In Australia, the configuration of public mental health services varies between States and Territories, but, overall, community-based services are increasingly integrated and responsive to people with schizophrenia. Community-based services include mobile crisis teams, providing home-based acute treatment, and case-management services for ongoing treatment. Service improvements have been uneven...

BACKGROUND Considering the costs of multiple sclerosis (MS), it is crucial that the health-related services supplied are in accordance with needs as they are perceived by people with MS (PwMS). Satisfaction with care is related to quality of care and can provide health care providers with the means for improvement. The aim was to explore the perceived needs and satisfaction with care amongst Pw...

A growing body of research shows that cognitive remediation (COG REM), consisting of drill-and-practice and/or strategy training in neurocognitive functions, produces moderate improvements in neurocognition. These improvements generalize to functioning when COG REM is provided with other rehabilitation interventions (Wykes et al., 2011). The number of studies using COG REM as an adjunct to othe...

We outline our expectations for a new bioinformatic and neuroscience of therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation based on the Human Genome Project. Just as The Human Genome Project identified the psychobiological foundations of modern medicine with the new technology of sequencing DNA during the past decade, we propose extending this bioinformatic knowledge base with the technolo...

Psychosocial/Psychiatric Rehabilitation (PSR) facilitates recovery of people with serious mental illness (SMI). Yet there is not much research on how to provide effective PSR education and training. We address PSR education and training in two relevant professions – psychiatry and occupational therapy. Further study of PSR education and training is needed.

Deficits in the ability to perceive facial and vocal emotion expression are common in schizophrenia. However, relatively little is known about how such deficits might affect functional outcomes. This prospective study examined cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between perception of emotion and aspects of psychosocial functioning, including family relationships, social relationships...

The World Health Organisation has predicted that traumatic brain injury (TBI), will constitute the third largest contributor to the global burden of disease and disability (after heart disease and depression) by 2015 (Murray & Lopez, 1997). The significance of this lies not simply in the number of cases likely to need rehabilitation and social care but also the complex pattern of disability ass...

A rare case of grade IV frostbite is presented resulting in bilateral below knee amputations. This case highlights the importance of early versus late amputation as well as the importance of close collaboration between the rehabilitation, surgical, psychosocial, and public health disciplines in this rare and challenging problem that still may be encountered in the United Kingdom.