-Phung, C 2020, ''People Just Need to Try It to Be Converted!': A Picture of Consumer Mental Health Research in Australia and New Zealand,' Issues in Mental Health Nursing, pp. 7-. doi:10.1080/01612840.2020.1795763

Happell, B., Gordon, S., Roper, C., Scholz, B., Ellis, P., Waks, S., Warner, T. and Platania-Phung, C 2020, ''It is always worth the extra effort': Organizational structures and barriers to collaboration with consumers in mental health research: Perspectives of non-consumer researcher allies,' International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, vol.29, no.6, pp. 1168-1180. doi:10.1111/inm.12757

Happell, B., Gordon, S., Roper, C., Ellis, P., Waks, S., Warner, T., Scholz, B. and Platania-Phung, C 2020, 'Establishing an expert mental health consumer research group: Perspectives of nonconsumer researchers,' Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, pp. 10-. doi:10.1111/ppc.12520

Gooding, P., McSherry, B. and Roper, C 2020, 'Preventing and reducing 'coercion' in mental health services: an international scoping review of English-language studies,' Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol.142, no.1, pp. 27-39. doi:10.1111/acps.13152

Brophy, L., Roper, C. and Grant, K 2019, 'Risk factors for involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation,' The Lancet Psychiatry, vol.6, no.12, pp. 974-975. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30442-0

2019

Fletcher, J., Brophy, L., Killaspy, H., Ennals, P., Hamilton, B., Collister, L. & Harvey, C. (2019). Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia: Describing the Role and Function of Sub-Acute Recovery-Based Residential Mental Health Services in Victoria. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 735. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00735

Tindall, R., Allott, K., Simmons, M., Roberts, W. & Hamilton, B. (2019). The missing voice of engagement: an exploratory study from the perspectives of case-managers at an early intervention service for first-episode psychosis. BMC Psychiatry, 19(1), 312. doi: 10.1186/s12888-019-2315-0

Daya, I., Hamilton, B. & Roper, C. (2019). Authentic engagement: A conceptual model for welcoming diverse and challenging consumer and survivor views in mental health research, policy, and practice. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. doi: 10.1111/inm.12653

Hayes, C., Simmons, M., Palmer, V., Hamilton, B., Simons, C. & Hopwood, M. (2019). A profile of adolescents admitted to a private inpatient unit and mental health outcomes. Australasian Psychiatry, 1039856219875068. doi: 10.1177/1039856219875068

Hayes, C., Simmons, M., Palmer, V., Hamilton, B., Simons, C. & Hopwood, M. (2019). The unheard voice of the clinician: Perspectives on the key features of an adolescent inpatient model of care. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing. doi: 10.1111/jcap.12242

Fletcher, J., Hamilton, B., Kinner, S. & Brophy, L. (2019). Safewards Impact in Inpatient Mental Health Units in Victoria, Australia: Staff Perspectives. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 462. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00462

Fletcher, J., Buchanan-Hagen, S., Brophy, L., Kinner, S. & Hamilton, B. (2019). Consumer Perspectives of Safewards Impact in Acute Inpatient Mental Health Wards in Victoria, Australia. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 461. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00461

Kao, C., Hamilton, B., Lin, Y. & Hu, W. (2019). Ward-Based Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Clinical Trials: A Survey Study in Taiwan. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51(4), 489. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12484

Harvey, C., Brophy, L., Tibble, H., Killaspy, H., Spittal, M., Hamilton, B. & Fletcher, J. (2019). Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia: Developing a State-Wide Typology of a Subacute Residential Mental Health Service Model. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 383. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00383

Hayes, C., Palmer, V., Simmons, M., Hamilton, B., Simons, C. & Hopwood, M. (2019). Protocol for a prospective, longitudinal mixed-methods case study: supporting a Model of Care for Healthier Adolescents (The MoCHA study). BMJ Open, 9(2), e025098. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025098

Hayes, C., Palmer, V., Hamilton, B., Simons, C., & Hopwood, M. (2019). What nonpharmacological therapeutic interventions are provided to adolescents admitted to general mental health inpatient units? A descriptive review. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(3), 671-686. doi:10.1111/inm.12575

