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Primary Health Care Responses To Onsite Psychologist Support, Helen Winefield, John Marley, John Taplin, Justin Beilby, Deborah Turnbull, Ian Wilson, Brian Williams
Primary Health Care Responses To Onsite Psychologist Support, Helen Winefield, John Marley, John Taplin, Justin Beilby, Deborah Turnbull, Ian Wilson, Brian Williams
Ian G Wilson
With the aim of improving early intervention for mental disorders, the 'Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care' initiative is now providing funding for mental health specialists to work in Divisions of General Practice. A key determinant of how this innovation is received is likely to be the readiness on the part of General Practitioners (GPs) and their patients to accept psychological interventions. This paper reports a baseline study of the attitudes to integrated onsite psychological services, held by GPs, nonmedical staff, and patients at one large suburban family practice. An anonymous brief questionnaire was used to gather both ratings and …
The Context Of Clinical Teaching And Learning In Australia: Towards A Reconstruction Of The Relationship Between Medical Schools And Health Services, Julie Ash, Lucie Walters, David Prideaux, Ian Wilson
The Context Of Clinical Teaching And Learning In Australia: Towards A Reconstruction Of The Relationship Between Medical Schools And Health Services, Julie Ash, Lucie Walters, David Prideaux, Ian Wilson
Ian G Wilson
• Gaining clinical experience for an extended period of time in teaching hospitals is one of the enduring strengths of medical education. • Teaching hospitals have recently faced significant challenges, with increasing specialisation of services and workload pressures reducing clinical learning opportunities. • New clinical teaching environments have been established in Australia, particularly in rural and regional areas; these are proving to be ideal contexts for student learning. • The new clinical teaching environments have shown the importance of developing symbiotic relationships between universities and health services. Symbiotic clinical learning is built around longitudinal, patientbased learning emphasising priority health concerns. …
Small Group Peer Support For Gps Treating Mental Health Problems., C Howell, Ian Wilson
Small Group Peer Support For Gps Treating Mental Health Problems., C Howell, Ian Wilson
Ian G Wilson
Peer support groups are a mutual aid system in which the facilitator helps group members to help each other. General practice peer support is seen as the provision of support in small groups by general practitioner colleagues. As part of the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care Initiative, funding was made available to develop a unique model of peer support for GPs involved in mental health care. It aimed to meet the needs of GPs for support, sharing of knowledge and skills, ongoing education and skills development, while fostering self care. The model involved a GP facilitator training program and …
Long-Term Effects Of Childhood Abuse On The Quality Of Life And Health Of Older People: Results From The Depression And Early Prevention Of Suicide In General Practice Project, Brian Draper, Jon Pfaff, Jane Pirkis, John Snowdon, Nicola Lautenschlager, Ian Wilson, Osvaldo Almeida
Long-Term Effects Of Childhood Abuse On The Quality Of Life And Health Of Older People: Results From The Depression And Early Prevention Of Suicide In General Practice Project, Brian Draper, Jon Pfaff, Jane Pirkis, John Snowdon, Nicola Lautenschlager, Ian Wilson, Osvaldo Almeida
Ian G Wilson
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether childhood physical and sexual abuse are associated with poor mental and physical health outcomes in older age. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, postal questionnaire survey. SETTING: Medical clinics of 383 general practitioners (GPs) in Australia. PARTICIPANTS: More than 21,000 older adults (aged >=60) currently under the care of GPs participating in the Depression and Early Prevention of Suicide in General Practice (DEPS-GP) Study. Participants were divided into two groups according to whether they acknowledged experiencing childhood physical or sexual abuse. MEASUREMENTS: Main outcome measures targeted participants’ current physical health (Medical Outcomes Study 12-item Short Form Survey, Version 2 and …