Do you have a special interest in mental health and a need to find like-minded others?
Do you have a special interest in mental health and a need to find like-minded others? - Joining a networking organisation or attending the 2016 Unconference might help.
There are two groups there might be value in your knowing about if you are interested in mental health: The Australian Society for Psychological Medicine (ASPM – www.aspm.org.au) started life in the late 1990s as the Australian College of Psychological Medicine (ACPM) when a group of GPs with additional training in mental health found that the existing professional colleges were not providing enough support to meet their special interest needs. The ACPM’s aims were to provide support and networking opportunities for GPs with a special interest in mental health and to develop higher level mental health education opportunities than those that were available to GPs in the existing framework. The ACPM also developed a “Fellowship” process for its members.
Over time the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners began to see that there was a need to support GPs with specific interests and in 2010 the Faculty of Specific Interests established the Psychological Medicine Specific Interest Group. (http://www.racgp.org.au/yourracgp/faculties/specific-interests/endorsed-networks/). That’s when the ACPM became the ASPM – welcoming allied mental health professionals as well as GPs to the group.
The ASPM and the RACGP’s Psychological Medicine Specific Interest Group have collaborated for a number of years to present a small but exciting conference. This year’s conference, on 14th and 15th May in Melbourne has a pre-conference skills based Master Class on Friday 13th in addition to an exciting unstreamed interactive “unconference” program. The program is accredited as a 40 point ALM for the current triennium. Here is a link to more information about the conference http://www.aspm.org.au/special-notices/109-2016-aspm-racgp-conference.html
My apologies if this information about the conference arriving is too late for you but I thought it still might be useful for some, and certainly an event you might like to flag for next time. Why not join one of the organisations’ mailing lists for an early warning about the next event!
Gerhard is a full professor of Clinical Psychology at Linköping University, Sweden since 2003, an
d affiliated researcher at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Professor Andersson is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of CBT delivered through information and communication technology, as well as the author of the book “The Internet and CBT: a clinical guide”.
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