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accredited training modules for GPs
headspace has developed free accredited online training for GPs working with young people.
The training modules are engaging, interactive, and evidence informed, with a range of interesting cases. The training also links to helpful clinical resources, including videos of consultations and interviews with GPs, other experts and young people.
The development of the training modules involved significant consultation with subject matter experts, GPs, young people and family and friends representatives.
All modules have a mental health component and address specific considerations for treating young people who identify as coming from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds, or as LGBTIQ+.
All modules now accredited options towards GPMHST
The modules have been relaunched and reaccredited via GPMHSC. All three modules now provide alternative modular pathways to GPMHST (when completed together with a Core Module and all other requirements for accreditation are met).
All three education modules are accredited: RACGP 6 CPD, ACRRM 6 CME PD in their own right.
Access the modules below.
MHST advanced course | Hours: 6 | EA: 2 | MO: 0 | RP: 4
- CPD hours: Educational activities: 2
- CPD hours: Measuring outcomes: 0
- CPD hours: Reviewing performance: 4
This module covers essential skills and knowledge needed when seeing young people in general practice, including best-practice recommendations and resources about:
- Engaging young people
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Psychosis
Module 1 can be undertaken to obtain GP Mental Health Skills Training when combined with a gpmhsc core module (currently offered by gplearning and ThinkGP). It is available as an ALM on both the gplearning and ThinkGP learning platforms, to accommodate GPs’ various affiliations and platform preferences.
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MHST advanced course | Hours: 6 | EA: 2 | MO: 0 | RP: 4
- CPD hours: Educational activities: 2
- CPD hours: Measuring outcomes: 0
- CPD hours: Reviewing performance: 4
This module builds on the skills acquired in module 1 and expands them with a further focus on Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) and Sexual health issues in young people, including:
- Alcohol
- Cannabis
- Methamphetamines
- Motivational and other brief interventions
- Impact of drug use on sexual health
- Detox options and treatment
- Screening for sexually transmitted infections
- Harm minimisation including for injecting drug use
- Condoms and contraception
Access the training
MHST advanced course | Hours: 6 | EA: 2 | MO: 0 | RP: 4
- CPD hours: Educational activities: 2
- CPD hours: Measuring outcomes: 0
- CPD hours: Reviewing performance: 4
This training course about developmental disorders in young people aims to provide GPs with evidence-based skills for identifying, assessing and caring for young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and co-occurring mental health issues.
In particular, this course enables learners to:
- Identify the key transitions in mental development during adolescence and their interactions with developmental disorders and mental health
- Apply practical approaches to the assessment and ongoing management of developmental disorders including the need for careful differential diagnosis
- Use screening and assessment resources available to clinicians and their patients, together with referral pathways for diagnosis and support
- Understand the challenges of accessing specialist health services and providing support in rural and remote areas
- Engage families, carers and educators in working with young people with developmental disabilities and offering peer support