Psych Matters

Remote psychiatry is one part of the diverse practice of regional, rural, and remote psychiatry that is unique to countries such as Australia and New Zealand.  Remote psychiatry brings a number of unique challenges and benefits for clinicians and is not for the faint hearted. 

Working in resource poor areas, across large geographical areas means that psychiatrists must be adept in providing the whole range of psychiatric skills and expertise to entire communities, differentiating itself from metropolitan practice most familiar with psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand. 

Associate Professor Mat Coleman leads today’s discussion from Geraldton in Western Australia, where he calls in from his mobile phone.

Joining Mat are Doctors Neil Jeyasingam from Broken Hill, Siva Bala from Cairns and Sela Mulholland from Broome. Mat’s mobile phone connection is less than ideal, but stay with us for this very interesting discussion.

Associate Professor Mat Coleman is the Clinical Director of the Great Southern Mental Health Service (WA Country Health Service) based out of Albany WA. He is also the inaugural chair of Rural and Remote Mental Health Practice for the Rural Clinical School WA (University of Western Australia) and is a Commissioner with the National Mental Health Commission. Mat is a member of the Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry, and the Child and Adolescent Faculty of the RANZCP and is the current chair of the Section of Rural Psychiatry.

Dr Neil Jeyasingam is the Clinical Director of Far West Local Health District Mental Health Drug and Alcohol. A Senior Clinical Lecturer with Sydney University, his personal website is www.profectuspsych.com.au

Dr Selamawit Mulholland is a Stage 3 psychiatry registrar with a passion for remote psychiatry. She has lived and worked in regional and rural Victoria, remote Far North Queensland and remote WA.
 

Dr Siva Bala is the Chair of the RANZCP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Committee and currently based in Cairns Queensland. He has a certificate of advanced training in Adult Psychiatry and is a member of the Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry. Siva has been an advisor to State and Federal Governments and mental health commissions in Indigenous mental health policy.

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This podcast is provided to you for information purposes only and to provide a broad public understanding of various mental health topics.  The podcast may represent the views of the author and not necessarily the views of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists ('RANZCP'). The podcast is not to be relied upon as medical advice, or as a substitute for medical advice, does not establish a doctor-patient relationship and should not be a substitute for individual clinical judgement.  By accessing The RANZCP's podcasts you also agree to the full terms and conditions of the RANZCP's Website. Expert mental health information and finding a psychiatrist in Australia or New Zealand is available on the RANZCP’s Your Health In Mind Website.

Dr Elder is the author of Aroha:Māori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet and in this episode of Psych Matters facilitated by Dr Andrew Amos, she discussed how spiritual stories of the Māori people can improve the health and wellbeing of psychiatrists and their patients through expanded understanding of the meaning of absolute self-determination, the rhythms of kinship and relationship, and awareness of the world around us.

Dr Hinemoa Elder is Māori, of Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi descent. 

Hinemoa is a mother of two adult children. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist working in both District Health Boards and private practice in the fields of community and inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry, youth forensic and neuropsychiatry.  Dr Elder is an advocate for use of Te Reo Māori, the Māori language.

Hinemoa was the Māori Strategic Leader for the Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) for the Ageing Brain based at University of Auckland for the last 6 years. She continues to be involved in research regarding traumatic brain injury, stroke and dementia. She has a PhD (Massey University, 2012) and was recipient of a NZ Health Research Council Eru Pomare Post-Doctoral Fellowship from 2014-2018.

Dr Elder is a deputy psychiatrist member of the NZ Mental Health Review Tribunal and a Specialist Assessor under the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003.  Hinemoa has been a Director of Emerge Aotearoa a national NGO working to support those with mental health, addictions and with social housing since 2015. 

Hinemoa received the NZ Order of Merit for services to Māori and Psychiatry in 2019. Dr Elder was appointed to the Prime Minister’s Science Advisor’s Cannabis Panel in 2019 for the referendum in 2020. She travelled to Antarctica in late 2019 as part of Homeward Bound, a global leadership programme for women in science. 

Dr Elder is the author of numerous scientific papers and book chapters. She is a member of the World Psychiatric Association working group of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists. She is also the Chair of the IACAPAP Indigenous Working Group.  Hinemoa is also the author of ‘Aroha, Māori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet’ (Penguin Random House 2020), which has recently been chosen for the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. The book is currently being translated into Arabic.

