Monday Free Download: Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention in Mental Health

This Monograph on Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health can prove difficult to track down. It formed the basis of development of Australian programs in Prevention for Mental Health, and the Australian Early Intervention Network (AusEinet), and is provided here as a free resource to drive further thinking and action.
The Monograph was freely downloadable from the AusEinet site, but since the withdrawal of funds for the program, it has been a bit hard to find online.

Go to http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au

Then 'Resources'

Download here: PPEiMentalHealth2000.pdf

Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care 2000, Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health—A Monograph, Mental Health and Special Programs Branch, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra.

Haiku on Quiz/ Race/ Alert

Quiz

Your final question

Faced by the grand quiz master

Did you enjoy life?

More and more questions

Feels like an inquisition

My life is in flames

Used to watch a quiz

University Challenge

Brightest minds at play

That quizzical look

Nine months old, just before tears

Who the hell are you?

Race

Life is not a race

Each moment should be savoured

Deep in slow motion

Basic fact of life

Total heart beats are preset

Don't waste one in race

Her eyes held questions

My heart skipped, began to race

Time slowed, and she smiled

Alert

Try to be alert

The world needs a few more lerts

Concentrate a bit

Alert Karate

Simultaneous Striking

Sen No Sen Mushin

Alert to night sounds

The faintest rustle or cry

From the baby's room

Monday Free Download: "Early Detection of Emotional Disorder…"

This is the full original report from the first two years of our 3-Wave longitudinal study of adolescents from 1st year high school to 3rd year high school.

Go to: http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au
Then 'Resources'
Download here  *Early Detection of Emotional Disorders in South Australia

Martin, G., Roeger, L., Dadds, V., & Allison, S., 1997.  Early Detection of Emotional Disorders in South Australia; the first two years.  Adelaide, Southern Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.  ISBN 0 646 31337 1.

Haiku on Nine/ Once/ Pick

Nine

Our days are numbered

Seize the beauty of each day

We don't have nine lives

Psychedelic dream

Fragment melange Number Nine

Beatles White Album

Nine mountains to climb

One for each 10 years of life

Each steep learning curve

Nine laughs Ha, Hee, Ho

Giggle, Chuckle, Snorting, Roar

Titter, Splutter, Burst

Once

We are here but once

The trick is to be the best

We possibly can

Each day a new start

Another chance to seize joy

We only die once

For once in my life

I have someone who needs me

Wonder full feeling

Achieving Mushin

If I only get there once

It will be enough

Pick

Pick through bits of News

Explore others' disasters

You're not badly off

Anniversaries

The mind picks through memories

Of loved ones and loss

A confused navvy

He was given two shovels

Told to take his pick

Haiku on Junk/ Knock/ Laugh

Junk

The old junk wallowed

Red, green and gold paint peeling

The tide had not turned

The old junk yard dog

Wandering through detritus

Chasing off the rats

Threw out some old shirts

One had a junk monogram

Saw it yesterday

Knock

A knock at the door

I've come to read your meter

So glad you are here

It was a small knock

Not much more than a caress

Her vase went flying

The termite catcher

Knock, knock, knock on skirting boards

Boring in my brain

Laugh

I asked the question

Her braying laugh made me cringe

Question retracted

At the billabong

Moonless nights you hear him laugh

That jolly swagman

This is me laughing

A little half heartedly

Could not get the joke


Nine laughs Ha, Hee, Ho
Giggle, Chuckle, Snorting, Roar
Titter, Splutter, Burst

Haiku on Grim/ Haste/ Intend

Grim

Monochrome thinking

In a dark deluded world

Paints a grim picture

Dante's Inferno

Warnings of what to expect

Just grim and bare it

Got the grims today

All my thoughts turn to ashes

Shower, walk, smile, live

Haste

Delicate snowdrop

Rising in haste as snow melts

Messenger of Spring

Never hate in haste

Swirl harsh feelings round the glass

Acid etch the mind

Diagnosis made

Doctor in haste to move on

Forgot empathy

Intend

A great little phrase

'I intend to...' means future

When we just don't know…

Electronic game

Fixes all we want to do

Call it 'Intend-o'

The dark road to hell

Is paved by all we intend

And never quite do

Free Monday Download: Family Therapy and the Family Doctor

This elderly paper from only the 2nd Issue of the Australian Journal of Family Therapy was based on a short course of training in Structural and Strategic Family for Family Doctors. It argues that the GP is well placed to do brief and targeted interventions in General Practice, that basic skills can be learned in short courses, and that understanding family dynamics may have enormous impact on other aspects of their family practice.

