Expert Insights – Black Dog Institute Podcasts
Expert Insights by the Black Dog Institute is a series of podcasts each tackling an important mental health topic and providing insight and expert knowledge from and for health professionals.
Black Dog Institute is a global pioneer in the identification, prevention and treatment of mental illness and the promotion of well-being. Our unique approach incorporates clinical services with research, education and the voice of lived experience to reduce the incidence of mental illness and suicide, remove stigma and improve lives.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 67
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Understanding youth wellbeing during COVID-19
This Expert Insights session will focuses on understanding and supporting youths throughout the CO…
Longer-Term Care After the Bushfires
This Expert Insights session focusses on the longer term mental health effects of the bushfire…
Care After an Attempt
Attempting suicide is one of the strongest markers of increased risk of dying by suicide particularly in the…
Bipolar 2
Bipolar 2 disorder can be challenging for clinicians to both diagnose and manage effectively. However, timel…
Science of the Mind Body Connection
Physical and mental health are often viewed as two entirely distinct entities, each catered for by its own se…
Cannabis and Mental Health
The relationship between cannabis use and mental illness is complex, with cannabis implicated in both precipi…
Diabetes Distress
Diabetes distress is common in people living with diabetes. Unrecognised diabetes distress is linked to a ran…
School and Mental Health
Young people’s experience of school plays a significant part in their overall wellbeing as they move through…
Panic, Agoraphobia, GAD or Separation Anxiety?
Although there are several features in common between the various anxiety disorders, distilling the …
Chronic Pain
The circular relationship between chronic pain and mental health conditions such as anxiety an…
Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults
Although often considered a disorder of childhood, for a significant number of people ADD persists into adul…
Working with Values in Clinical Practice
In recent years, mental health practice has been shifting from a deficits-based model of symptom reduction t…
Asylum Seeker and Refugee Mental Health
For many asylum seekers and refugees, the trauma of their past is replaced by an uncertain future, navigatin…
Early Psychosis, Recognition and Management
In recent years, there has been increased interest in recognising and managing psychosis in its early st…
Balancing safety and freedom
Ensuring safety is generally uppermost in the minds of clinicians caring for people with mental illness. Sim…
Working with Diverse Gender Identities
In 2013, the First Australian National Trans Mental Health Study reported on elevated rates of depression, a…
Non-Pharmacological Management of Chronic Pain
Dr Simon Holliday says the problem of prescription opiate misuse is very big in the rural sector in Australi…
Perinatal Mental Health – A Family Matter
The perinatal period is a peak time for mental health difficulties to arise. It is now well re…
Cultural and Contextual Considerations
Mental illness occurs across all cultures and ethnic groups. However, every community understands and experi…
Self-harm in Young People
The second Australian Child and Adolescent sur…