Bruce Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 256754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8711-7559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Does the Mental Health Lived Experience Workforce Describe and Enact Our Discipline? A Narrative Literature Review
Abolition
INTRODUCTION: Mental health legislation authorises involuntary psychiatric intervention in certain circumstances. Although human rights concerns are becoming more prominent, debates among legal experts, clinicians and activists continue to swirl around people's rights to equal recognition before the law, such as described in the (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities, 2006). AIM: This qualitative descriptive study a…
Psychiatrists’ engagement with advance statement in Victoria, Australia
You Can Live With It or You Can Die”
Nationally, diabetes is the eighth leading cause of death. The crisis deepens in South Carolina, where the state ranks sixth in adult diabetes prevalence. The burden is even greater in rural counties. Understanding storytelling themes and modalities is a novel approach in crafting culturally tailored messaging for the prevention and management of diabetes. This qualitative study examined the experiences of diabetes through the lens of Southern Go…
Somewhere in-between’
Nations such as Australia rely on foster care to provide for children who cannot live with their family. The foster care role is challenging and unique, combining elements of personal motivations, public responsibility, and intersections of private and public space. Foster carer shortages are also a challenge for many nations. This study presents findings regarding foster carer identity that emerged from a qualitative study exploring foster carer…
Foundations of the Alive National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation
The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation was established in 2021. Funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council's Special Initiative in Mental Health, the Centre aims to foster innovation in mental health care. Central to this aim is embedding the voices of those with lived experience into all Centre structures and activities including leadership and co-design of research priorities for mental healt…
Staff Perspectives on the Meaning of Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Care and its Implementation in Prevention and Recovery Care (Parc) Services in Victoria
Recovery orientation is a vital feature of contemporary mental health models of care such as Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) services. Despite the importance of PARC services in providing a recovery-oriented alternative to a stay in hospital for mental health consumers in Victoria, Australia, there are limited studies exploring the views of staff about these services. This study was part of a larger body of work that investigated the appropri…
Balancing the high personal costs and rewards in providing foster care
My menstruation journey in sport was sad and lonely
This research examined the lived experiences of Pacific sportswomen living in Aotearoa New Zealand concerning menstruation and sport. This research looks into understanding how the different cultural beliefs and taboos on menstruation may impact a Pacific sportswoman's life. Pacific sportswomen in Aotearoa experience menstruation through an intersectional lens with their family and cultural values and practices, intersecting with gender to shape …
Our Wished‐for Responses
BACKGROUND: Medical interventions have a place in crisis support; however, narrow biomedical and risk-driven responses negatively impact people seeking crisis care. With increasing shifts towards involving people with lived experience (service users) in designing services, foregrounding people's desired responses is critical. Accordingly, the aim of the study was to explore the wished-for crisis responses from the perspective of people who have e…
Exploring the lived experience of receiving mental health crisis care at emergency departments, crisis phone lines and crisis care alternatives
BACKGROUND: Mental health crisis care includes emergency departments (EDs), crisis phone lines and crisis alternatives. Currently, there is an overreliance on EDs to provide mental health crisis care, with evidence that responses are often inadequate to meet the needs of people experiencing mental health crises. However, the complexities of how individuals experience crisis care across the varying contexts of EDs, crisis phone lines and crisis al…
It's Such a Taboo Subject, Everybody's Scared to Talk About It
Despite a growing body of research focused on women's experiences of menstruation in sports, most of this has been done by white women on white women and then applied to sportswomen from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Very rarely are the menstruation-related experiences of Black, Indigenous, and women of color considered, let alone the focus of such studies. To date, no research has explored Pacific sports women's experiences of menstru…
The worst time of year in Rome for the Olympics’
The provision of medical support for athletes during the Olympic Games has been a feature of each Olympic event. Prior to 1960, medical services were largely utilitarian in nature, frequently relying on military medical services and focused on providing only the essential medical support to athletes, support staff and spectators during the games. However, the appointment of Professor Luigi Gedda to lead the Medical and Scientific Committee for Ro…
Who Walked against Time’
During the nineteenth century, both medicine and sport were transitioning into recognizably modern identities but no formal relationship between the two existed. It has been suggested that the medical profession had little engagement with sport during this period. One sport that was particularly popular during the nineteenth century was pedestrianism in which athletes performed a range of endurance walking challenges for money and fame. While it …
Contextual Barriers and Enablers to Safewards Implementation in Victoria, Australia
Background: Safewards is a complex psychosocial intervention designed to reduce conflict and containment on inpatient mental health units. There is mounting international evidence of the effectiveness and acceptability of Safewards. However, a significant challenge exists in promising interventions, such as Safewards, being translated into routine practice. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) provides a framework through…
