Last updated 30_May_2025

 

 

AUCKLAND REGIONAL PSYCHIATRIC TRAINING PROGRAMME

FORMAL EDUCATION COURSE: STAGE 2 TRAINEES - 2025 SEMESTER 2

 

Wed

0900 – 1030

1100 – 1230

1330 - 1500

1530 - 1700

Notes

 

Forensic Psychiatry Module

 

6-Aug

Pacific island cultural aspects of Forensic Psychiatry

TBC

Sex offenders

Himadri Seth

Introduction to Forensic Psychiatry

Krishna Pillai

Radicalisation and

Violent Extremism

Yvette Kelly

 

13-Aug

Insanity

Sigourney Taylor

Fire Setting

Nichola Tyler

(via Zoom)

Youth Forensic Psychiatry

Craig Immelman

Intellectual disability

FASD and ASD

Mhairi Duff

 

21-Aug

THURS

Women in Forensic Psychiatry

Susan Hatters-Friedman (via Zoom)

Prison psychiatry and Parole Board Reports

Jeremy Skipworth

NZ National FEC Virtual Teaching

Topics TBA

 

27-Aug

Victims’ perspectives Ruth Money& Lillian Ng

(9:00am - 10:00am)

Personality disorder

Lillian Ng

(10:30am - 12:00pm)

Stalking

Lillian Ng

(1:00pm - 2:00pm)

Forensic Psychiatry Rehabilitation

Lauren Fowler

(2:30pm – 4pm)

 

3-Sept

Fitness to stand trial

Shailesh Kumar

(via Zoom)

Violence Risk Assessment

James Cavney

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

Emme Chacko

 

10-Sept

Mid-semester Break & RANZCP NZ Conference (Dunedin)

 

17-Sept

Mid-semester Break

24-Sept

Advanced Skills in Phenomenology

 Gary Cheung & Sam Pollen

Telepsychiatry

Han Chung Lim

Miscellaneous topics

Gary Cheung

 

1-Oct

Adult ADHD

James Gardiner

Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Rob Shieff

Recovery Workshop 

Debra Lampshire

 

8-Oct

Group Therapy

Yulia Krivoshchekova

 

15-Oct

Family Therapy Workshop

Glynnis Carolissen (Please bring 1 case of Single Session Family Consultation to discuss at the workshop)

 

22-Oct

Primary Mental Health

Care

Lyndy Matthews

Meeting with DoTs

Penny Woods &

Song Chan

Assessment and management of psychiatric emergencies

Anna Burnside

 

29-Oct

Early Intervention for Psychosis

Claire Paterson

Law & Psychiatry

Kate Diesfeld

NZ National FEC Virtual Teaching

Topics TBA

Labour Day

27 October

6-Nov

Māori Cultural Seminar for All Stage 1/2/3 Trainees