Some of the professional development opportunities available in July. Comment below or email the library if you would like to add anything.
Toolkit
additions
Dovetail’s Working with Families and
Significant Others
The newest
addition to Dovetail’s excellent “Youth alcohol and drug good practice guide”
series
From Dovetail, “This guide aims to outline
a broad range of approaches and strategies that could be a part of a family
responsive approach to working with young people, and to address some of the
specific barriers to implementing this approach in practice.”
Establishing the Connection: Guidelines for
the practitioners and clinicians in the sexual assault and alcohol and other
drug sectors
These
guidelines have been developed to build the capacity of workers in the sexual assault
and alcohol and other drug (AOD) sectors in Victoria to support shared clients who
experience both sexual assault trauma and substance use issues.
Write –
presentations and papers
Australian Long-term Unemployment
Conference
Authors or
organisations interested in submitting a paper or poster at the 3rd Australian
Long-Term Unemployment Conference are invited to submit an abstract of no more
than 300 words outlining the aims, contents and conclusions of their paper or
presentation.
All
proposals will be reviewed by the program committee. Presentations will be
selected to provide a program that offers a comprehensive and diverse treatment
of issues related to the conference theme. Authors will be notified by e-mail
of the outcome of their abstract submission.
Submissions close: 11th August
Read –
professional reading
Jääskeläinen,
M., Holmila, M., Notkola, I. -L., and Raitasalo, K. (2016) Mental disorders and harmful substance use in children of substance
abusing parents: A longitudinal register-based study on a complete birth cohort
born in 1991. Drug and Alcohol Review
Kilcullen,
M., Swinbourne, A. and Cadet-James, Y. (2016), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Well-Being:
Implications for a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Framework. Australian
Psychologist.
Attend –
informal learning sessions, journal club, seminar series
Journal club (available to Healthy Options
workers only)
Internal
professional development session held in the Annerley boardroom and via Skype
meeting.
July’s
journal club will be presented by the CAFSS Qld team.
Date: 22nd July, 12.30pm AEST
COPMI e-learning courses
The Children
of Parents with a Mental Illness (COPMI) national initiative offer interactive
eLearning courses to professionals in mental health and allied health areas who
are in key positions where they can assist parents who have a mental illness,
their children and families. Courses are
free, online and self-paced
Courses
include:
Child Aware
practice: This introductory course encourages professionals to understand and
talk with parents about the impact of adult problems on children and the role
of parents in supporting the safety, wellbeing and development of children.
These things should be considered in all service settings - whether you're
working with adults, children or families.
Keeping
families and children in mind: An introductory course supports learners to
understand the impact of parental mental illness on the family unit and to recognise
the benefits of a family-sensitive approach to working with families where a
parent has a mental illness.
Supporting
infants and toddlers: This introductory course helps participants to understand
the impact of mental illness on the family through the antenatal period. It
assists the learner to grasp attachment and principles of sensitive
communication with parents regarding the needs of their children.
Let’s talk
about children: Provides training in a brief, evidence-based method that is
designed to support mental health professionals to talk with parents who
experience mental illness about parenting and their child’s needs.
Family
focus: Provides training in an evidence-based family intervention designed to
promote family communication and problem solving around the experience of
parental mental illness.
Child Aware
supervision: Extends the 'Child Aware practice' course and provides training
for team leaders and supervisors in strategies that they can apply to promote
child and family-sensitive practices in their service.
Duration: 90mins – 3hr/course
Listen –
podcasts, webinars
Early intervention and support for people
who experience workplace bullying - Webinar
Mental
Health Professionals’ Network presents this webinar on how collaborative mental
health care and early intervention may help support people who are experiencing
bullying in the workplace.
When: 7.15-8.30pm, 27th July
(Registration before the 26th)
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