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Mental Health Referral Network - Thursday 31 October

Thursday 31 October, 2024   AIS, Canberra

Objectives

  • Understand the considerations and impact that an injury can have on an athlete
  • Understand Trauma Informed Care, the challenges in implementing trauma informed care and explore how to shift these roadblocks and challenges within sport
  • Understand the challenges athletes face with transition and identify what a successful transition can look like from various perspectives
  • Allow opportunities for networking amongst MHRN clinicians

Audience

  • MH Team
  • MHRN Clinicians
  • Joint session with Performance Psychology Network

Themes

  • Networking Opportunities
  • Transition
  • Trauma
  • Injury

Draft Program - Program and Speaker details will be updated as they become confirmed.

Thursday 31 October 2024

9:00am-9:15am Bronze room

Nicole Burattin: Acknowledgment of Country

Matti Clements: Opening address

Opening Address   

Speaker: Matti Clements| Executive General Manager AIS Performance| Australian Sports Commission

9:15am-9:30am Bronze room

Ice breaker

Speaker: Josh Ranger | Mental Health Advisor & Clinical Psychologist | Australian Sports Commission

9:30am-10:30am Bronze room

Working with athletes with injury: Understanding the impact, considerations and working within a multidisciplinary team

Speaker: Renee Appaneal | Performance Psychologist | Organisation

Learning Outcomes: 

  • Understanding the impact an injury can have on an athlete
  • Identify considerations and how to work with an athlete therapeutically who has experienced injury
  • Explore how to work within the multidisciplinary team in sport when working with an athlete with injury
  • Identify considerations for returning to sport from injury

10:30am-11:00am Combat Centre

Break

11am-12:00pm Interdisciplinary session  Building 17, Level 1, Above Clearinghouse

Cross Collaboration across MHRN and Performance Psychology Network: Trauma informed care in sport

Speaker: Kris Dun| Performance Psychologist/National Performance Psychology Lead | Australian Sports Commission

Speaker: David Johnson | Psychologist/Mental Health Advisor | Australian Sports Commission

Speaker: Nicole Burattin |Clinical Psychologist/Mental Health Lead| Australian Sports Commission

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understanding trauma informed care
  • Gain an understanding of how each stream works with trauma in their respective settings
  • Identify at both the practitioner and system level what are the strengths in implementing trauma informed care
  • Understand the challenges of implementing trauma informed care within sport on both a practitioner and system level and how these challenges can be shifted

12:00pm-1:30pm Combat Centre

Lunch | Interdisciplinary networking

1:30pm-2:30pm Bronze room

Athlete transition and Retirement Panel

Speaker: Guy Little | Psychologist | MHRN Network Clinician

Speaker: Jason Tutt| Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement Manager | Volleyball Australia

Speaker: Linley Frame| Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement Manager | Swimming Australia

Speaker: Sami Sim | Alumni Athlete | Freestyle Skiing

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the athlete perspective around transition
  • Identity what a ‘good’ transition can look like
  • Identify the supports that might be available within a sport to assist an athlete with transition
  • How to work with a multidisciplinary team in supporting an athlete with transition

2:30pm-2:45pm Combat Centre

Break

2:45pm-3:15pm Bronze room 

MHRN, Win well and tying it all together 

Speaker: Sonia Boland| National Wellbeing Lead | Australian Sports Commission

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the role the MHRN plays and Mental Health Clinicians and links to the wider system strategy

3:15pm onwards

Networking opportunity for clinicians

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