We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’
Despite growing interest in the origins of sports medicine, there has been little academic attention paid to the development of healthcare in New Zealand sport. Using primary archival sources as well as contemporaneous literature from the post-world war period to the founding of the New Zealand Federation of Sports Medicine (NZFSM) in 1963, this manuscript addresses this knowledge gap. By the mid-twentieth century, public health in New Zealand ha…
A Global Silence
Aboriginal women globally face extreme risk of violence and their exposure to domestic and family violence (DFV) and state sanctioned violence is increasing. Attention to the impact on Aboriginal mothering is lacking and is underpinned by issues of social justice. This study employs Critical Interpretive Synthesis to examine the evidence on Aboriginal mothering through DFV. Serrant-Green’s Silences Framework was used to structure the critique, un…
Biological and Socio-Cultural Factors Have the Potential to Influence the Health and Performance of Elite Female Athletes
Health is a pre-requisite for optimal performance yet the parameters which govern health and performance of elite female athletes are little understood. The aim of this study was to quantify the health status of elite female athletes, and understand sociocultural factors influencing that status. The survey addressed demographic, health and athletic performance history, training load, contraceptive use, sport-specific appearance and performance pr…
Disengagement Processes Within an Early Intervention Service for First-Episode Psychosis
Triangulating experiences of engagement across young people, caregivers, and clinicians allows for a comprehensive understanding of what precipitates service disengagement. This study demonstrates how early intervention services for first-episode psychosis are meeting the needs of young people and caregivers, and what areas warrant improvement. The needs of service users and patterns of disengagement vary. In turn, services must be flexible and r…
Changing considerations of matching foster carers and children
Safewards Impact in Inpatient Mental Health Units in Victoria, Australia
Introduction: Mental health professionals working in acute inpatient mental health wards are involved in a complex interplay between an espoused commitment by government and organizational policy to be recovery-oriented and a persistent culture of risk management and tolerance of restrictive practices. This tension is overlain on their own professional drive to deliver person-centered care and the challenging environment of inpatient wards. Safew…
Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia
Aims: Community-based residential alternatives to hospitalization are an emerging service model. Evidence for their acceptability and effectiveness is promising but limited. Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) services are one such residential model, offering short-term subacute treatment and care (usually between 7 and 28 days). PARC services in Victoria, Australia, are designed to support consumers with severe mental illness to either avoid a p…
Consumer Perspectives of Safewards Impact in Acute Inpatient Mental Health Wards in Victoria, Australia
Background: Inpatient mental health wards are reported by many consumers to be custodial, unsafe, and lacking in therapeutic relationships. These consumer experiences are concerning, given international policy directives requiring recovery-oriented practice. Safewards is both a model and a suite of interventions designed to improve safety for consumers and staff. Positive results in reducing seclusion have been reported. However, the voice of con…
Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia
Background: Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) services are relatively new sub-acute residential services that have supported people with mental ill-health in Victoria since 2003. Operated from a partnership model between non-governmental agencies and clinical mental health services, PARC services integrate intensive recovery-focused psychosocial input with clinical mental health care. Aim: To describe and contrast the 19 PARC services operating…
Drugs, Denial, and Deflection
Contemporaneously described as the unfortunate Games, the New Zealand team experience at the Munich Olympic Games was clouded by the Israeli hostage tragedy, and a series of controversies involving sex, amateurism and team mismanagement. However, the Munich Games also took place against an international background of overt political interference in sport and endemic drug use amongst athletes, juxtaposed with immature anti-doping systems. Using ar…
Biological and Socio-Cultural Factors Have the Potential to Influence the Health and Performance of Elite Female Athletes
Health is a pre-requisite for optimal performance yet the parameters which govern health and performance of elite female athletes are little understood. The aim of this study was to quantify the health status of elite female athletes, and understand sociocultural factors influencing that status. The survey addressed demographic, health and athletic performance history, training load, contraceptive use, sport-specific appearance and performance pr…
It's Such a Taboo Subject, Everybody's Scared to Talk About It
Despite a growing body of research focused on women's experiences of menstruation in sports, most of this has been done by white women on white women and then applied to sportswomen from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Very rarely are the menstruation-related experiences of Black, Indigenous, and women of color considered, let alone the focus of such studies. To date, no research has explored Pacific sports women's experiences of menstru…
Rethinking nurses' observations
The intersectional turn in feminist theory
The authors of this response constitute a small, informal reading group of academics and doctoral students interested in engaging with intersectionality. Doctoral students were being urged to tackle intersectionality in their theoretical development, while academics recognised that their earlier feminist theoretical roots were rapidly becoming overwritten. A reading group met our need for sharing articles, ideas and critical analysis. After readi…
Balancing the high personal costs and rewards in providing foster care
Working around a contested diagnosis
