Mental Health in Practice
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Episodes: 115
Description
Practical conversations about mental health care across Australia’s health system.
Mental Health in Practice is a podcast for health professionals working across the mental health system, featuring conversations grounded in real-world experience.
Each episode brings together perspectives from clinical practice, research, and sector expertise to explore contemporary mental health care.
The show focuses on what thoughtful, collaborative care looks like in practice – and how professionals across disciplines can better support mental health outcomes for Australians.
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How to challenge bias in mental health practice
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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New ways of thinking about children and trauma
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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What children need during disaster recovery
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Managing Boundaries, Bias and Emotional Reactions in Clinical Practice
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Clinical Uncertainty: Why the Answers Aren't Always Clear
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Why Mental Health Care Is More Than Diagnosis and Treatment
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Three Episodes Worth Revisiting
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Strengthening your Practice through Humility and Curiosity
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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AI in Mental Health Practice: Opportunities, Risks and Responsible Use
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Therapeutic Relationships: What To Do When Things Go Wrong
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May 26, 2026 |
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Peer-led Digital Spaces for LGBTIQA+ Young People
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May 12, 2026 |
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School Can’t: Attendance Challenges and Re-engagement
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Complexity and Youth Mental Health: Leading Effective Teams
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Young People and Trauma: Applications of Systems Theory
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Barriers to Care: Designing a men’s mental health service
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Anxiety in the Perinatal Period: A Peer Work Perspective
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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What Makes ADHD Burnout So Different?
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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ADHD: Support Beyond Medication
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Social Work in Legal Practice: Improving Client Wellbeing
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Anger: Practical Skills to Support Client Goals
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Anger: Building Literacy for Both Practitioners and Clients
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Connecting Through Music and Art Therapy
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Supporting Families and Patients in Palliative Care
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Book Club: Reflecting on Life and Death with Leo Tolstoy’s ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Why Interpreters Matter in Mental Health Care
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Culture, Connection and Indigenous Flourishing – Part 2
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Culture, Connection and Indigenous Flourishing – Part 1
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Multidisciplinary Mental Health Care in Remote Settings
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Supporting Recovery: Eating Disorders and the Role of Multidisciplinary Care
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Shaping the Future of Care with GP Registrars and Psychiatry Trainees
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May 27, 2025 |
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A Conversation About... Navigating Complexity in Mental Health through Systems Theory
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May 13, 2025 |
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In The First Person… Living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Alcohol, Pregnancy and FASD
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… Multidisciplinary Care: Rhetoric or Reality?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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In the First Person… Improving the physical health of people living with mental illness
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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In the First Person: A First Responder’s Road to Recovery
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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A Conversation About … Building Engagement and Trust through Communication
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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A Conversation About… The Nexus between Violence and Mental Health
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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In Conversation With... Associate Professor Shuichi Suetani and Emeritus Professor Sid Bloch - Defining Moments from Sid's Psychiatric Career
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Deep Listening and Suicide Related Behaviours
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Health in all its Complexity: When Practitioners’ Moral Codes are Challenged
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Health in all its Complexity: Working with the Inexplicable
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Health in all its Complexity: Systems of Care
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Book Club: Developing a Shared Understanding with Konrad Michel’s ‘The Suicidal Person’
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Creative Arts Therapies: NEW series on Mental Health In Focus
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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In The First Person: Anxiety, Depression and Art Therapy
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Creative Arts Therapy
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Schizophrenia, Quality of Life and Performing Arts
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Journalism and Mental Health
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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In The First Person: Living with Bipolar Affective Disorder
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Anger and Mental Health: Treating Anger
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May 28, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Anger and Mental Health: Why Do People Get Angry?
