AAP - 10-09-2021

Social isolation and the disrupted economy are the two biggest threats to suicide prevention over the next 12 months, a state of the nation report has found.

Haley Williams - 06-09-2021

Australia’s annual suicide rate (3,318) is currently more than three times that of deaths from COVID-19 (1,012). It’s an alarming statistic, but considering one

HealthTimes - 26-08-2021

Patients run away from in-patient mental health facilities because they experience bad news or conflict, or because they have specific everyday things to do, a Flinders University

HealthTimes - 13-08-2021

A Flinders University study has highlighted the challenges and shortfalls in support for our nurses who regularly deliver end-of-life care and comfort bereaved family members

AAP - 13-08-2021

COVID-19 lockdowns are "probably the most sustained and serious stress that many of us are going to face in our lifetime", the chief psychiatrist in NSW

HealthTimes - 06-08-2021

Despite good intentions, increased federal funding for mental health services is unlikely to have a great impact on the mental health outcomes in Australia. Recently

Nicole Madigan - 05-08-2021

Australian Physiotherapy Association National President, Scott Willis, has urged the Select Committee on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention to adopt an ‘every door

HealthTimes - 03-08-2021

Chemical ‘messengers’ called neurotransmitters help regulate our emotions – but scientists have noticed a disruption to their levels in people with chronic

HealthTimes - 03-08-2021

A decade after Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy was declared a new weapon in the fight against depression, researchers at the University of Southern Queensland are

HealthTimes - 03-08-2021

Headspace and Better Access have been challenged by Australian psychiatry researchers to integrate more seamlessly with public health systems and state and local databases