Articles and Conference Papers

List of Excuses used to resist change in mental health services: Excuses by staff Excuses by consumers

• Borderline, the diagnosis of shame. Presentation at National BPD Awareness Day 2011 Youtube Video presentation (2011)
  
  
• The Emperor's new clothes: on being invisible and neglected within the mental health system--a gendered perspective from a "Borderline pioneer". (PDF) Keynote Address - THEMHS Conference, Townsville (2006)
  
  
• If, When, How .... Disclosure of Disability in Employment (30 November 2005)
  
  
• Consumer Perpective, Consumer Participation and Consumer Representation A Talk to Broadmeadows Community Health, given 14th November 2005.
  
  
• Why I am a High Profile Nutcase Paper for Australian Democrats Forum (9th October, 2005)
  
  
• Submission 207 (PDF) and attachment (PDF) to the Senate Select Committee on Mental Health (July 2005).
  
  
• Improvements in rhetoric, but the practice still lags a long way behind (PDF) Consumer participation, the most significant change in mental health practice since Burdekin. Paper presented at ‘Evolution or Revolution: the 3rd Australian Conference on Safety and Quality of Health Care’, held in Adelaide, July 2005.
  
  
• Finding Ways To Improve Consumers’ Experience Of Acute Services Talk for DHS forum on Acute Services by Merinda Epstein, 27 April, 2005.
  
  
• Borderline Personality Disorder: Getting some action at a National level – the lament of a tired campaigner. (2004)
  
  
• On the ideological justification of resource rationing policies in Mental Health: Speech by Merinda at Richmond Fellowship AGM meeting, November 2004.
  
  
• On Consumer Perspective Research My six minutes in Canberra in June 2004.
  
  
• Record Linkage for better Public Health: the state of play
  
  
• Mental Health and Work. Mental illness as a litmus test for the emotional health of the workplace. Presented to the Western Australian Association for Mental Health WAAMH and the Launch of Mental Health Week (7th October 2001)
  
  
• The Chocolate Cake Factor – ‘deep dialogue’ in practice. Presented to the National Association Loss and Grief Conference on 5th October 2001.
  
  
• Bringing about change in Mental Health systems and Service Organisations. November 2000.
  
  
• Promoting Women's Mental Health. Presented to the Promoting Women's Mental Health Conference on 29th -31st July 1999.
  
  
• Competency standards for OTs in mental health (PDF). October 1999.
  
  
• Semantics, Ethics, and the distribution of resources (PDF). Prepared for the Who Gets What Services: Clinical and Funding Perspectives in Mental Health Conference, Sydney. Thursday 21st January 1999. Merinda Epstein and Anne Olsen
  
  
• The Deep Dialogue Project Evaluation (PDF). May 1998.
  
  
• One Stigma or Many (1995)