Mental health
Tracks
Track 2
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
Room 6 |
Speaker
Prof Ashleigh Lin
Research Fellow
University of Western Australia
Session Introduction
1:30 PM - 1:35 PMBiography
OT. Natalie Hamam
Mental Health Practitioner
Interlink (ihra And Qc)
InterLink: A psychosocial well-being service for people with innate variations of sex characteristics
1:35 PM - 1:45 PMBiography
Ms Bonnie Hart
InterLink Manager and Deputy Executive Director
Intersex Human Rights Australia
InterLink: A psychosocial well-being service for people with innate variations of sex characteristics
1:35 PM - 1:45 PMBiography
Bonnie Hart is an intersex woman, the deputy director of Intersex Human Rights Australia and the designer of InterLink, a peer-led and community-based intersex psychosocial support program. Bonnie has long worked within the intersex community advocating for legislative protections and improved access to affirmative, rights-based health and mental health services.
Ms Sophie Potter
Digital Health Director
LGBTIQ+ Health Australia
10 years of QLife: by community for community
1:45 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Sophie (She/Her) has worked across the community sector in Australia, the UK, and south-east Asia since 2000. She's spent the last 12 years at leading digital mental health services QLife, ReachOut and SANE Australia. She uses her lived, living and learned experiences to deliver exceptional digital programs.
Ms Maria Tchan
Director
Centre for Impact & Change
10 years of QLife: by community for community
1:45 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Mr Jordan Hinton
Research Officer
La Trobe University
Psychological vs. Collective Resilience: Exploring the dispersion and interplay of resilience among LGBTQA+ community members
1:55 PM - 2:05 PMBiography
I am a research officer and PhD student in social psychology at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health, and Society (La Trobe, Melbourne). My research interests primary focus on understanding LGBTQA+ health, stigma, identity and social identification processes, and sexual well-being.
Mr Isaac Dunn
PhD Candidate (Psychology)
University of Technology Sydney
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for internalising symptoms in LGBTQ+ people: A preliminary meta-analysis
2:05 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Isaac Dunn is a PhD Candidate and provisional psychologist (Master of Clinical Psychology) at the University of Technology Sydney. Isaac is conducting a clinical trial using videoconferencing-delivered CBT for internalising disorders in LGBTQ+ people in 2024, and is supervised by A/Prof Bethany Wootton, A/Prof Emma Power, and Dr Liam Casey.
Chairperson
Ashleigh Lin
Research Fellow
University of Western Australia