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WINDS OF CHANGE:

New Perspectives on Rural and Remote Mental Health

• Policy initiatives
• Primary interventions
• Promoting recovery
• Preventing relapse

The symposium will explore new perspectives within the P4 parameters by way of individual symposium papers, keynote presentations, and workshops.

• Policy initiatives: This stream will focus on State, Federal and International initiatives addressing rural and remote mental health needs. Forward planning initiatives will be explored in the area of community resilience, indigenous mental health, service access and climate change and their impact on rural and remote communities.

• Primary interventions: This stream will focus on research into early intervention strategies and treatments for mental health issues, depression, anxiety and trauma, across the great diversity of our rural and remote communities.

• Promoting recovery: This stream will focus on evidence based treatments designed to facilitate recovery, particularly in the areas affected by climate change, with a focus towards depression, suicide and trauma.

• Preventing relapse: This stream will explore research into relapse prevention strategies principally in the areas of depression, suicide and trauma.

Using this template the Symposium streams will address;

• Trauma, anxiety, depression and suicide (policy, primary interventions, promoting recovery, preventing relapse).
• Service accessibility, delivery and networks in rural mental health
• Indigenous mental health issues, from policy to treatment delivery
• Community resilience following natural disasters
• Government policies and initiatives
• Building capacity through NGO and clinical partnerships.

 
I invite you to participate in our symposium and join me, together with the symposium committee, in learning from our keynote speakers and their analyses of our responses to the effects of climate change on rural and remote communities, and in particular how health professionals can help communities deal with the impacts of climate change and the increased incidence of depression and suicide.

I look forward to seeing you in Sydney at the 2nd Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium.

Dr Norm Barling

Conference Chair

Delegates will include;

Confirmed Speakers Include

The Symposium will consist of keynote presentations and submitted papers that will be presented in three streams, presenters will be allocated a stream at time of publication.

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