SEE Young People
Delivered by Dr Hester Wilson, SEE Young People is designed to be delivered to headspace staff and other first contact health professionals who are in frequent contact with young people, such as GP’s, community health workers and school counsellors.
What is SEE Young People?
SEE Young People is at the core of the headspace Education
and Training suite. Early detection of emerging mental health
problems among young people is critical to building capacity in
headspace staff and the broader mental health sector to provide
more effective response in service delivery.
SEE Young People is part of the generalist training
packages and is designed to be delivered to headspace staff and
other first contact health professionals who are in frequent
contact with young people, such as GP's, community health workers
and school counsellors.
The learning objectives of SEE Young People training are
to provide participants with an opportunity to gain:
- an understanding of barriers young people face in
accessing health care;
- a broad knowledge of effective psychosocial and
biomedical interventions relevant to young people with mental
health and/or substance use issues;
- an understanding of the medico-legal issues relevant to
working with young people and their carers, including
confidentiality and consent;
- an ability to communicate effectively with young people
in order to build rapport, screen for risk and protective factors
and recommend appropriate intervention;
- an ability to perform a health risk screen using the
headspace Psychosocial Screening Framework;
- an ability to asses the need for ongoing monitoring or a
more intensive intervention
Dr Hester
Wilson
A Fellow of the Royal Australian College of
General Practitioners, Hester is also a Fellow of the Chapter of
Addiction Medicine in the Royal Australian College of Physicians
and has extensive clinical experience working with AOD and mental
health co-morbidity. She worked in East London with the homeless as
a primary health clinician and worked for 7 years at the Kirketon
Rd Centre, a centre providing care for injecting drug users, street
sex workers and at risk youth in Kings Cross, Sydney. She was
Acting Medical Director at the Sydney Medically Supervised
Injecting Centre in Kings Cross in 2009-2010. She currently works
at the Langton Centre as an Addiction Staff Specialist and in
private general practice in Newtown, Sydney where she has a high
case load of clients with AOD and mental health co-morbidity.
Hester is an experienced medical educator and been facilitating
training for health care workers since 2001.
When: Monday 20th June 2011 from 9.00 am - 4.30 pm
Where: Criterion Hotel - 84 Palmerin Street, Warwick.
Cost: $30 for non-headspace staff.
Please register your interest early as spaces are limited.
Please fax the registration form to Sophia
McLucas on (07) 4661 1099 by 15th June
2011.