Featherston, R., Shlonsky, A., Lewis, C., Luong, M., Downie, L., Vogel, A., Granger, C., Hamilton, B. and Galvin, K 2019, 'Interventions to Mitigate Bias in Social Work Decision-Making: A Systematic Review,' RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE, vol.29, no.7, pp. 741-752. doi:10.1177/1049731518819160

Kennedy, H., Roper, C., Randall, R., Pintado, D., Buchanan-Hagen, S. & Fletcher, J. (2019). Consumer recommendations for enhancing the Safewards model and interventions. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(2), 616. doi: 10.1111/inm.12570

Fletcher, J., Hamilton, B., Kinner, S., Sutherland, G., King, K., Tellez, J. & Brophy, L. (2019). Working towards least restrictive environments in acute mental health wards in the context of locked door policy and practice. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(2), 538. doi: 10.1111/inm.12559

Brophy, L & Roper, C., & Grant, K. (2019). Risk factors for involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation. The lancet. Psychiatry. 6. 974-975. 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30442-0.

Roper, C. (2019). Health and safety for spirit seers, telepaths and visionaries. Psychosis, 379. doi: 10.1080/17522439.2019.1652844

Scholz, B., Platania-Phung, C., Gordon, S., Ellis, P., Roper, C. & Bocking, J. (2019). Very useful, but do carefully: Mental health researcher views on establishing a Mental Health Expert Consumer Researcher Group. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 26(9-10), 358. doi: 10.1111/jpm.12547

Scholz, B., Gordon, S., Bocking, J., Liggins, J., Ellis, P., Roper, C. & Happell, B. (2019). ‘There’s just no flexibility’: How space and time impact mental health consumer research. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(4), 899. doi: 10.1111/inm.12589

Juntanamalaga, P., Scholz, B., Roper, C. & Happell, B. (2019). ‘They can’t empower us’: The role of allies in the consumer movement. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(4), 857. doi: 10.1111/inm.12585

Scholz, B., Roper, C., Juntanamalaga, P. & Happell, B. (2019). Understanding the Role of Allies in Systemic Consumer Empowerment: A Literature Review. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 40(4), 354. doi: 10.1080/01612840.2018.1553004

Happell, B., Gordon, S., Bocking, J., Ellis, P., Roper, C., Liggins, J. & Platania-Phung, C. (2019). “Chipping away”: non-consumer researcher perspectives on barriers to collaborating with consumers in mental health research. Journal of Mental Health, 28(1), 49. doi: 10.1080/09638237.2018.1466051

Roper, C., (2019), Ethical peril, violence and “dirty hands” – ethical consequences of mental health laws, Special issue, Disordering Social Inclusion, Ethics, Critiques, Collaborations, Futurities, Journal of Ethics in Mental Health

Gerdtz, M., Kapp, S., Michael, E., Prematunga, R., Virtue, E. & Knott, J. (2019). An evaluation of the use of management care plans for people who frequently attend the emergency department. Australasian Emergency Care, 22(4), 229. doi: 10.1016/j.auec.2019.08.001

Hamilton, B., Kelly, T., Prematunga, R. & Peckham, H. (2019). Interdisciplinary networking among emerging leaders to achieve change: mixed methods evaluation of a Victorian initiative. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28, 21.

Kapp, S., Gerdtz, M., Gefen, A., Prematunga, R. & Santamaria, N. (2019). An observational study of the maintenance of the 30 degrees side-lying lateral tilt position among aged care residents at risk of developing pressure injuries when using the standard care pillow and a purpose-designed positioning device. International Wound Journal, 16(5), 1080. doi: 10.1111/iwj.13142

Edan, V., Brophy, L, Weller, P, Fossey, E and Meadows, G (2019) ‘The experience of the use of Community Treatment Orders following recovery-oriented practice training’, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, vol. 64, pp. 178-183.

Meadows, G., Brophy, L., Shawyer, F., Enticott, JC., Fossey, E., Thornton, CD., Weller, PJ., Wilson-Evered, E., Edan, V., Slade, M. (2019). REFOCUS-PULSAR recovery-oriented practice training in specialist mental health care: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Psychiatry, 6(2), 103-114.

