Health Professionals CPD Workshop Addressing Non-melancholic Depression in the Anxious Worrier and the Perfectionist Coffs Harbour NSW on Thursday 28 May 2015 Black Dog Institute is running a 6-hour workshop aimed at psychologists, counsellors, social workers and other mental health professionals who are managing clients with ‘anxious worrying’ personality styles or personality styles which comprise high levels of ‘perfectionism’. Program Outline Part 1: Anxious Worrier - this module focuses on how to assess ‘anxious worrying’ personality characteristics in the context of a mood disorder, and provides participants with a clearer understanding of the typical symptom pattern and illness course. Part 2: Perfectionist - this module will enable psychologists to recognise how perfectionism as a personality characteristic shapes the symptom pattern for non-melancholic depression, and also how to develop specific psychological interventions to address depression in perfectionistic clients. Learning Outcomes After the workshop participants will be able to: • explain the personality constructs of ‘anxious worry’ and ‘perfectionism’ within the Black Dog Institute’s Model for nonmelancholic depression • identify the characteristics and behaviours associated with anxious worrying and perfectionistic personality in your own clients • develop case formulations that incorporate these personality styles (where present) in your clients • devise treatment plans that reduce depression and the risk of future relapse in individuals with anxious worrying and perfectionistic personality styles Location: Novotel Coffs Harbour, Pacific Bay Resort, CNR Pacific Highway & Bay Drive, Coffs Harbour NSW 2000 Time: 9:00 AM start, 4:30 PM finish. Tea/coffee, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided Cost: $360. To register: Click on the link below https://blackdoginstitute.secure.force.com/forms/CourseRegistrationV2?courseId=a0R1200000StcMJEAZ Facilitator: Kris Kafer For more information about our health professional workshops please contact Antonella Connor on (02) 9382 8515 or via [email protected] www.blackdog.org.au/psychologycalendar