WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE FROM REFUGEE AND ASYLUM SEEKER BACKGROUNDS

This one-day workshop addresses the barriers to and enablers of equitable mental health care for young people from refugee backgrounds. It will be helpful for a broad range of mental health practitioners and lived experience workforce who work with infants, child and youth in the area mental health and wellbeing services.

People of refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds have disproportionate vulnerabilities for mental health difficulties and a range of social inequities. Despite this, these groups access mental health care at lower rates than their non-refugee peers. This workshop will support participants to reduce barriers to access, and increase awareness of potential enablers to providing responsive and equitable mental health care.

At the completion of this one-day workshop you will be able:

• understand the significance of forced migration and settlement, and which information is relevant for practice.
• understand the risk and protective factors during settlement.
• identify barriers and enablers to accessing mental health and wellbeing services and the role health literacy has in enabling engagement.
• observe and reflect on a cultural formulation interview.
• recognise the importance and application of trauma-informed principles of practice.

Host or Publisher Orygen Clinical Training