Description
This workshop introduces participants to principles that inform cultural responsiveness, and encourages exploration of practical skills to enhance diversity responsive mental health practice.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
- Practical skills to employ in delivering diversity responsive mental health interventions, including working with interpreters
- 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
- The importance of reflective practice in creating culturally safe spaces
Eligibility criteria
All mental health practitioners working in Victoria's public mental health services including case managers, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and those working in the community managed mental health sector.
Categories:
Capability 3 - Working with diverse consumers, families, and communities,
Capability 14 - Embedding evidence-informed continuous improvement
Disciplines:
Allied Health,
Lived Experience Workforce,
Medical,
Nursing
Levels:
Introductory
Lifespans:
Infant,
Child,
Adolescent,
Youth,
Adult,
Older Persons
09:15 to 16:00 Add to calendar
Fitzroy