Go to http://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au

Then the Resources Tab

Download here: *Family Therapy and the Family Doctor 1

Martin, G., 1980. Family Therapy and the Family Doctor. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 1 No. 2. (now the Australian and new Zealand Journal of Family Therapy)

Tagged with: Family Doctor, Family Therapy skills, General Practitioner, Strategic Family Therapy, Systemic approaches

Sunday Haiku on Deny/ Escape/ Feel

Deny

Deny there's a God

Unseen like mind, soul, or love

They will all endure…

Deny chocolate

Begone that pounding migraine

I will have no more

Arms manufacture

Stick with the profit motive

Deny world wide deaths

Escape

A page in a book

Evocative written words

My evening escape

Swift running river

Slippery green stepping stones

Fortunate escape

Escape behind drapes

Damned house piskie got away

I'll catch him one day

Feel

Fan spins silently

Filmed sweat on my brow dries up

Feel so much more cool

Dancing to your tune

Feel rhythms of your body

Deepest connection

My right brain can feel

My left brain does the thinking

Visual brain gets it

Transverse Myelitis: An odd connection

Over the last few months, I have repeatedly noted an odd connection - which does not seem to make sense. I wondered whether others of you may have noticed the same thing, and might be prepared to discuss with me on the blog.

I am tired today. Yesterday was a big day racing into Brisbane to get there early for my Thursday morning clinic. It is just over an hour's drive from Bribie Island, and though I feel comfortable driving, I am often tired when I arrive (particularly if the traffic is heavy on the motorway). I am often stiff and achy and have to stretch carefully before walking from the car park down the slope to the clinic.
In addition yesterday we had a tight schedule after the morning clinic. I had to pick up Jan, my wife, from a visit to the daughter in law, then go the the hospital to pick up my secretary, and then drive to a restaurant on the river for our research group annual Christmas celebration lunch. We had current PHDs and research staff, and a PHD who completed this year. It was a great celebration of a successful year (with publication of papers, several books, and completion of several successful PHDs (one is at a conference in the US, and another has begun postdoctoral studies in Hong Kong). So we toasted absent friends. It was all good fun…. Only one glass of champagne all lunch, I hasten to mention!
Then 3 hours later, we got back in the car and drove to pick up our 9 year old grandson who has just completed his year at school. Then we sat in traffic for 90 minutes to eventually get home.
Last night I was exhausted and slept deeply.
Today I did not want to get up, and my right sided chest pain is unusually bad. I have been trying to edit some work, but fell asleep twice for a short dribble-mouthed time……

Now here is the funny thing. My lower legs feel like I am wearing very thick woollen socks, and the sensation in my feet is worse than usual. My walking is less secure, and I am slower and more unbalanced than usual. BUT I also have strong urge to go to the toilet, but when I get there nothing happens; no wind, nothing… I have noticed all this before. Sometimes I notice the urge to go the toilet, and later remember my legs have been worse, sometimes the other way around, like today.

The only explanation that comes close is that the soles of the feet are served by the Lumbar 5, and Sacral 1 and 2 nerves from the spine. AND, so is the perineum around the anus. I am not sure exactly what I may be doing that creates this. All I know,is that tomorrow will be better - a bit. 

Is there anyone out there clever enough to explain what is going on?

Oh by the way, the book about my recovery, and my battles with hospitals and myself, is now up on Amazon Kindle. Just search for 'Taking Charge: a journey of recovery' The last bit of that is necessary, because there are quite a lot of books called 'Taking Charge...'

Haiku on Answer/ Bend/ Care

Answer

I have an answer

Always good with solutions

Now need the question

A catch in her voice

Shyly, with glistening eyes

She answered him; "Yes…"

Are you entitled?

Do you have some special right?

The answer is; "No!"

Raging storm last night

Garden battered by downpour

Answered my prayers

Bend

Bend it like Beckham

Pity about the round ball

But inspires the young

Bending my poor back

Under the weight of the world

I am Sisyphus

Speaking out of turn

Principal's office, bending

Three cuts of the cane

Care

The wind does not care

It's job is simply to blow

No value judgments

Please fill in the form

Bureaucracy does not care

If you are bleeding

The News is tragic

Each night I watch the death toll

Inoculate care

Haiku on Understand/ Victory/ Wishes & Your

Understand

I stood in your shoes

Tried so hard to understand

Just felt really cramped

Words I understand

Subtext can leave me so cold

A smile can get through

Psychodynamics

Internal web of the mind

Hard to understand

Victory

Keeping my weight down

Avoiding soft drinks and crap

Victory of sorts

A small victory

Means very little really

Losing nags at you

Mind over matter

Greatest victory of all

I win, and I win

Wishes & Your

Wishes are fishes

Swimming Koi-ly in the pond

Of your sleeping mind

Cutting birthday cake

You hope to not touch bottom

Your wishes come true

I make them come true

Even the unspoken ones

Your wishes are mine

A matter of time

Wishes flow in here and now

Hope for your future

Haiku on Reset/ Several/ Trend

Reset

Sit down in one place

Breathe quietly in and out

Reset the mind's eye

Rematch, a new game

Reset the expectations

Referee your thoughts

Melitonin fix

International travel

Reset body clock

Several

The hint of wood smoke

Several types of tree burn

Bushfire on the wind

Family meeting

Several opinions aired

Difference on show

Several warnings

For the most part unheeded

Then the earth lashed out

Trend

Following a trend

US continues to spend

Less able to lend

The trend continues

More people, less food produced

Where will it all end?

We notice each day

Tiny new deficiencies

It's an ageing trend