Alan Robins

Lecturer - Mental Health

GS312
Ph: +61 3 9479 3814
Fx: +61 3 9479 5988
Email: a.robins@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications:

B.A., R.P.N., Grad Dip Pub Pol., M.Ed (Prelim)., M.S.W.(Hum Serv M'ment), M.H.N., M.A.N.Z.C.M.H.N., Role Trainer, M.A.N.Z.P.A., M.I.A.G.P. 

Nursing Background:

Alan has come to La Trobe Nursing Studies Unit from an extensive clinical background. He has been employed predominantly in mental health areas having worked in Aged, Adult, Child and Adolescent services as well as Alcohol and Drug services. Alan's research interests include housing for persons with severe mental illness, alcohol related road trauma and dual diagnosis.

Current Research:

• Psychiatric Nurse Education: past, present and future (Robins, A. & Edward, K.)
• PhD (in progress) The New Asylum
  This study utilises grounded theory to examine the effects of deinstitutionalisation on persons suffering from severe mental illness.
• Length of Clinical Placements as an indicator for uptake of Psychiatric Nursing (Robins, A. & Happell, B.)

Conference Presentations:

• Promoting Psychiatric Nursing to undergraduates: does more theory do the trick?
• Psychiatric nurse education: past present and future.