Seminar I "From BRAVE to Momentum: A 20+ Year Story"
IRCAHC Events
Seminars / Lectures / Workshops
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Date
19 Oct 2023
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Organiser
Department of English and Communication
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Time
17:00 - 18:00
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Venue
CD304, PolyU campus / Online via Zoom
Speaker
Professor Caroline Donovan
Summary
Only a minority of children and adolescents with mental health problems receive the specialist care they require due to a number of barriers to mental health treatment provision. Digital mental health interventions circumvent many of these barriers, and have the potential to provide evidence-based treatment to a greater number of young people if made freely available. The BRAVE Program was developed by our team some 25 years ago, and was the first digital mental health program worldwide to target child and youth anxiety disorders. Numerous randomised controlled trials have shown the suite of BRAVE programs to be highly efficacious, and the program is now freely available to all Australian families, with more than 77,000 registrations to date. Extending upon this work, our team has now developed a new digital mental health platform that provides assessment, feedback and tailored treatment for children and adolescents aged 7-17 years with anxiety, depression and associated disorders (sleep problems, substance use problems, and problems with diet and exercise). This talk will describe the evolution of BRAVE and Momentum, highlighting some of the difficulties and lessons learned, and outlining the way forward from here.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Caroline Donovan
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Australia
Professor Caroline Donovan is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor within the School of Applied Psychology and the Centre for Mental Health at Griffith University. She has full registration as a Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and the APS College of Clinical Psychologists. She has received over $9 million (AUD; approx. HK$45 million) worth of funding throughout her career and has published 14 book chapters and 102 peer reviewed journal articles. She as presented at numerous national and international conferences, is an Associate Editor of Anxiety, Stress and Coping (A*), and is currently on the Editorial Boards of Child Psychiatry and Human Development (A) and Australian Psychologist (A). She has supervised 19 PhD students, 10 DPsych students, 16 MPsych students and 32 Honours students through to completion. She also has a small private practice that she runs through the Griffith University Psychology Clinic. Her research philosophy centres around a strong belief in early intervention and its ability to change the otherwise problematic trajectories of youth with mental health disorders. Her interests lie in youth anxiety, depression, sleep and body image issues, with a strong emphasis on digital mental health interventions to increase reach and access to evidence-based psychological interventions for young people.
