Please download, read and share this report compiling articles by Amy Coopes and other coverage of a recent mental health services conference: #TheMHS2017_conference_report (see the contents... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Employing peer workers in mental health is about much more than ensuring their voices are heard – it is a political act that re-frames the balance of power and is part of... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: It’s not known about, it’s not talked about, and it should be seen as more important in the mental health space. That was the message of a candid forum on sex and intimacy... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Disrupting power and democratising clinical environments through the centring of lived experience in mental health was the focus of a rousing conference keynote in Sydney... Read more
“Two-eyed seeing”, a framework for integrating Indigenous and Western knowledges, was profiled at a major mental health conference in Sydney this week. The conference also heard... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: A recovery-oriented movement in mental health that centres lived experience and social inclusion as primary prevention is disrupting a no-longer-defensible biomedical stat... Read more