The Mental Health Emergency Care-Rural Access Programme (MHEC) aims to improve access to specialist emergency mental health care in rural and remote communities in New South Wales. It provides a range of services including emergency telephone triage and video assessment. The present report provides a detailed description of the structure and function of the MHEC model, and identifies matters concerning adaptation and transferability. Structure: the MHEC can be contacted 24 hours/day, every day of the year; no caller is refused assistance. Function: the MHEC provides information services, clinical services and other programme activities. Adaptation of the model and implementation elsewhere (transferability) should be informed by local needs, existing practices and the components of access. The programme has already attracted the attention of two other regions in Australia interested in implementing emergency telepsychiatry programmes. The MHEC model is a practical solution for improving access to specialist emergency mental health care in underserved areas.
Photogrammetry is being used in several industries for creating digital 3-dimensional models of objects. Oblique aerial images are taken from an airplane or spacecraft. The technique involves taking multiple pictures of the same site from several angles, thus allowing interpretations to be made regarding surface elevations. The resulting images can be stitched together to form a topographical map using photogrammetric software. An experiment was conducted in this study to examine the variance between topographic maps created from oblique aerial imagery and traditional land survey methods. In this research, 165 high-resolution oblique aerial images were used to create a topographical surface map for a potential construction site. A land survey using traditional methods was conducted to produce a topographical map of the same area. Comparisons were made between the two topographical surfaces. Results from the experiment showed significant variance between the two topographical surface leading to the conclusion that oblique aerial images cannot be used to replace traditional land surveys to create topographical maps for construction purposes.
The primary focus of both theatre and therapy is the same: human behavior. Dramatic action generally stems from a movement toward or an avoidance of change in behavior—the same process that characterizes a dynamic therapy. The actor and the director confront human action in the text of the drama. In the development of a score for performance, they adapt immediate and ongoing behavior to this action. Behavior is suggested, represented, experienced; the entire range of human response is available as a source for creation and discovery in performance. The function of criticism and acting training is to provide systems to analyze patterns of action—in the text and in the related experience of the performer. Traditional analysis has nearly always been external, treating behavior as an artifact that can be schematized, predicted, fixed, kept in a limbo between past and present.
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