{"title":"RANZCP Position Statement 46: A missed opportunity to provide sophisticated guidance on asylum seeker and refugee policy.","authors":"Jillian Spencer","doi":"10.1177/10398562241304929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562241304929","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To stimulate discussion on how the RANZCP can contribute more constructively to the debate over Australia's immigration policies.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Updated in March 2024, RANZCP Position Statement 46, titled: 'The provision of mental health services for asylum seekers and refugees', continues the College's advocacy for a compassionate stance towards asylum seekers and refugees on the grounds of preventing or improving their mental health. College statements over the last decade have raised concerns about policies that are designed to deter boat arrivals; and recently, have endorsed the High Court's NZYQ decision to mandate community release of detained non-Australian citizens deemed to have failed 'the character test' under the <i>Migration Act 1958 (Cth)</i>. The College appears to have avoided addressing public concern about how a high asylum seeker and refugee inflow may impact community cohesion and prosperity. RANZCP's reputation will be enhanced by ensuring more extensive explication of reasoning and rebuttal of counter arguments for the position it has taken on this complex political issue.</p>","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"10398562241304929"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142765596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The wounded healer: The history and implications of lived experience in mental health care.","authors":"Sarah Taylor","doi":"10.1177/10398562241303267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562241303267","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The first-hand expertise of people with lived experience has gained prominence in the provision of mental health services over the last 20 years. Unfortunately, due to ongoing stigma, there appears to be an ongoing belief that people with lived experience and mental health professionals are two separate entities. Research suggests otherwise, with a significant proportion of mental health professionals having their own experience of mental crisis or mental illness. Indeed, there are numerous prominent figures, littered through the history of psychiatry, all with lived experience of trauma or mental illness which shaped their contributions to the field. The history and prevalence of lived experience among our clinicians and the benefits brought by their expertise will be discussed in this article.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Research demonstrates that acknowledging clinicians' own lived experience has significant benefits in mental health care and outcomes. Perhaps a little more acceptance of our own 'wounded healers' is the first step to truly incorporating the wisdom of those with personal lived experience into our mental health services.</p>","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"10398562241303267"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142765628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australasian PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1177/10398562241287080
Michael Weightman, Edward Miller, Fiona Wilkes, Andrew Amos
{"title":"Podcasts killed the radio star: A potted history of broadcasting in psychiatry.","authors":"Michael Weightman, Edward Miller, Fiona Wilkes, Andrew Amos","doi":"10.1177/10398562241287080","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10398562241287080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"493-495"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142364190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obituary - Dr Peter Norrie.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10398562241294167b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562241294167b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":"32 6","pages":"598"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142749573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Success in the Psychotherapy Written Case Submission: An Interview with Korinne Northwood and Stephen Parker.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10398562241287080b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562241287080b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":"32 6","pages":"495"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142749634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obituary - Associate Professor Peter Burnett.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10398562241294167d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562241294167d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":"32 6","pages":"600-601"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142749615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australasian PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1177/10398562241268362
Megan Galbally, Beth Kotze, Caroline Bell, Carolyn Quadrio, Cherrie Galletly, Helen Herrman, Helen Milroy, Jackie Curtis, Jessica Green, Josephine Power, Judy Hope, Katherine Sevar, Kimberlie Dean, Korinne Northwood, Lisa Lampe, Megan Kalucy, Nicole Korman, Nicola Lautenschlager, Nicola Warren, Phyllis Chua, Rebecca Anglin, Ruwanthi De Alwis Seneviratne, Samantha Loi, Sara Burton, Shalini Arunogiri, Shirlony Morgan
