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Professor Graham Martin works as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with skills in individual and family therapy. His research interests are in Early Intervention and Promotion of Mental Health with special reference to prevention of suicide in young people Professor Graham Martin is Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of Queensland, and Clinical Director, Royal Children’s Hospital and Health Service District, Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS).
From 1986 to 2001 he was Executive Director of Southern Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Adelaide, and claims to be primarily a clinician and only latterly a researcher, writer and commentator. Twenty-five years of clinical immersion in systemic practice, family therapy teaching, and clinician supervision now underpins the development of preventive programs in mental illness, and programs for the promotion of mental health in families, communities, schools, the defence force cadets and other systems.
Graham is a member of the National Advisory Board for the Australian ˆLiFe’ Suicide Prevention Strategy, and was a member of the writing group for the National Strategy. In addition he is a member of the National Media and Mental Health Committee, the Evaluation Working Group for the Mind Matters programs, the Queensland Expert Advisory Group on Suicide Prevention and the Steering Committee for the Queensland Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health. He was made a Life member of Suicide Prevention Australia in 2004, a Gold Companion for the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund in 2005, and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2006 for services to psychiatry, the development of child and adolescent services, teaching, and suicide prevention. He has recently become a member of the Board of Boys Town.
From its inception in 1997, he was one of the originators of the Auseinet program and was Director of the Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention until moving to Queensland in 2001. He remains actively involved with Auseinet as a Board member and as Editor-in-Chief of the online journal AeJAMH – the Australian eJournal for the Advancement of Mental Health.
Graham is one of the editors of “Mental Health Promotion and Young People: Concepts and Challenges” (McGraw Hill, Sydney), recently published in Italian, and currently being translated into Korean.
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