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MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
Consumer Acceptance
Vital to Solve Mental Health Crisis: PACFA
issued a Media Release on March 24, 2006,
calling on John Howard and his Health Minister
Tony Abbott to ensure that the mental health
rescue package is not restricted to a limited
group of professionals, but encompasses well
trained frontline counselling and psychotherapy
professionals who have high acceptability to
consumers.
Click
here for
the full Media Release.
NEW FAMILY CENTRES
This is a
Media
Release
in answer to Andrea Brooks' article on the new
Family Centres ('A Triumph of Style Over
Substance', Sydney Morning Herald 11-Jan-2006).
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH GRANT SUCCESS
Dr Margot Schofield is
Chief Investigator on an Australian Research
Council Linkage Grant awarded to the University
of New England, in collaboration with Dr Andrew
Bickerdike of Relationships Australia Victoria.
The project seeks to evaluate the short and
long-term effectiveness of couple counselling
over the next three years:
Press
Release
REGULATION OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY AND
COUNSELLING PROFESSION
Following the publication of articles in the
Sydney Morning Herald in September 2005, the
PACFA President, CEO and Vice-President have
responded with Letters to the Editor:
Please be aware, however, that PACFA has no
control over whether these letters will be
published. Margot Schofield, PACFA
Vice-President, has also been interviewed on ABC
radio in response to the issues raised by the
articles.
PACFA's response to press concerning
DEREGISTRATION OF PSYCHOLOGISTS AND
PSYCHIATRISTS in 2004.
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