Volume 8 Issue 2 is now Ready!

The latest issue of the Journal of Mental Health for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is now ready for your holiday reading!!

Highlights include:

• Ewan’s story: Psychosis in Intellectual Disability and Autism by Ewan's parents and David Dossetor

• 3DN Improving Mental Health and Well-being of People with Intellectual Disability
• The Westmead Feelings Program 1 Launch by Dr Michelle Wong
• The Medicine Cabinet: Medicinal Cannabis – why the fuss? by Judy Longworth
• An Integrated Approach to Mental Health Care Provision for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual disability by Dr Peter Wurth, Dr Patrick Concannon, Helen Appleton, Andrew Frakes & Kerrie Nelson
• The Knotted Cord: A book review  by Meena Rattan and David Dossetor
• Connecting Animals with People: implications for well-being and therapeutic applications 

Westmead Feelings Program Launch

The Westmead Feelings Program resources, were launched by the Children's Hospital at Westmead and ACER at the Asia Pacific Autism Conference in Sydney on September 9.  Westmead Feelings Program 1 is a 15-month intervention program teaching children with autism spectrum disorder and mild intellectual disability about emotional understanding and social awareness, in close collaboration with parents, teachers and facilitators. Westmead Feelings Program 1 was previously known as the Emotion Based Social Skills Program, but has now been updated and published by ACER.

The accompanying resources and online professional learning are now available on the ACER website here.

Trauma Informed Neurodevelopmental Practice Workshop

TIC TOCK- Trauma Informed Neurodevelopmental Practice for Learning and Growing in the Classroom Years 7 - 10
Date: Monday, 13 November 2017 Cost:$240

This training delivered by SAL Consulting draws on the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT), a neurodevelopmentally-informed, biologically respectful perspective on human development and functioning to help educators understand student behaviour and performance.

The goals of NMT are to educate teachers, school psychologists,counsellors and learning support staff in basic concepts of neurosequential development and then teach them how to apply this knowledge to the teaching and learning process. NMT is not a specific “intervention”; it is a way to educate school staff about brain development and developmental trauma and then to further teach them how to apply that knowledge to their work with students inside and outside the classroom, particularly those students who have had adverse childhood experiences.

The training will provide information and practice examples to use with small and large groups of children. This form of targeted positive support can assist children and young people with learning, with their connection to others and will support teachers in the evolution of their classroom ‘ecology’.

Download the flyer here.
Contact SAL Consulting  to register - https://www.salconsulting.com.au/more/contact/

Anxiety and Depression and Intellectual Disability Workshop

Anxiety and Depression and Intellectual Disability Workshop
Date: Weds 13 September 2017 Cost: $220

This workshop hosted by the Centre for Disability Studies at (USyd) aims to build the capacity of existing staff to provide psychotherapy/ counselling/support to people who experience mild to moderate intellectual disability and who are also experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, and/ or depression. Facilitated by Clinical Professor Vivienne Riches and Laura Hogan.

For more details and to register click here.

For other courses offered by CDS click here.

Research to Action Day: Mental Health and Intellectual Disability

Research to Action Day: Mental Health and Intellectual Disability
Date: Tues 25th July 2017 Cost: FREE

The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN), UNSW invites you to:

Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing of People with an Intellectual Disability: A Research to Action Day for Professionals and Carers.

Please share the attached flyer with your friends and networks. An overview of the day’s program is also attached.

To register, please go to https://research_to_action_2017.eventbrite.com.au to register.