Impact of Covid-19 on the mental health needs of asylum seekers in Australia.

Objective: This paper highlights the significant mental health vulnerabilities of people who have sought asylum in Australia and their additional adversities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Conclusions: Australia's policies in relation to asylum seekers result in multiple human rights violations and add significantly to mental health vulnerabilities. Despite a majority being identified as refugees, people spend years in personal and administrative limbo and are denied resettlement in Australia.

Thinking about parents and infants - finding a home for perinatal and infant psychiatry.

Objectives: To describe current issues facing the field of perinatal and infant psychiatry, the issues involved in developing service models and greater awareness of the area in mental health service strategic development. To describe contemporary approaches working to integrate perinatal and infant models with a focus on early-in-life intervention and prevention.

Conclusions: Perinatal and infant psychiatry has ongoing issues in clarifying the location of services and their models of care with a lack of clear higher level governance.