Tim is a 17 year old, year 11 high school student.
This webinar follows Tim’s interactions with a psychologist and a psychiatrist after seeing his GP at his mother’s insistence. She is concerned about his irritability, argumentativeness, disinterest with school, and relationships with his friends.
This is the first webinar in a series of two focusing on adolescent mental health.
Learning outcomes:
By watching this webinar you will be develop an improved understanding of:
- discipline specific approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and management of an adolescent mental health presentation with features of depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying.
- the ways in which mental health interdisciplinary collaboration contributes to better patient outcomes.
Facilitator
Dr Ajeet Singh
Profession:
Psychiatrist
Dr Singh is a private psychiatrist based at The Geelong Clinic, with interests in mood disorders and early memory loss. He is involved with the curriculum development of Australia's newest medical school at Deakin University where he is a senior lecturer.
Interactive online education is a major component of this new medical school. He is also the founder of a regional mental health political lobby group GMHPN.
Panellists
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Dr Peter Parry
Qualifications:
MBBS, FRANZCP, Cert Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (RANZCP)
Profession:
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Dr Peter Parry is a child & adolescent psychiatrist with the Southern Adelaide Health Service – CAMHS, and a senior lecturer at Flinders University. He graduated from Adelaide Medical School in 1983, was a medical officer in the Royal Australian Navy, general practitioner and worked in palliative care before training in psychiatry from 1990 at Glenside Hospital in South Australia.
Since 1995 Peter has worked in both inpatient and outpatient CAMHS services in South Australia and the UK. He has an interest in mindfulness based psychotherapy, developmental psychology and the models underpinning psychiatric diagnosis and has published on the controversy surrounding the diagnosis of paediatric bipolar disorder in the USA.
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Dr Michael Carr-Gregg
Qualifications:
PhD MAPS
Profession:
Adolescent psychologist
Based in:
Kew, Melbourne, Victoria
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is an adolescent psychologist working in private practice in Kew, Melbourne. He has held a variety of appointments including:
- Executive Director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation and Director of the Centre for Social Health at the University of Melbourne
- Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne (1993).
In addition to being the Agony Uncle for Girlfriend Magazine for the last 6 years, Michael is also the parenting expert for Channel 7's Sunrise and the Morning Show, and is a social commentator on Fairfax radio 3AW.
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Dr Stephen Carbone
Profession:
General Practitioner
Based in:
Melbourne, Victoria
Dr Stephen Carbone is a Melbourne-based GP with a specialist interest in, and experience working in, the mental health field. He currently works part time in general practice and is employed part time as a policy advisor with headspace, the National Youth Mental Health Initiative.
Participants at the webinar provided the following feedback:
Learning needs
99% indicated their learning needs were either “entirely met” or “partially met”.
Relevance to practice
98% indicated the webinar was either “entirely relevant” or “partially relevant” to their practice.
Practice change
48% intend to make changes to their practice as a result of watching the webinar.
This webinar was produced in
December 2010. The Mental Health Professionals’ Network’s webinars are produced for mental health professionals. The information is intended for suitably-experienced mental health professionals and does not replace clinical judgement and decision making. It is intended for use as a guide of a general nature only and may or may not be relevant to particular patients or circumstances. The subject matter is not exhaustive of any mental health conditions presented. Health professionals implementing any recommendations contained in the webinar must exercise their own independent skill or judgement or seek appropriate professional advice relevant to their own particular circumstances when so doing. Any information presented in the webinar recording was deemed relevant at the time of the live event and after this date has not been reviewed. No guarantee can be given that the information is free from error or omission.
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