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Co-facilitating the Day To Day Living (D2DL) program funded by the Department of Health; a structured activity program" provides funding to improve the quality of life for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness by offering structured and socially based activities. The initiative recognises that meaningful activity and social connectedness are important factors that can contribute to people's recovery.

Orygen Youth Health (OYH) Early Psychosis and Prevention Intervention Centre (EPPIC) in position Clinical Case Manager (Provisional Psychologist). The Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) is an integrated and comprehensive mental health service aimed at addressing the needs of people aged 15-24 with a first episode of psychosis in the western and north-western regions of Melbourne. EPPIC is a specialist clinical program of Orygen Youth Health (OYH) which is itself a component service of NorthWestern Mental Health and Melbourne Health

headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation that help young people 12-25yo who are going through a tough time. headspace provide helth advice, support and information from a range of health practioners including GPs, psychologists, social workers, OTs, psychiatric nurses and youth workers. The Youth Access Clinician is the intake point of the service who provides a comprehensive assessment, facilitates groups and provides some psychotherapy.

Currently, North West Area Mental Health Service (NWAMHS) Broadmeadows Community Mental Health Team in position Key Clinician (Clinical Psychologist) working in both brief/crisis intervention and medium-long term interventions including psychotherapy. Previously, Orygen Youth Health (OYH) Early Psychosis and Prevention Intervention Centre (EPPIC) in position Clinical Case Manager (Psychologist).

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headspace is Australia's National Youth Mental Health Foundation. headspace helps young people aged 12-25 with mental health, general health, education and training and alcohol and other drugs issues. Services include 90+ headspace centres across the country, online counselling service eheadspace and headspace School Support which offers assistance following a suicide.

Alfred Health is a leading metropolitan health service in Melbourne, Australia. We pride ourselves on giving our patients and our community the best possible health outcomes by integrating clinical practice with research and education. Alfred Health provides a comprehensive range of specialist medical and surgical services including Australia's busiest trauma centre. We also operate one of the largest and most advanced intensive care units (ICU) in the southern hemisphere. Alfred Health offers almost every form of medical treatment across our three locations at The Alfred, Caulfield Hospital and Sandringham Hospital. Recognised as a national leader in health care, Alfred Health has a commitment to biomedical research. We are also known for excellence in training for medical, nursing, allied health and other support staff. This is further enhanced through partnerships with Monash University, La Trobe University, and several internationally recognised medical research organisations such as the Burnet Institute.

Thesis title: Assessing and measuring the construct validity of aberrant salience in psychosis symptomatology. People who are in a psychotic state notice a changes in their experience including heightened awareness, and previously unimportant things becoming overwhelmingly significant. This thesis developed a measure of this phenomenon, the Aberrant Salience Inventory - Current State, which shows promise for measuring change processes in psychological and medication treatments. The thesis was supervised by Dr John Farhall and Dr Ben Ong from La Trobe University

Thesis title: Does Self-Regulatory Capacity and Behavioural Prepotency Moderate the Relationship Between Dietary Intentions and Vegetable Consumption?