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  1. Recent clinical practice guidelines on schizophrenia remain largely silent on the role of coercion in psychiatric care
  2. ‘Traumatic to Say the Least; It Still Affects Me’: Consumer Perspectives on Community Treatment Orders in Australia
  3. Experiences and wellbeing of family members and carers, regarding PARCS across Victoria
  4. Implementation and translation science in the mental health practice and service delivery context: a review of existing reviews
  5. Navigating workforce challenges and strategies for sustainable mental health inpatient services—perspectives from Victoria’s public mental health sector
  6. Is anti-ligature an automatic requirement for suicide prevention?: Assessing legal obligations in alternative mental health crisis services
  7. Australia’s Better Access initiative: A survey of provider and referrer views
  8. Consumers’ experiences with and outcomes from Better Access: Results from a national survey
  9. Perspectives on Better Access: In-depth interviews with users and non-users of the initiative
  10. Factors influencing the outcomes of Community Treatment Orders: state-wide study using linked administrative health data from New South Wales, Australia
  11. Active collaboration with people who have lived experience of mental distress and caring – a needs analysis of a mental health service
  12. Effectiveness of Mentoring for Improving Lived Experience Engagement in Research: A Pilot Study in a Higher Education Setting
  13. Psychiatrists’ engagement with advance statement in Victoria, Australia
  14. Staff Perspectives on the Meaning of Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Care and its Implementation in Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) Services in Victoria
  15. The experiences of people diagnosed with severe mental illness and colorectal cancer: A qualitative study
  16. The impact of Recovery College enrolment on health service use and patient outcomes: retrospective matched cohort study using routinely collected data
  17. Restricting community treatment orders to people with non-affective psychosis is needed to reduce use and improve subsequent outcomes: Queensland-wide cohort study
  18. To Make Another Goal or to Dream a Different Dream—A Mixed Method Study of Experiences of People Using Mental Health Advance Care Planning
  19. Cultural influences on fidelity components in recovery colleges: a study across 28 countries and territories
  20. RANZCP 2025: Book of Abstracts
  21. Variations between, and within, jurisdictions in the use of community treatment orders and other compulsory community treatment: study of 402 060 people across four Australian states
  22. “Holding on to Hope”: follow up qualitative findings of a tobacco treatment intervention for people experiencing mental health conditions
  23. Ensuring compulsory treatment is used as a last resort: a narrative review of the knowledge about Community Treatment Orders
  24. Recovery Colleges in the UK and Australia—How Do They Compare? A Scoping Review
  25. Participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program by people with severe mental illness, Australia, 2006–2019: a national data linkage study
  26. Access and Injustice: An Intersectionality-informed Analysis of Victorian Mental Health Policy in Australia
  27. 28-country global study on associations between cultural characteristics and Recovery College fidelity
  28. To make another goal or to dream a different dream – A mixed method study of experiences of people using advance care planning in mental health
  29. Latest findings highlight the continuing uncertainty over the utility of compulsory psychiatric treatment in the community
  30. Cross-Cultural Insights from Two Global Mental Health Studies: Self-Enhancement and Ingroup Biases
  31. Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recovery colleges: multi-site qualitative study
  32. RANZCP 2024 CONGRESS: Book of Abstracts
  33. A longitudinal study of the impacts of a stay in a Prevention and Recovery Care service in Victoria, Australia
  34. The benefits and harms of community treatment orders for people diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses: A rapid umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  35. International Perspectives on Mental Health Social Work: Second Edition
  36. Consumers lived experiences and satisfaction with sub-acute mental health residential services
  37. A qualitative evaluation of the questionnaire about the process of recovery (QPR) in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations
  38. Social work research on loneliness
  39. Comparing mental health and mental capacity law data across borders: Challenges and opportunities
  40. Professional care workforce: a rapid review of evidence supporting methods of recruitment, retention, safety, and education
  41. Organisational and student characteristics, fidelity, funding models, and unit costs of recovery colleges in 28 countries: a cross-sectional survey
  42. Consumers Lived Experiences and Satisfaction with Sub-Acute Mental Health Residential Services
  43. Community-based models of care facilitating the recovery of people living with persistent and complex mental health needs: a systematic review and narrative synthesis
  44. Creating “an oasis of hope, inclusion and connection”: students and stakeholders’ experiences of a pilot Recovery College
  45. Typology of Mental Health Peer Support Work Components: Systematised Review and Expert Consultation
  46. Constructing recovery: A Lived Experience and post-structuralist exploration of how the meaning of personal recovery and rehabilitation has changed over time
  47. ‘Quitlink’: Outcomes of a randomised controlled trial of peer researcher facilitated referral to a tailored quitline tobacco treatment for people receiving mental health services
  48. Consumer Views and Experiences of Secondary-Care Services Following REFOCUS-PULSAR Staff Recovery-Oriented Practices Training
  49. Recovery College characteristics, fidelity, commissioning models and unit costs: a cross-sectional global survey of 28 countries
  50. Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding
  51. Mental Health Service Staff on Sharing Lived Experience in the Workplace
  52. The value of compassionate support to address smoking: A qualitative study with people who experience severe mental illness
  53. Supported residential services as a type of “total institution”: Implications for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
  54. Using a digital personal recovery resource in routine mental health practice: feasibility, acceptability and outcomes
