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Psych Matters is an informative and educational podcast by The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Psych Matters provides regular interesting topics for psychiatrists, psychiatry trainees and others with an interest in psychiatry.
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The Role of Power and Privilege of Psychiatric Leadership
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Navigating Normality: Unravelling the Surge in Adult ADHD Diagnoses
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Congress 2025: Ketamine and Eskatamine for the use of Treating Depression
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Victorian Psychiatry Leadership Framework: A Commitment to Ethical Leadership and Human Rights
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Congress 2025: Metro Champions of the Bush
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Congress 2025: Telehealth: The Good, Bad and the Ugly
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Female phenotype in Autism and implications for clinical care in psychiatry
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Elder Abuse – The Need to Do Better
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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The Leading Women of RANZCP: Dr Kym Jenkins
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Navigating Competency-Based Medical Education
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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The Leading Women of RANZCP: Dr Elizabeth Moore
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Fresh Perspectives in Psychiatry: The Foundation’s Role in Supporting New Ideas
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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The Leading Women of RANZCP: Dr Janice Wilson
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May 22, 2025 |
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Findings from the Royal Commission Report into Defence and Veteran Suicide
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May 08, 2025 |
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Balint Groups
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Are Psychedelics for You?
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Women's History Month: Women Treating Women
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Women's History Month - Mary Barkas: The Forgotten Pioneer of Psychiatry
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Youth Offending in New Zealand and the need for a multi-agency coordinated approach (2 of 2)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Women's History Month: Women Mentoring Women
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Youth Offending in New Zealand and the need for a multi-agency coordinated approach (1 of 2)
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Navigating Leadership in Psychiatry with Dr Mark Lawrence
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Through the Lens of Adaptation: The Unique Insights of Visually Impaired Psychiatrists
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Infants in World and Mind
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Virtual Reality for Treating OCD
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Telepsychiatry and Digital Mental Health
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Unconscious Lateral Intelligence (ULI): Solving highly complex problems while not thinking about them
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Computer gaming culture and the benefits and risks of gaming
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Halloween Special: Vampirism in Psychiatry
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Connections and Community in Psychiatry
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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RANZCP Certificate of Postgraduate Training in Clinical Psychiatry
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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A Day in the Life of a MVPTP Psychiatrist Trainee
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Assessment of Sleep Disorders
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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The Challenge of Human Rights to Psychiatry and Mental Health Care
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Values and Ethical Leadership in Psychiatry
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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A Day in the life of a DVA Psychiatrist
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Transgender and Gender-Diverse Lived Experience
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Leadership with Clarity, Authenticity and Purpose
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Playing Kioku® reduces loneliness in older adults: a pilot study
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Remote Supervision
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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ADHD in Adults
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May 23, 2024 |
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The Urgency of Youth Mental Health
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May 09, 2024 |
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Transgender Youth
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Gender-Affirming Care: What is it? (and what it isn’t!)
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Mood Disorders Update with The Anna Freud Centre
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Introduction to the new team of Australasian Psychiatry
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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"Sheroes" in Psychiatry - Dr Jacqueline Rakov
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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"Sheroes" in Psychiatry - Prof Kay Wilhelm
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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"Sheroes" in Psychiatry - Prof Colleen Loo
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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"Sheroes" in Psychiatry - A/Prof Carolyn Quadrio
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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"Sheroes" in Psychiatry - A/Prof Melanie Turner
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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An Insight into Leadership and Management in Psychiatry
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Voluntary Assisted Dying and Complex Grief
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Women in Rural Psychiatry
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Old Age Psychiatry
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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End of Year Message 2023
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Mindfulness and Wellbeing for Staff in Healthcare
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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An Update on Treatments for OCD
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Reflections on a decade as the editor of Australasian Psychiatry – Interview with Professor Vlasios Brakoulias
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Younger Onset Dementias
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Lived Experience of Intellectual Disability and Domestic Violence: Episode 2
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Lived Experience of Intellectual Disability and Domestic Violence: Episode 1
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Psychiatrist and trainee burnout
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Paediatric Intellectual Disability in Academia and Policy
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Lived Experience of Psychiatrists
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Maori Experiences of Intellectual Disability
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Doctors' Wellbeing
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Cognitive Impairment of Mood Disorders
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Perspectives on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in clinical practice
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Regional and Rural Academic Psychiatry
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Loneliness and Mental Health
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Psychosocial Rehabilitation
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May 25, 2023 |
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A sceptic's look at the use of psychedelics
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May 11, 2023 |
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The History of Psychiatry Part 3: A History of Anti-Psychiatry in the 20th Century
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May 04, 2023 |
