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Mental Health: Covid-19 and mental health services (2020)

Guide to library resources for staff of St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne with an interest in mental health, psychiatry and psychology

Mental Health Services and Covid-19

This is a special issue of Mental Health Update dealing with the impact of Covid-19 and similar pandemics on mental health services.

Full text access: Most of these resources are freely accessible, but articles marked with an asterisk* require an SVHM login for offsite access.

Last update: 28 October 2020 (no longer being updated)

SVHM staff publications

Mental health services during pandemics

Psychiatric inpatient units and pandemics

Research priorities

The scope of mental health research during the covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Hotopf M, Bullmore E, O'Connor RC, et al. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2020, 217(4), 540-542.

Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science*. Holmes EA, O'Connor RC, Perry VH, et al. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2020, 7(6), 547-560.

How is Australia's mental health?

Mental health interventions during pandemics

Psychological therapies

Telehealth

Exercise

Lived experience / mental health peer work during pandemics

A role for lived experience mental health leadership in the age of Covid-19. Byrne L, & Wykes T. Journal of Mental Health, 2020, 1-4.

Aged mental health during pandemics

Helen Wilding


Helen Wilding, Senior Research Librarian

Carl de Gruchy Library, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Helen.Wilding@svha.org.au

Literature Searching, Systematic Reviews, Mental Health liaison 
Thursdays, Fridays & alternate Wednesdays
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