Events

This workshop will focus on how to adapt mental health therapy to make it more accessible and effective for autistic adults. Learning will include: Introduction to neurodiversity affirming practice. Key life stages, transitions and experiences that might contribute to autistic adults accessing therapy. Lived experience and evidence-based perspectives on adapting psychotherapy for autistic adults. Case examples and practical strategies to integrate into your clinical practice.

This one-day workshop will focus on the rationale for and how we effectively support and work with families, carers and supporters of young people with mental health challenges. This workshop will be helpful for a broad range of mental health practitioners and lived experience workforces working in child and youth mental health services.

This session will cover key considerations such as addressing barriers, initiating conversations and navigating care pathways.

School attendance has been described as a key benchmark of adaptive functioning in children and adolescence. While school refusal is often considered a semi-emergency in psychiatric settings given the lasting impact of persistent non-attendance from school.

The connection between childhood experiences, the brain and development into adulthood. The training will focus on how these adverse occurrences/traumas impact mental health, physical health and how substance use plays a part in the developing body and brain.

This advanced workshop is designed for mental health practitioners looking to apply a community engagement lens to their practice, or those working in mental health settings looking to engage with diverse communities around mental health and wellbeing.

The ADI-R is a semi-structured diagnostic interview to assess behaviours related to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The ADI-R typically takes between 90 minutes to 3 hours. The course is designed to teach clinicians how to administer and code ADI-R with parents/carers of children and young people with suspected autism.

The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Second Edition (ADOS-2) is a semi-structured, standardised assessment of communication, social interaction, and play. It provides a series of standardised contexts in which the individual's social communication, and repetitive, stereotyped behaviours can be observed. It has been designed to assist in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and is a complementary instrument to the Autism Diagnostic Interview Revised (ADI-R). Standardised toys and activities are used to present opportunities for social and communicative interaction with the examiner. A diagnostic algorithm consistent with DSM-V and ICD-10 clinical diagnoses is generated.

Join TheMHS Conference and dare to imagine an ideal mental health system in 2050 with a range of traditional and contemporary healing methods, early intervention, integrated social support services, choice, respect and social connection. This conference will explore how the world might evolve and what we need to do to consolidate the things we already do, and the new things we need to do to reach towards this utopian vision of an ideal mental health system.

This is a full day workshop with Jen Thompson, a psychotherapist and trainer passionate about creating welcoming, hopeful, and trauma informed service systems. Trauma Responsive Practice is foundational training for AOD and Mental Health workers. This workshop will explore the following concepts and will bring them to life with experiential exercises and discussion: - Creating safety and the felt experience of safety - Understanding trauma in the context of substance use - Bringing body awareness into our work - Understanding trauma informed care principles and applying to our work - Understanding Polyvagal Theory - The Zone of fabulousness - Collective Care and Solidarity Teams