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People who experience mental illness ur psychiatric disability continue to he poorly served by an entrenched and outdated system of health care that succeeds in treating acute illness, but fails to offer adequate community education and prevention, early detection, or the full range of approaches that we know facilitates recovery and rehabilitation.
However many mental health clinicians and researchers are beginning to feel optimistic that the tide may be turning. State governments have recently agreed to progress the national reform at practical and local levels with a range of initiatives underway.
Mental health places have been made available within some university undergraduate nursing courses to enable students to undertake a special mental health strand within their degree to give them a head-start in a mental...