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A 2 day evidence based course empowers professionals to treat and manage nicotine dependency.

Taking an holistic approach using proven evidence based techniques, the course is presented by active experts and helps skill participants to be able to work effectively one on one with clients for effective nicotine management and health outcomes. Presented by a panel of practicing health professionals including the team of the Lung Health Promotion Centre at the Alfred.

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The Australian Digital Health Agency is pleased to be hosting an interactive webinar focusing on digital health technologies for private specialists and practice staff, including My Health Record, telehealth, electronic prescribing and secure messaging. A panel of experts will be fielding questions and discussing how digital health can enable improved decision support and continuity of care.

This online short course will take participants through an exploration of the many facets of grief experienced by those affected by decrease in abilities, increase in age and/or dementia. We will consider the different needs of both the families/carers and the person themselves. Strategies will be offered to help people who support these families to engage in an active grieving process that acknowledges the losses experienced and the life of their loved one.

At the conclusion of this online short course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the varied losses associated with a decrease in abilities and increases in ageing and/or dementia.

• Apply grief and loss theory to implement support for family members affected by disability, ageing and/or dementia

• Analyse strategies that allow active engagement with the grief experienced by individuals with decreasing abilities, increased ageing and/or dementia.

• Evaluate some simple communication tools to be able to work directly with individuals who are living with dementia and acknowledge their grief.

Many community support and health care professionals may only have brief contact, or sometimes just a single session, with individuals experiencing grief or bereavement. Effective bereavement support can be offered or initiated via brief contact or a single session, without compromising the quality of the support given.
This short course will offer a simple framework and strategies that can be used to ensure effective bereavement support when only having brief contact with bereaved or grieving individuals.

Learning Modules: at the Conclusion of this Short Course, participants should be able to:

• Explore the grief experience for individuals using contemporary grief and bereavement theories/models

• Understand and deliver the basics of grief education by identifying common grief reactions, what to do and when to be concerned

• Identify strategies and resources that assist people who are grieving and can be addressed briefly

• Understand when to refer to specialist grief and bereavement services for ongoing support

This Online Short Course will lead participants through a brief history of how our society has responded to suicide and consider the ways in which this influences how we respond to the needs of those bereaved through suicide today. This short course will engage participants in understanding the particular issues and questions that arise for those bereaved through suicide and the ways in which they can be addressed.

Learning Modules: At the conclusion of this online short course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the ways in which our society has historically responded to suicide and the influence of these responses on the suicide bereaved

• Identify and describe the range of issues, questions and experiences that face the suicide bereaved

• Identify effective support strategies for, and resources that can be used by, those bereaved through suicide

• Utilise an understanding of suicide and suicide bereavement to inform effective grief and bereavement support and suicide prevention strategies for the suicide bereaved

We shall consider this model's relevance for focussing assessment and interventions related to continuing bonds, traumatic and non-traumatic loss, and overall resilience. To do so, we shall use art, film and clinical material along with theory and research data in our meeting. This webinar is designed to engage clinicians, researches, the bereaved and those who support them, in our shared quest to facilitate resilience following loss and bereavement.

Learning Outcomes

What can participants expect to have learned after attending this webinar:

A clear understanding of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement (TTMB) and its implications for theory and practice.

A paradigm for applying the insights of the model in assessment and intervention and suggestions for deciding how to balance and when to prioritise Track I, Track II, or both tracks of the TTMB.

How to interplay between subjective and objective elements of how loss impacts the bereavement experience in "traumatic bereavement" and how to use the TTMB to assist in assessment and intervention.

Presentation of several intervention strategies and techniques and their connection to particular elements of the TTMB with the goal of fostering resilience in the bereaved.

Please join us for an update on the COVID-19 vaccines soon to be rolled out and their relevance in Aged Care. The session will be delivered by the PHN. The session will cover the following critical issues:

• Priority groups and excluded groups

• Capacity Tracker – new Vaccination module

• Update on current information from Commonwealth Dept. of Health

The Academic Post Program is an AGPT training term for registrars to learn academic skills through individualised learning plans, with support from training providers, universities and the RACGP. The program gives registrars the opportunity to gain exposure to research and teaching in an academic environment, and learn to incorporate academic work in their careers. Join us for our pre-application webinar - where potential applicants have the opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the program.