Successful Conversations about Mental Health with Adolescents - Expert Insights for Health Professionals

This Expert Insights session discusses effective and compassionate strategies for talking about mental health young people, how to sustain it, and finally, how to encourage help-seeking.

Show Notes

Beginning and maintaining a conversation about mental health with a young person can be challenging. Building a connection, understanding their complex needs, unique experiences, and the challenges they face as a young person can lead to an effective conversation about their wellbeing.

This Expert Insights session discusses effective and compassionate strategies for how to raise that conversation, how to sustain it, and finally, how to encourage help-seeking in young people.

Panelists
Rosie - Lived Experience Representative
Dr Sarah Barker - Clinical Psychologist and Training Facilitator at Black Dog Institute
Dr Sophie Li – Clinical Psychologist and Researcher at Black Dog Institute

Dr Carol Newall - Facilitator
Recording and sound production - Nathan Bell
Voiceover - Cameron Banks, Black Dog Institute

What is Expert Insights – Black Dog Institute Podcasts?

Expert Insights by the Black Dog Institute is a series of podcasts each tackling an important mental health topic and providing insight and expert knowledge from and for health professionals.

Black Dog Institute is a global pioneer in the identification, prevention and treatment of mental illness and the promotion of well-being. Our unique approach incorporates clinical services with research, education and the voice of lived experience to reduce the incidence of mental illness and suicide, remove stigma and improve lives.