The New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry

NSWIOP is offering a series of free 1-day workshops on the Mental Health Act for mental health workers in 2012.

First workshop: 3 February 2012

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Self advocacy is the process of speaking up on your own behalf and in your own interests. This practical 1-day workshop will provide consumers (people living with a diagnosis of mental illness) with the basic knowledge they need to be able to self advocate. The workshop aims to familiarise consumers with the principles and strategies used in self-advocacy and how to be more confi dent in speaking up to pursue their rights and interests.

Date: 27 February 2012
Fee: $40 (flat fee; no early bird or unwaged discount applies for this workshop)
Registrations: Agnes D’Souza
Presenter: Sandy Watson

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A 3-day workshop designed for workers in mental health and related fi elds, which aims to examine key concepts in recovery, identifying practices that recognise, promote and facilitate consumer directed recovery. The workshop aims to promote discussion and critique about dominant themes in consumers’ health and community workers’ understandings of mental distress and recovery; and explores the challenges and implications of recovery oriented practices.

Dates: 5-7 March
Early Bird closes: 13 February
Full Fee: $770 Early Bird: $600
Registrations: Amanda Kiellor
Presenters: Kath Thorburn & Sandy Watson

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This 1-day skills based workshop aims to enable students to develop practical skills in the mental health assessment of children and young people. The workshop covers interviewing skills; family interviews; interviewing a child using age-appropriate techniques and tools; techniques for engaging a challenging teenager; principles of parent management/behaviour management; and consumer/carer perspectives.

Date: 17 March
Early Bird closes: 25 Feb
Full Fee: $310, Early Bird: $230
Registrations: Matt Campagna
Presenter: Dr Raphael Chan

This 3-day workshop addresses understanding and working with clients who experience both drug & alcohol problems and mental health issues. Content includes: relationship between mental illness & substance abuse; key issues in assessment; models of care; understanding process of change in the dual diagnosis context; motivational interviewing & relapse prevention; the role of psychostimulants in drugrelated mental illness; harm minimisation.

Dates: 19-21 March
Early Bird closes: 27 Feb
Full Fee: $770 Early Bird: $600
Registrations: Amanda Kiellor
Presenter: Alison Bell

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This 1-day workshop for consumers and carers (family members/loved ones in unpaid roles) is designed to support people who want to talk in public about their own mental illness or mental distress experience, or those who want to speak about how the mental distress of a loved one has impacted on their lives.

Date: 28 March
Full Fee: $75 Unwaged Fee: $40Δ
Registrations: Agnes D’Souza
Presenter: Sandy Watson
Δ Unwaged Discount - available to recipients of Centrelink Benefits (proof required)

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