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There is no substitute for attending an ECHO, but here are a few downloadable copies of past didactic presentations, provided for personal learning.
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Families
- Date 14th September 2023
- Didactic – Families Where a Parent Experiences Mental Illness (FaPMI) – Ms Hanna Jewel – The Bouverie Centre LaTrobe University
- Presentation –Families Where a Parent Experiences Mental Illness (FaPMI)
- Resources FaPMI Information & FaPMI Coordinator contacts
- Resources Resource booklist
- 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 31st August 2023
- Didactic – Alcohol Withdrawal – Do I Have to Use Diazepine – Professor Edward Ogden – Goulburn Valley Health
- Presentation – Alcohol withdrawal for ECHO – do I have to use diazepam?
- 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 10th August 2023
- Didactic – Reconnexion’s Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Program – Mr Henrique Salles – Reconnexion
- Presentation – Reconnexion’s Benzodiazepine Treatment Program
- Date 3rd August 2023
- Didactic – Benzodiazepam & their Equivalence Conversion and Impact on Patient Care – Dr Andrew Lam – Goulburn Valley Health
- Presentation – Benzodiazepine Equivalence Conversion and Impact on Patient Care
- Date 27th July 2023
- Didactic – Benzodiazepines Which One When and Why? Associate Professor Ravi Bhat – Goulburn Valley Health
- Presentation – Benzodiazepines_
- Date 20th July 2023
- Didactic – New Model of Care for Victorian Adult Prisoners –Ms Penny Francis – Department of Justice & Corrections Services
- Presentation – Justice Health – PH and AOD Service Delivery Model
- 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 15th June 2023
- Didactic – Homelessness and Outreach – Ms Heather Loryman – Goulburn Valley Health
- Presentation – ECHO Homelessness and Outreach Heather Loryman 150623
- Date 8th June 2023
- Didactic – Needle and Syringe Program – Ms Stephanie Tzanetis – Penington Institute
- Presentation – WFD_NSP presentation
- Date 1st June 2023
- Didactic – Hep C Marching Forward!! – Ms Christine Biesiekierski –Goulburn Valley Health
- Presentation – Hep C Marching forward!! 01062023 Christine Biesiekieski
- Date 25th May 2023
- Didactic – Stigma and Advocacy – The Power of Words – Matthew Corbett – Self Help Addiction Resource Centre SHARC
- Presentation – JAMH ECHO- Language Matters – M Corbett SHARC
- Date 18th May 2023
- Didactic Drug Induced Psychosis – Dr Andrew Lam – Goulburn Valley Health
- Presentation – Drug Induced Psychosis
- Date 11th May 2023
- Didactic – Severe Substance Disorder Treatment Act – Professor Edward Ogden – Goulburn Valley Health
- Presentation – Severe Substance Disorder Treatment Act
- 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 23rd March 2023
- Didactic – Statewide Specialist Women’s Clinic Shepparton – Ms Kalina Clarke
- Presentation – Specialist Womens Mental Health Centre JAMECHO K Clarke
- 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 16th February 2023
- Didactic Peer Workers in Public Health – Mental Health – Julie Anderson
- Presentation – SupportingTheSharingofLivedLivingExperience_FinalReport
- Resources –Mental Health Commission lived experience Workforce Guidelines
- email livedexperienceworkforce@dhhs.vic.gov.au
- 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 8th December 2022
- Didactic – An Overview of Justice Health – Wendy Lawrence
- Presentation – Justice Health – 8 December 2022 – Project ECHO
- Date 1st December 2022
- Didactic – Suicide and Self Harm in Prison Settings – Brian Tyrell
- Presentation – Suicide and self harm
- Date 24th November 2022
- Didactic – ADHD and Substance Use – Dr Dianne Grocott
- Presentation – Working with people with ADHD+SUD
- Date 17th November 2022
- Didactic – ADHD and the Lived Experience – Jack O’Toole
- Presentation –Jack O’Toole
Novel Drugs
- Date 10th October 2022
- Didactic – Vaping – Dr Adam Pastor
- Presentation – Vaping Dr Adam Pastor
- 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 21st July 2022
- Didactic – Mental Health Behind Bars – Anthea Lemphers
- Presentation – Forensicare – Mental Health Behind Bars
- 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 16th June 2022
- Didactic – Personality Disorders in Old Age – Associate Professor Josephine Beatson
- Presentation – BPD in OLD AGE – Meeting the Challenges
- Date 9th June 2022
- Didactic – Emerging Personality Disorder and Substance Use – Melissa Bradshaw & Kalina Clarke
- Presentation – Emerging Personality Disorder and Substance Use
- Date 2nd June 2022
- Didactic – Antisocial Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorder – Kalina Clarke
- Presentation – Antisocial Personality Disorder and Substance Use
- Resources –
- ASPD Psychotheraphy cochrane IJPsyM-40-517
- IJPsyM-40-517
- Date 19th May 2022
- Didactic – Neurodiversity and Personality Disorders – Dr Lukas Cheney
- Presentation – Neurodiversity and Personality Disorders
