Program

Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium
National Convention Centre, 2nd - 3rd November 2009
Sunday 1st November 2009
12.00 - 1.00pm	Registration
1.00 - 3.00pm	Workshop 1 Swan Room (included in registration)	Workshop 2 Torrens Room (included in registration)
Mr Russell Deal Tools for Inviting Engagement This interactive and participatory workshop demonstrates the possibilities of building therapeutic and transformational conversations in different ways by introducing simple visual and tactile prompts. Tools such as 'Strength Cards' were purchased, distributed and widely used by human service workers in many different roles in the aftermath of the Black Saturday fires in Victoria. These materials have all grown out of St Luke's social work programs and are used extensively throughout Australia and in many other countries. This practical and inspiring workshop honours theories of multiple intelligences and weaves playfulness and soulfulness together to invite engagement, to build healing and therapeutic conversations, and to help us get to 'the important stuff'.		A/ Prof Vijaya Manicavasagar Building resilient communities - moving beyond coping and adaptation This workshop will focus on strategies to help individuals and small communities deal with adversity.
3.00 - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea Afternoon Tea
3.30 - 5.00pm	workshops cont...

Monday 2nd November 2009
8.00 - 9.00am	Registration - Level One Gallery, National Convention Centre
9.00 - 9.45am	Prof Beverley Raphael - Australian National University Topic: "All Hazards: Disasters and Rural Mental Health"
9.45 - 10.30am	Prof Gavin Andrews - St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney Topic: "Curing People over the Web by using www.CRUfADclinic.org"
10.30 -11.00am	Morning Tea
	Fitzroy Room Chair: A/Prof Helen Berry	Derwent Room Chair: Ms Ruth Turpin	Torrens Room Chair: Ms Linda Rosie
11.00 -11.30am	Dr Margaret Grigg Bushfire Psychosocial Recovery Department of Human Services	Prof Daniela Stehlik Curtin University of Technology	Ms Tracey Robinson Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health
	Victorian Bushfires 2009: the psychosocial recovery response	Considering the value of 'resilience' - lessons from Australian droughts	Enhancing skills in mental health emergency care
11.30 - 12.00pm	Dr Anandaram Jothibabu Golbourn Valley Health	Dr Susan Blinkhorn Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health	A/Prof Jeffrey Fuller University of Sydney
	Impact of bushfires on the mental health service and provision of care to the effected population	Drought and Beyond: the view of youth	Service networks in Rural Mental Health
12.00 - 12.30pm	A/Prof Malcolm Hopwood The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists	Mr Craig Hart Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health	Dr Rachel Rossiter School of Nursing and Midwifery
	Psychiatry and the Victorian Bushfire Response	A Mental Health response to drought - An overview of the NSW Health "Drought Mental Health Assistance Program "	Working with the Vulnerable Client - Sustaining Our Capacity for Caring
12.30 - 1.30pm	Lunch
	Fitzroy Room Chair: Prof Daniela Stehlik	Derwent Room Chair: Ms Renee Williams	Torrens Room Chair: Mr Andrew Little
1.30 - 2.00pm	Ms Bridget Bassilios Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics	Ms Shiralee Bothe & Ms Janet Cribbes CentaCare	Dr Louise Stone Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
	Primary mental health care in the aftermath of the Victorian Bushfires	The Common Threads of Drought and Bushfire	Linking the minds: Delivering Mental Health skills training to Rural and Remote Doctors
2.00 - 2.30pm	Prof Rachel Clark University of Melbourne	A/Prof Helen Berry National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health	Dr Lisa Wright North & West QLD Primary Health Care
	A University perspective on the role of teaching, research and knowledge transfer in bushfire response and recovery	Climate Change and Mental Health	'Within the Boundary Fence' - Gaining insight into perceptions of mens experience of depression in Rural and Remote areas
2.30 - 3.00pm	Ms Colleen Krestensen Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing	Ms Deborah Klye The Blue Door	Prof Alan Rosen University of Sydney/ University of Wollongong
	The Australian Governments Victorian Bushfires mental health response package - lessons for future policy and planning	When the disaster is industrial. A look at the role of Employee Assistance Providers in rural community response through the experience of the Beaconsfield mine collapse	"If the land is sick, we are sick": Aboriginal Communities responses to drought, their adaptation strategies and lessons for all Australians
