It’s crunch time. Registrations will soon close to the 2009 Mental Health Super Summit.

The country’s leading education institutes, professional Associations, revered trainers, and a charity have collaborated to bring you the best educational experience in the history of mental health in this country.

PLUS, you can access it from anywhere, and your entire attendance fee goes to Kids Helpline Charity.

But you must act now.

Simply go here now to register: www.mentalhealthsummit.com.au 

PS Play your part in raising desperately needed funds for Kids Helpline Charity by forwarding this email to all friends and colleagues in the Mental Health industry.

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The 2009 Mental Health Super Summit is a very serious education event delivering the highest quality content from some of the country’s most revered professionals.

Yet, as this blooper proves, even the best of us make mistakes at times

Once you’ve finished laughing at this blooper video, go to the Summit page to learn more and join us at the 2009 Mental Health Super Summit: www.mentalhealthsummit.com.au

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There are only 5 days left to register for the biggest educational event of 2009.

Registrations for the 2009 Mental Health Super Summit finish this Friday.

All proceeds for the event go to CHARITY.

You decide what you want to donate to Kids Helpline Charity, and your donation is your attendance fee. Pay as little or as much as YOU WANT.

The 5-day Summit is delivered over the Internet. All you need is a computer and internet connection. And don’t worry about missing a thing, as you’ll have continued access to all workshops, courses, assessments, tools and eBooks for a full 30 days after the event.

You’ll receive well over $5,000.00 in educational value for whatever you decide to donate to Kids Helpline Charity.

Already representatives of practically every Mental Health agency are registered to attend. They see this as an opportunity for their frontline staff to gain valuable training from leading professionals around the country.

It’s most unlikely that so many highly regarded professionals and trainers have ever delivered so much content together. Surely you won’t pass up this opportunity to access their high quality training.

Learn more and register here: www.mentalhealthsummit.com.au

We suggest you register now whilst it’s on your mind. This is an event you should not miss.

Help us raise desperately needed funds for Kids Helpline Charity by forwarding this email to all friends and colleagues in the Mental Health industry.

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For several months now AIPC has been quietly collaborating to bring you an event like nothing ever before experienced.

To say we’re excited to finally be telling you about it is a wild understatement.

It has taken months to develop. Some of the country’s leading practitioners and trainers have generously given hours and hours of their time. And national training providers have dedicated an enormous amount of staff and educational resources.

So, what is it?

Over the last week in February (5 full days), we’re bringing you the biggest educational and professional development event ever held in Mental Health.

WHERE? Everywhere!! The 2009 Mental Health Super Summit will be delivered live over the Internet. You can literally attend from anywhere in the world, with just a PC and Internet.

HOW MUCH? This is the best part. You decide how much you want to pay to attend. That’s right. All proceeds for the Summit go directly to KIDS HELPLINE CHARITY. So to access the Summit, you decide how much you want to donate to Kids Helpline, and your donation is your attendance fee.

We’re hoping to raise over $30,000 for Kids Helpline Charity through your generosity and the most innovative, informative educational experience in Mental Health.

You can learn more here: www.mentalhealthsummit.com.au

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Berne, M.D., E. (2005).  Principles of Group Treatment. Fremantle Publishing, Australia. 379 pages. ISBN: 0-9757079-3-0.

This book gives a broad knowledge base to the reader and the content is almost step-by-step for those actually going through the practicalities of initiating group treatment. The approach analysed by Berne is applied transactional analysis.

The book is divided into two parts; “Basic Principles” followed by “Transactional Analysis”.

“Basic Principles” gives you a lengthy overview of the logistics that the group treatment facilitator needs to consider. 

The first chapter in this section is a generic look at determining what you want to achieve from your group and how to put that into practice by reviewing areas such as selection of patients, therapeutic goals and where to hold the meetings.

Preparation for the facilitator and the group members is then discussed in terms of ensuring all staff involved are collectively ready to implement group treatment and have access to resources, such as supervision, when the need arises. Member selection is again mentioned in terms of deliberately choosing members who will ensure the group is homogeneous so the group can maintain shared focus, visions and goals.

Aptly named “The First Three Minutes” is the next chapter, which deals with impressions within the group. It advises the facilitator on watching and listening to the group and also self-observation in order to build the therapeutic relationship as soon as possible. The issue of self-care is briefly mentioned here also.

The facilitator is given a fascinating anecdote in Chapter 4, which shows the versatility in roles that assists group therapists in helping their members and also some pitfalls to avoid.

The section titled Methods of Treatment describes how different types of group members and also entire groups can be given the most appropriate interventions considering the characteristics they display. Berne gives the reader insight into a few different approaches, including Supportive Therapy, Group-Analytic Therapy and Psychoanalytic Therapy within each group type.

The rest of Part One is dedicated to group dynamics that may unfold, teaching and further learning in a clinical sense and using group treatment as a basis for research.

Part Two, “Transactional Analysis”, again starts with basic principles and techniques.  The next issues raised however are more theory-based; the Transactional Theory of Personality. 

In the following Chapter, Transactional Analysis is evaluated alongside other theories, such as Gestalt Therapy and Psychodrama.

The facilitator’s reflection skills are tested in the next segment which deals with “games” that they may play but currently be unaware of, such as, “I’m only trying to help you” or “Psychiatry”.  It gives some poignant examples of attributes we need to be aware of and avoid if at all possible, whilst facilitating group treatment.

Finally, the book is concluded with some diagnostic categories for mental health issues and other areas people may seek therapy for, for example, marital difficulty.  These are discussed in terms of how valuable Transactional Analysis can be in group treatment.

There is a variety of examples, anecdotes and diagrams for the reader to peruse and they help to lift the reader out of the text and into the real-world.

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