I’m of a mind to be a little controversial today. We’re all keen to stop people killing themselves – especially young people. We’re told therefore that we need to enhance mental health services for the youth, and hence the “Headspace” initiative in Australia, which gets bags of money and flash premises and great press… And...
With a side-order of lamentation over shoddy reporting. This post was sparked by a piece in the NZ Herald this morning about the suicide of a young man in Auckland. This of course was a tragic event, and one that his mother is understandably having great trouble coming to terms with. However, the article’s sub...
The Folly of Risk Assessment There. I said it. The one thing we are asked more than anything else - and the request that bugs me more than just about any other - is to "do a risk assessment". In fact NSW Health has enshrined the notion of "a risk assessment" in policy and mandatory...
Got a few things in the works, for posting soon: 1. A summary of a new paper reporting the current state of play with antidepressants in pregnancy – always a difficult area. 2. A revamped version of a letter a colleague and I wrote, critical of a recent article in the Australian and New Zealand Journal...
