Aboriginal Flag
Contrast
+ Larger Text
- Smaller Text
Group 3
reset

Resource Library

There is no substitute for attending an ECHO, but here are a few downloadable copies of past didactic presentations, provided for personal learning.

“Statements, facts and opinions expressed in these presentations are those of the individual authors and, unless expressly stated to the contrary, are not the opinion of GV Health. GV Health assumes no responsibility or liability for, the content, accuracy or completeness of the information presented.”

 Families

  • Date  7th September 2023
  • Didactic – Mental Health and Families – Associate Professor Brendan O’Hanlon – The Bouverie Centre LaTrobe University
  • Presentation – Families and Mental Health
There is no substitute for attending an ECHO, but here are a few downloadable copies of past didactic presentations, provided for personal learning.

Benzodiazepines

  • Date 24th August 2023
  • Didactic – My Benzo Story – Ms Natalie Corrigan – Reconnexion
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Resources shared
  • https://www.reconnexion.org.au/ – Treatment, support and information about benzodiazepine dependency and withdrawal, anxiety, insomnia and depression.
  • https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2021/6/report-highlights-public-health-risks-and-increasing-availability-designer-benzodiazepines-europe_en 
  • Date 17th August 2023
  • Didactic – Benzodiazepines Do They Cause Cognitive Impairment? – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat – Goulburn Valley Health
  • Presentation –Benzodiazepines Do They Cause Cognitive Impairment?
  • Date 27th July 2023
  • Didactic – Benzodiazepines Which One When and Why? Associate Professor Ravi Bhat – Goulburn Valley Health
  • Presentation – Benzodiazepines_
  • Date 13th July 2023
  • Didactic – Statewide Centre of Addiction and Mental Health – Dr Shalini Arunogiri – Statewide Centre of Addiction and Mental Health
  • Presentation – Not available

Complications of Intravenous Drug Use

  • Date 22nd June 2023
  • Didactic – Infecting Your Heart – Dr Shane Nanayakkara –  Interventional and Structural Cardiologist
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 8th June 2023
  • Didactic – Needle and Syringe Program – Ms Stephanie Tzanetis – Penington Institute
  • Presentation – WFD_NSP presentation
  • Date 18th May 2023
  • Didactic Drug Induced Psychosis – Dr Andrew Lam Goulburn Valley Health
  • Presentation – Drug Induced Psychosis
  • Date 4th May 2023
  • Didactic – The Feel of the Steel – Ms Amelia Berg – Self Help Addiction Resource Centre SHARC
  • Presentation – Feel of the steel
  • Date 27th April 2023
  • Didactic Blood Borne Virus – Ms Suzanne Wallis – Goulburn Valley Health
  • Presentation – 2023 BBVs

Patients and the System

  • Date 6th April 2023
  • Didactic – Introduction to Complex Needs Program Goulburn – Ms Carolyn Tremellen – Department of Families, Fairness and Housing 
  • Presentation –DFFH Complex Needs Program
  • Date 30th March 2023
  • Didactic The Role of the Public Advocate – Eleanore E Fritz – Office of the Public Advocate
  • Presentation – Presentation on OPA
  • Date 16th March 2023
  • Didactic Consumer and Carer Experience and Journey – Ms Mary O’Hagan –Lived Experience Branch Mental Health & Wellbeing Division
  • Presentation – Echo Presentation allyship
  • Date 9th March 2023
  • Didactic – Drug Court – Miss Jessica Dunne – Shepparton Drug Court
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 2nd March 2023
  • Didactic – Motivational Interviewing – A User Friendly Approach to Facilitate Change – Ms Helen Mentha – Mentha Consulting
  • Presentation – GV Health MI across the system
  • Date 23rd February 2023
  • Didactic Peer Workers in Public Health – Substance Use – Mr Antony Alder – St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne 
  • Presentation – Peer Worker Presentation
  • Date 9th February 2023
  • Didactic – Three Sides of the Coin – Judy Advisar
  • Presentation –

    How Three Sides of the Coin lived experience performances educate professionals about gambling harm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqOPa2Az1vc

  • Date 1st February 2023
  • Didactic – GVADS Specialist Addictions Clinic – A Collaboration AOD/Mental Health Approach – Cheryl Sobczyk
  • Presentation- Specialist Addictions Clinic 