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May 14, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Anger and Mental Health: The Nature of Anger
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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In The First Person: Suicide and Bereavement
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Suicide: Destigmatising the Conversation
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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A Conversation About... Mental Health and Music Therapy: Therapeutic Outcomes
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Mental Health and Music Therapy: Exploring a Session
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Mental Health and Music Therapy: An Introduction
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Book Club: ‘The Eight Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder’
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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A Conversation About… Climate Change and Mental Health – Part 4
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Climate Change and Mental Health – Part 3
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Climate Change and Mental Health – Part 2
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Climate Change and Mental Health – Part 1
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Social Isolation, Loneliness and Mental Health
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Book Club: Social Work Practice with Audre Lorde’s ‘Sister Outsider’
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Emergency Psychiatry – Part 3
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Emergency Psychiatry – Part 2
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Emergency Psychiatry – Part 1
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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In The First Person: Peer Worker: Expert by Experience
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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In The First Person: Growing up in a Family with Mental Illness and Family Violence
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Climate Change and Covid 19 – Part 4
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May 09, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Climate Change and Covid 19 – Part 3
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Climate Change and Covid 19 – Part 2
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Climate Change and Covid 19 – Part 1
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Family Violence and Mental Health - Part 2
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… Family Violence and Mental Health - Part 1
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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A Conversation About… The Importance of Belonging for Young People
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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In The First Person: A Mother's Experience of Postpartum Psychosis
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Emergency workers' mental health - NEW SERIES on Mental Health in Focus
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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A Conversation About… Perinatal Mental Health
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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A Conversation About… Digital Well-Being and Young People’s Mental Health
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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In Conversation With… Mary O’Hagan and Dr Ruth Vine – Part 5
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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In Conversation With… Mary O’Hagan and Dr Ruth Vine – Part 4
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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In The First Person: A Firefighter’s Experience of PTSD
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Book Club: Witnessing and remembering trauma with Judith Herman’s ‘Trauma and Recovery’
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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In Conversation With… Dr Ruth Vine and Mary O’Hagan – Part 3
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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In Conversation With... Dr Ruth Vine and Mary O'Hagan - Part 2
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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In Conversation With... Dr Ruth Vine and Mary O'Hagan - Part 1
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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In Conversation With... Associate Professor Shuichi Suetani and Emeritus Professor Sid Bloch
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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In Conversation With... Dr Ruth Vine, Dr Sarah Cavanagh and Priseena Radha
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Book Club: The 'Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder' - a practical handbook indeed
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Book Club: Reflections on Psychotherapy from Jerome D. Frank's 'Persuasion and Healing'
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May 24, 2022 |
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Book Club: Agree to Disagree? A Conversation on 'Common Features of Psychotherapy'
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May 10, 2022 |
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Book Club: Understanding Grief from 'Practice to Theory and Back Again'
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Book Club: What's the Risk? A Critical Response to 'Reformulating Suicide Risk Formulation'
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Book Club: Lessons from 'How To Talk So Kids Will Listen, and Listen So Kids Will Talk'
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Book Club: Navigating Childhood Trauma with 'The Deepest Well'
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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In Conversation With... Dr Ruth Vine and Jonathan Wells
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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In Conversation With... Dr Ruth Vine and Dr Marianne Farkas
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Transitions: Changing with Life's Seasons
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Transitions: Moving Past Denial
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Transitions: Reflecting on Trans-Affirmative Health Care
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Transitions: The Cumulative Trauma of Drought, Bushfires and a Pandemic
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Transitions: Evolving Through Uncertainty
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Transitions: Valuing Vulnerability
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May 25, 2021 |
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Trauma & Resilience: The Lived Experience of Trauma
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Trauma & Resilience: Treating Trauma - Part 2
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Trauma & Resilience: Treating Trauma - Part 1
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Transitions: Becoming Us - Part 2
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Transitions: Becoming Us - Part 1
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Trauma & Resilience: Exploring Resilience
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Trauma & Resilience: The Nexus Between Trauma and Mental Health
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Trauma & Resilience: Trauma, a History
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Transitions: Navigating the Older Years
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Transitions: A Conversation on Ageing
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Aug 25, 2020 |