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Webinar Description Adults who receive a late ADHD diagnosis can often experience complex and overlapping health, mental health, interpersonal, and psychosocial challenges. Through practical examples and insights from an expert multidisciplinary panel, participants will examine the enablers and barriers to collaborative care, understand what different disciplines need to work together effectively, and build confidence in applying creative, coordinated approaches in their own practice. Moderator - Professor Mark Creamer, Psychologist (Vic) Panel Dr Karuppiah Jagadheesan, Psychiatrist (Vic) Dr Naomi Rutten, General Practitioner (SA) Amanda Butt, Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (NSW) Emma Ketley, Occupational Therapist and ADHD Life Coach (WA) Learning Outcomes...

Pain Unstuck takes a fresh look at pain and exercise rehab through the lens of active inference.   Active inference flips our understanding of how the nervous system operates and provides a potential explanatory framework to guide your clinical practice. This 2 day course takes participants on a journey to consider pain as a deeply personal, conscious experience. This means pain doesn’t live in the tissues, nor in the brain. Rather, pain sits somewhere in between, emerging from the delicate dance between sensory information and your unconscious predictions. Using case studies of real patients, participants will learn how to help their patients understand that it...

ECHO programs offer free interactive online training bringing health professionals and primary care together to share knowledge, ideas, and experiences, fostering a friendly supportive environment. These monthly sessions run for an hour from 11.00am to 12.00pm WA and are open to all health care staff including Nursing, Allied health, GP’s, Community health and Indigenous health workers. Palliative Care ECHO is a series of interactive virtual mentoring sessions that addresses a range of palliative care topics. It aims to increase palliative care knowledge, skills and confidence in health professionals. Each 1 hour session consists of: A 10-minute presentation from a multidisciplinary specialist palliative...

Join Injury Matters on 18 June 2025 from 10:00am-11:00am (AWST), with guest speaker Henrietta Podgorska from Umbrella Multicultural Community Care Services, for the “Building Trust and Engaging Multicultural Communities in Injury Prevention Programs and Services” webinar. Western Australia (WA) has a rapidly increasing multicultural population, made up of a variety of different communities, each with their own unique identity and experiences. WA has the largest proportion of residents born outside of Australia, where 38% of Western Australians were born overseas. Cultural, social and psychological impacts on health may increase the prevalence of injury among multicultural communities. That is why effective...