Australia
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation – Victorian Branch
Refugee and Asylum Seeker Health
Online CPD module.
Open Access: No
Audience: Nurses
Australian Psychological Society
Refugees & Asylum Seekers: Experiences, Issues and Interventions
Webinar series including the following topics: Experiences, issues and interventions; The legal context; Child, adolescent and family issues; Ethical issues; Mechanisms underlying refugee mental health: Implications for psychological treatment; and Therapeutic approaches for working with asylum seekers and refugees (including Narrative Exposure Therapy, Neurofeedback and Biofeedback with Survivors of Torture and Trauma, and EMDR).
Open Access: No
Audience: Psychologists
The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc.
Webinars
Webinar topics include: Working with refugee and asylum seeker children, and Precarious lives.
Open Access: Yes
Audience: Community, education, and health service providers
Mental Health Professionals Network
Collaborative Mental Health Care to Support a Young Person from a Refugee Background
A webinar featuring an expert interdisciplinary panel discusses their approach to screening, diagnosing, and supporting the health and mental health of a young Sierra Leonean girl who has come to Australia on humanitarian grounds.
Open Access: Yes
Audience: GPs, mental health nurses, psychiatrists, paediatricians, psychologists, social workers, OTs, other health professionals
Monash University
Refugee Health and Wellbeing
This postgraduate nursing unit has been developed in partnership with The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture and the State Wide Refugee Health Nurse Facilitator and sponsored by the Victorian Government. The unit will assist nurses to work with refugee clients within a social model of health.
Open Access: No
Audience: Nurses
PsycheVisual
Refugee Trauma
Online adult learning lectures in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and mental health care.
Open Access: No
Audience: Clinicians and other service providers
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Refugee Health
This E-learning module is an opportunity for GPs to learn about the physical and mental health issues of people from refugee backgrounds, improve their skills and confidence in using interpreters, and learn about refugee-focused services and resources.
Open Access: No
Audience: GPs
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Mental Health Services for People from a Refugee Background and People Seeking Asylum
This webinar focuses on the challenges and barriers that people from a refugee background and people seeking asylum face in accessing mental health services, the obligations of mental health service agencies to provide culturally appropriate and effective mental health services, and government and other initiatives to support the mental health needs of people from a refugee background and people seeking asylum.
Open Access: Yes
Audience: Psychiatrists
Royal Australasian College of Emergency Medicine
A Culturally Competent Approach to Refugee and Migrant Patients
This module explores the impact of experiences of trauma and torture on the physical and psychological health of refugee and asylum seeker patients, presented alongside a culturally competent approach to managing these complex presentations in ED.
Open Access: Yes
Audience: Emergency Department staff
Victorian Transcultural Mental Health
Conversations in Cultural Responsiveness
A cultural diversity resource for mental health service providers.
Open Access: Yes
Audience: Mental health service providers
Overseas
Baystate Health (US)
Tools and Strategies for Refugee Mental Health Screening
This webinar describes the tools available for screening and assessing mental health in refugees, explains how to use the Refugee Health Screener-15 in the care of patients, identifies the primary and secondary obstacles to screening for mental health in refugees, and describe strategies to overcome obstacles to the provision of optimal care for these patients.
Open Access: No
Audience: physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and medical social workers
BMJ Learning (UK)
Health Needs of Asylum Seekers in Primary Care
This module covers common physical and psychological conditions that affect asylum seekers and refugees, cultural and communication issues to consider in order to provide the best care, how to manage victims of violence and torture, and other health and welfare issues.
Open Access: No
Audience: GPs, physicians, nurses
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Canada)
Refugee Mental Health Webinar Series
Varied topics presented by practitioners in the settlement, social services or health care fields.
Open Access: Yes
Audience: Health care professionals; settlement and social service providers
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Canada)
Refugee Mental Health Online Course
There are two online courses available – one for health care professionals and one for settlement and social service providers. The courses are intended to enhance providers’ knowledge, communication, comfort and cultural competence when working with refugee clients.
Open Access: No
Audience: Health care professionals; settlement and social service providers
University of Minnesota (US)
Online Global Health Course
You can register for the entire course or for 1 or more individual modules:
Module 1: Introduction to Health Care for Immigrant and Refugee Populations
Module 2: Disaster Response and Clinical Medicine in Resource-Limited Settings
Module 3: Public Health and Non-communicable Disease in Developing Countries
Module 4: Parasitic Infections
Module 5: Bacterial, Mycobacterial (TB) and Fungal Infections
Module 6: Viral Infections
Module 7: Travel Medicine
Open Access: No
Audience: Physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses and other health care providers
University of Minnesota (United States)
Global Paediatrics Education Series
The series is comprised of lecture-based content from paediatric specialists.
Open Access: No
Audience: Student, trainee, or practicing paediatricians