JAMH’s Greatest Hits – Back By Popular Demand

  • Date 15th December 2022
  • Didactic – Relief From Trauma – Dr Greta Moon
  • Presentation – Relief from PTSD
  • Date 1st December 2022
  • Didactic – Suicide and Self Harm in Prison Settings – Brian Tyrell
  • Presentation – Suicide and self harm
  • Date 17th November 2022
  • Didactic – ADHD and the Lived Experience – Jack O’Toole
  • Presentation –Jack O’Toole

Novel Drugs

  • Date  3rd November 2022
  • Didactic – Petrol Sniffing and Other Inhalants – Dr Adam Straub
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 27th October 2022
  • Didactic – Plants That Get You High – Professor Edward Ogden
  • Presentation – Plants that get you high
  • Date – 13th October 2022
  • Didactic – Ayajuasca – Dr Greta Moon
  • Presentation – Ayahuasca
  • Date 13th October 2022
  • Didactic – Magic Mushrooms and the CIA – Professor Edward Ogden
  • Presentation – Kamini Vidrawan Ras
  • Date 6th October 2022
  • Didactic – Opium – Kamini – Dr Andrew Lam
  • Presentation – Kamini Vidrawan Ras
  • Date 15th September 2022
  • Didactic – Kava and Mental Health  – Dr Jerome Sarris
  • Presentation – Kava_2022
  • Date 9th September 2022
  • Didactic – “Synthetic Cannabis” and Mental Health – Joseph Carey
  • Presentation –Synthetic Cannabis
  • Date 1st September 2022
  • Didactic – GHB Use and Withdrawal – Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones
  • Presentation – GHB Use and Withdrawal
  • Date 25th August 2022
  • Didactic – The Nature of Addiction – Rob MacKenzie
  • Presentation – Not available

Theme: Forensic Mental Health and Substance Use

  • Date 18th August 2022
  • Didactic – Leaving Prison – Georgia Mosely
  • Presentation – Leaving Prison
  • Date 11th August 2022
  • Didactic – A Psychiatrists Reflection on a Life Working in Prison – Dr Douglas Bell
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 4th August 2022
  • Didactic Mental Illness in Victoria’s Criminal Justice System – Dr Douglas Bell
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 28th July 2022
  • Didactic Experience of Jail, Mental Illness and Drugs – a personal view – Timothy Ridgeway
  • Presentation -Not available
  • Date 14th July 2022
  • Didactic – Custodial Medicine – Dr John Guymer
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 23rd June 2023
  • Didactic – Mental Illness and Crime – Professor James (Jim) Ogloff
  • Presentation – Mental Illness and Crime

Theme: Borderline Personality Disorder

  • Date 12th May 2022
  • Didactic – Borderline Personality Disorder – The Lived Experience – Courtney Goldberg
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 5th May 2022
  • Didactic – Borderline Personality Disorder – Treatment 2 – Dr Harry Constantinou
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 24th March 2022
  • Didactic – Overview of Borderline Personality Disorder – Associate Professor Sathya Rao
  • Presentation – Concepts of Personality Disorder

Theme: Young People and Drugs

  • Date 24th February 2022
  • Didactic – Early Psychosis – Dr Tejas Golhar
  • Presentation – Early Psychosis
  • Date 27 January 2022
  • Didactic – Youth, Autism and Trauma – Associate Professor Soumya Basu
  • Presentation – Not available
  • 2021 Curriculum and Resources

