Psycho-Social Update: A quarterly newsletter of IPP-SHR, Central Queensland University, Australia

<div>‘Psycho-Social Update’ is a newsletter from the International</div><div>Program of Psycho-Social Health Research IPP-SHR, Central Queensland University, circulated four times a year to an international audience of service providers, policy makers and academics with an interest in the human experience of serious illness.</div><div><br></div><div><div>The aim of the newsletter is to translate the wealth of research findings available in the academic psycho-social</div><div>health literature into lay summaries that can be useful for service delivery and health policy. The newsletter also showcases the diversity of excellent psycho-social program</div><div>initiatives designed by practitioners and organisations to assist people to deal with the many challenges associated with serious physical and/ or mental illness. </div></div><div><br></div><div><div>The newsletter celebrates the fact that psycho-social research is now a well established discipline that is ‘making a difference’ in the real world of health care. </div></div>