General Practitioners (GPs)

Cross-Cultural Mental Health Care in General Practice

A Unit of Study via Distance Education offered by the NSW Institute of Psychiatry and the Transcultural Mental Health Centre is available to GPs

The unit will provide new and experienced GPs with the skills, knowledge and means of building better therapeutic relationships and working more effectively with patients from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.

Course code: MVV009
Semester starts: 25 July 2011
Semester finishes: 18 November 2011

Course delivery: Via Distance Education - unit of study for 15 weeks, 5 telephone based tutorials, 1 day workshop held in Sydney and Assessments.
Attendance at tutorials and workshop is compulsory.

The course is offered as part of the NSW Institute of Psychiatry Graduate Certificate, Diploma or Masters of Mental Health (General Practice) course, or can be completed as a stand-alone unit of study.

Download more information about the unit here

Accreditation:

RACGP - 40 Q&A CPD points (Category 1)
GPMHSC - Mental Health Skills Training (GPMHSC) - TBA
ACRRM

Fees:

Full fee: $1660.00, early bird fee: $1325.00 (pay by Friday, 24 June 2011)

Scholarships available for GPs practising across Australia.

Scholarship applications currently being accepted (see below). The closing date for applications is July 8, 2011.

Topics in the unit include:

• General practice in a multicultural society
• Cross-cultural mental health and mental illness
• Explanatory models of health and illness
• The DSM-IV-TR classification system: is it universal?
• Assessment and culture: somatisation and idioms of distress
• The diagnostic process in cross-cultural assessment
• The psychiatric interview: hearing the patient's story 
• The Mental Health State Examination
• Cultural clinical formulation 
• Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers
• Suicide Assessment and Care
• Intervention options
• Ethno-psychopharmacology
• Issues in cross-cultural counselling

Telephone: 02 9840 3800

For further information on the unit and scholarships contact:

Jennifer Herron
Transcultural Mental Health Centre
02 9840 3800

GP Course Coordinator or Administrator
NSW Institute of Psychiatry
Telephone: 02 9840 3833
Facsimile: 02 9840 3838

Applying for the unit of study:

Please fill in NSW Institute of Psychiatry (IOP) Application Form and return to the IOP (details on the forms):

NSW Institute of Psychiatry Application Form

Applying for a Scholarship:

1. Read the Guidelines for Awarding Scholarships
2. Complete both the Scholarship Application Form and the NSW IOP Application Form and return to the IOP (details on the forms)

Last Updated 22 Jun 2011