Introducing Richard Lakeman

Hello and welcome! I am a mental health nurse and psychotherapist by professional background. I am presently working as an Associate Professor  at  Southern Cross University on the Gold Coast. I am the course coordinator for SCU-Online postgraduate mental health programmes. 

I set up this site to share a little about myself and some of the work that I have been involved in. I am passionate about psychotherapy and promoting psychotherapeutic skill development for all work in mental health. There are quite a lot of resources on this site that you may download. I have written and presented on topics such as advanced empathy, professional ethics, pharmaco-centrism, using the internet in mental health care, clinical supervision, discrimination, suicide, hearing voices, dealing with death and mental health recovery.  Most recently I have been exploring DBT a treatment for BPD and the impacts of student evaluation of teaching.

You may be interested in software packages to assist with learning drug calculations and creating and administering on-line tests and research instruments.

You are very welcome to explore these pages and where possible I have provided links to resources which you are welcome to use.