Caring for Someone with a Mental Illness

Follow the links to find information about caring for someone with a mental illness, including care provided by and effects on family members.

Reviewed February 2009

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Title:   Getting help: helping someone else
Publisher:   Black Dog Institute Australia
Description:   Someone with a depressive illness is like anyone with an illness, they require our care.
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Anxiety and depression
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   When someone close to you has a serious illness, it is normal to feel anxious and extremely sad at times. But sometimes the worry is so great people develop symptoms of anxiety or depression.
Date:   May 2009
Title:   Families & mental illness
Publisher:   RealTime Health Pty. Ltd.
Description:   Online videos and DVD's of the personal stories and experiences of families dealing with mental illness.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Fact sheet 2 - living with and caring for a person with depression
Publisher:   beyondblue
Description:   Caring for or living with a person who experiences depression isn't easy. Knowing what to say and what to do may be hard. It's not uncommon for a carer to experience anger, guilt or fear. Below are some practical tips to help you care for someone with depression and to look after yourself.
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Smoke-free kids
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   This topic is aimed at providing parents, grandparents and care-givers of children and young people with information about the impact of smoking, and passive smoking, on health.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Carers - specialist services
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Carers, including family members, are an important resource and need support. People with a mental illness or disability and older people may rely on carers. Support and help for carers, including respite breaks, are available from many sources.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Support for People with a Mental Illness
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information and services to help people with a mental illness, their carers and families.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   When your partner has postnatal depression
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Understanding how post natal depression affects your partner and what you can do to help
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Women's health policy and program development in Australia: Student Factsheet
Publisher:   Women's Health Queensland Wide Inc
Description:   Outlines the development of the National Women's Health Policy, National Women's Health Program and the Queensland Women's Health Policy.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Living with someone experiencing depression
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Living with a family member who has depression can be challenging. In this fact sheet there is information on how you can help them and look after yourself as well.
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Out of home care
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   There are a range of different types of out of home care, depending on your needs, your situation and the availability of services. Check out this factsheet to find out more info.
Title:   Families & Friends affected by the drug or alcohol use of someone close
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   The FACT Resource was developed to assist workers in the community who do not specialise in drugs and alcohol, work with these families and carers when they present at their service. A component of the resource was the "family and friends" booklet which was designed as a takeaway resource for the families. This "family and friends" booklet has now been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Turkish, Serbian and Croatian. Funding for the translations was provided by Department of Community Services.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Day centres for severe mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The last 30 years have seen a large increase in the number of people with severe mental illness receiving treatment whilst living at home. Community care of the severely mentally ill is frequently enhanced by care provided by day centres run by non-medi...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Containment strategies for people with serious mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with severe mental illness can experience violent and aggressive episodes which can threaten both their safety and that of their carers. We looked for trials comparing different non-pharmaceutical containment strategies for people with severe men...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   The Kit: a guide to the advocacy we choose to do
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services
Description:   A resource kit for consumers of mental health services and family carers, to assist them in developing their advocacy skills.
Date:   Aug 1999
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