Camberwell Grammar School/Camberwell Girls Grammar School Parent Education
Building Resilient Teenagers Parents with children at all levels of the School are invited to come and have an engaging evening with well-known Psychiatrist, A/Professor Michael Gordon. Michael aims to help give parents and adolescents the tools to develop the resilience in order to thrive both at school and in life.
TOPICS WILL INCLUDE
• Adolescents and their parents are facing more difficult challenges than ever in a fast changing world. • There is evidence that adolescents are at risk of becoming more stressed and depressed as a result. • Professor Gordon will address what is depression, what is anxiety, what is problem anxiety and depression, how these two conditions develop in teenagers, and what parents can do to help their teenagers.
MICHAEL GORDON
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A ay 14 d s e n • Wed m p m, • 7.00 erwell Roo mar b m • Cam erwell Gra Camb l Schoo ee F t: r • Cos
Professor Michael Gordon is a child psychiatrist and the Unit Head of the infant, child and adolescent streams in Early in Life Mental Health Service (formerly CAMHS) at Monash Health in Melbourne. He has a clinical and research interests in the areas of adolescent depression, suicide assessment and school refusal. He has published many papers and several book chapters in the area of adolescent depression. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Monash University and has been involved in a number of collaborative research projects with Monash University.
Come and have a great evening! RSVP: John Allen (CGS) Ph: 9835 1777 Email: mja@cgs.vic.edu.au www.cgs.vic.edu.au