Overview

Are you feeling overwhelmed with the complexity or stalled progress of some clients?

Become proficient in The Focalength Method™ of assessing and managing the whole person who presents with complex mental health, physical, social and functional impairment issues, with specific best practice focus on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and comorbidities.

The Focalength Method™ was born from Dr Tony Mastroianni’s reputable holistic approach to rehabilitating severely mentally ill forensic patients in the Sydney Forensic and Long Bay Hospitals for over 20 years, and to treating his general psychiatric and ADHD patients in private practice, with excellent clinical outcomes.

This interactive in-person workshop will empower psychologists and other mental health practitioners to assess complex patients in a structured, holistic manner (based on capacity and function as well as diagnoses) to create dynamic and holistic management plans for patients and families. Based on adult learning principles, best practice and evidence-based treatment guidelines, the workshop is designed to enable practitioners to reinforce and extend their skills in general mental and physical health, in addition to ADHD and neurodiversity. The workshop will include pre-session didactic video training which allows for more collaborative work on the case studies during the in-person workshop, for enhanced learning.

The workshop will cover:

1. The Focalength Method™: a novel model for assessing and managing mental health holistically, integrating physical, emotional, cognitive, trauma, belief systems, and other functional domains. Learn how to categorise patients into functional and capacity domains, understand the impact of these domains on diagnoses, and how to maintain simultaneous focus on all aspects of a person, to effectively manage their care and minimise risk.
2. Best practice, systemised clinical assessment of attentional disorders and comorbidity in the context of assessing the whole person.
3. Using The Focalength Method™ to integrate holistic management of a patient with ADHD and comorbidities.

Target Audience

The activity is relevant to psychologists, general practitioners, allied health professionals including social workers, occupational therapists and counsellors, teachers/educators and coaches.

Level of Learning

Intermediate/Advanced. This activity is targeted to those who have some previous learning on the topic or significant expertise in a similar field of knowledge.

Resources

High-quality workbook provided of all workshop PowerPoint slides with added resources, learning, and writing materials.

Inclusions

Lunch, morning and afternoon tea, all day coffee and refreshments, and on-site parking.

Feedback from previous workshop attendees

• "I really benefitted from working through the 10 Focalength domains and now ensure I incorporate them in client sessions."

• "A convenient and incredibly insightful guideline."

• "An extremely valuable tool."

APS CPD-Approved

This activity has been assessed against the APS Standards for CPD activities and approved for its education quality. Learn more about the APS CPD Approval process and CPD Standards.

This activity is also endorsed by the RANZCP.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this training, participants should be able to:

• recognise ADHD and comorbidity and recall best practice assessment and management strategies,
• identify the 10 Focalength domains that structure holistic assessment and management,
• recognise which domains require focus in any particular clinical presentation by a patient, and
• utilise The Focalength Method™ to assess and create management plans for adults with complex mental health presentations such as ADHD.

Presenter(s)

Dr Tony Mastroianni

About the presenter(s)

Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Dr Mastroianni (Tony) is a registered Medical Practitioner and Consultant Psychiatrist in NSW. He has extensive training and experience in the treatment of psychiatric patients in a variety of settings, including NSW Justice Health, the Northside Clinic Drug and Alcohol Unit, and in his private practice in Greenwich, NSW. He was a Conjoint Lecturer at the University of NSW and a supervisor of senior psychiatric registrar training and medical student teaching for 20 years.
Tony is the founder and curator of the online Mental Health Resource Library, based on The Focalength Method™ domains, a rapidly expanding, subscriber-based resource library designed to meet the essential needs of health professionals, including links to resources and support networks for patients across the whole of mental health. It is uniquely collaborative with its subscribers who are encouraged to recommend links to new resources and literature, emblematic of his 360 degree approach.
A respected lecturer in ADHD and its comorbidity, Tony is known for his warm and engaging style, especially with his use of analogies and anecdotes to render simple even the most complex issues. He consistently receives positive feedback for creating experiential learning in a welcoming and supportive environment for peer collaboration among attendees and excellent learning outcomes.
Tony graduated in Medicine from The University of Sydney and received his psychiatric training in Sydney. He subsequently completed post-graduate forensic psychiatry fellowship training at The Institute for Forensic Psychiatry in Michigan, USA, and a training scholarship in Italian general psychiatry at the University of Pavia, Italy. He has been published on the use of intramuscular Clozapine in treatment-resistant schizophrenia.
Tony is passionate about treating the whole person and empowering both individuals and health professionals to reach their true potential.

Website/s

https://www.focalength.com.au/events