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