[Commpsych] Climate change, Covid-19 and mental health - two back-to-back community psych-relevant CPD webinars for the price of one - TONIGHT Wed 6 October 5.30-7pm/7-8.30pm AEDST

[Heather Gridley]

(ok, so one of these is free but the other is very modestly priced too 🙂)

First, at 5.30pm, it's great to see the APS is a partner organisation for this online event:

Expert Panel Discussion on Climate Change and Mental Health
Wednesday Oct 6, 5:30-7pm AEDT
hosted by the Climate and Health Alliance (CaHA)
& sponsored by the Lord Mayor's Charitable Trust (which explains why it's free I guess).
Full details of speakers and registration links further down below.

Then, following right on at 7pm (different zoom link though) is our own Community Psychology webinar presentation:


Depression, anxiety, COVID19 and the Great Aussie Lifestyle: The Alone Together Study


Webinar: Wednesday 6 Oct 2021   7pm-8:30pm AEDT


Amidst the public commentary on the increased risk of mental illness in Australia over the past two years, it has often been overlooked that some Australians wore a heavier burden of risk than others. Please join Dr Marlee Bower as she shares the findings of the Alone Together study - a national longitudinal survey that tracked the mental health impacts of more than 2000 Australians during 2020 and 2021. The Alone Together study explored Australians' experience of loneliness, depression and anxiety during a time of lockdown, social distancing, economic disruption and widespread fear of the coronavirus pandemic.


Dr Bower will take a helicopter view of the factors that led to distinct patterns of mental health impacts across Australian communities.

  *   What factors made a difference to the severity of mental health impacts?
  *   What does this mean for our work?

  *   How can we use these findings to build resilience, protect our communities from widespread harm and safeguard their mental health and wellbeing in the future?

Please register here: APS Events: 22637 | APS (psychology.org.au)<http://be.psychology.org.au/ls/click?upn=xftCvoRZRbcW1HUP8zfNNHlKHn-2BRycHmgiAtSqrfIbB9PPVsiZFmyi44G2LgJfOWy3XlLncRZvyvs1wtrNWo9Q-3D-3DCI_6_LkNaGjuMCrzJijP9uh5w51wVkQcRLq1ZICyrjgtqsTs3ys-2FNdh17sZcwdQ-2FFUpiVtexHYUZofOjbG-2BJDy8NSG2vVaX9gfLxTJeDy1zGwpQLGMwTvdW28nNbyPvLDieCy3rmtoX5H5xhTXJfTVkryvU2kUpsYyjjwDCjQ4NmwxpCGm-2BabH10BGcgwWz1qJByFlnbvU0H6aHEih7uvd9HH4r6sXWyf9rPbCNbP8Grsxfs-3D>


More details are on the attached flier. Please pass it on to colleagues who work in the community or government sectors.

Registered for both? Ok, all you need now is some popcorn or a cheese platter, something to drink... settle down for the evening.


Heather Gridley

Honorary Fellow

College of Health and Biomedicine

Victoria University

Melbourne, Australia

E: heather.gridley at vu.edu.au<mailto:heather.gridley at vu.edu.au>

Ph: +61 419113731


From: Milly Burgess <milly.burgess at caha.org.au>
Sent: Monday, 27 September 2021 4:02 PM
To: canachat at cana.net.au <canachat at cana.net.au>
Subject: [EXT] [CANAchat] Expert panel discussion on climate change and mental health - Wednesday Oct 6, 5:30-7pm

Hi all,

We invite you to join us next Wednesday 6th October from 5:30-7pm for an expert panel discussion on climate change and mental health.

The discussion will be facilitated by CAHA President, Rebecca Patrick, and panelists include:

  *   Dr Cybele Dey - Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
  *   Tamara Cavenett - President, Australian Psychological Society
  *   Associate Professor Fiona Charlson - NHMRC Research Fellow at the Queensland Centre of Mental Health Research and School of Public Health, University of Queensland
  *   Professor Alan Rosen - Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong; Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
  *   Carol Ride - Founder and Acting Executive Director, Psychology for a Safe Climate
  *   Georgia Langmaid - Planetary Health Project Officer, Enliven Victoria

To register, visit https://www.caha.org.au/mental_health.

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We are pleased to be hosting this event with partners Psychology for a Safe Climate, Doctors for the Environment Australia, the Australian Psychological Society and the Health Nature Sustainability Research Group at Deakin University.

To register, visit: https://www.caha.org.au/mental_health.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Many thanks,
Milly
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Milly Burgess
Projects & Operations Officer
Climate and Health Alliance
E: milly.burgess at caha.org.au<mailto:milly.burgess at caha.org.au>
M: 0434 865 838
W: www.caha.org.au<http://www.caha.org.au>

I respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the country on which I usually work, the Muwanina people of the South East Nation, and acknowledge that their sovereignty of this land was never ceded. CAHA commits to listening to and learning from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about how we can better reflect Indigenous ways of being and knowing in our work.

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