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Mental disorders

Perspectives

Unemployment, suicide and COVID‐19: using the evidence to plan for prevention

Mark Deady, Leona Tan, Nathasha Kugenthiran, Daniel Collins, Helen Christensen and Samuel B Harvey

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 153-154.e1 Free

Perspectives

Reconsidering the immediate release of prisoners during COVID‐19 community restrictions

Stephane Shepherd and Benjamin L Spivak

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 58-59.e1 Free

Letters

The impact of Victoria's real time prescription monitoring system (SafeScript) on a cohort of people who inject drugs

Dagnachew M Fetene, Peter Higgs, Suzanne Nielsen, Filip Djordjevic and Paul Dietze

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 141-141.e1

Editorials

Prescribing psychotropic medications in residential aged care facilities

Gerard J Byrne

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (7): 304-305

Editorials

Ending cheap alcohol gets promising results

Mike Daube and Julia Stafford

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (5): 214-215

Narrative review

Antidepressant‐induced sexual dysfunction

Jody Rothmore

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (7): 329-334

Ethics and law

Self‐binding directives for mental health treatment: when advance consent is not effective consent

Katrine Del Villar and Christopher J Ryan

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (5): 208-211.e1

Editorials

Prospective data confirm the lasting effects of maltreatment on children

Steve Kisely and Jake Najman

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (1): 15-16

Research

Mental disorders in children known to child protection services during early childhood

Melissa J. Green, Gabrielle Hindmarsh, Maina Kariuki, Kristin R. Laurens, Amanda L Neil, Ilan Katz, Marilyn Chilvers, Felicity Harris and Vaughan J Carr

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (1): 22-28 Free

Letters

Management of pregabalin and gabapentin prescribing and use in NSW prisons

Gary Nicholls, Peter Samios and Stephen Hampton

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (10): 474-474.e1

Perspectives

The 2019 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: a turbulent year with mixed progress

Paul J Beggs, Ying Zhang, Hilary Bambrick, Helen L Berry, Martina K Linnenluecke, Stefan Trueck, Peng Bi, Sinead M Boylan, Donna Green, Yuming Guo, Ivan C Hanigan, Fay H Johnston, Diana L Madden, Arunima Malik, Geoffrey G Morgan, Sarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, Lucie Rychetnik, Mark Stevenson, Nick Watts and Anthony G Capon

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (11): 490-491.e21 Free

Editorials

The “uberisation” of mental health care: a welcome global phenomenon?

Ian B Hickie

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (7): 315-316

Perspectives

Adolescent immunisation in young people with disabilities in Australia

Jenny O'Neill, Fiona Newall, Giuliana Antolovich, Sally Lima and Margie H Danchin

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 199-200.e1

Media review

Managing complex psychiatric presentations in low income countries

Mathew Coleman

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 208-208

Editorials

Paracetamol overdose: limiting the potential for harm

Andis Graudins and Anselm Wong

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 211-212

Research

Paracetamol poisoning‐related hospital admissions and deaths in Australia, 2004–2017

Rose Cairns, Jared A Brown, Claire E Wylie, Andrew H Dawson, Geoffrey K Isbister and Nicholas A Buckley

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 218-223 Free

Perspectives

Concussion risk and suicide prevention: balancing the risks and benefits of youth sport

Amanda Clacy, Daniel F Hermens, Kathryn Broadhouse and Jim Lagopoulos

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (6): 247-249.e1

Research

Aeromedical retrievals of people for mental health care and the low level of clinical support in rural and remote Australia

Fergus W Gardiner, Mathew Coleman, Narcissus Teoh, Abby Harwood, Neil T Coffee, Lauren Gale, Lara Bishop and Martin Laverty

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (8): 351-356 Free

Letters

Screening for perinatal depression and predictors of underscreening: findings of the Born in Queensland study

Julia V Marley, Emma Carlin and Catherine Engelke

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 189-189.e1

Letters

Screening for perinatal depression and predictors of underscreening: findings of the Born in Queensland study

Macarena A San Martin Porter, Steve Kisely and Rosa Alati

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 190-190.e1

Guideline summary

Diagnosing and managing work‐related mental health conditions in general practice: new Australian clinical practice guidelines

Danielle Mazza, Samantha P Chakraborty, Bianca Brijnath, Heather Nowak, Cate Howell, Trevor Brott, Michelle Atchison, David Gras, Justin Kenardy, Richard Buchanan and Seyram Tawia

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (2): 76-81

Research

Getting it Right: validating a culturally specific screening tool for depression (aPHQ‐9) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

The Getting it Right Collaborative Group

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 24-30 Free

Editorials

Depression in Indigenous Australians: getting it right

Sivasankaran Balaratnasingam and Aleksandar Janca

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 16-17 Free

Perspectives

Targeted physical activity for older adults with mild cognitive impairment and subjective cognitive decline

Emily You, Kathryn A Ellis, Kay Cox and Nicola T Lautenschlager

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 394-395.e1

Letters

Nursing home “no returns” policy, when residents are discharged to the emergency department at 4 am: what does the law say?

Malcolm P Forbes and Angelo Ferraro

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (8): 381-381.e1