'Psychosocial Disability' and 'Complex Mental Health':
A Co-Design Perspective
Wednesday 11 June 2025, 12.30-1.30pm AEST via Zoom
The National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum (NMHCCF) hosted a webinar titled 'Psychosocial Disability' and 'Complex Mental Health': A Co-Design Perspective.
181 attendees joined us for an engaging and insightful webinar where we explored:
- Distinguishing psychosocial disability from complex mental health, and why the psychosocial disability sector is now the key policy space due to the failures of the mental health system.
- Determining the systemic gaps and providing practical approaches to co-design psychosocial supports, guided by lived experience perspectives.
- Pivoting out of the medical model and into a rights-based social and relational model of care in a mindful manner, one that is led by lived experience.
Guest panellists included:
- Helen Day – Consumer Perspective
- Carolyn Nikoloski – CEO, Mental Health Australia
- Terri Warner – Lived Experience (Consumer Perspective) Researcher, Educator, and Advocate
- Cathy O’Toole – President, Community Mental Health Australia
- Alex Li – Carer Perspective
- Leilani Darwin – Owner and Founder, First Nations Co.
The webinar attracted 431 registrations, with 54.5% of these identified as someone with a mental health Lived Experience. Of these, 65.1% identified as consumers and 34.9% identified as carers. There was a wide showing across Australia, as well as a large representation of sectors, with:
- 138 people registering as government workers,
- 118 people working in advocacy,
- 65 people identifying as part of the peer workforce,
- 46 people in clinical services,
- 32 in education/research,
- 30 from the private sector, and
- 2 people working in accreditation/audit/quality.
You may view the full recording above and it would be great if you could circulate this page throughout your networks.
Additionally, below you will see the webinar slides as well as the Outcome Report from the National Psychosocial Disability Roundtable held on 20 June 2024, which complements the content of this webinar:
Webinar Slides
Outcome Report - National Psychosocial Disability Roundtable
