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Meeting Local Need ~ Consultation with the Non  Government Sector, Carers and Consumers

As part of the recently reported expanded dual diagnosis services in SWSAHS, the Mental Health and Drug Health Services in South Western Sydney are developing a pilot program in the Liverpool and Fairfield area to operate within the existing mental health and drug health services.

To make sure that the Dual Diagnosis program  is guided by the experience of the people who use oue mental and drug health services and their families and carers, the Dual Diagnosis team invited members of the Community and representatives of local Non-Government Agencies to a community forum on 28 July 2004, in the Thomas & Rachel Moore Education Centre.

The forum was addressed by the Area Directors of Mental Health and Drug Health Services (Dr Scott Clarke and Dr Adam Winstock) and provided an opportunity for input into how we develop the program.  A report will appear on this website as soon as the forum  has been evaluated feedback has been analysed.

Schizophrenia and Crime

Victoria's Cameron Wallace, Paul E. Mullen, and Philip Burgess's paper (2004) Criminal Offending in Schizophrenia Over a 25-Year Period Marked by Deinstitutionalization and Increasing Prevalence of Comorbid Substance Use Disorders was published recently  in the American Journal of Psychiatry 161 716-727. A review by Gary Croton of the Eastern Hume Dual Diagnosis Service in  Wangaratta has been posted to the Research and Consultation section.

Gary's new Dual Diagnosis website is still under development, but already looks useful and deserves a visit. It has been added to the Midas Specialty Web Pages section.

Dual Diagnosis Research in Australia

Report of the Mental Health Council of Australia: ‘OUT OF HOSPITAL, OUT OF MIND!’

Caring for Carers

The SWSAHS/Carers NSW project has formed a Dual Diagnosis committee to develop training and resource initiatiaves for people with dual diagnosis in their families and close networks. Part of the programme will involove an education package which will be available to carers, staff of non-government agencies and health workers. This package, which meets the Department of Education and Training standards for drug education. In a related project, a partnershiop between Carers NSW, Holyoakes drug services and MNidas, 1 group of carers and health workers will receive a 9 day orientation programme this m onth to help them deal better with family drug use problems. Two of the days will be devoted to dual diagnosis issues, and "dual diagnosis thinking" will inform the whole training programme, which is built around family intervention and family therapy principles.

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