Resilience in Mental Illness
All in the Mind - ABC Radio National 15 May

Margaret Cook and Pauline Miles are well known figures in West Australia’s mental health advocacy community. Born as identical twins in Wales, they grew up in the UK with a mother with major mental illness and a shared history of abuse. Now themselves parents of adult children, they join Natasha Mitchell this week to reflect on their own experiences of hospitalization in psychiatric wards, the search for identity in suffering, and inspiration in healing, activism and awareness.

A systematic review of the incidence of schizophrenia: the distribution of rates
and the influence of sex, urbanicity, migrant status and methodology.
This new paper from a team at the University of Queensland looks at variations in the distribution of schizophrenia.

Help-seeking behaviour and the Internet: An investigation among Australian
adolescents
From the Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health (AeJAMH), Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2004:

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a brief school-based intervention on help-seeking behaviour among Australian adolescents. The aim of the intervention was to encourage adolescents to seek help, focusing on the use of the Reach Out! website (www.reachout.com.au) as a help-seeking source. Male and female adolescents were compared.