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Rollout of the Integrated Primary MH&A programme
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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The History of Psychiatry Part 2: The Trials and Discoveries of the 20th Century
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Whakaronongo ki nga whakaaro nui o nga kaumātua (listening to the wisdom of ones elders)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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The History of Psychiatry Part 1: Early human to the 20th Century
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Child Psychiatry in the Bush
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Tuakana-Teina: Reflections on Psychiatric Training
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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On the Rural Pathway: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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On the Rural Pathway: A Case Study
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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On the Rural Pathway: Aspirations for Rural Psychiatry
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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On the Rural Pathway: Rural Training Journey
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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On the Rural Pathway: City Experience vs Rural Experience in Training
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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End of Year Message 2022
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Effective Feedback in Clinical Supervision
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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First Nations Psychiatry with Professor Helen Milroy
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Advances in dementia research, diagnosis, treatment and care
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry: Tales from the edge
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Women in Psychiatry: in conversation with Associate Professor Carolyn Quadrio
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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From Zoology to Psychiatry, via Cancer
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Should I stay or should I go – crossroads and career choices with family
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Presidential Symposium RANZCP 2022: Pandemic population mental health and related issues
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Music Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Women's mental health - Time's up!
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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The Markers in Neuropsychiatric Disorders Study (The MiND Study)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Systematic opportunities and barriers in the context of the major reform of NZ’s health system
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Real-world performance of Victorian hospitals during the COVID-19 lockdowns
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Autism and Serious Criminal Offending - Part 2
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Autism and Serious Criminal Offending - Part 1
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May 26, 2022 |
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Remote Psychiatry
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May 12, 2022 |
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A Conversation with Dr. Hinemoa Elder
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Violence in Youth - Part 2
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Violence in Youth - Part 1
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Leadership and management for psychiatrists during and post COVID-19
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Fighting for their lives
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Forward with Dementia
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Mental illness in adults with intellectual disability: Assessment
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Why Train in Psychiatry?
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Social Cultural and Rehabilitation Psychiatry
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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2021 End of year message
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Specialist International Medical Graduates: Transition to Practice
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Electro Convulsive Therapy
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Understanding the process behind the RANZCP Written Exams
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Smoking Cessation & E-Cigarettes
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Improving Mental Health Assessment of Veterans and Military Personnel
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Smoking Cessation
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Clinical update on risk and illness perception, media exposure, misinformation and recommendations for managing mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Tourette Syndrome
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Challenges for Early Career Psychiatrists
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Philosophical and Ethical Issues of Working with Asylum Seekers and Refugees
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Translation and Implementation of the Clinical Guidelines for Mood Disorders
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Update on Private Health Insurance - Managed Care Implications for Psychiatrists
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Exploring the Impact of Coercive Control: Perpetrator Strategies, Entrapment, and Suicide
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Update on Australian Population Mental Health and Policy Research
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Coercive Control : An improved understanding of family violence, and its impact on mental health
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May 27, 2021 |
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Contemporary Research on Private Psychiatry and Psychological Services
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May 06, 2021 |
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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A day in the life of Private Practice
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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How to approach the Critical Essay Question (CEQ)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Preparing for the Essay Style Exam - Modified Essay Questions (MEQ)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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New Clinical Guidelines for Mood Disorders: Management of Bipolar Disorder
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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New Clinical Guidelines for Mood Disorders: Management of Major Depressive Disorder and Treatment Non-Response
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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New Clinical Guidelines for Mood Disorders: Classification, Diagnosis, Assessment and Formulation
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Interview with Professor John Allan: Balancing ambition and realism to address pandemic sequelae
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Managing Borderline Personality Disorder in Community Settings
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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Improving patient and staff wellbeing with the Zero Suicide paradigm
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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The Role of Psychiatry in Treating Hepatitis C
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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How to Develop a Professional Development Plan
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Perinatal and Infant Mental Health and Fathers
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Update
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Perinatal and Infant Mental Health in the time of COVID-19
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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How to Run a Virtual Peer Review Group
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Making the Most of Supervision During COVID-19
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Clinical Audit - Don't be afraid!
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Psychotherapy Written Case During COVID-19
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Training during COVID-19
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Introducing Psych Matters
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Jul 10, 2020 |