Fields of practice

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Free online material is available through the following providers:

• Assisting those with hearing and speech impairments please visit National Relay Service website
• Dementia Care please visit Dementia Training Study Centre website
• End of life care training modules visit CareSearch website

• Empowering Excellence: Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to reduce substance abuse and improve mental health and wellbeing 2018
• Mental health, depression, suicide and substance abuse

If you are interested in developing content for SWOT in this area please contact us on [email protected]

• Collaborative partnerships to support children and young people in a school setting
• Getting the most out of a child protection case planning meeting 
• Talking with children: an overview for social workers

• Creating collectively consenting communities - National Symposium 2015

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• But-ton Kidn Doon-ga: Black Women Know - Re-presenting the lived experiences of Australian Indigenous women with mental health and wellbeing issues and or cognitive disabilities in criminal justice systems - National Symposium 2015
• Empowering Excellence: National Disability Insurance Scheme online series 2018

• PACTS project - An innovative Primary care program Advancing Competency To Support family violence survivors 
• Working with family violence against women 

• Collaborative partnerships to support children and young people in the school setting 

• The journey from the talk to the walk: the teaching of self care and emerging social worker experiences - National Symposium 2015
• What is happening in Field Education contemporary issues and challenges

Free online material is available through the following provider:

• University of Sydney, Charles Sturt University and Monash University have developed a resource website to assist field educators, external supervisors, academics and students involved in social work field education
• Educational and news regarding health in Australia visit ThinkGP website
• End of life care training modules available from Care Search website 
• Promoting and support the health and wellbeing of people with intellectual disabilities visit ID MH e-Learning website

• But-ton Kidn Doon-ga: Black Women Know - Re-presenting the lived experiences of Australian Indigenous women with mental health and wellbeing issues and or cognitive disabilities in criminal justice systems - National Symposium 2015
• Empowering Excellence: Introduction to Narrative Therapy and Community Work
• Empowering Excellence: Introduction to Dialectical Behavioural Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
• Empowering Excellence: Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to reduce substance abuse and improve mental health and wellbeing 2018
• Empowering Excellence: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Military Populations 2018
• Mental health, depression, suicide and substance abuse
• AASW webinar recording: Social work, Telehealth and you
• Walk in their shoes: understanding the family and carer experiences of mental illness 

Free online material is available through the following providers:

• Culture and mental health visit Flinders Unviersity website
• Mental Health Professionals Network provide live and a library of recorded webinars on a variety of topical Mental Health issues, visit the MHPN website
• Psychological interventions visit Centre for Clinical Intervention website
• To register for MHPOD, please vist the MHPOD website.  

• Responding to disclosures of sexual abuse
• Working with men who have been sexually abused 

• Empowering Excellence: Working with Aboriginal abd Torres Strait Islander people and communities
• But-ton Kidn Doon-ga: Black Women Know - Re-presenting the lived experiences of Australian Indigenous women with mental health and wellbeing issues and or cognitive disabilities in criminal justice systems - National Symposium 2015
• Other professional development opportunities in this field are available on our resources page