Nationality Australian Residence Melbourne, Australia Name Betty Kitchener | Children Two Spouse(s) Anthony Jorm | |
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Full Name Betty Ann Kitchener Known for Educator, mental health consumer advocate Website Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Australia Books Youth Mental Health Fir, Teen Mental Health Fir, Mental Health First Aid Manual, Mental Health First Aid: A Su, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isla |
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Betty Ann Kitchener AM (born 1951) is an Australian mental health educator who founded mental health first aid training.
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- Mental health first aid s betty kitchener on helping those with signs of mental illness r u ok
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- Career
- Community activism
- Awards and honours
- Publications
- References
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Career
Betty Kitchener trained as a teacher, counsellor and nurse. She is also a mental health consumer advocate, having experienced recurrent major depression. She has held academic appointments at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne. She is currently CEO of Mental Health First Aid Australia. She holds an honorary Adjunct Professorship at Deakin University.
Community activism
In 2000, she founded Mental Health First Aid training in Canberra, together with her husband Anthony Jorm, who is a mental health researcher. Mental Health First Aid is a 12-hour face-to-face training program for members of the public to learn how to provide initial assistance to someone developing a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis (e.g. they are suicidal). This program spread across Australia and by 2011 over 170,000 Australian adults had received the training (1% of the country’s adult population). By 2015, this had reached 350,000. The training has been adapted to various cultural groups in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Vietnamese Australians and Chinese Australians. The training program has spread to many other countries, including Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Malta, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United States, and Wales. By 2016, 1.7 million persons had been trained in Mental Health First Aid globally.
Awards and honours
Kitchener has received many awards and honours for her work on Mental Health First Aid, including:
Publications
Some of her publications are the following: