Successful Conversations about Mental Health with Adolescents - Expert Insights for Health Professionals

Beginning and maintaining a conversation about mental health with a young person can be challenging. Building a connection, understanding their complex needs, unique experiences, and the challenges they face as a young person can lead to an effective conversation about their wellbeing.

This Expert Insights session discusses effective and compassionate strategies for how to raise that conversation, how to sustain it, and finally, how to encourage help-seeking in young people.

Panelists
Rosie - Lived Experience Representative
Dr Sarah Barker - Clinical Psychologist and Training Facilitator at Black Dog Institute
Dr Sophie Li – Clinical Psychologist and Researcher at Black Dog Institute

Dr Carol Newall - Facilitator
Recording and sound production - Nathan Bell
Voiceover - Cameron Banks, Black Dog Institute