Support Staff Lunchtime Series: Ensuring Your Wellbeing and Mental Health in Challenging Times
Work through important and practical steps and strategies to effectively assess, monitor and ensure both you and your colleague’s wellbeing and mental health in these challenging times. WEB2111N04D
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills*
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Lisa Gooneratne, Special Counsel, HWL Ebsworth
Ensuring Your Wellbeing and Mental Health in Challenging Times
- Managing optimum mental health when working flexibly
- Emotional regulation: managing your stress levels while mediating the stress levels of your managers and their clients
- Burnout: early warning signs and impact on productivity
- Exposure to distressing content: risks and protective factors
- Developing personal resiliency
Presented by Kirsty Dempster-Rivett, Clinical Psychologist, University of Waikato
*This seminar series is suitable for Junior Lawyers
Presenters
Lisa Gooneratne
Lisa has extensive experience in personal injury insurance law, in a variety of areas. Lisa acts for both private insurers and Government agencies, in the areas of public liability, workers compensation, medical negligence, coronial inquests, medical disciplinary matters and motor vehicle accidents. Lisa also acts for a self-insurers, including a national airline and national banks, in relation to personal injury claims. Lisa is actively involved in the ACT legal community, being a former chair of the Young Lawyers Committee and currently a Commissioner and Board member of the ACT Legal Aid Commission.
Kirsty Dempster-Rivett, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Since graduating from the University of Waikato, Kirsty has accumulated a diverse range of experience as a Clinical Psychologist. This has involved multiple roles within government agencies such as The Department of Corrections, Waikato District Health Board, as well as community-based practice, especially in collaboration with Waikato schools and Non-Government Organisations. Specifically, her career has focused on working with young people who have experienced significant childhood trauma that go on to offend. Kirsty has been a Teaching Fellow at the University Of Waikato for the last three years convening undergraduate and graduate papers on mental health and wellbeing. She is currently undertaking doctoral research entitled: Exploring the mechanisms linking child maltreatment and the perpetration of family harm.