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The Section of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry is comprised of a small group of psychiatrists from around Australia and New Zealand.  It is an active section that hosts the only annual Youth Forensic conference worldwide.  In this podcast, members of the binational committee for Child and Adolescent Youth Forensic Psychiatry discuss violence in Youth.
Their discussions will include the historical context in which rates of violence currently exist, the link between violence and various mental health, personality and neurodevelopmental diagnostic groups, and some specific violence interventions being developed in Melbourne.
They also talk about assessing risk of violence and the tools that they sometimes use to assess risk and target areas for intervention.  While this is a relatively narrow specialist topic, the point around considering strengths when assessing risk in the absence of known adult function is emphasised during the podcast.

Dr James Gardiner
Chair of NZ Branch of the Section of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry.

Dr Adam Deacon
Consultant Forensic Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Alfred Health - Youth Forensic Specialist Service 

Associate Professor John Kasinathan
MBBS (Hons I; Syd), M.Psychiatry, FRANZCP, Cert. Forensic Psych., M.FMH (UNSW), Cert. Child Adol. Psych. 
Consultant Forensic, Child, Adolescent and Generalist Psychiatrist
Conjoint Associate Professor, UNSW Medicine
Clinical Director Adolescent Mental Health, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, NSW Health
Medical Director Adolescent and Young Adult Program, Northside Clinic St Leonards 

Associate Professor Scott Harden
Medical Director Forensic Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Queensland Children’s Hospital and Health Service
Child, Adolescent and Adult Forensic Psychiatrist
Assisting Psychiatrist Qld Mental Health Court

Dr Enys Delmage
Consultant Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Otago University

Dr Brendan Daugherty
Consultant Child and Adolescent, General Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist
Staff Specialist in Adolescent Mental Health, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, NSW
Visiting Medical Officer, Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, NT

Dr Annie Parsons
Child, Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatrist
Cobham Youth Justice Centre & Adolescent Court and Community Team,
Adolescent Mental Health, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network

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The Section of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry is comprised of a small group of psychiatrists from around Australia and New Zealand.  It is an active section that hosts the only annual Youth Forensic conference worldwide.  In this podcast, members of the binational committee for Child and Adolescent Youth Forensic Psychiatry discuss violence in Youth. 
Their discussions will include the historical context in which rates of violence currently exist, the link between violence and various mental health, personality and neurodevelopmental diagnostic groups, and some specific violence interventions being developed in Melbourne. 
They also talk about assessing risk of violence and the tools that they sometimes use to assess risk and target areas for intervention.  While this is a relatively narrow specialist topic, the point around considering strengths when assessing risk in the absence of known adult function is emphasised during the podcast.

Dr James Gardiner
Chair of NZ Branch of the Section of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry.

Dr Adam Deacon
Consultant Forensic Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Alfred Health - Youth Forensic Specialist Service 

Associate Professor John Kasinathan
MBBS (Hons I; Syd), M.Psychiatry, FRANZCP, Cert. Forensic Psych., M.FMH (UNSW), Cert. Child Adol. Psych.
Consultant Forensic, Child, Adolescent and Generalist Psychiatrist
Conjoint Associate Professor, UNSW Medicine
Clinical Director Adolescent Mental Health, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, NSW Health
Medical Director Adolescent and Young Adult Program, Northside Clinic St Leonards 

Associate Professor Scott Harden
Medical Director Forensic Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Queensland Children’s Hospital and Health Service
Child, Adolescent and Adult Forensic Psychiatrist
Assisting Psychiatrist Qld Mental Health Court

Dr Enys Delmage
Consultant Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Otago University

Dr Brendan Daugherty
Consultant Child and Adolescent, General Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist
Staff Specialist in Adolescent Mental Health, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, NSW
Visiting Medical Officer, Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, NT

Dr Annie Parsons
Child, Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatrist
Cobham Youth Justice Centre & Adolescent Court and Community Team,
Adolescent Mental Health, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network

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The year 2020 will be remembered as the year of the most significant global pandemic since the Spanish influenza.   

Our mental health system is chronically strained and health professionals regularly struggle with burnout, at the best of times. The workforce shortage has consistently impacted the care provided to patients and COVID-19 introduced additional challenges.
At international, national and community levels, leaders across all sectors have been required to respond to both direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 crisis, with little time for preparation, and in a constantly changing environment.
In this podcast, influential leaders in the field discuss some leadership strategies and talk through ongoing challenges and ways of working with the system and collaborating with relevant stakeholders to drive change in the best interests of doctors and patients.

Dr Murray Wright is the Chief Psychiatrist at NSW Ministry of Health and has maintained a private practice since 1990, and has a longstanding relationship with NSW Police, providing clinical advice and support to the Negotiation and Fixated Persons Units.

