The 2018 Thomas Trauer Grant has been announced through St Vincent's Foundation, with grants of $10,000 available. St. Vincent’s Foundation invites project proposals for activities which support mental health priorities in low resource settings and encourage any inquiries, ideas and questions about... Read more
A partnership between St. Vincent’s and Professor Dr. Soerojo hospitals, this project will pilot a new training approach, co-facilitated and contextualised, to increase primary sector engagement and improve treatment options in mental health service in Indonesia. This is an exciting partnership... Read more
Five leading mental health clinicians from The Prof. Soerojo Mental Hospital, Magelang, Indonesia undertook tailored learning placements at St. Vincent’s Mental Health, a founding member of Asia Australia Mental Health along with Asialink and The University of Melbourne’s Department of... Read more
The 2018 Thomas Trauer Grant has been announced through St Vincent's Foundation, with grants of $10,000 available. St. Vincent’s Foundation invites project proposals for activities which support mental health priorities in low resource settings and encourage any inquiries, ideas and questions about... Read more
This year, the POST program was delighted to host Dr. Soo Shuenn Chiang from the Department of Psychological Medicine, National University Hospital in Singapore. The peer exchange and clinical placement program found that it was the shared elements of mental health care were at the heart of the... Read more
Developing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Cambodia Cambodia has partnered with St. Vincent’s Foundation’s Thomas Trauer Grant* again in 2017, this time taking action on developing mental health services tailored for children and young people. As a long standing WHO priority... Read more
In Dec 2016, the Hong Kong Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation invited professionals from South Korea, Australia and Taiwan to participate in the Expert Forum on Serious Mental Illness Policies. Looking at community care models that have been developed in our countries over the past 25 years,... Read more
Consultation Liaison (CL) mental health services to general hospitals have been running in Australia from the 70’s and also started in Hong Kong in the early 80’s. This means for developing best practices, international exchanges are very valuable. This month, Kwai Chung Hospital CL nurse Lam... Read more
The 2016 Thomas Trauer Grant has been announced through St Vincent's Foundation, with grants of $10,000 available. St. Vincent’s Foundation invites project proposals for activities which support mental health priorities in low resource settings and encourage any inquiries, ideas and questions about... Read more
As a specialist in an industry full of specialists, the Consultation Liaison Mental Health professional will necessarily be social, but Prof. Dr. Soerojo Magelang Hospital’s Dr. Santi Yuliani has been networking globally for best practices in liaison mental health. Through regular exchanges of ideas... Read more
