Latest report in the locational disadvantage project

DROPPING OFF THE EDGE: the distribution of disadvantage in Australia
by Professor Tony Vinson in conjunction with Catholic Social Services Australia
ARRP $20

http://www.jss.org.au

http://www.jss.org.au/documents/070226-Summary-DroppingofftheEdge.pdf

Hanne Hoelaas
Information Services Officer
Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health
c/- Bloomfield Hospital
Forrest Road
ORANGE NSW 2800

Ph: (02) 6360 7895
Fax: (02) 6361 2457

E-mail: hanne.hoelaas@gwahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Web: http://www.crrmh.com.au

Textbook : Download of Psychiatry

The University of Tasmania and the Australia & NZ Association of Psychiatrists has a psychiatry textbook, Download of Psychiatry, at http://www.anzapt.org/content/view/645/348/

It looks a really useful resource for libraries with undergraduate or postgraduate students interested in psychiatry
CONTENTS
Index -Detailed
Chapter 1 Introduction to Psychiatry
Chapter 2: Hardware
Chapter 3: Classification of Mental Disorders
Chapter 4: Delusions and Delusional Disorder
Chapter 5: Hallucinations
Chapter 6: Form of thought
Chapter 7: Schizophrenia
Chapter 8: Sadness and Depression
Chapter 9: Mood Elevation Disorders
Chapter 10: Personality and Personality Disorder
Chapter 11: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 12: Substance use Disorders
Chapter 13: Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
Chapter 14: Eating Disorders
Chapter 15: Antipsychotic drugs
Chapter 16: Antidepressant Drugs
Chapter 17: Anti-anxiety drugs
Chapter 18: Mood stabilizers
Chapter 19: Fear and Anxiety
Chapter 20: Senscence and Dementia
Chapter 21: Delirium
Chapter 22: Somatization
Chapter 23: Factitious disorder and malingering
Chapter 24: Child Psychiatry
Chapter 25: Forensic Psychiatry
Chapter 26: Higher Cortical Functions
Chapter 27: Frontal lobes - beside tests
Chapter 28: Electroconvulsive therapy
Chapter 29: Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Chapter 30: Tests: Psychiatric, Neurological, Psychological
Chapter 31: Suicide

ABS Publication : National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health survey.

4715.0.55.006 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey:
Summary Booklet, 2004-05
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4715.0.55.006?OpenDocument

Hope Awards : short films on mental health topics

The Hope Awards short film competition challenged entrants to create short films that contain a message of hope for those people with mental illness. A DVD has been compiled of the 8 finalists in the competition. It is available free of charge for educational purposes.

See the Hope Awards website http://www.mindbodylife.com.au/Partnerships/HopeAwards.cfm# or call Neil Wildman or Rachel Harris on (02) 9325 4444 for copies.

New edition : Mental health in Australia

The popular Australian mental health text : Mental health in Australia : Collaborative community practice, by Graham Meadows et al. has recently appeared in a second edition (Oxford University Press 2007. ISBN 0195550773) ARRP : $110

Aboriginal healthworker resource

Bill Genat, Aboriginal healthworkers : primary health care at the margins, University of Western Australia Press, 2006.

The role of the aboriginal healthworker receives scant attention in the literature. This new work, co-written by practising healthworkers, is an excellent exploration of their role, and their problems, frustrations, and successes. Highly Recommended.

Don Keast, Research Librarian, Far West Health Library, Broken Hill