Advancing Women's Mental Health

Expected Outcomes:

• By completing this CPD activity, General Practitioners will enhance their ability to manage key women’s health concerns, including ADHD, complex PTSD, eating disorders, and the impact of hormonal changes on mental health.

• Participants will gain practical, trauma-informed, and evidence-based strategies to support neurodivergent women effectively.

• This activity will also equip GPs with the knowledge to improve service delivery frameworks, ensuring more inclusive and responsive healthcare for women with diverse mental health needs.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Recognise the unique presentations of neurodivergence, such as ADHD and ASD, in women and understand the influence of

  hormonal changes.

• Differentiate complex trauma (cPTSD) from borderline personality disorder (BPD) and apply trauma-informed practices to your approach.

• Manage common mental health conditions in women, including eating disorders, using evidence-based interventions.

• Understand the role of hormonal changes in mental health and provide effective support for conditions influenced by these factors, like

  PMDD and ADHD.

• Evaluate and suggest improvements to service delivery frameworks that better support women

  with neurodivergent and mental health needs.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify key characteristics of ADHD, ASD, and co occurring conditions in women, including the influence of hormonal changes on mental health.

• Differentiate between complex trauma (cPTSD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnoses by accurately applying trauma informed approaches to case examples.

• Summarise early intervention and multi family therapy evidence-based practices in managing eating disorders in female patients.

• Describe the impact of hormonal changes on mental health conditions such as ADHD and PMDD.

• List practical approaches to support women experiencing symptoms with hormonal changes on mental health conditions.

• Evaluate neurodivergent and mental health service delivery frameworks.

• Identify improvements to better support neurodivergent women and address their unique mental health needs.

Do you practice in a regional, rural or remote area?

If so you may be eligible for this training to be fully reimbursed.**

* Risk Free Guarantee - If you are not happy, let us know within 24 hours and we'll refund 100% of your money back.

** If you live in a regional area you may be eligible to have the costs fully covered by a Health Workforce Scholarship Program (HWSP).

Multiple bursary payments totalling up to $10,000 per financial year are available for eligible General Practitioners, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals. (e.g.. you can claim the full $359 back and still have $9,641 left to spend on other education later in the year).

Specific Eligibility Criteria is subject to change and available on the HWSP websites. These HWSP bursaries are generally available for medical practitioners who provide services within a regional, rural or remote primary health setting. RRR settings as defined as Modified Monash Model (MMM) 3-7, i.e.. Practicing in or outside of a town of 50,000 residents or less. 

Exact postcode eligibility can be found here.

Most HWSP providers allow/encourage you to contact them in terms of grant eligibility before you purchase or start the course.

Note: To insure there is no Return of Service Obligations (ROSO) you should complete your education within 6 months of applying for the bursary from HWSP.