MHPN Presents

Oct 29 2024 75 ep. 34 mins 37

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Welcome to MHPN’s inaugural podcast which explores wellbeing and mental health. Listen to engaging conversations between mental health practitioners, as they reflect on a variety of topics related to mental wellbeing, interdisciplinary practice, and collaborative care. Subscribe to stay up to date.

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A Conversation About… Health in all its Complexity: When Practitioners’ Moral Codes are Challenged

Oct 29 2024 48 mins

This three-part series features academic General Practitioners, Dr Wei-May Su and Professor Louise Stone, in conversation with various GPs about the complexities of providing meaningful primary health care.In the final episode, they chat with GP and addiction medicine specialist, Dr Hester Wilson, about the challenges they face when patients talk or behave in ways that don’t alig

A Conversation About… Health in all its Complexity: Working with the Inexplicable

Oct 15 2024 41 mins

This three-part series features academic General Practitioners, Dr Wei-May Su and Professor Louise Stone, in conversation about the complexities of providing meaningful primary health care.In episode two, they explore the challenges of providing primary health care when treating the rare, the unknown, the complex, the not learned about, and the different.They reflect on the changes

A Conversation About… Health in all its Complexity: Systems of Care

Oct 01 2024 43 mins

This three-part series features academic General Practitioners, Dr Wei-May Su and Professor Louise Stone, in conversation with various GPs about the complexities of providing meaningful primary health care. In episode one, May and Louise sit down with General Practitioner and researcher Professor Michael Kidd to explore the complexities of providing mental health care in a range of

Book Club: Developing a Shared Understanding with Konrad Michel’s ‘The Suicidal Person’

Sep 17 2024 33 mins

Content warning: This episode discusses suicidality.Join Professor Nicholas Procter (Professor and Chair, Mental Health Nursing) and Dr Conrad Newman (psychiatrist and PhD candidate) for this episode of Book Club, where they discuss the ways in which Konrad Michel’s book ‘The Suicidal Person: A New Look at a Human Phenomenon’ (2023) has influenced their work. Together they ex

Creative Arts Therapies: NEW series on Mental Health In Focus

Sep 10 2024 1 mins

We’ve just released the first episode of our new partnership podcast series: Creative Arts Therapies, on Mental Health In Focus.This four-part series is produced in partnership with the Australian New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA) and Mental Health Professionals’ Network (MHPN).Hosted by clinical psychologist, Professor Mark Creamer, the serie

In The First Person: Anxiety, Depression and Art Therapy

Sep 03 2024 26 mins

In this episode of In The First Person, Trent McWhinney: a creative arts therapist, shares his personal story of anxiety and depression.In conversation with Professor Mark Creamer, Trent talks about the various interventions he’s tried and what impact they’ve had on his symptoms as well as how his art practice has helped him both personally and professionally.Trent takes listen

A Conversation About… Creative Arts Therapy

Aug 20 2024 28 mins

You’ve likely heard of Creative Arts Therapy, but how much do you really know about it as a mental health profession?Join clinical psychologist, Professor Mark Creamer, as he sits down with Dr Kate Dempsey, CEO of ANZACATA: the peak professional association for creative arts therapists in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.Together they explore the practice and breadth of Creative A

A Conversation About… Schizophrenia, Quality of Life and Performing Arts

Aug 06 2024 27 mins

Tune in as Professor Mark Creamer (clinical psychologist) and Neil Cole (consumer consultant, mental health advocate, writer and playwright) talk about supporting people living with schizophrenia and psychosis.Their wide-ranging conversation touches on diagnosis, symptoms and treatment – both pharmacological and psychosocial, exploring the positive and negative impacts on quality

A Conversation About… Journalism and Mental Health

Jun 25 2024 32 mins

Content warning: This episode discusses both hypothetical and real-life traumatic events, including the NSW Bondi Junction shopping centre attack in April 2024.If your client came to you and said, “I've been asked to tell my story to a journalist,” would you encourage them to do it?Join psychologist, Dr Cait McMahon, and journalist, Ashlynne McGhee, as they discuss the intersec

In The First Person: Living with Bipolar

Jun 11 2024 28 mins

Content warning: This episode discusses themes of suicidal ideation and thoughts of harm to others. Many people may have preconceived ideas about the ‘highs and lows’ of bipolar disorder, but what is it really like to live with it?In this episode we hear from Neil Cole who has previously been a practicing lawyer, a Melbourne City Councilor, and a Member of the Victorian Parliam