Understanding Anxiety
CPD
59m
Lecture Overview
A small degree of stress and anxiety is often beneficial to keep us safe, motivated and can even help us to achieve our goals. However, when anxiety is affecting our day-to-day lives or relationships, its time to seek help. This session will review the most common anxiety and stress disorders you may encounter in your practice, with tips on providing the right care.
Educators
Karen-Ann Clarke
Dr Karen-Ann Clarke is a registered nurse and a specialised mental health nurse with 30 years’ experience of working with individuals and families impacted by the experience of mental illness. Using a feminist narrative methodology, her PhD research explored the way that women diagnosed with depression made decisions and meanings about receiving electroconvulsive therapy. As a lecturer in nursing at USC, Karen-Ann is responsible for the coordination of mental health curricula across multiple undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Teaching in excess of 900 undergraduate students each year, she is passionate about the value that immersive mental health simulation can bring to student’s learning and clinical skills and the way that it can safely bring to life theoretical concepts related to mental healthcare. Karen-Ann currently supervises a number of honours, masters and PhD students and is part of numerous research projects, involving visualisation and simulation, mental illness, suicide prevention and the inclusion of people with lived experience of mental illness into the teaching and learning space. See Educator Profile