"Mindgardens TRSP Webinar: Don't Just Screen, Intervene: A practical guide for clinicians to protect the physical health of people living with psychosis"
The Mindgardens TRSP Webinar Series is designed for clinicians working with people with complex psychosis.
This webinar was hosted by Professor Jackie Curtis. Jackie Curtis (MBBS (Hons), FRANZCP) is the inaugural Executive Director of Mindgardens Neuroscience Network, which brings together the strengths of founding Members UNSW Sydney, Black Dog Institute, NeuRA and the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) to develop integrated research and clinical responses to mental health, drug and alcohol and neurological disorders. Conjoint Professor Curtis is a psychiatrist and is the Clinical Lead of Youth Mental Health at SESLHD. Her research and clinical work over several decades has focused on early psychosis and youth mental health, including improving the cardiometabolic health of people living with serious mental disorders such as schizophrenia, with the aim of reducing health inequalities and increasing life expectancy. Professor Curtis developed and implemented the internationally recognised Keeping the Body in Mind program, demonstrating that antipsychotic-induced weight gain can be prevented with lifestyle intervention, and is the co-founder and Co-Chair of the iphYs international working group advocating for improved physical health for youth experiencing psychosis. An invited committee member of the World Health Organisation working group for the international guidelines: management of physical health conditions in adults with severe mental disorders.
ABOUT THE TRSP
The Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis (TRSP) is a NSW statewide service providing individualised therapeutic recommendations for people living with complex psychotic disorders.
It is NSW’s only specialised psychosis referral service and is setting new benchmarks for the quality of clinical care in public mental health services, combining expert clinical assessments and treatments with professional education and training in higher level clinical skills, family and community engagement, and clinical effectiveness and investigative research.
ABOUT THE MINDGARDENS TRSP WEBINAR SERIES
The NSW Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis (TRSP), supported by the NSW Ministry of Health, aspires to improve care for people living with complex psychosis.
The Mindgardens TRSP Webinar Series provides free presentations from national and international experts in complex psychosis, in a regular forum for learning and debate to inform best practice among clinicians.
The webinars are presented through a partnership between TRSP and Mindgardens Neuroscience Network, and will run approximately monthly through 2023 on Wednesdays at 12pm (Sydney time).
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