The Centre for Evidence Based Mental
Health is committed to the dissemination of evidence-based practices
such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) & Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy (CBT) through education and research.
The Centre for Evidence Based Mental
Health is a Centre of Excellence formed from a partnership between
Mental Health Australia Pty Ltd, Unity Foundation and RMIT University
Partner
Details
Mental Health Australia Pty Ltd
www.mental-health.com.au
Mental Health Australia is a private company,
owned by Mental Health Professionals.
Mental Health Australia Pty Ltd
is an innovative organization offering a full complement of
professional services to health professionals.
Mental Health Australia remains
consistently committed to our original vision – getting
results for individuals and their employers by delivering
skilled and compassionate services from expert clinicians.
In order to attract and retain highly qualified staff in the
mental health and wellbeing field, Mental Health Australia
provides quality year-round training, consultancy and
clinical resources that meet not only the employment needs
of health professionals, but registration needs as well.
The Vision is
to ensure that mental health and wellbeing staff are
properly trained, supported and equipped to perform the
necessary and daily tasks.
Unity Foundation www.unityfoundation.org.au
The Unity Foundation is a not-for-profit
organisation founded to inspire Australians to reach their potential
and develop a hunger to achieve their life long goals through the
teachings of indigenous people.
Unity Foundation's programs, developed
in consultation with elders, youth, psychologists, youth workers and
educators, spread across a broad spectrum of activities from the
arts through youth services to tribal and racial identity and
eventually to a program which will aims to see communities take
control of their own destiny.
Unity Foundation utilises
a Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) approach with young people who
struggle to use effective coping strategies.
Through Unity's Life Skills,
Homelessness, Leadership and Social & Emotional Well-being Programs
youth are empowered with a
portable skill set that enables them to improve the quality of their
life and sustain these changes into adulthood.
RMIT University
www.rmit.edu.au
Through a MOU with the Unity
Foundation, RMIT University assists the Centre for Evidence
Based Mental Health with leadership, strategic planning and research
in the Indigenous community. RMIT is
committed to supporting the development of the Centre's
capacity to support indigenous and non-indigenous people through
research, programs, education, leadership and capacity development.
RMIT University is one of Australia’s
leading educational institutions, producing some of Australia’s most
employable graduates. RMIT is an innovative, global
university, with its heart in the city of Melbourne. It has an
international reputation for excellence in work-relevant education
and high quality research which is engaged with the needs of
industry and community.
More than 57,000 students study at RMIT
campuses in Melbourne in Vietnam, online, by distance education, and
at 100 partner institutions throughout the world. A vibrant alumni
community now stretches across more than 100 countries.
Affiliates of Our Partners
Mental Health Bookstore
The online
Mental Health Bookstore (health professionals) has a
comprehensive range of clinical texts, mental health books,
treatment manuals, instructional CD-ROMs and videos, and software
products for the clinician. Titles and resources are chosen by
clinicians for clinicians. Care has been taken to represent as many
disorders, issues, treatments and theoretical perspectives as
possible.
Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health
Established:
1st October 2006
Correspondence
Address:
C/o Unity
Foundation
PO Box 250
St.Kilda, VIC 3182
Telephone: 03 9593 6273
Facsimile: 03 9593 6267
Email:
cebmh@mental-health.com.au
If your
organisation is seeking
internal delivery of this course, please feel free to Contact Peter
King on 0424 868 893 for more details or email:
peterk@dbtworkshops.com
