Mental Illness

This lecture provides an overview of the role of the Victorian Police Youth Affairs Office and their ‘Safe Street” and ‘Party Safe Plan’, programmes to facilitate a safe and secure environment for youth.
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CPD Listening Time:	35 Mins
Conference:	Teenagers & risky behaviours
Date Recorded:	7th and 8th March 2011
Location:	Melbourne Australia

Overview of a comprehensive Volunteer Orientation Program that will effectively meet the needs of new volunteers within a health care network.
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CPD Listening Time:	21'15
Conference:	Volunteers - Set Up Volunteers Program
Date Recorded:	05 Feb 2010
Location:	Victoria, Australia

Learn how to break free of six common attacks. This type of self defence is specific to situations where you are not intending to hurt the attacker. Such attacks could be experienced in health care settings.
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CPD Time:	20 Mins

This chapter instructs readers on how to understand sources of anger and hostility, recognise a range of aggressive behaviours, and to appreciate how the solution-focused behavioural change model can help a client to change aggressive behaviour...
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Book Title:	Caring for People with Problem Behaviours
Chapter:	4
This education is:	eligible for CPD

This fact sheet gives a brief outline of personality disorders generally, and then indicates specific personality disorder traits...
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Personalising the care of a person with depression is the focus of this lecture. Emphasis is made on the need to tailor the application of nursing theory and nursing skills to each individual person.
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CPD Listening Time:	15 Mins
Conference:	Depression and the Elderly
Date Recorded:	23 Mar 2010
Location:	Melbourne, Australia

This image shows a cross-section of the brain. By focusing on the Basal Ganglia and Limbic system, the Cerebrum, Caudate Nucleus, Putamen, Hippocampus, Hypothalmus, etc. are labelled.
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This session will look at what considerations should be taken into account when deciding what work to allocate to individual volunteers.
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CPD Listening Time:	33 Mins
Conference:	Setting-Up a Volunteer Program in Health Care Settings
Date Recorded:	04 Feb 2010
Location:	Victoria, Australia

For health-care professionals working in long-term care, the question of how to deal with frail people who wander is a constant challenge. In this chapter, learn more wandering including its types, causes and how it can be effectively managed...
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Book Title:	Dementia Nursing
Chapter:	7
This education is:	eligible for CPD

Showing the major arteries in the brain, this image outlines the major supply lines of blood into the brain. Examples of arteries labeled include the internal carotid artery, the basilar artery, the posterior cerebral artery, etc.
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This image shows the two hemispheres of the brain and their impact. Namely, it outlines which part of the brain affects which side of the human body.
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In this lecture the words nurse and psychiatric are defined.
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CPD Listening Time:	23 Mins
Conference:	Psychiatric Nursing Assessment Skills
Date Recorded:	21-22 Jun 2010
Location:	Melbourne, VIC, Australia

In this lecture a definition of personality is provided. How personality is formed is discussed.
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CPD Listening Time:	39 Mins
Conference:	Personality Disorders in the Workplace
Date Recorded:	15-16 Jul 2010
Location:	Melbourne VIC Australia

This lecture discusses issues relating to working with colleagues who have the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and / or who have borderline personality disorder traits.
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CPD Listening Time:	19 Mins
Conference:	Personality Disorders in the Workplace
Date Recorded:	15-16 Jul 2010
Location:	Melbourne VIC Australia

This session presents an in-depth personal story of the lived experience of addiction.
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CPD Listening Time:	31 Mins
Conference:	Alcohol & Drugs: Substance Abuse In ADULTS
Date Recorded:	11 Mar 2010
Location:	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

This lecture discusses the key factors involved in the development of drug abuse in adolescents. The developing adolescent brain is discussed, and the impact that drug use has on the developing teenage brain, considered.
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CPD Listening Time:	32 Mins
Conference:	Teenagers and Risky Behaviours
Date Recorded:	7th and 8th March 2011
Location:	Melbourne, Australia

A nurses account of her experience when her partner developed dementia. The importance of early assessment. Depression and coping with the losses which accompany this organic brain disease.
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CPD Listening Time:	24 Mins
Conference:	General Aged Care
Date Recorded:	9 Feb 2010
Location:	Victoria, Australia

Denial, Depression and anxiety in chronic illness. Identifying the differences. - Part 2. When faced with a potentially life-changing diagnosis of a chronic condition, it can be easy for depression to set in as a complication.
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CPD Listening Time:	27 Mins
Conference:	Chronic Disease Management Conference
Date Recorded:	5 Sep 2008
Location:	Victoria, Australia

This image indicates the major difference between the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) in the function of the eye. It outlines the different functions the eye can perform; as well as how these functions are
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Providing four easy steps to help manage your worry, this fact sheet encourages active self-help when an individual may be becoming overwhelmed by worrisome thoughts...
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