· Welcome to DiSS Breakfast serial· a short order clinical training offering for the Doctors in Secondary schools clinical training program,· brought to you by the Department of General Practice in Collaboration with Sexual Health Victoria· and I’d like to acknowledge the support of the Victorian Government in the production of this series.· It’s Wednesday the 3rd of august 2002 and this morning we’ll be offering up a healthy serve of cereals, scientifically tested and proved to promote improved mental health and wellbeing. This morning we’ll be opening the cereal box of brief interventions for mental health.· In this mornings session our expert chefs from orygen will be lifting the lid on some evidence based tools for therapy and offering serving suggestions for their use in primary mental healthcare.
Good morning early birds and thank you for joining us.· I’m Bianca Forrester and I’m a GP- I’ll be your barrista this morning, so please send any special coffee orders to me in the chat· I’d like to introduce you to our subject matter expert and visiting chef, Desiree Smith from Orygen.· She'll be brining you years of clinical, educational and research expertise to share a breakfast spread of best practice approaches to supporting teens with mental health issues