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    • Professor Lisa Brophy

    Professor and Discipline Lead, Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University; Honorary Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    How could mental health peer support workers improve Emergency Departments? thumbnail image

    Health & Medicine

    How could mental health peer support workers improve Emergency Departments?

    New research suggests that people in mental distress seeking help at an Emergency Department would benefit from peer-support workers who understand their experience

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    Health & Medicine

    Does disability policy really offer choice and control?

    While government policy for Australians with disabilities aims to offer choice and control, there are very real barriers that need to be addressed to turn that into a reality

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