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Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Seminar

St John of God Health Care and the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District are proud to present our annual Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Seminar on the topic of attachment, risk and resilience.

26 Jul 2019

Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Seminar

Presentations

  • Something that gets in the way: Disorganized maternal attachment state of mind presented by Associate Professor Loyola McLean, Psychiatrist, Brain and Mind Centre and Westmead Psychotherapy Program for Complex Traumatic Disorders.
  • Predicting childhood vulnerability across the spectrum of health, education and social adversity from information known at birth presented by Professor Melissa Green, School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Australia and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
  • St John of God Perinatal and Infant Mental Health services: Raphael Service & Mother Baby Unit presented by Dr Alice Dwyer, Raphael Service Blacktown and Carmen Xidis MBU, St John of God Burwood Hospital.
  • Vulnerable Families initiatives in Western Sydney: a combined FACS and Health Program presented by Greg Skelly, FACS and Gillian Astbury, WSLHD.
  • Working with parents with personality disorder and their infants presented by Professor Brin Grenyer, Project Air Strategy for Personality Disorders, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute.

Details

Date: Friday 26 July 2019
Time: 8.30am acknowledgement of traditional owners and opening, 8.45am to 12.10pm presentations, 12.10pm to 1.10pm lunch, 1.10pm to 4.00pm interactive workshop for primary care clinicians
Venue: Novotel Sydney Olympic Park, 11 Olympic Boulevard, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW, 2127
Cost: $209

CPD Points

This session is equivalent to 5 CPD hours for AHPRA.

Register

To secure your place for this event please registration here.