Psychological and Psychiatric Injury Roundup
Issues covered include: psychological and psychiatric Injuries - case and legislation updates, evidence, GEPIC, challenging diagnosis, instructions from insured workers, managing client expectations
Description
There are many pieces to the psychiatric injury puzzle and all of them are essential to putting together a positive outcome for your client. You have all the recent cases and then you have the critical evidentiary elements, understanding GEPIC and other challenging diagnosis issues. Plus the practical elements of obtaining instructions from an injured worker and managing their expectations. This course will help you assemble all the pieces into a picture of success for your clients.
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including:
2 units in Substantive Law
2 units in Professional Skills
Chair: Anthony Durkin, Barrister, Villeneuve Chambers
9.00am to 10.00am: Psychiatric Injury Litigation Update
Examine recent decisions and developments in the law of duty of care regarding psychiatric injury, including challenges faced with common law claims and cases arising from medical negligence.
Presented by Audrey Bosboom, Barrister, Anthony Mason Chambers
Professional Skills
10.00am to 11.00am: THE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE: Diagnosis and Causation in Psychiatry
- Identifying the psychological and psychiatric injury: different types of psychological injury and common triggers
- Pure harm and consequential mental harm
- The overlap between physical and psychological injury
- Impact on PTSD, anxiety and depression
Presented by Dr Jules Begg, Psychiatrist
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: INSIGHTS FROM THE PANEL: The Use and Misuse of GEPIC
- Understanding the principles underpinning GEPIC
- The six specific mental functions and the method of assessing the severity of each
- An analysis of the five classes of psychiatric impairment and the descriptors
- The relevance in CTP matters of low range, mid range and high range and the ultimate assessment of whole person impairment
Panellists include:
Michael Kernot, Barrister, Carrington Chambers; Recommended Insurance & Personal Injury Barrister, Doyle’s Guide 2018
Dr Jules Begg, Psychiatrist
Fiona Brady, Principal, Barry Nilsson Lawyers; Preeminent CTP Insurance Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
Professional Skills
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Obtaining Instructions from an Injured Worker or Their Employer: Separating the Emotion from the Legal Issues
- Identifying whether the worker or the employer is psychologically compromised
- Getting back to basics: What is my (legal) problem, how do I (legally) fix it, what do I (the client) need to do?
- Practical tips for getting your client to focus on the legal issues and not how he or she feels about the topic
- Managing your client’s expectations
- Liaising with relevant managers or medical providers
- Identifying when you are emotionally compromised
Presented by Jodie Bradbrook, Principal, Bradbrook Lawyers; Recommended Employment and Workplace Health & Safety Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2019
Testimonials
Excellent overall - very helpful and instructive
Great session - very insightful. Good tips to assist clients with psychiatric impairments.
Venue
Stamford Plaza Adelaide Hotel
Level 2, 150 North Terrace
Adelaide 5000
SA
Australia