Events Calendar

This course will support and enhance the skills and knowledge required by Health Care Professionals across a variety of health care settings, to effectively acknowledge and respond to the complex mental health needs and psychological issues of people living with an advanced chronic and terminal illness, and that of their family and caregivers as they approach the last year of life. Health Care Professionals, especially Social Workers, encounter people living with the impacts of advanced chronic and terminal illness or their families and loved ones. Knowing how to screen and assess for psychological distress or mental health issues and then having access to evidence based therapeutic skills and knowledge to respond appropriately and in a timely, patient centered manner can impact positively on the individual's quality of life and that of their loved ones.

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The two-day workshop will combine Creative Expression and Narrative re-authoring practice-maps as ways of working therapeutically with children and young people around trauma, attachment and relational concerns, and challenges in managing intense emotions.

Creative Expression and re-authoring narrative practices attend to the bottom-up and top-down bi-directional information flow of the body/brain neural pathways; and to the experience dependent brain with possibilities for becoming, fostered by relational connectedness with self and others in history, time and space.

This course provides an introduction to Logotherapy, an evidence based approach to therapy developed by Viktor Frankl author of Man’s Search for Meaning, a book that has sold over 5 million copies in English alone. Participants will explore the theoretical framework for Franklian psychology as a philosophy, a personality theory, and a theory of psychotherapy to provide a new foundation for both your future life and professional work.

1.5 CPD Hours

The AASW will be holding a special meeting for social workers working in disability, and those interested in discussing proposed changes to the NDIS. Members are also invited to attend the Social Policy and Advocacy practice group meeting which will follow directly after the NDIS meeting.

2 CPD Hours

The New Graduates Practice Group are hosting a panel discussion and networking night for social work graduates and students. This event will include a panel of experienced social workers who will discuss issues around professional identity, career planning and self-care. There will also be the opportunity to network with other social workers at similar stages in their career and to find out more about the New Graduates Practice Group.

This two-day interactive professional development training presents the 3-phased approach for working therapeutically with complex trauma clients. The training is interactive and involves role plays, vignettes and case studies. Participants will leave the training with insights and tools which foster hope, recovery, enhance client and staff wellbeing and minimise the risks of re-traumatisation.

The emphasis of this two-day training program is upon imparting practical, accessible skills to use immediately with survivors of complex trauma (especially child abuse and neglect).

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The School Social Work Practice Group will be delivering a half day seminar to examine the specialist field of school social work. Guest speakers will include school principals, both secondary and primary, from urban and regional settings.

This dynamic, scientific and holistic seminar reviews evidence based relaxation therapies, for both psychological and physical health. Relaxation therapies are innovative, preventative and focused health strategies. Seminar participants actively practice and teach simple, efficacious relaxation techniques to enhance clients' health and well being.

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PNI examines links between psychological processes, behaviour and immunity.This leading edge seminar outlines PNI research and evidence of mind-body connections. PNI offers evidence that mind and body are best treated together. Dr Judy Lovas highlights effects of anxiety, depression, pain & trauma on health and immunity.

This two-day workshop presents a highly practical and interactive workshop (case-based) for treating PTSD patients; the content is applicable to both adult and adolescent populations.

* FPS Relevant Activity *

The emphasis of this two-day training program is upon imparting practical, accessible skills to use immediately with survivors of complex trauma (especially child abuse and neglect).

* FPS Relevant Activity *