Ms Cath Roper
Consumer Academic
Tel : +61 3 8344 9455Fax : +61 3 9347 4375
Email : croper@unimelb.edu.au
Brief CV
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2000 - Current |
Consumer Academic, Centre for Psychiatric Nursing |
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2000 |
Sessional teacher Eastern Region Mental Health Association |
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1995-1999 |
Consumer Consultant Inner West, Midwest Area Mental Health Services |
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts La Trobe University
- Diploma in Education, University of Melbourne
Research Projects - Current
Name of granting body: Australian College of Mental Health Nursing
Identifying the Right Patient: Nurse and Patient Perspectives on How to Verify Patient Identity During Medication AdministrationPrincipal researcher: Ms Teresa Kelly, Centre for Psychiatric Nursing
Role: Consumer researcher
Granting body: Australian College of Mental Health Nursing
Consumer Narratives for Evaluation of the Strengths Model of Case Management
Principal Researcher: Dr Bridget Hamilton, Director of Nursing, St Vincent’s Mental Health Program
Role: Associate researcher
Granting body: Department of Human Services, Mental Health and Drugs Division, Victorian Government
Consumer Workforce Study
Principal researcher: Ms Wanda Bennetts
Role Reference group member
Granting body: Department of Human Services, Mental Health and Drugs Division, Victorian Government
Insider Evaluation, Consumer and Carer Experience of Care project, participant experiences
Principal researchers, Dr Peter McKenzie, (Carer Academic) and Ms Cath Roper
Granting body: Department of Human Services, Mental Health and Drugs Division, Victorian Government
Research Projects - Recent
Research title: A User-Derived Evaluation Framework for Mental Health Services: Does routine outcome measurement satisfy the objectives of service users
Principal researcher: Associate Professor Brenda Happell
Role: consumer researcher
Journal Articles
Happell, B., Roper, C., (in press 2008), Promoting genuine consumer participation in mental health education: A consumer academic role, Nurse Education Today
Roper, C. Happell, B. (2007) Reflection without Shame—Reflection without Blame: Towards a More Collaborative Understanding Between Mental Health Consumers and Nurses. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, Volume 14, Number 1: 85-91
Happell B, Roper C. (2007), Consumer participation in mental health research: Articulating a model to guide practice. Australasian Psychiatry, 15:237-41.
Hamilton B., Roper, C., (2006) Troubling ‘insight’: Power and possibilities in mental health, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 13, 416-422
Happell, B., Manias, E., Roper, C., (2004) Wanting to be Heard: Mental Health consumers’ Experiences of Information about Medication, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 13, 4: 242-248
Happell B., and Roper C., (2003)The role of a mental health consumer in the education of postgraduate psychiatric nursing students: the students' evaluation, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing; Volume 10, Issue 3, Page 343.
Published Books
Happell, B., Cowin, L, Roper, C., Foster, K., & McMaster, R., (2008), Introducing Mental Health Nursing, a consumer – oriented approach, Allen & Unwin, NSW
Meadows, G., Singh, B., Grigg, M., (2007) Mental Health in Australia, Self-help, Peer Support and Consumer Delivered Services, p195 -198, Oxford University Press, Sth Melbourne Australia
Roper, C (ed), (2003), Sight Unseen, Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice, Melbourne Australia