Mental Health in Practice
Practical conversations about mental health care across Australia’s health system.
Mental Health in Practice is a podcast for health professionals working across the mental health system, featuring conversations grounded in real-world experience.
Each episode brings together perspectives from clinical practice, research, and sector expertise to explore contemporary mental health care.
The show focuses on what thoughtful, collaborative care looks like in practice – and how professionals across disciplines can better support mental health outcomes for Australians.
Mental Health in Practice
A Conversation About… Emergency Psychiatry – Part 1
In this three-part series, Professor Mark Creamer chats with emergency medicine and psychiatry experts about mental health crises. Join Mark and his guests as they share valuable tips and strategies to effectively manage and/or avert a mental health crisis and explore how best to mitigate the negative impact they may have on practitioners.
In the first episode of the series, you’ll hear from Dr Song Chan, a consultant-liaison psychiatrist working at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland. Tune in as Song outlines his four key strategies to respond to and manage mental health crises, including what factors practitioners should consider in the immediacy of the moment to aid the de-escalation of the crisis.
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