  55. Teaching Mental Health Social Work: What Are We Preparing Students for?
  56. Editorial: International Perspectives on Mental Health and Mental Health Social Work
  57. Adapting Peer Researcher Facilitated Strategies to Recruit People Receiving Mental Health Services to a Tobacco Treatment Trial
  58. The Urgent Need to Review the use of CTOs and Compliance with the UNCRPD Across Australian Jurisdictions
  59. Theoretical frameworks in social work education: a scoping review
  60. Community‐based social interventions for people with severe mental illness: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of recent evidence
  61. Supporting the Sharing of Mental Health Challenges in the Workplace: Findings from Comparative Case Study Research at Two Mental Health Services
  62. Contextual Barriers and Enablers to Safewards Implementation in Victoria, Australia: Application of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research
  63. Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health
  64. Peer support work for people experiencing mental distress attending the emergency department: Exploring the potential
  65. Factors Influencing Social Work Identity in Mental Health Placements
  66. Understanding How Young People Exit Homelessness in Australia: A Critical Realist Approach
  67. Appreciating the Fear of Conflict and the Possibilities in Disagreement
  68. A journey of living well: a participatory photovoice study exploring recovery and everyday activities with people experiencing mental illness
  69. Design features that reduce the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health facilities: a rapid systematic review
  70. Opening the doors: Critically examining the locked wards policy for public mental health inpatient units in Queensland Australia
  71. Colorectal cancer Outcomes in people with Severe Mental Illness Cohort (COSMIC): a protocol for an Australian retrospective cohort using linked administrative data
  72. REFOCUS-PULSAR Recovery-Oriented Practice Training in Adult Primary Mental Health Care: Exploratory Findings Including From a Pretest–Posttest Evaluation
  73. Exploring the personal, programmatic and market barriers to choice in the NDIS for people with psychosocial disability
  74. Outcomes of Victorian Prevention and Recovery Care Services: A matched pairs comparison
  75. Being recovery-oriented and reducing the use of restrictive interventions in mental health care
  76. Safewards Training in Victoria, Australia: A Descriptive Analysis of Two Training Methods and Subsequent Implementation
  77. Why don't mental health professionals speak more about their own mental health challenges?
  78. Similarities and differences in people accessing prevention and recovery care services and inpatient units in Victoria, Australia
  79. Legal capacity and the mental health social worker role: an international comparison
  80. Contact with Mental Health Services After Acute Care for Self‐Harm Among Adults Released from Prison: A Prospective Data Linkage Study
  81. Theoretical frameworks in social work education: a scoping review
  82. ‘I’m proud of how far I’ve come. I’m just ready to work’: mental health recovery narratives within the context of Australia’s Disability Employment Services
  83. Risk factors for involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation
  84. Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia: Describing the Role and Function of Sub-Acute Recovery-Based Residential Mental Health Services in Victoria
  85. Key features of an innovative sub-acute residential service for young people experiencing mental ill health
  86. Protocol for an Economic Evaluation of the Quitlink Randomized Controlled Trial for Accessible Smoking Cessation Support for People With Severe Mental Illness
  87. International perspectives on community treatment orders: Special Edition
  88. Psychosocial Factors Affecting Smoking Cessation Among People Living With Schizophrenia: A Lived Experience Lens
  89. ‘I don’t think they trust the choices I will make.’ – Narrative analysis of choice and control for people with psychosocial disability within reform of the Australian Disability Employment Services program
  90. Safewards Impact in Inpatient Mental Health Units in Victoria, Australia: Staff Perspectives
  91. Consumer Perspectives of Safewards Impact in Acute Inpatient Mental Health Wards in Victoria, Australia
  92. Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia: Developing a State-Wide Typology of a Subacute Residential Mental Health Service Model
  93. Community Treatment Orders and Supported Decision-Making
  94. The experience of the use of Community Treatment Orders following recovery-oriented practice training
  95. Age-specific incidence of injury-related hospital contact after release from prison: a prospective data-linkage study
  96. “Quitlink”—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Worker Facilitated Quitline Support for Smokers Receiving Mental Health Services: Study Protocol
  97. REFOCUS-PULSAR recovery-oriented practice training in specialist mental health care: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial
  98. Legal Provisions, Advocacy, and Empowerment
  99. Working towards least restrictive environments in acute mental health wards in the context of locked door policy and practice
