From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
Session 2 of the series examines how we act when things are going well, and where we go when we are stressed or shut down with our child. What does our personal history have to do with our autonomic responses? How can we begin to move towards ventral if we are frequently in sympathetic/dorsal? This session includes exercises for self-compassion and reset.
The Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) is an illicit drug monitoring system conducted in all states and territories of Australia since 2003 and forms part of Drug Trends. In 2024, NDARC have provided a suite of products with the most up-to-date findings from interviews conducted annually from 2003 to 2024 with a cross-sectional sentinel group of people who regularly use ecstasy and other stimulants recruited from all capital cities of Australia.
Session 1 of a series facilitated by Polyvagal Institute. Expert trainer and clinician Dafna Lender presents practical applications for building safety and connection with children. In this session we will explore everyday examples of safety and connection (ventral), dysregulation (sympathetic/dorsal) and repair (return to ventral). We will learn how our nervous system influences our children and vice versa, and discuss ways to get yourself into a calm and open state (ventral) so you can influence your child in a positive way.
This webinar addresses sexualised violence and coercion when working with users of intimate partner violence, to further encourage open and respectful conversation on this often-taboo topic.
The Australian Guide to the Diagnosis of FASD will give clinicians the confidence to consider a diagnosis of FASD, the knowledge to make the diagnosis and the information they need to manage or refer an individual and family and to take the steps to prevent FASD.
The significance of gender-based violence as a key driver in young women’s disproportionate experiences of mental ill-health.
This webinar by MHPN includes an interdisciplinary panel of experts explore how practitioners can respond to the challenges of working therapeutically with children and their families when children have experienced physical or sexual abuse.
NTV’s Head of Sector Development hosts a panel discussion to further explore how pornography use shows up in the work with men and what are we hearing from victim survivors.
Dr. Eddie Mullen (Psychiatrist, Orygen Specialist Services) facilitates this webinar on developmental perspectives of substance use from early adolescence into adulthood and how this can inform our approach to screening, assessment and offering evidence-based treatment as well as the intersection of youth, neurodivergence and addiction.
