Holistic approach supporting mental wellbeing of people in enforced quarantine in South Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: To report the experience of quarantine for international arrivals to South Australia requiring quarantine in a medi-hotel setting during the COVID-19 pandemic and to describe the range of evidence-based support services to mitigate the mental health impacts of quarantine.

Methods: A range of services targeted at physical and mental wellbeing were provided. Data from 533 adult respondents out of 721 passengers were included.

Legal criteria for involuntary mental health admission: clinician performance in recording grounds for decision.

Objectives: Mental health laws set criteria that limit the use of involuntary admission to specific circumstances, and clinicians are expected to justify the lawfulness of such detention by referral to these criteria. The South Australian Mental Health Act 1993 required grounds to be documented on the detention form, specifically with respect to the presence of a mental illness, risk to self or others, and a need for immediate treatment. This investigation sought to determine whether the grounds provided for detention met legislative requirements.

Tackling the global mental health challenge: a psychosomatic medicine/consultation-liaison psychiatry perspective.

Background: Consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry, informed by principles of psychosomatic medicine, is well-positioned to address the global impact of mental disorders through primary care C-L models.

Objective/method: The authors review the international burden of mental disorders, highlighting medical comorbidity, undertreatment, and the rationale for enhancing primary-care management.

Results: C-L psychiatry fosters the skills required for global mental health work.