The recent tragic events in Bondi Junction have brought national attention to the cracks in Australia’s mental health system. Dr Karen Spielman, a GP with over 20 years’ experience in youth mental health, spoke on this issue alongside Professor Samuel Harvey from the Blackdog Institute.
MHPN's Book Club: A New Platform for Insightful Dialogue
The recent tragic events in Bondi Junction have brought national attention to the cracks in Australia’s mental health system. Dr Karen Spielman, a GP with over 20 years’ experience in youth mental health, spoke on this issue alongside Professor Samuel Harvey from the Blackdog Institute.
ASPM members Dr Johanna Lynch and Dr Mary Emeleus were featured as hosts in Book Club episodes 2 and 5, respectively. These episodes delve into personal and professional reflections that challenge conventional thinking in mental health care.
In Episode 2 of Book Club, Dr Johanna Lynch and guests explore the topic: What’s the Risk? A Critical Response to ‘Reformulating Suicide Risk Formulation’. The conversation addresses the role of clinical formulation in suicide risk assessment and prevention.
Dr Johanna Lynch’s PhD ‘Sense of Safety: a whole person approach to distress’ has just been awarded a University of Queensland Dean’s Award for outstanding thesis.
The message that good quality general practice is trauma-informed is a theme of Dr Johanna Lynch’s invited chapter on Trauma-Informed Care in General Practice in the new RACGP White book: Violence and Abuse in General Practice and accompanying webinar with Dr Cathy Kezelman from BlueKnot Foundation for the Safer Families Readiness project.
Dr Johanna Lynch continues to champion the sophistication of generalist thinking with an amazing team of international thinkers who worked with her to refine ideas from her thesis into a paper: The Craft of Generalism: skills and attitudes for whole person care
Nationally, Dr Johanna Lynch has had the opportunity to wax lyrical about generalism and her book with Drs Ashlea Broomfield and Charlotte Hespe on their podcast Just a GP: A whole person approach to wellbeing, and to discuss Sense of Safety as a strength-based approach to trauma in our community as a panellist on webinars and a podcast for the Mental Health Professionals Network: An interdisciplinary approach to OCD, Trauma-informed care for Older Australians, and a book club focussed on paediatrician Nadine Burke-Harris’s amazing book The Deepest Well: Healing the effects of childhood adversity