With help from some of the leading Australian domestic and family violence clinicians, this article give practical tips to help GPs recognise and respond to domestic and family violence
Read MoreListen in to a lovely conversation with Matthew Dahlitz and Richard Hill from the Science of Psychotherapy about the concept of whole person carea sense of safety. As the book A whole person approach to wellbeing: Building sense of safety is launched as a paperback - we had fun discussion the amazing intesections of science and psychotherapy, community and sense of self as part of whole person care.
Listen on their podcast site here
Read MoreHow do we see the whole person? By becoming skilled and inspired by pattern recognition! This talk presented in a local pub for the Theology on Tap group gave me the chance to speak of my own life story, the influence and support of my patients and mentors, as well as give an overview of the Sense of Safety approach my doctoral research explored. There is a part two where I was asked a number of questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aXem79nBEw
Read MoreWhat can wise clinicians who care for their students do? Create an innovative whole person, creative and compassionate tutorial program that encourages students to think about what kind of a clinician they want to become and how to manage their own needs alongside the people they care for.
Our course was honoured by an Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning Nov 2021!
Read MoreA new experience being interviewed about my book by my peers Dr Ashlea Broomfield and Dr Charlotte Hespe - a lovely conversation of reflections on the clinical skills and mindset of being a generalist - not JustAGP
Read MoreI enjoyed interviewing Dr Cathy Kezelman, President of BlueKnot Foundation as we reflected on the amazing work of paediatrician Nadine Burke Harris and her recent book ‘The Deepest Well: Healing the Longterm effects of childhood adversity’. What a great conversation. Nadine also has a great podcast and new website numberstory.org
Read MoreThankful to the team who helped me write this philosophical piece about the similarities between those who have defined how to think across the disciplines, and those who have described the skills of the generalist as clinician and researcher: Broad Scope, Relational Process, Complex Knowledge Management, Humble Attitude to Knowing, and Translative Real-World Impact!
Read MoreThankful for the amazing team of mentors who shared their wisdom to make this paper what it is: a way for GPs to know that they have sophisticated ways to manage wide sources of knowledge for the moving their patients towards healing or wholeness: Whole Person Scope, Relational Process, Healing Orientation, and Integrative Wisdom. We are so much more than JustAGP!
Read MoreListen to this interdisciplinary panel hosted by the Mental Health Professional Network as we discuss caring for those who suffer with obsessive compulsive disorder. Within this conversation there is evidence of a shift in treatment focus away from managing the mind and towards calming the body - a whole person and trauma-informed approach to distress that I am thrilled to witness!
Read MoreDr Johanna Lynch presented this 7 minute narrated video at the Australian Association for Academic Primary Care Conference August 2021. This makes a case for the generalist gaze that looks for Verbs of Wellbeing (not Nouns of Disorder) across the whole person interconnected to environment and relationships.
Read MoreThis image helps to prompt you to reflect on ways to build your own Sense of Safety during Covid. Reflect on each question and if they are difficult to answer - seek out a connection (friend, family, professional) to ask for help to build your own Calm in Covid.
Read MoreBiology and Experience intertwined: trauma, neglect and physical health in a book entitled Humanising Mental Health in Australia: A guide to trauma-informed approaches
Read MoreBeyond symptoms: defining primary care mental health assessment priorities, content and process was published in the Social Science and Medicine Journal (2012[JL1] ).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22137734
Read MoreDr Sam Manger, President of the Australian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, interviews Dr Johanna Lynch in a wide-ranging conversation about mental health care in general practice
Read MoreAn interdisciplinary panel considers how to best support Judy, a grandmother with a history of anxiety and depression, who presents at her local hospital's emergency department with suicidal thoughts.
Presented in April 2013 with Dr Richard Benjamin (psychiatrist, Tasmania), Philip Hilder (psychologist), Dr Cathy Kezelman (President Adults Surviving Child Abuse (now known as BlueKnot Foundation)
Watch the webinar A Collaborative Approach to Supporting Adult Survivors of Child Abuse ➝
Read MoreAiming to build capacity of clinicians to recognise and respond to complex trauma presentations, this webinar is the second in a three-part professional development series focused on complex trauma. Watch this webinar to benefit from an interdisciplinary panel's insights as they discuss a case study.
Watch the webinar on Recognising, Screening & Assessing Complex Trauma ➝
Sometimes in these days of amazing technological advances, we forget the wisdom of our communities, the knowledge of how people have coped with adversity for generations, and the uniquely human capacity to see the hope of the mountaintop while still climbing out of the valley.
Read MoreOur bodies are not only alive – they are lived!
Caring for the whole person has been my passion – so I have undertaken training in grief and loss and trauma to balance the biomedical training I had as an undergraduate. Science made a monumental historical mistake when it separated the mind and the body for study. Professions have grown up around that artificial divide.
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