Welcome to the Mental Health Special Interest Group
This group meets annually at the National Music Therapy PDS sessions and currently communicates via group emails. If you wish to be added to this list, please contact our moderator, Linda Blyth.
Minutes from the SIG Mental Health meeting at AMTA PDS, 21 Sept 2010
Who’s Who?
ACT:
JENNY LAVETT
Canberra, lobbying for positions in adolescent and hospital units
NSW:
JACQUELINE TROTT
Sydney, private sector psychiatric hospital- affiliated hospitals led to work in eating disorder/acute/ICU/ drug and alcohol units
DOT NEWLAND
Facility for intellectual disability, includes dual diagnosis
QLD:
CHRISTOBEL CLARK (nee MOORE)
Brisbane private Foundation funded shelter for abused children
KYLIE FERRIS
Brisbane, private work
CAMERON HAIGH
Brisbane, ABI and mental health Qld Health and clinical educator at Princess Alexandra Hospital
ROB MCGRIGOR
Regional Qld (Toowoomba); Also RN
GUCKI REISSENBERGER
Regional Qld, grant funded, Connect and Create- music and photography
SA:
JEANETTE MILFORD
M Mus, Dip App Psych, Dip Mus Ther
Senior Music Therapist, Adelaide Health Service
Specialist Statewide Mental Health, Glenside Campus, PO Box 17, Fullarton, SA, 5063
ph 08 8303 1329
VIC:
CHERIE BAXTER
Melbourne Singing leader with Arts Access and private practice
FREYA DALGLEISH
Melbourne, Elderly groups in private psychiatric facility
WA:
LINDA BLYTH
Regional WA (Bunbury), MT and OT in child and adolescent mental health, interested in sensory modulation
OVERSEAS:
CRYSTAL LEE
Hong Kong, shelter, volunteering for women in corrections
Useful Documents and links
Information Documents
General
Flyer: Music Therapy in Mental Health Rehabilitation and Recovery, courtesy of Jeanette Milford
On supporting people living with a mental illness
HeartSong Information for Volunteers ’11 (Info for volunteers), Heartsong, Victoria, courtesy of Cherie Baxter
Suggested Reading List (aimed at MT students), Heartsong, Victoria, courtesy of Cherie Baxter
On the DIR/Floortime approach: Child and adolescent mental health and children with autism.
DIR/Floortime Training Flier, March 2011, courtesy of Linda Blyth
DIR/Floortime approach Parent Workshop Flier, courtesy of Linda Blyth
DIR/Floortime approach Educator Workshop Flier, courtesy of Linda Blyth
One of the workshop facilitators is Kathy Walmsley who is an OT colleague of Linda Blyth’s and she has set up a private practice in Perth (www.sensoryconnections.com.au ) together with a multidisciplinary team of a Speech Pathologist, Physiotherapist and Clinical Psychologist. She has done huge level of training under Dr Stanley Greenspan and Dr Serena Wieder at the ICDL in USA (www.icdl.com).
On Activities and Resources
Games that Support Childrens emotional social development, courtesy of Linda Blyth
Resource Catalogue, Family Action Centre 2010, courtesy of Linda Blyth
PD examples
Boys Business Workshops, courtesy of Linda Blyth
Sensory Tools past Online Seminar, courtesy of Linda Blyth