Mindgardens TRSP Webinar: “Smoking Cessation and Severe Mental Illness” with Professor Sharon Lawn

"Smoking Cessation and Severe Mental Illness”
The Mindgardens TRSP Webinar Series is designed for clinicians working with people with complex psychosis.
This webinar will be hosted by Professor Sharon Lawn. Sharon has undertaken a broad range of mental health research at Flinders University including in smoking cessation, chronic condition self-management, healthcare workforce, health services research, veteran transition and suicide research, coercive practices, mental health peer workforce, and consumer and family experiences within systems of healthcare. Her research uses a broad range of qualitative and mixed methods, and focuses on examining the culture of service provision, systems of care, implementation, and service users' experiences of care. Sharon is a former lead Mental Health Commissioner for South Australia. Sharon is highly active in mental health lived experience advocacy in Australia and is Chair and Executive Director of Lived Experience Australia, a leading national lived experience advocacy peak organisation.
WEBINAR LEARNING OUTCOMES:
* Gain an understanding of the psychosocial intersections between mental health and smoking cessation
* Gain insights into the Lived Experience of smoking and mental health and how this can impact smoking cessation efforts, mental health and wellbeing
* Learn about how services and health professionals can support people with severe mental health challenges who smoke and want to quit.
About the Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis
The Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis (TRSP) is a NSW statewide service providing individualised therapeutic recommendations for people living with complex psychotic disorders.
It is NSW’s only specialised psychosis referral service and is setting new benchmarks for the quality of clinical care in public mental health services, combining expert clinical assessments and treatments with professional education and training in higher level clinical skills, family and community engagement, and clinical effectiveness and investigative research.
About the Mindgardens Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis Webinar Series
Mindgardens Neuroscience Network is supporting the Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis to deliver a monthly series of webinars, building multidisciplinary knowledge and capacity among clinicians throughout NSW to respond effectively to patients who experience complex psychosis.