Te Tāhuhu: Improving Mental Health 2005–2015: The Second New Zealand Mental Health and Addiction Plan Last Publication Date: 02 Jun 2005 Te Tāhuhu: Improving Mental Health outlines Government policy and priorities for mental health and addiction for the 10 years between 2005 and 2015, and provides an…
Working Together Last Publication Date: 02 Jun 2005 “Working Together” was written by the Kites Trust to advance the Ministry of Health’s knowledge of how to obtain and integrate input from mental health service…
Public Health Depression Initiative: A Review of Depression Campaigns - Lessons for New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005 The National Depression Initiative (NDI) is a national project to raise awareness of depression, to aid early recognition, appropriate treatment and recovery. It is part of…
Discriminating Times? A re-survey of New Zealand print media reporting on mental health Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005 In 2000, the Mental Health Commission published a report following a systematic survey of 1997-98 newspaper clippings “to analyse and describe how the newsprint media (re)…
Suicide Prevention in New Zealand - A contemporary perspective: Social explanations for suicide in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 02 May 2005 In 2001, the Ministry commissioned a series of studies exploring a range of social epidemiological explanations for the trends in New Zealand's suicide rates to 1999. In…
Suicide Prevention: A review of evidence of risk and protective factors, and points of effective intervention Last Publication Date: 02 May 2005 This review was commissioned by the Ministry to help inform its development of the draft New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy, which was released April 27 2005…
Regional Approaches to Mental Health: A Sector View and Beyond Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2005 The District Health Boards (DHBs) are charged with delivering health care for their resident populations under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. Mental…
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2005 ECT is used mainly in the treatment of severe depressive episodes. It involves the passage of an electric current across the head of a person to…
Evaluation of the Youth Horizons Trust SCD Bridging Programme Report Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2005 This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the process, outcomes and economic components of the Bridging Programme delivered by the Youth Horizons Trust. The…
Experiencing A Recovery–Oriented Acute Mental Health Service Last Publication Date: 31 Jan 2005 Community-based services for acute mental illness are used in addition to inpatient services provision, and can provide a whole-system of care response. This paper investigated one…
