'Focus on the mind: Trauma and the role of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy'

Program

6.30pm Registration

7.00pm 

Presentations and discussion

Understanding Trauma in Psychiatric Diagnoses:  

Implications and Approaches Dr Sarabjit Loyal, Psychiatrist  

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT): reducing the demands on healthcare providers through outpatient support of suicidal, impulsive and chronically dysregulated patients Ms Sarah Gairns, Psychologist

9.00pm Evaluation and close

Learning outcomes:

• Identify the effects of psychological trauma on the aetiology of common psychiatric conditions
• Describe DBT – its role in the treatment of severely traumatised people