This discourse analytic study sits at the intersection of everyday communications with young people in mental health settings and the enduring sociological critique of diagnoses in psychiatry. The diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is both contested and stigmatized, in mental health and general health settings. Its legitimacy is further contested within the specialist adolescent mental health setting. In this setting, clinicians f…
Implementing the Strengths Model of Case Management
My menstruation journey in sport was sad and lonely
This research examined the lived experiences of Pacific sportswomen living in Aotearoa New Zealand concerning menstruation and sport. This research looks into understanding how the different cultural beliefs and taboos on menstruation may impact a Pacific sportswoman's life. Pacific sportswomen in Aotearoa experience menstruation through an intersectional lens with their family and cultural values and practices, intersecting with gender to shape …
A Global Silence
Aboriginal women globally face extreme risk of violence and their exposure to domestic and family violence (DFV) and state sanctioned violence is increasing. Attention to the impact on Aboriginal mothering is lacking and is underpinned by issues of social justice. This study employs Critical Interpretive Synthesis to examine the evidence on Aboriginal mothering through DFV. Serrant-Green’s Silences Framework was used to structure the critique, un…
Rethinking nurses' observations
Vitamin D deficiency is endemic in Middle Eastern sportsmen
Objective While vitamin D deficiency is well recognized in Middle Eastern women as a result of cultural norms of remaining covered, Middle Eastern men are an under-reported group. Vitamin D is now known to have multiple effects, including an impact on muscle function, thereby increasing the relevance for sportsmen. The aim of the present study was to evaluate serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels in young male Middle Eastern athletes. Design…
Implementing the Strengths Model of Case Management
Working around a contested diagnosis
This discourse analytic study sits at the intersection of everyday communications with young people in mental health settings and the enduring sociological critique of diagnoses in psychiatry. The diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is both contested and stigmatized, in mental health and general health settings. Its legitimacy is further contested within the specialist adolescent mental health setting. In this setting, clinicians f…
Uses and abuses of recovery
An understanding of recovery as a personal and subjective experience has emerged within mental health systems. This meaning of recovery now underpins mental health policy in many countries. Developing a focus on this type of recovery will involve transformation within mental health systems. Human systems do not easily transform. In this paper, we identify seven mis-uses ("abuses") of the concept of recovery: recovery is the latest model; recovery…
The intersectional turn in feminist theory
The authors of this response constitute a small, informal reading group of academics and doctoral students interested in engaging with intersectionality. Doctoral students were being urged to tackle intersectionality in their theoretical development, while academics recognised that their earlier feminist theoretical roots were rapidly becoming overwritten. A reading group met our need for sharing articles, ideas and critical analysis. After readi…
Uses of strength-based interventions for people with serious mental illness
BACKGROUND: For the past 3 decades, mental health practitioners have increasingly adopted aspects and tools of strength-based approaches. Providing strength-based intervention and amplifying strengths relies heavily on effective interpersonal processes. AIM: This article is a critical review of research regarding the use of strength-based approaches in mental health service settings. The aim is to discuss strength-based interventions within broad…
Prevention-enhancing interactions
There is a growing interest in English-speaking jurisdictions, including Australia, North America, Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, about the prevention of sexual abuse perpetrated by children against other children. The aim of this review was to identify opportunities for research, policy and practice which could enhance the prevention agenda relating to the perpetration of sexual abuse by children through conducting a Critical Interp…
Safewards Impact in Inpatient Mental Health Units in Victoria, Australia
Introduction: Mental health professionals working in acute inpatient mental health wards are involved in a complex interplay between an espoused commitment by government and organizational policy to be recovery-oriented and a persistent culture of risk management and tolerance of restrictive practices. This tension is overlain on their own professional drive to deliver person-centered care and the challenging environment of inpatient wards. Safew…
Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia
Aims: Community-based residential alternatives to hospitalization are an emerging service model. Evidence for their acceptability and effectiveness is promising but limited. Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) services are one such residential model, offering short-term subacute treatment and care (usually between 7 and 28 days). PARC services in Victoria, Australia, are designed to support consumers with severe mental illness to either avoid a p…
Consumer Perspectives of Safewards Impact in Acute Inpatient Mental Health Wards in Victoria, Australia
Background: Inpatient mental health wards are reported by many consumers to be custodial, unsafe, and lacking in therapeutic relationships. These consumer experiences are concerning, given international policy directives requiring recovery-oriented practice. Safewards is both a model and a suite of interventions designed to improve safety for consumers and staff. Positive results in reducing seclusion have been reported. However, the voice of con…
Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia
Background: Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) services are relatively new sub-acute residential services that have supported people with mental ill-health in Victoria since 2003. Operated from a partnership model between non-governmental agencies and clinical mental health services, PARC services integrate intensive recovery-focused psychosocial input with clinical mental health care. Aim: To describe and contrast the 19 PARC services operating…
Drugs, Denial, and Deflection
