PROGRAMS | Research - Victorian Transcultural Mental Health Research Conference 2005
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Conference Program
| download PPT | Keynote speech: Placing research in the context of mental health service provision. Dr Ruth Vine, Director, Mental Health Branch, Department of Human Services |
| download PPT | The effects of migrant status, refugee camp experiences and age at arrival on the behaviour and functioning of young refugees and migrants. Sarah Murgia (MA Clin Psych), & Professor Trang Thomas, Division of Psychology, RMIT University |
| download PPT | The effects of immigration and resettlement on the mental health of South-Asian communities in Melbourne. Dr Ahmed Munib, PhD Student, Centre for International Mental Health, University of Melbourne |
| download PPT | The mental health of international students in Australian universities. Professor Trang Thomas, Dr Sophia Xenos, Diana Summers, Ivan Mathieson, & Naomi Thomas, Division of Psychology, RMIT University |
| download PPT | Second generation migrants and the acculturation process: an exploration of cultural identity, language use and social context in the construction of the bi-cultural self. Sylvia Collinetti (MA Couns Psych) & Prof. E. Kashima, Swinburne University |
| download PPT | Cultural variation in pathways to depression: the role of self-conscious emotions and self-concept. Shaun Watson, Seán MacDermott, & A/Prof. Eleonora Gullone, School of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine, Monash University For further information contact Shaun Watson at shaun.watson@med.monash.edu.au |
| download PPT | Mental illness perceptions in the Somali community in Melbourne. Dr Marion Bailes, Master’s Student, Centre for International Mental Health, University of Melbourne |
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Depression and the Polish community. Elizabeth Drozd, CEO, Australian-Polish Community Services, Elizabeth Szczepanska & Monika Wiench |
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Cultural diversity and mental health: The relationship between leisure experiences and wellbeing in an ageing Italian community in Australia. Robert Pereira, Occupational Therapy Honours Candidate, Matthew Ebden & Dr Karen Stagnitti, Deakin University |
| download PPT | A Transcultural Mental Health Research Agenda. A/Professor I.H. Minas, Director, Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit and Centre for International Mental Health |