Western Australian general practitioners' views on psychologists and the determinants of patient referral: an exploratory study.
General practitioners (GPs) in Australia typically do not refer clients to mental health care providers. Few systematic and referenced studies of the reasons for this lack of collaboration have been identified. The current research addresses this gap by investigating GPs' views on psychologists and the factors that determine patient...

Frieden is recipient of 2008 Roemer prize.
Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, New York City's commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is the winner of APHA's 2008 Milton and Ruth Roemer Prize for Creative Local Public Health Work. The annual award recognizes a health professional who has demonstrated exceptionally creative and...

Clinic gaining economic stability.
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard COTTAGE GROVE - After years of searching for an affordable new home, South Lane Mental Health is moving into a former medical clinic across town. The 20-year-old agency serves nearly 1,000 clients a year, most at its longtime outpatient clinic...

The Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia in the context of the Australian aged care funding instrument: a literature review.
ABSTRACT A new funding instrument has been introduced into residential aged care known as the Aged Care Funding Instrument. As part of these requirements the assessment of depression for all residents admitted to an Australian aged care facility has been implemented using the Cornell Scale of Depression...

Even keeled: a practical approach to living with someone with bipolar II disorder.
Principles are usually simple enough to understand, though applying them can be challenging. They are fundamental, thus universally applicable. Psychological principles are supremely attractive in that they provide a solid foundation from which to increase understanding of human behavior. Bipolar II disorder (hereafter referred to simply as...

Mind Race.
Mind Race By Patrick E. Jamieson, PhD, with Moira A. Ryan, MD [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since bipolar disorder generally surfaces in adolescence, at a time when hormones are already fluctuating wildly, it can be especially difficult to diagnose and handle. Mind Race: A Firsthand...

Much Madness Is Divinest Sense: Wisdom in Memoirs of Soul-Suffering.
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense: Wisdom in Memoirs of Soul-Suffering. By Kathleen J. Greider. Pilgrim, 326 pp., $24.00 Ignorance is the opposite of love," writes the father of a young man with schizophrenia, reflecting on his efforts to understand his son's delusional behavior....

ER rights bill for mentally ill gets lost in crush; Legislative process helps air needs.
Byline: Lee Hammel A bill to ensure the rights in emergency rooms of people with psychiatric histories went into the House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading and did not emerge before the end of formal legislative sessions July 31. But the chairman of...

HELPING THE HOMELESS.
Byline: Edward Russo The Register-Guard Correction (published Aug. 8): Front Page: The daily cost to house an inmate at the Lane County jail is $133.50. An incorrect figure was given in Monday's article on homelessness. Rand Smith knows what it's like to be homeless in...

Drug treatment clients' readiness for hepatitis C treatment: implications for expanding treatment services in drug and alcohol settings.
Abstract This study explores the perception of and readiness for hepatitis C treatment within a sample of 77 clients already participating in drug treatment, with a view to identifying likely barriers and incentives to hepatitis C treatment within a drug treatment population. Participants with hepatitis C did...