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Care to Learn Podcast Episode 9: Geoff Ahern

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In this episode of the Care to Learn Podcast, we sit down with Geoff Ahern, a senior mental health clinician and educator. Geoff speaks to us about a range of topics such as unconscious bias, listening to patient's stories and involving patients and their family in their care.

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In this episode of the Care to Learn Podcast, we sit down with Geoff Ahern, a senior mental health clinician and educator. Geoff speaks to us about the impact of unconscious bias in mental health, why taking the time to listen to each individual's story is vital, and how mental health clinicians are increasingly involving the patient and their families in their care.

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Geoffrey Ahern
Senior Mental Health Clinician
Geoffrey Ahern is a senior mental health clinician with the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the North West Mental Health Team, and director of the Informed Mind Consultancy education service. Geoffrey has experience in emergency, trauma and psychiatric nursing, as well as rural nursing and alcohol and drug counselling. Geoffrey has a passion for education, from individual mentoring to tertiary lecturing, and is interested in the intersections between mental health and nutrition.
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excellent
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Marian Soares
28 Apr 2021
Always something to learn from this guy ..great depth and never boring !
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Jess Butler
20 May 2020
Very insightful, forced me to think about my own unconscious bias towards mental health patients
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Anne Hutchinson
25 Jul 2023
Excellently presented
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Bailey Jordan
07 Oct 2021
Really inspiring !
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Diana Wilson
30 May 2020
Great presentation, material and information.
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Diana Wilson
19 May 2022
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great information
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Martin Cliff
29 May 2021
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07 Apr 2021
Very insightful with practical application
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Raelene Morgan
19 Feb 2023
Great speaker
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