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Mental Health First Aid for Community Settings

This Mental Health First Aid course will teach you how to provide initial support to other adults who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis, using a practical, evidence based Action Plan. Many of our service users can add trauma, abuse or significant difficulties in life to the range of issues that may add to the likelihood of mental health concerns. We need to be able to recognise, support and respond in a way that supports people with mental health... [More]

Power of Addictions

This workshop explores the relationship people have with AOD, how influential AOD can be and the dynamics when people choose to abstain from AOD.  Drugs will be defined along with the patterns of drug use, how they are classified.  The contributing factors which lead people to use AOD along with the environmental, biological, psychological, legal, financial influences of drug use.  The impact of AOD use will be explored including the impact on indirect victims (eg. family members... [More]

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Immediate Response to Mental Distress - AOD Setting

Mental distress can include people who are overwhelmed by their current circumstances, right through to people who have a severe and persistent mental illness. Each year 1 in 5 Australians will experience a mental illness. Many more will experience episodes of poor mental health/mental distress. People who experience mental health illness/distress are overly represented in AOD services. The causes of mental health issues are complex and often people have multiple risk factors... [More]

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change: 2 Day - AOD Setting

Motivational interviewing is a framework that was originally developed in the alcohol and other drug field by William Miller and Stephen Rollnick. The essence of motivational interviewing is that it is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for, and commitment to, a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of... [More]

Complex Trauma and Mental Health - AOD Setting

The Adverse Childhood Experience study (ACE study) outlines the detrimental legacy left in the wake of complex childhood trauma. Yet, these early negative experiences do not need to define or determine one’s life and experience of Self. Understanding the impacts of complex trauma and the relationship with adult mental health symptoms is a key step in transforming this legacy. Understanding the impact of complex trauma on the brain (neurological structures and functions), psychology... [More]