2018

Kao, C., Aranda, S., Krishnasamy, M. & Hamilton, B. (2018). Identifying essential information to support patient decision-making regarding participation in cancer clinical trials: A Delphi study. European Journal of Cancer Care, 27(6), e12954. doi: 10.1111/ecc.12954

Fletcher, J., Hamilton, B., Kinner, S., Sutherland, G., King, K., Tellez, J. & Brophy, L. (2018). Key stakeholder views: Least restrictive environments in the context of the Queensland locked door policy. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27, 13.

Fletcher, J. and Hamilton, B 2018, 'The impact of Safewards training and subsequent implementation into practice in Victoria,' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, vol.27 pp. 12-13.

Hopkins, F., Hamilton, B. & Fairest, K. (2018). Evaluating action learning sets with postgraduate mental health nurses: A qualitative study. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27, 21.

Tindall, R., Simmons, M., Allott, K. & Hamilton, B. (2018). Essential ingredients of engagement when working alongside people after their first episode of psychosis: A qualitative meta-synthesis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 12(5), 784. doi: 10.1111/eip.12566

Bosanac, P., Hamilton, B., Lucak, J. & Castle, D. (2018). Identity challenges and ‘burden of normality’ after DBS for severe OCD: a narrative case study. BMC Psychiatry, 18, 186. doi: 10.1186/s12888-018-1771-2

Featherston, R., Shlonsky, A., Lewis, C., Luong, M., Downie, L., Vogel, A., Granger, C., Hamilton, B. and Galvin, K. (2019) ‘Interventions to Mitigate Bias in Social Work Decision-Making: A Systematic Review’, Research on Social Work Practice, 29(7). doi: 10.1177/1049731518819160

Kelly, T., Hamilton, B., Lawn, S. and Sundram, S 2018, 'Every heart matters: A call for a radical wholehearted approach to addressing cardiovascular inequalities.,' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, vol.27 pp. 25-26.

Tindall, R., Allott, K., Simmons, M., Roberts, W. & Hamilton, B. (2018). Engagement at entry to an early intervention service for first episode psychosis: an exploratory study of young people and caregivers. Psychosis, 10(3), 175. doi: 10.1080/17522439.2018.1502341

Happell, B., Gordon, S., Bocking, J., Ellis, P., Roper, C., Liggins, J. & Scholz, B. (2018). Mental Health Researchers’ Views About Service User Research: A Literature Review. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 39(12), 1010. doi: 10.1080/01612840.2018.1475524

Happell, B., Scholz, B., Gordon, S., Bocking, J., Ellis, P., Roper, C. & Platania-Phung, C. (2018). “I don’t think we’ve quite got there yet”: The experience of allyship for mental health consumer researchers. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 25(8), 453. doi: 10.1111/jpm.12476

Happell, B., Gordon, S., Bocking, J., Ellis, P., Roper, C., Liggins, J. & Scholz, B. (2018). How did I not see that? Perspectives of nonconsumer mental health researchers on the benefits of collaborative research with consumers. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27(4), 1230. doi: 10.1111/inm.12453

Roper, C., (2018). Capacity does not reside in me, In (Eds) C. Spivakovsky, K., Seear and A., Carter, Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions: Law, Medicine and Society. Routledge pp 85-97

Roper, C., and Gooding, P. (2018). This is Not a Story: From Ethical Loneliness to Respect for Diverse Ways of Knowing, Thinking and Being, Global Perspectives On Legal Capacity Reform: Our Voices, Our Stories, Routledge pp154-164

Happell, B., Gordon, S., Bocking, J., Ellis, P., Roper, C., Liggins, J. & Platania-Phung, C. (2018). Turning the Tables: Power Relations Between Consumer Researchers and Other Mental Health Researchers. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 39(8), 633. doi: 10.1080/01612840.2018.1445328

Fava, N., O’Bree, B., Randall, R., Kennedy, H., Olsen, J., Matenson, E., Fitzpatrick, S. and Simmons, M. (2018) ‘Youth peer work: Building a strong and supported youth peer workforce’