Webinars

Webinars

The Therapeutic Alliance: Engaging young people (January 2018)

This webinar will discuss the therapeutic alliance, a key element in engaging young people in mental health treatment. Although it is well known that building a collaborative relationship with clients is fundamental to effective treatment, this becomes a challenge when aspects of the client’s presentation, context or circumstances lead to ruptures, or breakdowns in the quality of the alliance between clinician and client. This webinar will explore a number of evidence based models of managing challenges in engagement and provide information about the skills needed to build more effective therapeutic relationships with young people.

Prescribing challenges in youth mental health treatment (December 2016)

This webinar will look at the risks and benefits of prescribing medication as part of the treatment for young people with mental health issues The presenter will explore how to manage the preferences and expectations of young people and their families regarding medication use. Consideration will be given to negotiating situations where the young person’s treatment preferences do not align with professional opinions on medication use.

Working with clinical complexity in young people with mental ill-health (September 2016)

Working with clinical complexity in young people can be quite challenging for clinicians. This webinar will focus on clinical work with young people who present with complex issues who may be difficult to engage. The presenter will explore the principles underpinning a biopsychosocial assessment and clinical complexity, with a particular focus on practical and useful strategies for engagement of the young person, along with related clinical insights.

Assessing and working with anger issues in young people (March 2016)

This webinar will focus on detecting and working with anger issues in young people who are engaged with mental health services. It will explore problematic anger and its impact on young people, and the importance of early intervention. The webinar will provide an assessment framework and an overview of the current available evidence for anger interventions.

Engaging young men in mental health settings (February 2016)

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports that one in four young people will experience a mental health or substance use problem. In spite of this, rates of help-seeking among young Australians, and particularly among young men, remain low. This webinar will review the current literature on this issue and examine barriers and facilitators to young men’s access to care. It will focus on mechanisms to engage with young men who are seeking help and discuss factors that may encourage young men to seek help in the future.

Clinical complexity