Mental health network – Cognitive assessment and neurodiversity

About

This Project Echo network will explore the needs of neurodivergent peoples and will foster deeper understandings of the social model of disability and affirming approaches to health and medical care. We will unpack terminologies to challenge, break down and deconstruct the medical model of disability, and how to support people with a lived experience to understand their neurodivergent identities, and support your capacity to use strengths, needs and neurodiversity-informed approaches to enhance self-determination and self-efficacy. Participants will be encouraged to share with the network, cases that can draw on the broad collective of group experiences to find pathways of care.

Expert panel

Noelene Armstrong

Mental Health Peer Worker
Lived Experience Advocate - founding member of the NT Lived Experience Network, a human rights-based advocacy and recovery movement that is determined to ensure Territorians with lived experience assume their rightful place in systemic decision making and supporting the recovery of others.
Vocational Trainer and assessor
Teen, Youth & Standard Mental Health First Aid Instructor
Former Peer-Led Education Project Officer - Northern Territory Mental Health Coalition
Former Psychosocial Support Lead - Northern Territory Primary Health Network
Certificate IV Mental Health

Sam Goding

Northern Territory Lived Experience Network
Circle of Support facilitator
Supporting and empowering individuals with lived experience

Paula Redpath

BA(Hons), BSW (Acc), GCH, MMHS, GWLA
PhD (Candidate) - Flourishing Neurodivergent Students – Promoting Well-Being and Thriving in Higher Education
Senior Lecturer in the Counselling (Behavioural Health) postgraduate programs in the Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health
Dual qualified Psychotherapist and Clinical Social Worker
Experience in the implementation and translation of integrated models of care, psychological therapies and supervision, workforce diversification and innovative approaches to workforce training and development
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