  • Date 16th December 2021
  • Didactic – Treatment of Substance Use in Adolescents – Associate Professor Yvonne Bonomo
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 9th December 2021
  • Didactic – Experience of Drug Use in Young People – A Lived Experience – Christie Rohr
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 25th November 2021
  • Didactic – Brief Interventions for Drug Use in Young People Using Drugs – Dr Eddie Mullen
  • Presentation – Brief Interventions
  • Date 4th November 2021
  • Didactic – Developmental and Social Determinants of Drug use in Younger People – Dr Eddie Mullen
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 28th October 2021
  • Didactic – Mood Disorders – The Lived Experience – Jacinda Ryan
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 21st October 2021
  • Didactic – Mood Disorders and Substance Use Disorders – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
  • Presentation – MOOD Disorder
  • Resources LETSACT
  • Date 14th October 2021
  • Didactic – Managing Depression in Primary Care – Dr Caroline Johnson
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 7th October 2021
  • Didactic – Depression in Primary Care – Dr Caroline Johnson
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 9th September 2021
  • Didactic – Mood disorders Part 2 –  Thinking about how to help – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
  • Presentation – Mood Disturbances
  •  
  • Date 26th August 2021
  • Didactic – Intranasal Naloxone for Overdose – Varin Eddy
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Resources –
  • How to use naloxone (Prenoxad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_eQ53Ttssg
  • How to use nasal spray (Nyxoid) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIubISZpwQA
  • Date 5th August 2021
  • Didactic – Opioid Withdrawal – Professor Edward Ogden 
  • Presentation – Opioid Withdrawal
  • Date 29th July 2021
  • Didactic – Medically Supervised Injecting Rooms – Dr Nicolas Clark
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 15th July 2021
  • Didactic – Opioids and Pain – Trina Grant
  • Presentation – Opioids and Pain
  • Date 24th June 2021
  • Didactic – Pharmacology of Opioids – Dr Debby Darmansjah
  • Presentation – Pharmacology of Opioids
  • Date 17th June 2021
  • Didactic – Milk of Paradise – The Opium Poppy, Opiates and Opioids – Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones
  • Presentation – Milk of Paradise
  • Date 6th June 2021
  • Didactic – ADHD and Comorbidity – Dr Shelley Gray
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 27th May 2021
  • Didactic – ADHD and Adverse Childhood Experiences – Dr Luis Riebl
  • Presentation – ADHD and Trauma
  • Date 20th May 2021
  • Didactic – Non Medical Approaches to Managing ADHD – Jack O’Toole
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 13th May 2021
  • Didactic – ADHD Training for Primary Care – Dr Carmel O’Toole
  • Presentation – Not available
  • Date 6th May 2021
  • Didactic – ADHD in Children and Adolescents – Dr David Coghill
  • Presentation – Not Available
  • Date 29th April 2021
  • Didactic – Impulsivity and Substance Use – Dr Mark Bellgrove 
  • Presentation – Not Available
  • Publication:Young_J_2021 Assessment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Date 22nd April 2021
  • Didactic – ADHD and Drug Use – Dr Dianne Grocott
  • Presentation – ADHD and SUD
  • Date 1st April 2021
  • Didactic – Recognising ADHD – Dr Peter Wright
  • Presentation – Recognising ADHD
  • Date 25th March 2021
  • Didactic – Why Talk About ADHD? – Peter Scholem
  • Presentation – ADHD and You
  • Date 4th March 2021
  • Didactic – Acute Alcohol Intoxication – Professor Edward Ogden
  • Presentation – Alcohol Intoxication
  • Date 25th February 2021
  • Didactic – Stimulant Intoxication – Dr Debbie Darmansjah
  • Presentation – Stimulant Intoxication
  • Date 18th February 2021
  • Didactic – Hangover – Dr Sarah Benson
  • Presentation – Hangover
  • Date 11th February 2021
  • Didactic – Overdose – Dr Trushna Trivedi
  • Presentation – Not Available
  • Date 4th February 2021
  • Didactic – Assessing Risk of Suicide – Dr Sid Dutta
  • Presentation – SUICIDE RISK ASSESMENT
  • Date 28th January 2021
  • Didactic – Perinatal Mental Health Disorder – Psychological Treatment – Dr Raju Lakshmana
  • Presentation – Not Available
  • Date 21st January 2021
  • Didactic – Perinatal Mental Health Disorder – Pharmacological Treatment – Dr Raju Lakshmana
  • Presentation – Not Available
  • 2020 Curriculum and Resources

  • Date 16th December 2020
  • Didactic – Perinatal Mental Health Disorder – Risk Assessment – Dr Raju Lakshmana
  • Presentation – Not Available
  • Date 9th December 2020
  • Didactic – Perinatal Mental Health Disorder – Diagnosis – Dr Raju Lakshmana
  • Presentation – Not Available
  • Date 2nd December 2020
  • Didactic Mental Health in the Time of COVID – 19 Pandemic – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
  • Presentation – 
  • Date 28th October 2020
  • Didactic – Neurobiology of Addiction – Professor Edward Ogden
  • Presentation- 
  • Date 14th October 2020
  • Didactic – Fetal Alcohol Spectrum – Kim Cowen
  • Presentation -Not available
  • Date 16th September 2020
  • Didactic – Drug Induced Psychosis – Dr Stuti Jindal
  • Presentation – Drug Induced Psychosis
  • Date 5th August 2020
  • Didactic – ACEs and Youth Mental Health (Adverse Childhood Experience) – Dr Tejas Golhar
  • Presentation- ACEs and Youth Mental Health
  • Date 24th June 2020
  • Didactic – Safe Script – Professor Edward Ogden
  • Presentation – SafeScript
  • Date 10th June 2020
  • Didactic – What Patients Want – Eliciting Patient’s Perspectives – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
  • Presentation – Not Available