Psychological and Psychiatric Injury Seminar
Keep yourself updated on the psychology and legal trends in psychological and psychiatric injury claims, including somatoform pain disorders and bystander PTSD claims. With claims on the rise, understanding both the medicine and the law is essential for all practitioners working in this area. Straddling the medical and legal worlds, this seminar offers a better understanding of how medical professions form their assessments and evaluate claims, plus gain an update on the common law and workers comp claims.
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD points in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
Chair: Alison Hagan, Principal, DWL Legal; Recommended Workers Compensation Lawyer (Defendant) Doyle’s Guide 2018
2.00pm to 2.50pm: THE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE: Somatoform Pain Disorders – or Whatever They’re Called Now: Developing Psychological Injuries
Presented by Dr Slav Kostov, Consultant Psychiatrist/Specialist in Pain Medicine |
2.50pm to 3.40pm: THE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE: Bystander PTSD: A Review of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Emergency Personnel
Presented by Dr Darryl Bassett, Psychiatrist |
3.40pm to 3.55pm: Afternoon Tea
3.55pm to 5.15pm: HYPOTHETICAL: Briefing Experts and Where it can all go Wrong: A Hypothetical
Presented by Dr Lawrence D Terace, Consultant Psychiatrist, Rebecca Sorgiovani, Co-Managing Director, Soul Legal and Alison Hagan, Principal, DWL Legal; Recommended Workers Compensation Lawyer (Defendant) Doyle’s Guide 2018 |
Venue
Parmelia Hilton
Level 1, Meeting Room, 14 Mill Street
Perth 6000
WA
Australia