Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Mental Health Sector: Legislating the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Abstract

This column explores how the law might support interdisciplinary collaboration in research and practice in the mental health sector. It provides an overview of the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing which was established by statute to support collaboration across multiple disciplines and services for the benefit of mental health consumers. It suggests that interdisciplinary collaboration, which has the lived experience and knowledge of mental health consumers at its heart, has the potential for transformative and beneficial systemic change.