Description
SPECTRUM ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024Beyond specialisation: Exploring generalist treatment approaches for people with personality disorder and complex trauma
In-Person or Online, Thursday 21st March 2024 - 9.00 AM TO 4.30 PM AEDT
While there are effective specialist treatments for personality disorder, such as Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Mentalization Based Treatment and others, there is limited access to the specialist treatments in Australia. However, generalist treatments, which share the ‘common factors’ of specialist treatments, can provide effective treatment for people with personality disorder and/or complex trauma. This remains a viable treatment option for the majority of Australians with personality disorder and/or complex trauma.
Spectrum’s conference will bring together leading experts, practitioners, researchers, and lived experience speakers to explore ways in which generalist treatment approaches may be used to redefine care.
Assoc. Prof. Lois W. Choi-Kain, psychiatrist and Director of the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute (GPDI) in the US, will be our in-person keynote presenter at the conference. She will be joined by Prof. Joost Hutsebaut, online, a clinical psychologist working as a therapist and researcher at de Viersprong, a centre for the assessment and treatment of personality disorders in the Netherlands.
Join us for a day of collaborative discussion as we work towards enhancing how we approach the treatment of personality disorder and complex trauma.
In-person: Clarendon Auditorium, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf (Lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided.)
Online: If registered online, a link will be sent your registered email address a few days before the event.
Trainers
- Spectrum - Specialising in Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma
Eligibility criteria
Categories:
Capability 4 - Understanding and responding to trauma,
Capability 9 - Delivering holistic and collaborative assessment and care planning,
Capability 10 - Delivering compassionate care, support and treatment
Disciplines:
Allied Health,
Lived Experience Workforce,
Medical,
Nursing,
Other
Levels:
Introductory,
Intermediate,
Advanced
Lifespans:
Adolescent,
Youth,
Adult,
Older Persons
09:00 to 16:30 Add to calendar
Melbourne
Early Bird Discount (Ends 11th Feb 2024 11:29pm AEDT): In person: $350 Online: $200
General Admission Rates - In person: $400 Online $250
If you are an Eastern Health employee a 50% discount applies. If you work in a Local or Area Mental Health & Wellbeing Service in Victoria a 20% discount applies. To receive the discount, please seek approval from your manager to attend and then email spectrumtraining@easternhealth.org.au to receive the discount.
