Lisa Brophy

Peer support work for people experiencing mental distress attending the emergency department: Exploring the potential

Catherine Brasier, Helena Roennfeldt, Bridget Hamilton, Andrew Martel, Nicole Hill, Anthony Stratford, Sally Buchanan-Hagen, Louise Byrne, David Castle, Nadine Cocks, Larry Davidson, Lisa Brophy

Journal article  |  2021  |  EMERGENCY MEDICINE AUSTRALASIA

OBJECTIVE: This study explored the benefits and limitations of employing peer support workers, who utilise their own lived experie..

Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health

Louise Whitaker, Fiona L Smith, Catherine Brasier, Melissa Petrakis, Lisa Brophy

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

When graduates of Australian social work courses embark on a career in mental health, the systems they enter are complex, fragment..

Understanding How Young People Exit Homelessness in Australia: A Critical Realist Approach

Brendan Pearl, Carol Harvey, Lisa Brophy

Journal article  |  2021  |  HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY

Despite years of policy attention and increasing intervention, the numbers of young people experiencing homelessness in Australia ..

A journey of living well: a participatory photovoice study exploring recovery and everyday activities with people experiencing mental illness

Nastaran Doroud, Ellie Fossey, Tracy Fortune, Lisa Brophy, Louise Mountford

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Engagement in everyday activities has been identified as an important element in personal recovery from the ex..

Opening the doors: Critically examining the locked wards policy for public mental health inpatient units in Queensland Australia

Neeraj S Gill, Stephen Parker, Andrew Amos, Richard Lakeman, Mary Emeleus, Lisa Brophy, Steve Kisely

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

The Queensland Government issued a policy directive to lock all acute adult public mental health inpatient wards in 2013. Despite ..

Colorectal cancer Outcomes in people with Severe Mental Illness Cohort (COSMIC): a protocol for an Australian retrospective cohort using linked administrative data.

Melinda M Protani, Susan J Jordan, Bradley J Kendall, Dan Siskind, David Lawrence, Grant Sara, Lisa Brophy, Steve Kisely

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ Open

INTRODUCTION: Colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality is significantly higher in those with severe mental illness (SMI) compared with th..

REFOCUS-PULSAR Recovery-Oriented Practice Training in Adult Primary Mental Health Care: Exploratory Findings Including From a Pretest-Posttest Evaluation

Joanne C Enticott, Frances Shawyer, Lisa Mary Brophy, Grant Russell, Danielle Mazza, Elisabeth Wilson-Evered, Penelope June Weller, Mike Slade, Vrinda Edan, Graham Nicholas Meadows

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY

Objectives: Australian general practitioners (GPs) are pivotal in mental health care. The REFOCUS-PULSAR (Principles Unite Local S..

Exploring the personal, programmatic and market barriers to choice in the NDIS for people with psychosocial disability

Erin Wilson, Robert Campain, Sarah Pollock, Lisa Brophy, Anthony Stratford

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES

The aim of this paper is to inform the design of individualised funding schemes via an examination of discourses and experiences o..

Outcomes of Victorian Prevention and Recovery Care Services: A matched pairs comparison

John Farhall, Lisa Brophy, John Reece, Holly Tibble, Long Khanh-Dao Le, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Justine Fletcher, Carol Harvey, Emma Morrisroe, Richard Newton, Georgina Sutherland, Matthew J Spittal, Graham Meadows, Ruth Vine, Jane Pirkis

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVE: In Victoria, Prevention and Recovery Care Services have been established to provide a partial alternative to inpatient ..

Contextual Barriers and Enablers to Safewards Implementation in Victoria, Australia: Application of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.

Justine Fletcher, Lisa Brophy, Jane Pirkis, Bridget Hamilton

Journal article  |  2021  |  Front Psychiatry

Background: Safewards is a complex psychosocial intervention designed to reduce conflict and containment on inpatient mental healt..