Program and Key Note Speakers
Jennie Parham
Jennie
is the Director of Auseinet (The Australian Network for
Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental
Health), based at Flinders University in South
Australia. Auseinet is a national initiative in
Australia which supports the implementation of mental
health promotion, prevention of mental ill-health and
early intervention approaches across a range of sectors
and settings.
Jennie has considerable knowledge and expertise in the
areas of mental health and wellbeing. She is a clinical
psychologist and has more than 20 years experience in
the mental health system in a variety of roles including
clinical, management and education. In addition, she has
managed numerous government funded projects at the state
and national level as well as co-ordinating several
national consultation processes in the areas of mental
health and suicide prevention.
Jennie has been a member of a number of national
committees in Australia including the National Mental
Health Promotion and Prevention Working Party and the
National MindMatters Reference Group and has provided
numerous presentations at national and international
conferences.
Ken
Burnett
Ken
Burnett has worked in the field of psychiatry for some
thirty years as both a clinician and a mental health
service director. He is a registered nurse and has a
Bachelor of Arts (Deakin University), a Bachelor of
Social Work (University of Melbourne), and a Master of
Health Administration (University of New South Wales).
He is currently undertaking a Ph.D. where he is
examining the relationship between the processes of
functioning of a mental health service and the clinical
outcomes for the consumers of a mental health service,
their carers, and the community.
Ken has been an advocate for the delivery of evidence
based, recovery orientated, family inclusive mental
illness treatment services for many years and has been
involved, over the last fifteen years, in the reform and
redevelopment of two (2) area mental health service
providers where services have moved from both an
institutional model of service provision delivered from
the traditional mental hospital site to a community
based model of integrated mental health care. The
process of reform and redevelopment, with its focus on
the delivery of evidence based ‘best practice’ family
inclusive treatments and recovery from mental illness,
to its communities, has produced some interesting
challenges and even more interesting outcomes, which has
also attracted significant interest from state,
national, and international mental health services.
Ken has been a keynote speaker at a number of
international conferences in countries such as Britain,
the Unites States of America, New Zealand, Europe,
Canada, and Fiji.
Adjunct
Assoc Professor Euan Hails
Euan
is the Principal Advisor Mental Health Nursing, Nursing
and Midwifery Office, NSW Health, and an Adjunct Assoc
Professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery,
Charles Sturt University. He is a registered mental
nurse and trained as a cognitive behavioural
psychotherapist whilst employed at the Institute of
Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital. Euan has a number of post
graduate qualifications including a Masters in Mental
Health Studies in cognitive behavioural therapy
(University of London); he is a trained Post 16
Compulsory teacher (Greenwich University) and has
completed the taught component of an EdD (University of
Wales).
Euan has extensive experience in the development and
delivery of a variety of psychosocial interventions for
individuals with severe mental health problems and their
carers. He is collaborating with Charles Sturt
University to develop a three day certificate course in
cognitive behavioural therapy and a Post Graduate
Certificate course in Mental Health Nursing focusing on
cognitive behavioural therapy, adherence therapy and
core therapeutic skills. He is also developing an
Australian version of the UK based Adherence Therapy
training programme, liaising with Prof. Tim Lambert and
Prof. Richard Gray and aims to roll the training out
across NSW.
As the Principal Advisor Mental Health Nursing, NSW
Health, Euan is responsible for the development and
delivery of the Mental Health Nursing Enhancement
Strategy, designed to attract new mental health nurses,
retain existing ones and enhance core nursing practice
and clinical interventions. Euan is passionate about the
ongoing clinical development of mental health nursing in
a recovery based psychosocial model.
He has spoken at National and International conferences
and has published a number of therapy and educationally
based papers.
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