Join us for an engaging workshop designed to strengthen the capacity of GPs, Registrars, Nurses and Allied Health Practitioners providing care and managing mental health challenges in rural settings. This session will focus on practical approaches to identifying, managing, and supporting individuals experiencing depression, and suicide risk. The workshop will also explore the unique mental health impacts of geographic isolation and natural disasters, such as bushfires, and how these factors shape community wellbeing on Kangaroo Island.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Confidently assess and manage patients presenting with depression in a rural general practice or primary care setting.
• Identify individuals at risk of suicide and respond using regionally appropriate clinical pathways.
• Summarise mental health assessments and management plans to enhances continuity of care and mitigate risk.
• Access and disseminate up-to-date local mental health services and supports, including those activated during or after natural disasters.
• Apply a multidisciplinary, trauma-informed approach to mental health care, tailored to the unique needs of isolated or disaster-affected communities such as Kangaroo Island.

PRESENTED by:

• Dr Neeraj Gupta, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, OPMHS, BHFLHN & Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide
• A/Prof Prashant Tibrewal, Head of Unit, Cramond Clinic and MHSSU, TQEH, CALHN & Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
• Amii Larsen, Community Mental Health Team Leader, SA Health