Papers

As part of our brief to provide advice and inspiration on how to transform Australia’s mental health service systems, TAMHSS members have produced a range of proposals and conference presentations and submissions to government inquiries.

NSW Emergency Psychiatry Network

Royal Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry RANZJP Vol 57, Issue 3 March 2023 Jacqueline Huber, Christopher James Ryan, Rahul Gupta, Alan Rosen, Tad Tietze, Kathryn Drew, Tanya Ahmed and Michaela Skopek Emergency Psychiatry is evolving. In an environment that lacks a clear evidence base, and where a constellation

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Portrait of one Yugambeh Aboriginal warrior demonstrate fire making craft during Aboriginal culture show in Queensland, Australia.

For Indigenous Communities, Climate Crisis Could Prove Calamitous

Alan Rosen, AO, MBBS May 2020 Clinical Psychiatry News Drought, fires, and pandemics lead to anxiety, depression, trauma Indigenous peoples, whether living traditionally or assimilated, are among the first to be adversely affected by climate change. This is because, in part, of extreme poverty, inadequate housing, unemployment and other social

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Climate Changes are Leading to ‘Eco-Anxiety,’ Trauma

  Alan Rosen, AO, MBBS April 2020 Clinical Psychiatry News Reflection on the mental health implications of climate change, such as ‘solastalgia’ as the emotional pain, existential distress, loss, and grieving derived from rapid and severe changes in one’s geophysical environment or familiar habitat. Psychiatric consequences to experiencing climate impacts

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NSW Emergency Psychiatry Network

  Royal Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry RANZJP Vol 57, Issue 3 March 2023 Jacqueline Huber, Christopher James Ryan, Rahul Gupta, Alan Rosen, Tad Tietze, Kathryn Drew,Tanya Ahmed and Michaela Skopek Emergency Psychiatry is evolving. In an environment that lacks a clear evidence base, and where a constellation

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Patterns of Mental Healthcare Provision in Rural Areas: A Demonstration Study in Australia and Europe

February 2023 Frontiers in Psychiatry Jose A. Salinas-Perez1, Mencia R. Gutierrez-Colosia, Carlos R. Garcia-Alonso1, Mary Anne Furst, Hossein Tabatabaei-Jafari, Jorid Kalseth, David Perkins, Alan Rosen, Daniel Rock and Luis Salvador-Carulla Mental healthcare systems are primarily designed to urban populations. However, the specific characteristics of rural areas require specific strategies, resource

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Dominos: Mental Health Impacts of Australia’s Environmental Crises

Alan Rosen, AO, FRANZCP April 2021 Psychiatry Times Australia’s cascading environmental crises are all likely effects of climate change. How can psychiatrists and other mental health stakeholders respond? Studies suggest that it may be more difficult to recover resilience from recurrent knocks than from a single event. Taken together, adverse

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Papers: International Collaboration