{"title":"Achieving gender equity in academic psychiatry - barriers to involvement and solutions for success.","authors":"Megan Galbally, Beth Kotze, Caroline Bell, Carolyn Quadrio, Cherrie Galletly, Helen Herrman, Helen Milroy, Jackie Curtis, Jessica Green, Josephine Power, Judy Hope, Katherine Sevar, Kimberlie Dean, Korinne Northwood, Lisa Lampe, Megan Kalucy, Nicole Korman, Nicola Lautenschlager, Nicola Warren, Phyllis Chua, Rebecca Anglin, Ruwanthi De Alwis Seneviratne, Samantha Loi, Sara Burton, Shalini Arunogiri, Shirlony Morgan","doi":"10.1177/10398562241268362","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10398562241268362","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Women face considerable barriers in pursuing careers in academic psychiatry.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A group of Australian and New Zealand academic women psychiatrists convened in September 2022 to identify and propose solutions to increase opportunities for women in academic psychiatry.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Limiting factors were identified in pathways to academia including financial support, engagement and coordination between academia and clinical services, and flexible working conditions. Gender biases and the risk of burnout were additional and fundamental barriers. Potential solutions include offering advanced training certificates to enable trainees to commence a PhD and Fellowship contemporaneously; improved financial support; expanding opportunities for research involvement; establishing mentoring opportunities and communities of practice; and strategies to enhance safety at work and redress gender bias and imbalance in academia.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Support for women in research careers will decrease gender disparity in academic psychiatry and may decrease problematic gender bias in research. Fellows and trainees, the RANZCP, universities, research institutes, governments, industry and health services should collaborate to develop and implement policies supporting changes in working conditions and training. Facilitating the entry and retention of women to careers in academic psychiatry requires mentoring and development of a community of practice to provide and enable support, role modelling, and inspiration.</p>","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"563-567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11605975/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142016206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australasian PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1177/10398562241278570
Alla Grynevych, Anthony Hew, James Olver
{"title":"The impact of psychiatric facility design on reducing aggressive behaviours in an adult population: a narrative literature review.","authors":"Alla Grynevych, Anthony Hew, James Olver","doi":"10.1177/10398562241278570","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10398562241278570","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This review examines the literature to determine whether physical design features of psychiatric facilities can help reduce aggressive behaviours in an adult patient population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using PRISMA's methodology, we conducted a narrative review of peer-reviewed primary studies on the physical design features and aggressive behaviours in psychiatric facilities. The Joanna Briggs Institute's (JBI) critical appraisal tool was used to assess the quality of included studies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of eight studies were identified. The findings revealed underlying themes in physical design efforts to reduce the incidences of aggressive behaviours, which included changes in structural design (e.g. single rooms; visiting/living/recreational areas; views of outdoors/nature; and uncrowded spaces) and changes in interior design (e.g. art and home-like/comforting environment). There were varying measures of patient aggression.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There was mixed evidence that superficial or structural design changes to psychiatric wards reduced patient aggression. Some studies found reduced aggression; others found no changes, while one study found increased aggression following the implementation of physical design changes. The methodological limitations of the available studies made it difficult to draw causative links and further research on the topic is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"520-530"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142079017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australasian PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-09-20DOI: 10.1177/10398562241283582
Eric Erickson, Daniel Bressington, David Mitchell
{"title":"The psychological impact of supervised quarantine facilities for the mitigation of COVID-19: A systematic review.","authors":"Eric Erickson, Daniel Bressington, David Mitchell","doi":"10.1177/10398562241283582","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10398562241283582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Government mandated quarantine outside the home was implemented to mitigate COVID-19 in some countries. Individual studies report that this can result in psychological distress. Investigating levels of distress and associated risk factors across different settings would inform public health models of care during future pandemics. However, no previous systematic reviews have been conducted on the topic. Therefore, we systematically reviewed international research on the prevalence and risk factors of psychological distress within supervised quarantine facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic review of the literature was conducted using Medline, Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, Psych Info, Cochrane databases and Google Scholar from January 2020 until June 2023. Relevant quantitative studies published in English were included.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>13 studies (pooled participants <i>n</i> = 4366) were included in this review. The prevalence of psychological distress varied widely across the included studies (depression 4%-63%; anxiety 4%-100%; stress 1%-68%). Associated risk factors identified were also heterogeneous between studies and facilities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In future pandemics, the benefits of infection mitigation need to be weighed against the risk of psychological distress. Models of care utilising specifically designed facilities, with greater freedoms, increased comfort and ease of access to mental health services may limit psychological distress.</p>","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"496-509"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142279906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pursuing Early Career Success in Psychiatry: An Interview with Nathan Jacobs and Ashlea White.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10398562241287080a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562241287080a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8630,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Psychiatry","volume":"32 6","pages":"495"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142749631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}