Achieving Service Change Through the Implementation of a Trauma-Informed Care Training Program Within a Mental Health Service.

As evidence continues to accumulate for the association between childhood trauma and long-term adverse outcomes, Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) approaches are emerging as fundamental to contemporary mental health services. To evaluate a workshop designed to influence mental health practitioners in TIC principles and practices. Nursing, medical and allied health professionals completed pre and post measures of confidence, awareness and attitudes towards TIC practice.

A new graduate medical school curriculum in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine: reflections on a decade of development.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to reflect upon the rationale, design and development of the Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine curriculum at the Australian National University Medical School, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Conclusions: We conclude that the development of the fourth-year curriculum of a four-year graduate medical degree was a complex evolutionary process.

Clinical research in an academic psychiatry department: some general principles and case studies.

Objective: This paper gives guidance for developing collaborative clinical research within an academic psychiatry department.

Methods: We describe the experience at the Australian National University Medical School, and present three case studies.

Results: The results reveal that general principles include, but are not limited to, intellectual curiosity, mentorship, collaboration and protected time.

Salt in the soul, steel in the eye and caution towards the winds: a mariner's guide for navigating a new academic psychiatry department.

Objectives: This paper describes principles and advice regarding the development of a new academic psychiatry department within a medical school for aspiring academic psychiatrists. We describe general principles based on the experience of the foundation of the Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine at the Australian National University Medical School.

Conclusions: Perspicacious leadership and organisation are the foundation for an academic psychiatry department which delivers teaching, research and broader intellectual engagement with the medical and broader community.

Neither the internist nor the Internet: use of and trust in health information sources by people with schizophrenia.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore health information sources accessed by people with schizophrenia and the level of trust invested in them.

Method: A cross-sectional survey was performed comparing the responses of 71 adults with schizophrenia (recruited from both community and inpatient settings) with 238 general practice attendees on their use of television, radio, the Internet, newspapers, magazines, family and friends, and doctor to obtain information on health matters, and their levels of trust in these sources.

Results: People with schizophrenia most commonly reported using a doctor, family and friends, and television to obtain information on health matters.