Professional Development
Expert Insights for Health Professionals Webinar: Engagement with the Arts for Improved Wellbeing in Mildly Anxious Children
Expert Insights for Health Professionals Webinar: Engagement with the Arts for Improved Wellbeing in Mildly Anxious Children
Can social prescribing of engagement with the arts improve primary school-aged children’s wellbeing?
In this online episode, we talk to Dr Diane MacDonald (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Black Dog Institute/School of Psychiatry, UNSW) about her research on Culture Dose for Kids, an arts engagement program for children and their caregivers that has been designed to improve mental health and wellbeing in children who experience mild anxiety.
Joining us on the panel will be a lived experience representative and an arts therapist, who has worked in arts-based interventions for child wellbeing.
Join us to explore the promise of an arts-based intervention for childhood anxiety that highlights the value of the role of community and cultural care in children’s mental health and wellbeing.
Suitable for:
Allied Health, Counsellors, Counsellor – School, GP Registrars, GPs, Multi-disciplinary, Mental Health Nurse, Psychologists, Social Workers, Youth Workers, Other mental health professionals, Psychiatrists
Panel Members
- Dr Diane MacDonald – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Black Dog Institute/School of Psychiatry, UNSW)
- Jennifer Blau – Art Therapist, Art of Wellbeing
- Lucia – Lived Experience Representative.
Facilitator
- Dr Sarah Barker, Clinical Psychologist
Cost
- Free
Accreditation
- Participant provided with certificates to put towards their CPD
