9b. Responding to family violence
Track 2
| Saturday, November 23, 2024 |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM |
| BelleVue Ballroom 1 (Level 3) |
Details
60min clinical workshop | GPs play a key role in identifying and responding to family violence and IPAV. They may feel underprepared to do so. This workshop is based on GPs needs identified through workshops at WONCA conferences, the WHO Clinical Handbook (WHO, 2014), and the RACGP White Book (RACGP, 2021). There will be a focus on the practical issues of responding to family violence /IPAV.
Learning outcomes;
- How to identify, ask about, respond to and validate initial disclosure of family violence, including in diverse family structures or settings. Participants will generate and rehearse questions and responses that they feel able to put into practice.
- How to assess risk and assist the person to reflect on their own safety and their children’s safety.
- Ongoing management and counselling strategies. Optimum management is multidisciplinary, but there are effective counselling strategies that GPs can use.
Learning outcomes;
- How to identify, ask about, respond to and validate initial disclosure of family violence, including in diverse family structures or settings. Participants will generate and rehearse questions and responses that they feel able to put into practice.
- How to assess risk and assist the person to reflect on their own safety and their children’s safety.
- Ongoing management and counselling strategies. Optimum management is multidisciplinary, but there are effective counselling strategies that GPs can use.
Speaker
Dr Marjorie Cross
Senior Medical Educator
AFMW
Responding to family violence/IPAV: A practical skills workshop
Biography
Dr Marjorie Cross has been a general practitioner in Bungendore NSW for more than 30 years. She is a Supervisor and Senior Medical Educator with RACGP, with an interest in supervisor education. She is a Rural Clinical teacher with ANU. She is a member of the Organizational Equity Committee of WONCA. She received the Order of Australia for services to rural health and particularly for services to rural women. She is a passionate advocate for the prevention of male violence against women and for involving men in the conversations that will lead to the prevention of violence. Other memberships include MAPW, DEA, AFMW and CWA. She is a Director of Bungendore Common parkrun. She serves on the call roster for Drs4Drs ACT, and on committees of PSR
Dr Karen Nicholls
Chair, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Faculty
RACGP
Responding to family violence/IPAV: A practical skills workshop
Biography
A/Prof Constance Dimity Pond
Clinical Professor, University Of Tasmania
University Of Tasmania
Responding to family violence/IPAV: A practical skills workshop
Biography
Professor Pond is a clinical professor at the Wicking Dementia Research and Training Institute, University of Tasmania. She has a long history of involvement in aged care, as a clinician, researcher and policy advisor. This includes contribution to a number of palliative care projects. She is also currently a GP in active clinical practice.
Dr Wei-May Su
Academic GP
RACGP
Responding to family violence/IPAV: A practical skills workshop
Biography
Dr Wei-May Su is an Academic General Practitioner (GP) and GP supervisor, with specific interest in mental health, complex care, abuse and violence, and neurodiversity. Academically, she is the Academic Lead (General Practice) at HETI, NSW Health. She is Chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP) Specific Interest Group in Abuse and Violence in Families, and is Higher Degree in Research candidate (abuse and violence).
Dr Hester Wilson
Expert Advisory Group member for supporting smoking cessation
UNSW
Responding to family violence/IPAV: A practical skills workshop
Biography
A GP and Addiction Medicine Specialist, Dr Hester Wilson, is the chair of the RACGP Addiction Special Interest Group. She is the Chief Addiction Specialist for NSW, the Clinical Director for Murrumbidgee Drug and Alcohol Service for Murrumbidgee Local Health District, and a GP in private practice. She has long championed the issues GPs face when providing care to people experiencing AOD harm. She is keen to support access to care for people with complex needs and multimorbidity, as well as person-centred care and quality prescribing. She is currently undertaking a part-time PhD focused on GPs’ experience of patients with chronic pain and prescription opioid use disorder.
