Mental Health Information Centre

This guide to mental health disorders and their treatment was designed specifically to help doctors in general practice deliver good mental health care in the community.

These pages were published in 1998 and in some respects the information presented is now out of date. Click here to access the eMJA Psychiatry Topic list for more recent articles on mental health published in The Medical Journal of Australia. Or click here for links to other sources of mental health information on the web.

Topic List
Intro
The essential practice of mental health care Nicholas A Keks and Graham D Burrows
Short courseFull article
1
Psychiatric assessment in community practice Peter Yellowlees
Short courseFull article
2
Collaboration between general practice and community psychiatric services for people with chronic mental illnessNicholas A Keks, B Malcolm Altson, Tobie L Sacks, Harry H Hustig and Amgad Tanaghow
Short courseFull article
3
Assessing anxiety and depression Steven R Ellen, Trevor R Norman and Graham D Burrows
Short courseFull article
4
Managing depression Philip B Mitchell
Short courseFull article
5
Treatments for anxiety disordersGavin Andrews and Caroline Hunt
Short courseFull article
6
Benzodiazepines - managing therapeutics and dependenceTrevor R Norman, Steven R Ellen and Graham D Burrows
Short courseFull article
7
Stress management and counsellingJane Turner and Beverley Raphael
Short course Full article
8
Crisis managementAlan Rosen
Short course Full article
9
PsychosesDavid L Copolov
Short courseFull article
10
Managing schizophreniaHarry H Hustig and Peter D Norrie
Short courseFull article
11
Common child and adolescent psychiatric problems and their management in the communityBruce J Tonge
Full article
12
Eating disordersKay A Wilhelm and Simon D Clarke
Full article
13
Assessing and managing old age psychiatric disordersKathyrn A Hall and Anne M Hassett
Full article
14
Alcohol and drug dependence: diagnosis and managementTobie L Sacks and Nicholas A Keks
Full article
15
Managing somatoform disordersBruce S Singh
Full article