GP Mental Health Skills Masterclass
- August 31st, 2024
- 8:30am - 5:30pm
- Free
Last updated 3 July 2024
GP Mental Health Skills Masterclass
Event organiser
pysch scene
Event description
Mental Health Skills for GPs
- Enhance your ability to diagnose and treat mental disorders efficiently
- Interactive Case-Based Discussions to consolidate your knowledge
- Earn 8 CPD hours
- Online training material for psychiatric interviewing
Learning Objectives
- Perform risk assessments and outline key steps in management of risk in primary care.
- Identify and recognise common presentations of mental illness in primary care.
- Identify presentations that should be referred for specialist care.
- Reproduce diagnostic criteria for depression, psychosis, anxiety and substance use disorders.
- Formulate patient presentations in a biopsychosocial model.
- Distinguish between Axis I and Axis II (personality disorders).
- Write a mental health care plan.
- Implement a devised mental health care plan.
- Discuss choice of appropriate medication for common mental disorders.
- Explain common mental illnesses to families and carers.
Location
Novatel Brisbane
MHST Primary Pathway Activity and accredited by the RACGP for 8 CPD hours for the 2023-25 Triennium.