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Type: On-demand
Recorded: 14 Nov 2023

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Email: RACGP Specific Interests

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A general practice approach to the struggling child in the vulnerable family

On-demand recorded 14 Nov 2023

This webinar will take a look at the incidence and nature of child maltreatment in Australia and, taking a child-centred approach, will explore how GPs can support and strengthen vulnerable families. It will cover practical approaches for:

  • How GPs can deal with common presentations in their clinic.
  • Communicating with families with a struggling child, including key messages that can be used.
This collaboration between the Psychological Medicine, Abuse and Violence in Families and Child and Young Person's Health Specific Interest Groups will include a Q&A with the group Chairs. 

Learning outcomes

  1. Discuss preventative strategies, at primary care level, that can support a struggling family
  2. Explore how to deliver prevention strategies within general practice

Presenters

Dr James Best
Chair, RACGP Specific Interests Child and Young Person’s Health

Dr James Best has been a GP for over 20 years. His practice has a focus on child development, child behaviour, parenting, and children with disabilities. He has been widely published in medical and mainstream publications on these and other child health topics. Dr Best is Chair, RACGP Specific Interests Child and Young Person’s Health.

Dr Cathy Andronis
Chair, RACGP Specific Interests Psychological Medicine

Dr Cathy Andronis works as a GP and psychotherapist in inner Melbourne and is a qualified family therapist. She is RACGP Specific Interests Psychological Medicine Chair, a member of the Victorian RACGP–RANZP liaison subcommittee, and is the RACGP representative for Mental Health Australia and the MHPN clinical education committee. Cathy is an experienced facilitator of case consultation groups for the RACGP and the Australian Society for Psychological Medicine (ASPM) and a provider of clinical supervision. She is the GP lead at Deakin University Eastern Health Clinical School.

Dr Wei-May Su
Chair, RACGP Specific Interests Abuse and Violence in Families

Dr Wei-May Su, is an academic GP and supervisor with specific interests in mental health, complexity, and abuse and violence. She continues part time clinical alongside academic roles. She is Academic Lead (GP), facilitating the multidisciplinary Master of Psychiatric Medicine and the Master of Applied Mental Health Studies at HETI Higher Education, Australia, and is Higher Degree Research Candidate at the Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney Uni on the topic of abuse and violence. She is co-author of the Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP) Guideline of Abuse and Violence (White Book).

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