From the Acting CEO
I am very pleased to be able to share with you an important new report from Professor Mike Slade
and Dr Eleanor Longden on recovery, permanence and mental health. The empirical evidence
about mental health recovery: how likely, how long, what helps? challenges common assumptions
and provides a well-argued and evidence-based approach to thinking about current challenges in
mental health.
We commissioned this report in response to increasingly pessimistic views about mental health. We
will use the Slade and Longden report to argue for important changes to the National Disability
Insurance Scheme, as the scheme’s current focus on permanent impairment is experienced as
damaging by many consumers.
We are bringing Professor Slade to Australia in Mental Health Week, when he will deliver the Grace
Groom Memorial Oration at the National Press Club, in partnership with Mental Health Australia. We
will also be hosting a number of invitation only events in Canberra and Melbourne, so look out for
more on those soon.
Finally, I would like to direct you to the latest update on MI Fellowship’s merger discussions with the
Royal District Nursing Service.
Laura Collister
Director of Mental Health Services, Research and Development
Recovery: the evidence
‘The empirical evidence about mental health and recovery: how likely, how
long, what helps?’ is a report commissioned by MI Fellowship to consider the
question of permanent impairment in mental health. In this report
internationally renowned academics in the field of recovery, Professor Mike
Slade and Dr Eleanor Longden, respond to notions of permanence and
challenge recent reports and policy to reveal what the evidence tells us about
permanency and recovery.
Keep reading...