- 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 28th April 2022
- Didactic – Borderline Personality Disorder – Treatment 1 – Kalina Clarke
- Presentation – Mentalization Based Treatment
- Date 7th April 2022
- Didactic Borderline Personality Disorder – Course and Outcome – Dr Joe Wei
- Presentation – Borderline Personality Disorder – Course and Outcome
- Date 31st March 2022
- Didactic – Borderline Personality Disorder – Dr Shiromi Karunaratne
- Presentation – Borderline Personality Disorder
- 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 17th March 2022
- Didactic – Long Term Prenatal Exposure to Methadone or Buprenorphine – Dr Connie Chong
- Presentation – Prenatal Exposure to Methadone or Buprenorphine
- Date 10th March 2022
- Didactic – Mental Health and Drug Use in LGBTQI Community – Dr Tanja Takala
- Presentation – Mental Health and Drug Use in LGBTQI Community
- Date 3rd March 2022
- Didactic – Young People, Gender and Substance Use – Dr Tanja Takala
- Presentation – MENTAL~1.PPT Young People Gender and Substance Use
- Date 24th February 2022
- Didactic – Emerging Psychosis and Dual Diagnosis – Sheeraj Moorolia
- Presentation – Emerging Psychosis and Dual Diagnosis
- Date 24th February 2022
- Didactic – Early Psychosis – Dr Tejas Golhar
- Presentation – Early Psychosis
- Date 10th February 2022
- Didactic – Youth, Unstable Housing, Out of Home Care and Substance Use – Heather Loryman
- Presentation – Youth Homelessness and Substance Use
- Date 27 January 2022
- Didactic – Youth, Autism, Trauma and Substance Use – Associate Professor Soumya Basu
- Presentation –Youth Autism and Trauma
- Resources
- jamapediatrics ASD and Substance abuse
- Systematic review of risk and protective factors
- 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 2nd December 2021
- Didactic – Harm Reduction in Young People – Focus on CoVID – Associate Professor Gillinder Bedi
- Presentation – Harm Reduction for Young People – Focus on CoVID
- Date 25th November 2021
- Didactic – Brief Interventions for Drug Use in Young People Using Drugs – Dr Eddie Mullen
- Presentation – Brief Interventions
- Date 18th November 2021
- Didactic – Mental Illness and Drug Use in Young People – Dr Shalini Arunogiri
- Presentation – Mental Illness and Substance Use in Young Poeple
- Date 11th November 2021
- Didactic – Early and Earlier Intervention in Young People Using Drugs – Associate Professor Gillinder Bedi
- Presentation – Early and Earlier Intervention in Young People Using Drugs
- 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 16th September 2021
- Didactic – Mood Disorders Part 3 – Bipolar Disorders – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
- Presentation – Bipolar Disorders
- Resources
- McIntyre_BipolarDis_Lancet2020
- Bayes_BPAD-BPD_CurrPsychRep2019
- Date 9th September 2021
- Didactic – Mood disorders Part 2 – Thinking about how to help – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
- Presentation – Mood Disturbances
- Date 2nd September 2021
- Didactic – Mood Disorders Part 1 – Associate Professor Ravi Bhat
- Presentation – MOOD disorders Part 1
- Resources – Cuijpers PsychotherapiesDep WorldPsych 2021
- 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 19th August 2021
- Didactic – Long Acting Injectable Buprenorphine – Dr Adam Straub
- Presentation – Long Acting Injectable Buprenorphine
- Date 12th August 2021
- Didactic – Opioid Substitution – Professor Edward Ogden
- Presentation – Opioid Replacement Therapy
- 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 22nd July 2021
- Didactic – Maximising Opioid Effectiveness – Professor Edward Ogden
- Presentation – Maximising effectiveness of opioids in pain management
- 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 3rd June 2021
- Didactic – Medication and ADD – Dr Peter Heffernan
- Presentation – Medicines for Lifelong ADHD
- 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 18th March 2021
- Didactic – Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide Framework – Stefan Anderson
- Presentation – Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide Framework
- Date 11th March 2021
- Didactic – Managing the Agitated Patient – Dr Shiromi Karunaratne
- Presentation – Managing the Agitated Patient
- 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 2nd September 2020
- Didactic – Talking to Patients About Childhood Abuse – Dr Julie Stone
- Presentation – TALKING To Patients About Childhood Abuse
- Date 19th August 2020
- Didactic – What Can We Do About Adverse Childhood Experience? – Dr Vibhay Rayker
- Presentation – What can we do about ACEs – Vibhay Rayker
- Date 5th August 2020
- Didactic – ACEs and Youth Mental Health (Adverse Childhood Experience) – Dr Tejas Golhar
- Presentation- ACEs and Youth Mental Health
- Date 22nd July 2020
- Didactic – Introduction to JAMH – Professor Edward Ogden
- Presentation – Introduction to JAMH ECHO
- 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
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