Today's Date: Friday, September 3, 2010
Events and Activities Overcoming Anxiety & Depression, plus Questions & Answers: Anxiety and Medication
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Contributor: Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria.
Source: Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria.
Posted: 08-05-2008
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The Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria presents this lecture and question and answer session.
Overcoming Anxiety & Depression, with Bev Aisbett, author of Living With IT, Living IT Up, Letting IT Go and Taming the Black Dog and her new book The Book of IT.
In 1998, Bev Aisbett created the 'WORKING WITH IT' five-week recovery program for sufferers of anxiety. Bev's reassuring and common sense approach has led program graduates to consistently report at least a 70 per cent reduction in their anxiety levels. Bev now presents a one-day version of her program called 'WORKING IT OUT'.
Bev has intimate knowledge of the distress resulting from mental illness, having been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and possible manic depression in 1991. Her experience, and subsequent recovery, has led her to dedicate the past decade to helping others overcome these disorders.
A freelance cartoonist and illustrator, author and trained counsellor, Bev's books and workshops have steadily gained recognition by doctors, psychologists and government rehabilitation services as being highly effective in terms of speeding up the recovery process.
In this lecture, Bev will be talking about what it's like to experience anxiety and depression, and what to do about it, based on her own experiences and that of the many people who she has met through her recovery programs.
Questions & Answers: Anxiety and Medication, with Dr Scott Blair-West
A consultant psychiatrist who works primarily in private practice in Richmond, Dr Scott Blair-West specialises in the treatment of anxiety disorders with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), often in combination with medication.
Dr Blair-West also works as medical director for the Anxiety and Depression Programme (ADP) at the Melbourne Clinic. He has an appointment at the University of Melbourne as a Senior Fellow and gives frequent lectures, seminars, supervision and teaching to other psychiatrists, trainees in psychiatry, GPs and allied mental health staff.
What causes anxiety? What is the best treatment for anxiety and depression? What are the side-effects of anti-anxiety medication? Dr. Blair-West will be available to answer all your questions about anything you have ever wanted to know about anxiety.
When: Wednesday 20 August 2008, 7pm.
Where: Preston Neighbourhood House Hall, 220 High Street, Preston.
Cost: $20 for non-members and $10 for ADAVIC members
Bookings are essential, monies non-refundable. Bookings can be made by calling ADAVIC on 03 9853 8089, or emailing adavic@adavic.org.au.
Contact Name: ADAVIC Volunteer
Contact Phone: 03 9853 8089
Contact Email: adavic@adavic.org.au
Website:
Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria
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