'Focus on the mind: Trauma and the role of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy'

Date
28 May 2026
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM

Cost
Free

Available to
All

Continuing Professional Development

CPD available - self-reporting required

Event Location
The Botanical Hotel
169 Domain Road
South Yarra VIC 3141
Australia

Program

6.30pm Registration

7.00pm 

Presentations and discussion

Understanding Trauma in Psychiatric Diagnoses:  

Implications and Approaches Dr Sarabjit Loyal, Psychiatrist  

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT): reducing the demands on healthcare providers through outpatient support of suicidal, impulsive and chronically dysregulated patients Ms Sarah Gairns, Psychologist

9.00pm Evaluation and close

Learning outcomes:

  • Identify the effects of psychological trauma on the aetiology of common psychiatric conditions
  • Describe DBT – its role in the treatment of severely traumatised people