December 2017

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

A/Prof Hamilton on the year that was, our plans for 2018, and our thanks to CPN colleagues and collaborators in 2017.

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