Description
This workshop introduces participants to principles that inform culturally safe practice, while encouraging the exploration of practical skills to enhance diversity responsive mental health practice. Using a range of presentation and facilitation styles, participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own cultural values, beliefs and models in delivering recovery focussed interventions, and explore the relationship between policy, human rights legislation, and the manner in which we provide respectful person-centred care.This event will cover:
- Key issues in cultural diversity and the role of culture in mental health service delivery;
- Practice skills to employ in delivering diversity responsive mental health interventions, including working with interpreters;
- Approaches to assessment and recovery, community engagement and service development;
- The social determinants of health, ethnicity, cultural humility, cultural safety diversity and intersectional approaches;
- Key government policies and human rights legislation in relation to culturally diverse practice; and
- The importance of reflective practice in creating culturally safe spaces.
Trainers
- Victorian Transcultural Mental Health
Categories:
Capability 3 - Working with diverse consumers, families, and communities
Disciplines:
Allied Health,
Lived Experience Workforce,
Medical,
Nursing
Levels:
Introductory
Lifespans:
Child,
Adolescent,
Youth,
Adult,
Older Persons
09:30 to 16:30 Add to calendar
Box Hill
There is no charge for training for staff employed by services within the NEVIL Cluster unless otherwise stipulated.
Please call or email with any further queries.