Dr Astha Tomar is Chair, Victorian Branch, RANZCP and Head of Youth, Peninsula Health, and a Member of the Mental Health Ministerial Advisory Committee, Victoria. She has worked extensively with various committees and groups at a state and national level to engage psychiatrists in clinical leadership, healthcare governance, system development and advocate for systemic change and improvement. She is currently working on a Leadership development program for psychiatrists.

Dr Ruth Vine is Australia’s first Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Mental Health. Ruth provides policy advice on critical mental health issues impacting the Australian community due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and champions Commonwealth policy development and implementation activities to better integrate the Australian mental health system. Ruth is a consultant psychiatrist and has more than 25 years’ experience. Ruth has worked for the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, and has held positions of Deputy Chief Psychiatrist, Chief Psychiatrist and Director of Mental Health. She has chaired the AHMAC National Mental Health Standing Committee, the National Mental Health Workforce Committee, and National Safety and Quality Committee.
Ruth is a member of the board of Forensicare, the Board of Mind and the Victorian Medical Practitioners Board (Victoria).

Dr Nardine Elzahaby is an early career psychiatrist at Austin health, runs a telehealth private practice and is the co-founder and co-owner of IMG SOS. 

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The execution of individuals with mental disorder is prohibited by international law, such that the presence of mental disorder, and how it is dealt with during the investigatory or trial and sentencing process, may render a conviction legally unsafe.  Although legal principles designed to protect those with mental disorder from the death penalty are not in dispute, for them to operate mental health professionals must be both equipped with relevant clinico-ethico-legal expertise and be prepared to engage in the process. Engaging in such cases represents the most extreme focus of the usual clinical, legal and ethical issues involved in all evaluations for criminal courts. Crucial to not avoiding engagement in such cases must be the recognition that they do not raise ‘different’ issues for forensic practitioners but merely offer extreme representations of those issues. 

Dr Jay Sarkar is a Consultant with Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, Forensicare and Spectrum Personality Disorder Service, Melbourne. He was previously an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Singapore. He has a particular interest in capital cases and provided expert testimony in over 100 cases and counting. His testimony has helped prevent deaths of many. 

Dr Danny Sullivan is a UK and Australian-trained forensic psychiatrist, currently Executive Director of Clinical Services of Forensicare, the statewide Victorian forensic mental health service. He has provided expert evidence in criminal matters in many jurisdictions for 20 years. Over recent years he has been involved with the Capital Punishment Justice Project and Project 39A, providing training to clinicians and the judiciary in India to address access to mental health assessment, treatment, and expert evidence for those subject to the death penalty.

Associate Professor John Kasinathan
Consultant Forensic, Child, Adolescent and Generalist Psychiatrist
Conjoint Associate Professor, UNSW Medicine
Clinical Director Adolescent Mental Health, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, NSW Health
Medical Director Adolescent and Young Adult Program, Northside Clinic St Leonards

Resources

• CPJP – Standing for a world without the death penalty
• Project 39A — Deathworthy 
• Ashford J and Kupferberg M (2013) Death Penalty Mitigation: A Handbook for Mitigation Specialists, Investigators, Social scientists and Lawyers.  Oxford University Press, New York
• DeMatteo D, Murrie D, Anumba N and Keesler M (2011) Forensic Mental Health Assessments in Death Penalty Cases. Oxford University Press, New York
• Eastman N, Krljes S, Latham R and Lyall M (2018) Handbook of Forensic Psychiatric Practice in Capital Cases, Second Edition, Death Penalty Project, London.

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In this episode of Psych Matters, Professor Lee-Fay Low is joined by Professor Henry Brodaty, Associate Professor Lyn Phillipson and Dr Meredith Gresham to discuss how to tell someone they have dementia, the evidence for post-diagnostic treatments and support, and the resources available at https://www.forwardwithdementia.org/au/

Professor Lee-Fay Low is Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney. She is a registered psychologist and conducts research on rehabilitation and dementia, stigma, and interventions to improve quality of life of older people.

Professor Henry Brodaty is a researcher, clinician, policy advisor and strong advocate for people with dementia and their carers.  At UNSW Sydney, he is Scientia Professor of Ageing and Mental Health, Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, and Director, Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration. He has published extensively, is a senior psychogeriatrician at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. He serves on multiple committees for the NSW and Australian governments and WHO.

Lyn Phillipson is an Associate Professor in Public Health at University of Wollongong. Lyn has expertise in promoting understanding and change to support the creation of dementia friendly communities, improve respite for carers of people with dementia and improve dementia help-seeking and service utilisation.
 