  100. Barriers and enablers to meaningful youth participation in mental health research: qualitative interviews with youth mental health researchers
  101. POSTER ABSTRACTS
  102. Abstracts
  103. From Safety Nets to Support Networks: Beyond ‘Vulnerability’ in Protection for Consumers with Cognitive Disabilities
  104. Supported decision-making from the perspectives of mental health service users, family members supporting them and mental health practitioners
  105. Evaluation of a Residential Mental Health Recovery Service in North Queensland
  106. Legal capacity and the mental health social worker role: an international comparison
  107. Dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance use disorder and injury in adults recently released from prison: a prospective cohort study
  108. T92. QUITLINK: ACCESSIBLE SMOKING CESSATION SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH SEVERE AND ENDURING MENTAL ILLNESS
  109. Supported Decision-Making: The Expectations Held by People With Experience of Mental Illness
  110. Community treatment orders: towards a new research agenda
  111. Enabling choice, recovery and participation: evidence-based early intervention support for psychosocial disability in the National Disability Insurance Scheme
  112. Outcomes of the Victorian Safewards trial in 13 wards: Impact on seclusion rates and fidelity measurement
  113. Patients’ Experiences of Restrictive Interventions in Australia: Findings From the 2010 Australian Survey of Psychosis
  114. Responding to the Needs of Voice Hearers and Expanding Access to Evidence-based and Innovative Psychosocial Interventions
  115. The PULSAR Specialist Care protocol: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized control trial of a training intervention for community mental health teams in recovery-oriented practice
  116. RANZCP Abstracts
  117. Intellectual disability and patient activation after release from prison: a prospective cohort study
  118. The PULSAR primary care protocol: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial to test a training intervention for general practitioners in recovery-oriented practice to optimize personal recovery in adult patients
  119. Community mental health care after self-harm: A retrospective cohort study
  120. Randomised controlled trial of a digitally assisted low intensity intervention to promote personal recovery in persisting psychosis: SMART-Therapy study protocol
  121. Attitudes towards seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: findings from a large, community-based survey of consumers, carers and mental health professionals
  122. Australian Psychiatrists' Support for Psychiatric Advance Directives: Responses to a Hypothetical Vignette
  123. Rate of community treatment orders and readmission orders following reconfiguration of community mental health services
  124. RANZCP Abstracts
  125. Consumers’ and their supporters’ perspectives on barriers and strategies to reducing seclusion and restraint in mental health settings
  126. Erratum to: Consumers and their supporters’ perspectives on poor practice and the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: results from Australian focus groups
  127. Consumers and their supporters’ perspectives on poor practice and the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: results from Australian focus groups
  128. Risk, Recovery and Capacity: Competing or Complementary Approaches to Mental Health Social Work
  129. Supported decision-making schemes being developed around the world
  130. How Social Work Can Contribute in the Shift to Personalised, Recovery-Oriented Psycho-Social Disability Support Services
  131. People living with psychosocial disability: Rehabilitation and recovery-informed service provision within the second Australian national survey of psychosis
  132. Embedding a Recovery Orientation into Neuroscience Research: Involving People with a Lived Experience in Research Activity
  133. Impact of care coordination on Australia’s mental health service delivery system
  134. Consumer measures and research co-production: a pilot study evaluating the recovery orientation of a mental health program collaboration
  135. Introducing recovery-oriented practice in Indonesia: the Sukabumi project – an innovative mental health programme
  136. Recovery, medication and shared responsibility in mental health care
  137. Using Social Work Theory and Values to Investigate the Implementation of Community Treatment Orders
  138. Revocation of Community Treatment Orders in a mental health service network
  139. Integrating recovery-oriented practice into psychiatric registrar training
  140. Are we recovery oriented? An Australian encounter of learning from people with lived experiences
  141. Are we recovery oriented? An Australian encounter of learning from people with lived experiences
  142. Summary
  143. A cluster analysis of people on Community Treatment Orders in Victoria, Australia
  144. International Perspectives on the Use of Community Treatment Orders: Implications for Mental Health Social Workers
  145. The Efficacy of Involuntary Treatment in the Community
  146. What's Driving Involuntary Treatment in the Community? The Social, Policy, Legal and Ethical Context
  147. Dilemmas in the Case Manager's Role: Implementing Involuntary Treatment in the Community