Contemporaneously described as the unfortunate Games, the New Zealand team experience at the Munich Olympic Games was clouded by the Israeli hostage tragedy, and a series of controversies involving sex, amateurism and team mismanagement. However, the Munich Games also took place against an international background of overt political interference in sport and endemic drug use amongst athletes, juxtaposed with immature anti-doping systems. Using ar…
Disengagement Processes Within an Early Intervention Service for First-Episode Psychosis
Triangulating experiences of engagement across young people, caregivers, and clinicians allows for a comprehensive understanding of what precipitates service disengagement. This study demonstrates how early intervention services for first-episode psychosis are meeting the needs of young people and caregivers, and what areas warrant improvement. The needs of service users and patterns of disengagement vary. In turn, services must be flexible and r…
Changing considerations of matching foster carers and children
Contextual Barriers and Enablers to Safewards Implementation in Victoria, Australia
Background: Safewards is a complex psychosocial intervention designed to reduce conflict and containment on inpatient mental health units. There is mounting international evidence of the effectiveness and acceptability of Safewards. However, a significant challenge exists in promising interventions, such as Safewards, being translated into routine practice. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) provides a framework through…
We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’
Despite growing interest in the origins of sports medicine, there has been little academic attention paid to the development of healthcare in New Zealand sport. Using primary archival sources as well as contemporaneous literature from the post-world war period to the founding of the New Zealand Federation of Sports Medicine (NZFSM) in 1963, this manuscript addresses this knowledge gap. By the mid-twentieth century, public health in New Zealand ha…
A Global Silence
Aboriginal women globally face extreme risk of violence and their exposure to domestic and family violence (DFV) and state sanctioned violence is increasing. Attention to the impact on Aboriginal mothering is lacking and is underpinned by issues of social justice. This study employs Critical Interpretive Synthesis to examine the evidence on Aboriginal mothering through DFV. Serrant-Green’s Silences Framework was used to structure the critique, un…
Biological and Socio-Cultural Factors Have the Potential to Influence the Health and Performance of Elite Female Athletes
Health is a pre-requisite for optimal performance yet the parameters which govern health and performance of elite female athletes are little understood. The aim of this study was to quantify the health status of elite female athletes, and understand sociocultural factors influencing that status. The survey addressed demographic, health and athletic performance history, training load, contraceptive use, sport-specific appearance and performance pr…
The worst time of year in Rome for the Olympics’
The provision of medical support for athletes during the Olympic Games has been a feature of each Olympic event. Prior to 1960, medical services were largely utilitarian in nature, frequently relying on military medical services and focused on providing only the essential medical support to athletes, support staff and spectators during the games. However, the appointment of Professor Luigi Gedda to lead the Medical and Scientific Committee for Ro…
Who Walked against Time’
During the nineteenth century, both medicine and sport were transitioning into recognizably modern identities but no formal relationship between the two existed. It has been suggested that the medical profession had little engagement with sport during this period. One sport that was particularly popular during the nineteenth century was pedestrianism in which athletes performed a range of endurance walking challenges for money and fame. While it …
Our Wished‐for Responses
BACKGROUND: Medical interventions have a place in crisis support; however, narrow biomedical and risk-driven responses negatively impact people seeking crisis care. With increasing shifts towards involving people with lived experience (service users) in designing services, foregrounding people's desired responses is critical. Accordingly, the aim of the study was to explore the wished-for crisis responses from the perspective of people who have e…
Exploring the lived experience of receiving mental health crisis care at emergency departments, crisis phone lines and crisis care alternatives
BACKGROUND: Mental health crisis care includes emergency departments (EDs), crisis phone lines and crisis alternatives. Currently, there is an overreliance on EDs to provide mental health crisis care, with evidence that responses are often inadequate to meet the needs of people experiencing mental health crises. However, the complexities of how individuals experience crisis care across the varying contexts of EDs, crisis phone lines and crisis al…
It's Such a Taboo Subject, Everybody's Scared to Talk About It
Despite a growing body of research focused on women's experiences of menstruation in sports, most of this has been done by white women on white women and then applied to sportswomen from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Very rarely are the menstruation-related experiences of Black, Indigenous, and women of color considered, let alone the focus of such studies. To date, no research has explored Pacific sports women's experiences of menstru…
Foundations of the Alive National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation
The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation was established in 2021. Funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council's Special Initiative in Mental Health, the Centre aims to foster innovation in mental health care. Central to this aim is embedding the voices of those with lived experience into all Centre structures and activities including leadership and co-design of research priorities for mental healt…
Medicine (23 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Mental health (16 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (13 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Psychiatric care and mental health services (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychological intervention (9 works) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (7 works)