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Australian governments are now acknowledging that to simply expand mental health services is no longer the answer to improving the mental health of communities. Instead, it makes much more sense to provide people with resources they can use themselves to take care of their mental health, and low intensity professional support (should they need it) long before a more serious and troubling condition develops. Taking Care of Yourself and Your Fam...

There is no getting away from the fact that a significant number of men will experience mental health difficulties. For any man for whom this is true, ignorance is not bliss, it can lead to misery or even tragedy. But we have a lot of work to do as a society around this issue. We use unnecessary illness labels and wonder why there is stigma. We talk of the need for mental health literacy, yet we use mystifying language. We complain about a lac...

This dictionary contains basic medical and pharmaceutical terms in common use in end of life care settings such as hospice, palliative care, community care and aged care. The range of entries has been limited to terms and definitions that are particularly useful for non-medical staff, allied health professionals, carers, and volunteers.

Thoreau's observation that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" will come as no surprise to many women. Be it a struggle with illness, relationships, ageing, work, parenting or the shifting expectations of society, most men at some stage of their lives will experience one or more of the situations so accurately described in this book. All too often I have had a woman in my consulting room distressed and at a loss as she struggles ...

People who work in human service roles and organisations never have been the best at taking care of themselves. This book argues, that needs to change because the idea that we can care for others while neglecting ourselves is highly questionable, the two stand or fall together. Whether your role is in health, mental health, police, welfare, emergency services, aged or disability care, pastoral care, or some other domain of human service, you'l...

Making sense of the issues of gender, masculinity, and manhood, has for decades been bedevilled by rigid gender ideology. This book bravely departs from the status quo and proposes a refreshingly different view. Drawing from a number of major authors and different disciplines it crafts key findings into a compelling and coherent alternative perspective, complete with new definitions and suggestions for further enquiry. Though offering a basic ...