Page 1419 - Week 04 - Thursday, 5 May 2022
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training and support. This is a new program offered through AMHDS. Family Connections is a free, 12-week course that meets weekly for two hours to provide education, skills training, and support for people who are in a relationship with someone who has BPD. Focusing on issues that are specific to BPD, it is hosted in a community setting and led by trained group leaders who are either clinicians or family members of relatives with BPD. Family Connections provides:
• current information and research on BPD and on family functioning;
• individual coping skills based on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT);
• family skills; and
• group support that builds an ongoing network for family members.
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provide education through the:
The Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Program
The DBT Program provides specialised therapy to adolescents aged 14-18 years who experience multiple social, and emotional difficulties including suicidal behaviour, interpersonal vulnerabilities, and emotional regulation difficulties. This therapeutic program is delivered through skills groups, family therapy and individualised therapy.
As DBT is a specialist service, only referrals from other CAMHS community or specialist teams are accepted. Other less intensive treatment options are required to have been tried first.
The Childhood Early Intervention Program (CEIP)
The CEIP is an early intervention program for children and their parents in ACT public and Catholic primary schools. This is for children who are beginning to display some behavioural or mental health concerns such as conduct disorder, anxiety, or depression.
Two teams operate in Canberra, one on the Northside and one on the Southside. Each team works with three primary schools per year.
At each school the program includes:
• An 8-week child and parent group program for children beginning to display mental health or behavioural concerns;
• Education and advice for all teachers and other interested school staff members on how to respond to mental health and behavioural concerns in children;
• 6-week whole of class program for one class selected by the school; and
• 10 x 1hr sessions for four individuals or families at the school.
Tuning into Teens
Tuning into Teens is a program for the parents and carers of adolescents aged 13 – 16 years. The program runs for six sessions every school term and assists participants to:
• Communicate more effectively with their teen;
• Better understand their teen;
• Assist their teen learn to better manage their emotions;
• Understand how to prevent behaviour problems in their teen; and
• Teach their teen to deal with conflict.
This program is available to the parents and carers of young people engaged with CAMHS.
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