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Acknowledgements

 The Chronic Condition Self-management Working Party would like to thank everyone who has assisted in bringing together this final resource.

  • Mrs Shelley Barons
  • Mr Jim Crowe
  • Mr Gary Cookson and team
  • Ms Sharon Holloway
  • Ms Audrey Holmes
  • Dr Sharon Lawn
  • Ms Fatima Mehmedbegovic
  • Dr Wayne Miles
  • Ms Rupali Saikia
  • The individual Fellows of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists who completed the Needs Analysis Survey for Fellows
  • The individuals who completed the Consumer and Carer survey which was circulated via email to the following national and state-based organisations:
  • Mental Health Carers NT, Carer Consultant Network VIC, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Queensland Consumer and Carer Consultants Network, SA Mental Health Unit, Blue Voices Consumer and Carer representatives, Schizophrenia Fellowship / Mental Illness Fellowship and NSW Consumer representatives
  • Participants of the Consumer and Carer focus groups
  • Members of the Private Mental Health Consumer Carer Network (Australia)
  • The mental health charity Rethink for permission to reproduce the diagram in module 2.1 www.rethink.org (+ 44 0845 456 0455)
  • Effective Clinical Practice for the permission to republish Figure 1: Edward H. Wagner, MD, MPH, Chronic Disease Management: What Will It Take To Improve Care for Chronic Illness? Effective Clinical Practice, Aug/Sept 1998;1:2-4 (as can be seen in module 2.3)
  • Ms Bernie Waterhouse for the audio recordings of a patient self-management experience as can be heard in module 1.5
  • Better Self-Management of Diabetes Program for permission to adapt the Assessment of Primary Care Resources and Supports for Chronic Disease Self Management (PCRS) developed by the Diabetes Initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation® http://diabetesinitiative.org
  • Flinders Human Behaviour & Health Research Unit Self-management Program for permission to use video extracts from the Flinders Model DVD
  • Reach Out Southern Mental Health for permission to use video extracts from the Clinicians, Carers and Confidentiality DVD

 

Project support

ImageProject support

This RANZCP Chronic Condition Self-management project is supported by funding from the Australian Better Health Initiative: A joint Australian, State and Territory government initiative.

RANZCP

ImageAbout RANZCP

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) is the principal organisation representing the medical specialty of psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand.

The College is responsible for training, examining and awarding the Fellowship of the College qualification to medical practitioners.