Black Dog Institute Podcasts for Health Professionals

Did you know that e-mental health resources provide practitioners with a wealth of additional evidence-based treatments? We’ll provide you with key insights and digital resources that you can begin to integrate immediately to into your everyday practice.

Panel:

Dr Ruth Crowther, Psychologist / Clinical Registrar

Dr Lasse B. Sander, Licensed Psychotherapist (CBT)

Dr Jan Orman, GP

Moderated by: Dr Phoebe Holdenson-Kimura, GP

To celebrate the 2023 NAIDOC Week theme, ‘For Our Elders’, this Expert Insights episode will look at the vital role that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders play, and have played for generations, in guiding communities and families through everyday life right through to broader national advocacy and activism across a plethora of sectors. It will explore the role Elders have in sharing culture and cultural knowledge and the positive influence of this on community, family and individual social and emotional wellbeing. Join our panel discussion to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' history, cultures, strengths, and accomplishments in the lead up to the NAIDOC Week celebrations.

Panel:
Researcher – Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate (Black Dog Institute & UNSW) and Dalai Lama Peace Fellow, Maddison O’Gradey-Lee
Clinician - Peer Support Worker for Cape and Torres Hospital and Health Service, Anthony GeaGea
Elder and Lived Experience Representative – Uncle Joe Miller
Moderator – Dr Sarah Barker, Clinical Psychologist

In this Expert Insights session, we share recent research findings about the concerning rates of mental health concerns and burnout in Australian teachers as well as considerations for improving teacher mental health and well-being and teacher attrition.

Teachers' mental health and teacher burnout have long been concerns, and these have been significantly exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has placed further pressure on teachers, with serious consequences for their wellbeing. Consequently, we are now seeing a significant increase nationally in the number of teachers leaving, or considering leaving this vital profession. Join us for a conversation exploring the factors leading to poor mental health and burnout in teachers as well as effective, practical strategies for preventing and managing burnout in educators in the face of growing workload and role expectations within the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of schools.

Panellists: 
Scientia Associate Professor Aliza Werner-Seidler, NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow and Clinical Psychologist, Black Dog Institute

Morgana Walker, Director and Psychologist from Morgana Walker and Associates and Bee Kind Psychology

Liz, Lived Experience Representative

Moderator, Dr Sarah Barker, Clinical Psychologist and Facilitator with the Black Dog Institute

This Expert Insights session will focus on the social and emotional well-being of First Nations Peoples as a result of discussions surrounding The Voice to Parliament. 

Discussions and media about The Voice to Parliament are a regular phenomenon in the lead-up to the referendum later this year. What is the effect of these conversations and reports on the social and emotional well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? This Expert Insights panel considers this question, exploring what practitioners can do to increase their awareness of issues and distress that dialogue, discourse and debate about The Voice to Parliament may give rise to in Indigenous peoples as well as to ways to tune into the various ways that these responses may present. Join us to hear about some of the considerations we can open our minds and hearts to in conversations about The Voice to Parliament with First Nations peoples.

Panelist:

• Dr Clinton Schultz: Gamilaroi man and Director of First Nations Strategy and Partnerships at Black Dog Institute
• Dr Shannon Springer: Associate Professor, First Peoples Health Stream, School of Medicine, Griffith University), our clinician.
• Michelle: Lived experience representative.

Moderator

• Dr Sarah Barker: Clinical Psychologist and facilitator with the Black Dog Institute

Join us for webinar 56 in the eMHPrac series, to learn how to define and manage diabetes specific mental health issues. Emotional and mental health problems are common among adults with diabetes.

We’ll cover how feasible self-care really is in the current healthcare system, the difference between burnout and mental illness and identify resources to help re-think unrealistic expectations.