Dr Meredith Gresham is an Occupational Therapist with over 35 years clinical and research experience. Her practice has focused on dementia care in residential aged care, hospitals, community, rehabilitation and palliative care settings. 
 
Links:
Forward with Dementia https://www.forwardwithdementia.org/au/

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The prevalence of intellectual disability (or ID) in Australia is about 1 to 2% of the population and it is now recognized that not only do adults with an ID experience substantially higher rates of mental health problems than the rest of the population, but they also have difficulties in getting these needs met because of the range of barriers to people in accessing mental health services. These barriers are discussed in this podcast along with suggestions as to how professionals can approach looking after people with intellectual disability and mental health problems.

Dr Nick O’Connor
Clinical Lead, Mental Health Patient Safety Program, NSW Clinical Excellence Commission

Professor Julian Trollor
Chair, Intellectual Disability Mental Health and Head, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN), School of Psychiatry, UNSW Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
President, Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine

Dr Catherine Franklin
Psychiatrist and Director of the Mater Intellectual Disability and Autism Service
Director of a University of Queensland Research Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Vice-President of the Australian Association for Developmental Disability Medicine

Dr Chad Bennett
Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Victorian Dual Disability Service

Dr David Bathgate
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at the Southern District Health Board Dunedin New Zealand

Tahli Hind
Project Administrator, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN), School of Psychiatry, UNSW Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
Passionate Disability Advocate

Ms Claire Eagleson
Project Officer, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN), School of Psychiatry, UNSW Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
Claire is a Project Officer at 3DN with a background in psychology. She manages various projects that aim to improve workforce and education capacity in intellectual disability mental health. One such project involved working with the RANZCP to examine workforce and future training capacity in this area. She is working with Tahli to support her in her role at 3DN, gaining valuable experience in using a co-design approach.

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Dr Fiona Wilkes, Stage 2 Psychiatry Trainee, Dr Angus Finlay, Stage 3 Advanced Trainee, and Professor Jeffrey Looi, Psychiatrist, discuss their experiences in choosing and training in Psychiatry as a career. They discuss the process of choosing psychiatric training, experiences of training, the nature of the work with people suffering from mental illness, and the varied career possibilities within psychiatry. Listeners might also be interested in the related Psych Matters podcast “Challenges for early career psychiatrists”, which discusses early career matters, including work-life balance.
 
Associate Professor Jeffrey Looi, MBBS Syd, MD ANU, DMedSc Melb, FRANZCP, AFRACMA, is a clinical academic neuropsychiatrist, in private and public practice, and Head of the Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine at the Australian National University Medical School. Jeffrey leads the Australian, United States, Scandinavian-Spanish Imaging Exchange (AUSSIE) and the Consortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis (CAPIPRA). He has received multiple research and leadership awards including: a Fulbright Scholarship and Australian-Davos-Connection Future Summit Leadership Award. He is a co-author on more than 220 peer-reviewed papers, involving UCLA, Karolinska Institute and University of Melbourne.

Dr Fiona Wilkes, BSc (Hons), MChD, PhD (ANU) is a Stage 2 psychiatry trainee in Canberra and researcher and Associate Clinical Lecturer at the ANU Medical School. Her research interests are in neuroscience and how the brain influences behaviour. This began with her psychology undergraduate degree and spans honours in honeybee brains, a PhD in neuroanatomical changes in Huntington disease, and work as a doctor in neurosurgery and then psychiatry. She also has a miniature Australian bulldog, practices Iyengar yoga, and speaks a little German.

Dr Angus Finlay is the Academic Fellow at the Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine within the Australian National University Medical School, and an Advanced Trainee in the Consultation-Liaison Service at Canberra Hospital. He is an enthusiastic promoter of clinical psychiatry, research and clinical teaching, both within mental health services and across the general hospital. His research interests include psychiatric epidemiology, climate change and mental health, and medical education.

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• Why it’s worthwhile training as a psychiatrist (Jeffrey CL Looi, Angus JF Finlay)

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In this episode of Psych Matters, Dr Tanveer Ahmed and Dr Elizabeth Moore discuss the work and significance of the social, cultural and rehabilitation section of the College.

Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a Sydney based psychiatrist, author and columnist. He works in both the private and public sectors, including as a Staff Specialist at Bankstown Community Health. 

Dr Elizabeth Moore is the Coordinator General of the Office for Mental Health and Wellbeing and the President elect of the RANZCP.

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