THE BOUVERIE CENTRE presents
Dr Kari Valtanen live from Finland Practice ideas from the Open Dialogue approach to mental health issues in Western Lapland 17 Sept 2015. 3 - 5pm AEST. Join us in person at The Bouverie Centre for a two-hour live broadcast from Finland. Open Dialogue is both a philosophical/theoretical approach to people experiencing a mental health crisis and their families/networks, and a system of care. Family therapy trained practitioners work together as part of Open Dialogue teams. These teams engage with everyone connected to the crisis, including the person at the centre, their family and social networks. Meetings occur preferably within the homes of those seeking services. Teams respond quickly and seek to treat symptoms and client concerns, not diagnoses; engaging in open two way dialogue with clients, families and social networks.
ABOUT DR KARI VALTANEN Dr Valtanen is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and family therapist living in Rovaniemi, Finland, in the Artic Circle. For the past four years Kari has worked as the head of the Adolescent Psychiatric Unit at the local hospital where he has introduced Open Dialogue ideas into this context. Previous to this, Kari was involved in private consultancy COST Standard price
Dr Kari Valtanen presented a two-hour public lecture on the Open Dialogue approach earlier this year. In this advanced practice webcast, Kari will:
Briefly overview the Open Dialogue approach and the ideas that inform it. Detail the clinical practices that are foundational in Western Lapland’s work with mental health clients and the systems that are formed around them. Offer some ideas as to how these practices might be applied in an Australian setting.
Kari will be joined by Mia Kurtti, an experienced trainer, nurse, and family therapist.
work and was working with the Western Lapland Adolescent Psychiatric team using the Open Dialogue approach. Kari’s family therapy training was organized by the Open Dialogue team. Kari has been teaching family therapy, narrative therapy and collaborative and dialogical practice for several years , and was the director of a 3-year family therapy training program that ended in November 2014. This was a joint collaboration with the Western Lapland Open Dialogue team.
VENUE $20
3rd year Bouverie Master of F.T. students are not required to register or pay.
The Bouverie Centre 8 Gardiner St Brunswick VIC 3056
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