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Trainer: Rai WaddinghamDate: Monday 11 February 9.30am – 4.30pmCost: Full $110  |  Unemployed / under employed $45 | light lunch included Venue: University of Melbourne, level 7 room #704, 161 Barry Street, Parkville, MelbourneTopic: Rethinking ‘empowerment’ and ‘recovery’ (overcoming dis-empowerment and oppression)In modern mental health care concepts of ‘empowerment’ and ‘recovery’ have become buzzwords, littering the pages of policies, reports and service descriptions. Over time these once radical ideas have lost some of their zing and, at worst, become associated with experiences of individualisation, pressure and blame when recovery becomes yet another thing someone can ‘fail’ at. This workshop looks critically at the way empowerment, recovery and similar terms are used within mental health services. Taking inspiration from civil rights movements, we will explore some of the ways in which services - and the language used - can be disempowering and oppressive for consumers, family members and practitioners who want to support people in their lives. Importantly, we will look at ways we can work together to reclaim our experiences, narrative and lives - creating opportunities for meaningful empowerment and connections.**Registrations now open click here**

The program for the 19th Annual Victorian Collaborative Mental Health Nursing Conference is now available!

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

Welcome to the inaugural Centre for Psychiatric Nursing e-newsletter! Inside is your link to subscribe.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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