Mental Health in Practice
Practical conversations about mental health care across Australia’s health system.
Mental Health in Practice is a podcast for health professionals working across the mental health system, featuring conversations grounded in real-world experience.
Each episode brings together perspectives from clinical practice, research, and sector expertise to explore contemporary mental health care.
The show focuses on what thoughtful, collaborative care looks like in practice – and how professionals across disciplines can better support mental health outcomes for Australians.
Mental Health in Practice
Book Club: Developing a Shared Understanding with Konrad Michel’s ‘The Suicidal Person’
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Content warning: This episode discusses suicidality.
Join Professor Nicholas Procter (Professor and Chair, Mental Health Nursing) and Dr Conrad Newman (psychiatrist and PhD candidate) for this episode of Book Club, where they discuss the ways in which Konrad Michel’s book ‘The Suicidal Person: A New Look at a Human Phenomenon’ (2023) has influenced their work.
Together they explore how treatment and interventions have changed in this space over the decades, and the importance of compassion when working side-by-side with clients, keeping their experience of feeling suicidal at the forefront of the conversation.
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