Provider: Black Dog Institute
This highly interactive workshop aims to provide GPs with a comprehensive theoretical understanding of anxiety disorders together with an extensive range of skills and strategies to better manage anxiety in their practices. Clinical scenarios form the basis of learning as participants explore how anxiety disorders arise, how they are maintained and the role general practitioners can play in addressing these effectively.
The program will assist GPs to gain further confidence and competence in the effective use of Focused Psychological Strategies (FPS).
Prerequisites: Completion of predisposing activity
Suitable for: GPs
Topics Covered:
Topic 1: Understanding Anxiety
Topic 2: Assessing Anxiety
Topic 3: Behavioural Strategies
Topic 4: The Anxious Mind
Topic 5: Pharmacological Treatments
Topic 6: Putting it all Together
Learning Objectives:
- Distinguish between normal anxiety and clinically significant anxiety disorders.
- Identify common avoidance and safety behaviours and the central role they play in anxiety disorders.
- Employ behavioural techniques such as relaxation, mindfulness meditation and graded exposure to assist patients with anxiety disorders.
- Challenge unhelpful cognitions and metacognitions commonly associated with anxiety disorders.
- Appraise the role of medications in the management of anxiety disorders.
CPD Points:
• 40 RACGP QI&CPD Category 1
• 30 ACRRM PRPD
• Approved for Focused Psychological Strategies CPD (FPS CPD)
Dates, Times, Costs & Registrations:
- QLD Brisbane: 03 Mar 2018, 9 AM – 5 PM, $360.00 – Register and Pay Online
- VIC Melbourne: 24 Mar 2018, 9 AM – 5 PM, $360.00 – Register and Pay Online
Email: education@blackdoginstitute.org.au
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