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191585 - Supporting Adolescents with Mental Health Concerns

  • : Online

Adolescent mental and emotional health issues can include depression, self-harm, grief and loss, eating disorders, suicidality – just to name a few. This session will assist GPs to identify a variety of mental health problems in adolescence, identify potential causal factors contributing to mental health concerns and adapt cognitive and behavioural strategies.

Relevance to General Practice

Providing mental health services in primary healthcare involves diagnosing and treating people with mental disorders; putting in place strategies to prevent mental disorders and ensuring that primary health care workers are able to apply key psychosocial and behavioural science skills, for example, interviewing, counselling and interpersonal skills, in their day to day work in order to improve overall health outcomes in primary healthcare.

Learning outcomes
  • Identify different types of mental health problems in adolescence and be able to apply this learning to your own practice.
  • Identify a variety of potential causal factors contributing to mental health concerns in adolescents and be able to assess for these in working with young people.
  • Compose and ask a range of appropriately worded questions to help an adolescent express concerns related to wellbeing.
  • Adapt evidence based cognitive and behavioural strategies for use with adolescents with mental health concerns.
    • Domains of General Practice

    D1. Communication skills and the patient-doctor relationship

    D2. Applied professional knowledge and skills

    D3. Population health and the context of general practice

    D4. Professional and ethical role

    D5. Organisational and legal dimensions

    Curriculum Contextual Units
    • Children and young people health
    • Psychological health
    Partnering organisations

    Adelaide PHN

    This activity is also available on these dates

    10/06/2020

    Venue (at)313, Level 1, 313 Payneham Road, Royston Park

    12/05/2020

    Marion Hotel, 849 Marion Road, Mitchell Park

    08/04/2020

    Rydges, 1 South Terrace, Adelaide

    Type
    Type -> Online Learning
    Delivery
    Delivery -> Face to face
    Title
    191585 - Supporting Adolescents with Mental Health Concerns
    Speciality Classification
    Speciality Classification -> Medical Doctors -> General Practice ( GP ) / Family Medicine
    Location
    Location -> Australia -> SA -> Adelaide
    Provider Type
    Education Provider
    Duration
    2.5 hours
    Start Date
    25-Mar-2020
    CPD Points
    5 cpd
    Price
    0.00
    Location
    Online
    Posted By
    RACGP
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