3.00 - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
	Fitzroy Room Chair: Ms Tracey Robinson	Derwent Room Chair: Ms Colleen Krestensen	Torrens Room Chair: Ms Linda Rosie
3.30 - 4.00pm	Mr Andrew Little North Coast Area Health Service	Mr Warren Bartik & Dr Myfanwy Maple Hunter New England Area Health Service	Jane Nursey & Melanee Smith Veteran Psychiatry Unit Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital
	Service network approaches to supporting rural communities following disasters	Understanding the experience of rural young people who lose a friend to suicide	Metro and rural partnerships in Mental Health: Working together to promote positive mental health outcomes in bushfire affected communities
4.00 - 4.30pm	Mr Tim Saal Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health QLD	Ms Ruth Turpin Murray Plains Division of General Practice	Ms Lyn Worsley Alpha Counselling Services
	The Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health Queensland and the development of the Queensland Mental Health Advisory Group for Environmental Adversity	Farm Gate Cold Calling: The Campaspe Model	The Resilience Doughnut, the Secret of Strong Communities
4.30 - 5.00pm	Mr Jan Golembiewski University of Sydney	Mr Philip Galley Acute and Community Mental Health Services	Mr Don Stewart Hunter Rural Division of General Practice
	Moving from theory to praxis on the fly; Introducing a salutogenic method to expedite mental healthcare provision	Building Capacity through NGO and Clinical partnerships in Sub-acute mental health care - the Port Augusta and Whyalla Intermediate Care Service	A new model of primary care mental health service provision in the Hunter Valley
5.00pm - 6.30pm	Welcome Cocktail Function
Tuesday 3rd November 2009
8.00 - 9.00am	Registration - Level One Gallery
	Fitzroy Room Chair: A/Prof Jeffrey Fuller	Derwent Room Chair: Mr Warren Bartik	Torrens Room Chair: Ms Janet Cribbs
9.00 - 9.30am	Ms Renee Williams Ovens and King Community Health Service	Mr Aaron Wiggins Monash University	Mr Alan Woodward Lifeline Australia
	The Mental Health Nurses Personal Journey through & after Black Saturday Bushfires	Impact of Interpersonal Personal Therapy training on clinician's practice within a regional child and adolescent mental health service	Lifeline supporting and strengthening rural and regional communities
9.30 - 10.00am	Dr Darryl Wade & Ms Therese Fitzpatrick Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health / beyondblue	Dr Morton Rawlin Royal Australian College of General Practitioners	Ms Linda Rosie Mental Health Council of Australia
	Community Recovery Following Disaster: Training for Community Support People	The GP Psych Support Service	Establishing the Voice of Mental Health Carers: The Carer Engagement Project
10:00 - 10:30am	Dr Susie Burke & A/Prof David Forbes Australian Psychological Society / Australian Centre for Post Traumatic Mental Health	Mr Vyv Alomes Rural Alive & Well Inc	Sgt John Hamrey & Sgt Greg Giles Queensland Police Service
	Building Community Capacity: Mental Health Education and Training Response to Victorian Bushfire Disaster	Rural Alive & Well. A new and total approach to suicide prevention and community wellbeing in rural areas	Preventing Mental Health Crises
10.30 - 11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00 - 11.45am	Dr. Dennis Pashen, President, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine Topic: "Ploughing the Void! – Mental Health in Remote Australia"
11.45 - 12.30pm	Mr Andrew Harris, Psychologist and Research Fellow at UTAS on behalf of Professor Peg LeVine, EdD, PhD Topic: Dynamic Trauma: Assessing 'Susceptibility' and CBS (Confusion-Betrayal-Shame Complex) in adults, youth and children
12.30 - 1.30pm	Lunch
1.30 - 2.15pm	Dr Keith Miller - Flinders University Topic: "The Rural Suicidal Journey"
2.15 - 3.00pm	Prof Don Gorman - University of Southern Queensland Topic: "Building community capacity to cope with climate change: Mental health first aid training for advisory agents working with farmers"
3.00 - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30 - 4.15pm	Dr Helen Stain - University of Newcastle Topic: "The Mental Health Challenges for Youth in Rural Australia"
4.15 - 5.00pm	A/Prof Brett McDermott - beyondblue Board Director Topic: How are children and adolescents who have been directly involved in the bushfires likely to be affected?
5.00pm	Official Close of Conference

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