Knowledge Sharing Platform

This report explores how organisations can support people with lived and living experience to lead, create and share research.

This factsheet outlines the Victorian Chief Psychiatrist's expanded oversight to include custodial settings under the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022. From September 2023, specialist mental ...

This Australian policy brief examines the relationship between diet and mental health, highlighting that poor diet quality and common mental disorders (depression/anxiety) both impose significant ...

This report shows the state and nature of family carer research in Victoria and more broadly. The researchers used a scoping review of peer reviewed and grey literature, in addition to focus ...

This 2016 University of Melbourne report examines international best practices for balancing safety and autonomy in Australian mental health services following the UN Convention on Rights of ...

The Bouverie Centre's client-centred framework helps Mental Health and Alcohol & Other Drugs services involve families in treatment. It presents a three-level pyramid: family sensitive practice, ...

This literature review examined how individualised funding programs impact family carers of people with psychosocial disability. Findings show positive outcomes when adequate support, information ...

This Swedish study of 40 residential dementia care units found that nursing staff job strain and caring climate significantly correlate with behavioral symptoms in residents. Higher staff stress ...

This 2018 systematic review and meta-analysis examined psychological treatments for violent offenders across custodial, community, and forensic mental health settings. Analyzing 27 studies from ...