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With calls for help increasing at a rapid rate, mental health care has fast become one of the most in-demand services.

To assist mental health professionals, wellbeing workers and business owners to provide quality means of support, we have developed the Mental Health Masterclass. This series of six online classes have been designed to inform, engage and support you to care for others and yourself.

Each Masterclass will see you gain practical tools, valuable advice and insight via two 30-minute presentations by expert speakers, with live Q&A sessions.

Learn practical self-care techniques to improve mental wellbeing for yourself and your clients.

DATES & TIMES Webinar Schedules

Masterclass 1 | Transitioning to Telehealth: What You Need to Know

23 April 2020

Discover more about the world of digital health and gain well-rounded insight on telehealth services.

12:00 - 12:45 (AEST)
Dr Silvia Pfeiffer

Dr Silvia Pfeiffer

Transition To Telehealth; Who? What? When?

30min session followed by 15mins of Q&A
Learn about the basics of telehealth, including services, methods of delivery, benefits, challenges and opportunities.

12:45 - 13:30 (AEST)
Professor Anthony Smith

Professor Anthony Smith

Transition To Telehealth; How?

30min session followed by 15mins of Q&A

Discover how organisations are making the transition into delivering telehealth services and how you start moving into the digital space

Masterclass 2 | WORKING AT HOME? Tools to Increase Productivity and Motivation

7 May 2020

Resources, advice and tips for working productively from home.

12.00pm - 12.45pm (AEST)
Mr Rob Rawson

Mr Rob Rawson

How to Keep Your Remote Workers Productive & Motivated

30 min presentation followed by 15 mins of Q&A

12.45pm - 1.30pm (AEST)
Mrs Lucy Brogden

Mrs Lucy Brogden

Tools and Tips for Effective Home Schooling

30 min presentation followed by 15 min of Q&A

Masterclass 3 | Family Violence During Isolation: What is Your Role?

21 May 2020

How you can best support those impacted by domestic and family violence in the home during periods of isolation.

12.00pm - 12.45pm (AEST)
Lara Steel

Lara Steel

Adapting DFV Practices to COVID-19

30 min presentation followed by 15 min of Q&A

12.45pm - 1.30pm (AEST)
Ms Patricia Kinnersly

Ms Patricia Kinnersly

What are the Common Themes and Issues Identified in Relation to DFV and COVID-19?

30 min presentation followed by 15 min of Q&A

Masterclass 4 | Addictions Arising in Isolation: Preparing for What’s Ahead

4 June 2020

How addiction can be formed during isolation - and its long term implications.

12:00 - 12:45 (AEST)
Dr Tim MacDonald

Dr Tim MacDonald

Current & Future Issues Relating to AOD and COVID-19

30 min presentation followed by 15 min of Q&A

12:45 - 13:30 (AEST)
Dr Joanne Orlando

Dr Joanne Orlando

Digital Addiction in Youths: How Should We Plan for the Post-Pandemic Aftermath?

30 min presentation followed by 15 min of Q&A

Masterclass 5 | The Mental Health of our Essential Services: What is Your Role?

18 June 2020

How you can best support the mental health of essential workers during times of high stress and increased demand.

12:00 - 12:45 (AEST)
Erin Smith

Erin Smith

Lessons Learnt from COVID-19 for our First Responders: Understanding the Complexities of PTSD

Learn:

  • How to prevent post traumatic stress symptoms from becoming post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • How support provided by families can be a vital protective factor.
  • Why families of first responders need to be more actively included in mental health conversations and educational initiatives
  • How families can be supported as they live alongside PTSD

30 min presentation followed by 15 min of Q&A

12:45 - 13:30 (AEST)
Dr Jocelyn Lowinger

Dr Jocelyn Lowinger

Burn-Out Prevention for Essential Services

Discover:

 

• The key concepts of workplace stress, burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue in health and community services

• What ‘resilience’ is and how it can be achieved

• How can you learn to recognise and access signs of stress and trauma

• Examples of self-test activities to gauge degree of personal self care

• Examples of research based practices known to enhance wellbeing

• The first steps towards creating a personal and professional self-care plan

 

30 min presentation followed by 15 min of Q&A

Masterclass 6 | The Future of Mental Health: Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Aftermath

2 July 2020

How COVID-19 has impacted our mental health and its long-term effects on future wellbeing.

