In this three-part series, Professor Mark Creamer chats with emergency medicine and psychiatry experts about mental health crises. Join Mark and his guests as they share valuable tips and strategies to effectively manage and/or avert a mental health crisis and explore how best to mitigate the negative impact they may have on practitioners.

In the third and final episode hear from Dr Jacqueline Huber, staff specialist and clinical lead for psychiatry in the emergency department at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney; and Dr Clare Skinner, President of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Mark, Jacqueline and Clare discuss practitioner burnout in Australian emergency healthcare settings, including what can be done on individual and systemic levels to manage it. They explore the importance of psychological safety and the prevalence of conflict in the workplace. Our host and guests identify the potential negative impacts of conflict, as well as opportunities for deeper understanding; sharing tips to manage conflict between teams and strategies for leaders to promote psychological safety in emergency departments.

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Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.

Share your comments, questions and feedback about A Conversation About… or any of MHPN’s podcast series here: https://mhpn.org.au/podcast-feedback/. 

In this three-part series, Professor Mark Creamer chats with emergency medicine and psychiatry experts about mental health crises. Join Mark and his guests as they share valuable tips and strategies to effectively manage and/or avert a mental health crisis and explore how best to mitigate the negative impact they may have on practitioners.

In episode two, psychiatrist Dr Tad Tietze provides insight into the challenge and complexity of supporting suicidal clients. Tune in to hear Tad’s advice for practitioners in responding to suicidal presentations in their work - how to fully understand the person’s story, ask the right questions and provide support in the moment. Mark and Tad also explore the importance for practitioners to recognise and respond to their own distress responses to these challenging presentations and of collaborating with the person’s wider care team.

Liked this episode? Stay tuned for future episodes by following Mental Health in Practice.

Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.

Share your comments, questions and feedback about A Conversation About… or any of MHPN’s podcast series here: https://mhpn.org.au/podcast-feedback/.

In this three-part series, Professor Mark Creamer chats with emergency medicine and psychiatry experts about mental health crises. Join Mark and his guests as they share valuable tips and strategies to effectively manage and/or avert a mental health crisis and explore how best to mitigate the negative impact they may have on practitioners.

In the first episode of the series, you’ll hear from Dr Song Chan, a consultant-liaison psychiatrist working at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland. Tune in as Song outlines his four key strategies to respond to and manage mental health crises, including what factors practitioners should consider in the immediacy of the moment to aid the de-escalation of the crisis.

Liked this episode? Stay tuned for future episodes by following Mental Health in Practice.

Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.

Share your comments, questions and feedback about A Conversation About…, or any of MHPN’s podcast series here: https://mhpn.org.au/podcast-feedback/.

MHPN Presents is excited to announce a new three-part podcast series; ‘A Conversation About… Emergency Psychiatry’.

Join Professor Mark Creamer as he chats with three emergency psychiatrists and an emergency medicine expert, about mental health crises. They’ll share valuable tips and strategies to manage and/or avert these crises and explore how best to mitigate the negative impact they may have on practitioners.

The first episode will be released on Wednesday 2nd August. Don’t forget to follow MHPN Presents to keep up to date with all future podcasts for mental health professionals.

Join Tim McDonald, a mental health peer worker, as he and psychiatrist, Dr Ruth Vine, discuss the evolving field of peer support; what it is and what are some of the merits, opportunities and challenges Tim has experienced in the role. 

Hear Tim’s insights about the importance of relationships in peer work – both within the clinical team and with the service users - and the role of hope.

Expand your understanding of this growing and increasingly important peer workforce – its breadth, scope and potential - by listening to Tim and Ruth’s engaging conversation.

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In this episode of MHPN Presents, In the First Person you will hear a powerful story about family violence and maternal mental illness.

Join Millie and hear about her lived experience of growing up in a family with a mother with schizoaffective disorder and a father who used violence.

Millie describes challenging and adverse experiences in her family life, in particular during her teenage years, and how they impacted her then and now. What supports or strategies did and/or could have helped her and her family?

Expand your understanding and deepen your practice by listening to Millie’s story, her reflections and her insights.   

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Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.

Share your comments, questions and feedback about In The First Person or any of MHPN’s podcast series here: https://mhpn.org.au/podcast-feedback/.

Join Prof. Pat Dudgeon (a Bardi woman from the Kimberley in Western Australia), Dr Stewart Sutherland (a Wiradjuri man) and Prof. Alan Rosen across this four part series as they discuss how, by living in harmony with nature, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are, at the same time, a strength and a priority in our response to the significant impacts of climate change and the Covid 19 pandemic.

Join Prof. Pat Dudgeon (a Bardi woman, from the Kimberley in Western Australia), Dr Stewart Sutherland (a Wiradjuri man) and Prof. Alan Rosen in the final episode of this four-part series as they discuss how, by living in harmony with nature, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are, at the same time, a strength and a priority in our response to the significant impacts of climate change and the Covid 19 pandemic.

Liked this episode? Stay tuned for future episodes by following Mental Health in Practice.

Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.

Share your comments, questions and feedback about A Conversation About…, or any of MHPN’s podcast series here: https://mhpn.org.au/podcast-feedback/.

Join Prof. Pat Dudgeon (a Bardi woman, from the Kimberley in Western Australia), Dr Stewart Sutherland (a Wiradjuri man) and Prof. Alan Rosen in the third episode of this four-part series as they discuss how, by living in harmony with nature, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are, at the same time, a strength and a priority in our response to the significant impacts of climate change and the Covid 19 pandemic.

Liked this episode? Stay tuned for future episodes by following Mental Health in Practice.

Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.

Share your comments, questions and feedback about A Conversation About…, or any of MHPN’s podcast series here: https://mhpn.org.au/podcast-feedback/.

Join Prof. Pat Dudgeon (a Bardi woman, from the Kimberley in Western Australia), Dr Stewart Sutherland (a Wiradjuri man) and Prof. Alan Rosen in the second episode of this four-part series as they discuss how, by living in harmony with nature, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are, at the same time, a strength and a priority in our response to the significant impacts of climate change and the Covid 19 pandemic. 

Liked this episode? Stay tuned for future episodes by following Mental Health in Practice.

Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.

Share your comments, questions and feedback about A Conversation About…, or any of MHPN’s podcast series here: https://mhpn.org.au/podcast-feedback/.