12:00 - 12:45 (AEST)
Professor Nick Titov

Professor Nick Titov

Tips for Navigating the Future, Based on What We Know About the Impact of COVID-19

  1. History of Pandemics: Impact on society and mental health
  2. Current Status: Australia and Global
  3. Modelling the Future: 3 Possible Scenarios
  4. Implications for Mental Health Services
  5. Q & A

30 min presentation followed by 15 min of Q&A

12:45 - 13:30 (AEST)
Dr Ruth Vine

Dr Ruth Vine

Post Pandemic Mental Health: Navigating Through A New Era

The Coronavirus pandemic has had, and will continue to have, significant impacts on Australians.

Many people are already experiencing loneliness, stress, anxiety and concern.

Dr Ruth Vine will examine the government’s COVID-19 mental health response, and share insights in planning for the post COVID-19 era.

30 min presentation followed by 15 min of Q&A

GET INVOLVED Who Should Attend?

Clinicians & Mental Health Professionals

Social Service & Peer Support Workers

Psychologists, Psychiatrists & Therapists

Government Representatives & Workers

Business Owners, Managers & Directors

Employers & Employees

LISTEN TO THE Event Speakers

Dr Silvia Pfeiffer

CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, COVIU

 Dr Silvia Pfeiffer

Dr Silvia Pfeiffer

CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, COVIU

 

Silvia is a repeat entrepreneur, previously having founded a web video analytics company and now Coviu, a telehealth turnkey solution for private practice. Coviu is a spinout from CSIRO’s Data61 and is an innovator in telehealth. It does so by providing medical tools in a video visit that give clinicians superpowers.

Silvia has more than 15 years of experience with web video businesses having worked in technology innovation for Google, Mozilla, NICTA, and CSIRO. Silvia has a PhD in computer science, a master’s in business management, has published two books on HTML5 video and most recently one for healthcare businesses to help them set up video consultations sustainably.

Professor Anthony Smith

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

 Professor Anthony Smith

Professor Anthony Smith

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

 

Professor Anthony Smith is Director of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH). He is also an Adjunct Professor of Digital Health and Telehealth at the University of Southern Denmark, in Odense, Denmark.

Professor Smith has around 20 years research experience mainly focussed on the planning, implementation and evaluation of new telehealth applications for clinicians and patients - in metropolitan, regional and remote areas.

Professor Smith has developed and sustained an exemplary international track record in the establishment and evaluation of telehealth, principally in paediatrics and more recently in the adult and aged care disciplines. In collaboration with the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane, he was instrumental in establishing and managing the Queensland Telepaediatric Service (QTS) from 2000 to 2015. During this time over 23,000 teleconsultations were provided for children all throughout Queensland – in specialties including burns care, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, neurology, orthopaedics and psychiatry.

Mr Rob Rawson

FOUNDER & CEO, TIME DOCTOR

 Mr Rob Rawson

Mr Rob Rawson

FOUNDER & CEO, TIME DOCTOR

 

Rob Rawson is a former medical doctor and now runs a software business with a completely remote team with over 90 people all working from home. Rob will share his tips about effective remote work from over 10 years of experience working with remote teams.

Mrs Lucy Brogden

CHAIR, NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION & THE MENTALLY HEALTHY WORKPLACE ALLIANCE

 Mrs Lucy Brogden

Mrs Lucy Brogden

CHAIR, NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION & THE MENTALLY HEALTHY WORKPLACE ALLIANCE

 

Lucy brings to the Commission extensive experience in psychology and has a strong commitment to helping others and building stronger communities.

Lucy's primary areas of focus are issues facing Mental Health and Wellbeing particularly in the workplace and the community. She takes an evidence based approach to problem solving and social investment.

Lucy has more than 25 years' commercial experience with companies including Macquarie Group and Ernst & Young and more than ten years in organisational psychology.

Dr Tim MacDonald

Unit Director (Dual Diagnosis), Currumbin Clinic

 Dr Tim MacDonald

Dr Tim MacDonald

Unit Director (Dual Diagnosis), Currumbin Clinic

 

Dr MacDonald is a Consultation-Liaison and Addiction Psychiatrist affiliated with Griffith University as a Senior Lecturer, and works full time as the Unit Director (Dual Diagnosis) at Currumbin Clinic. He graduated with first class honours from Monash University and with the Geoff Conron Prize in Psychiatry. He is a Committee Member for the Queensland Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry, an Opioid Treatment Program prescriber in QLD and NSW, is a reviewer and editor for numerous domestic and international journals, and has led clinical trials and observational studies in the private sector.

Dr Joanne Orlando

Leading International Expert on Family and Digital Lifestyle

 Dr Joanne Orlando

Dr Joanne Orlando

Leading International Expert on Family and Digital Lifestyle

 

Dr Joanne Orlando (PhD) is a leading international expert on family and digital lifestyle.

Digital balance and empowerment is Joanne’s key message. Her cutting-edge insight and practical solutions support children and families to confidently manage today’s most pressing digital wellbeing issues. Joanne guides on how to balance the ever-changing challenges that technology poses alongside with leveraging the opportunities it facilitates for learning and life. Joanne is a speaker, consultant to industry, and commentator in the media worldwide. Her TechClever courses for schools and parents foster confidence and strategies for managing the stress and tensions that our technology use can bring.

Professor Nick Titov

Director, Department of Psychology

 Professor Nick Titov

Professor Nick Titov

Director, Department of Psychology

 

MindSpot, MQ Health, Macquarie University

Professor Nick Titov is committed to developing and delivering high quality psychological treatments. Nick is Co-Director of the eCentreClinic, a research unit that develops and evaluates digital mental health services. Nick has co-developed more than 15 online psychological interventions. These have been evaluated in more than 80 clinical trials of internet-delivered treatments involving more than 9,000 people across four countries. He has published more than 175 peer reviewed articles and has received more than $65M in project and research funding.

Nick is also Executive Director of MindSpot, at MQ Health, Macquarie University. MindSpot operates two digital mental health clinics, the MindSpot Clinic and PORTS which serve 25,000 Australians per year. Nick also provides advice and support for organisations developing and delivering digital mental health services in Australia as well as in other countries.

Dr Ruth Vine

Mental Health Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health

 Dr Ruth Vine

Dr Ruth Vine

Mental Health Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health

 

Dr Ruth Vine is Australia’s first Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Mental Health. Ruth provides policy advice on critical mental health issues impacting the Australian community due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and champions Commonwealth policy development and implementation activities to better integrate the Australian mental health system.
Ruth is a consultant psychiatrist and has more than 25 years’ experience. Ruth has worked for the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, and has held positions of Deputy Chief Psychiatrist, Chief Psychiatrist and Director of Mental Health. She has chaired the AHMAC National Mental Health Standing Committee, the National Mental Health Workforce Committee, and National Safety and Quality Committee.
Previously, Ruth was the Executive Director of NorthWestern Mental Health, a division of Melbourne Health from 2013 to 2019. NorthWestern Mental Health is the largest mental health service in Victoria, covering a population of approximately 1.4 million people across a number of growth corridors.
Ruth is a member of the Board of Forensicare, the Board of Mind, and the Medical Practitioners Board (Victoria).
Ruth holds a Bachelor of Medicine from Melbourne University, a Bachelor of Laws from La Trobe University, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

 

Dr Jocelyn Lowinger

Founder, The Doctor’s Coach

 Dr Jocelyn Lowinger

Dr Jocelyn Lowinger

Founder, The Doctor’s Coach

 

Dr Jocelyn Lowinger has been a doctor for 25 years. She has an Honours degree in Medicine (1994) and a Master of Science degree in Coaching Psychology (2019). As a doctor, Jocelyn has worked across a range of medical settings including general practice, public health, and health communication and now works in medical professional development. In 2018 Jocelyn started Coach GP, a coaching practice focused on building wellbeing in health professionals including helping them build leadership skills, confidence, and manage career transitions. Jocelyn’s passion is to help people become more self-authored and build skills in managing complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity – skills vital for preventing burnout.

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