ID #29 'How to' Session
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Cabernet Room A & B
| Thursday, November 7, 2019 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Cabernet Room A & B |
Presentation
Coming clean: Neuropsychology in substance use and addiction.
Presenter(s)
Dr Catherine Cox
Turning Point, Eastern Health
Coming clean: Neuropsychology in substance use and addiction.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PMSummary
This “How to” workshop will provide neuropsychologists with a greater understanding of the substance use landscape. It will have a very practical and highly clinical focus, with immediate applicability.
This workshop will cover:
• Why do you use drugs? Predisposing factors for substance use that can impact cognition and effective drug treatment, including complex trauma, childhood maltreatment, mental health and social factors.
• You took WHAT? Exploring recreational and illicit prescription drug use, dosage risks and less common substance related health complications that might lead to cognitive impairment.
• What does the evidence tell us? Linking research with practice. Cognitive effects of commonly used substances in the acute, subacute, withdrawal and abstinence phases.
• Where can you go from here? Harm minimisation recommendations that neuropsychologists can make. Drug and alcohol specific services and how to access them.
This workshop will cover:
• Why do you use drugs? Predisposing factors for substance use that can impact cognition and effective drug treatment, including complex trauma, childhood maltreatment, mental health and social factors.
• You took WHAT? Exploring recreational and illicit prescription drug use, dosage risks and less common substance related health complications that might lead to cognitive impairment.
• What does the evidence tell us? Linking research with practice. Cognitive effects of commonly used substances in the acute, subacute, withdrawal and abstinence phases.
• Where can you go from here? Harm minimisation recommendations that neuropsychologists can make. Drug and alcohol specific services and how to access them.
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Dr Catherine Cox is a Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist at Turning Point in Melbourne. This is a specialist state-wide service for people with substance use. She has almost 20 years experience in neuropsychology and has worked in a wide range of services from Pediatrics to Geriatrics, inpatient to community outpatient.
Dr Vanessa Petersen
Eastern Health (Turning Point)
Coming clean: Neuropsychology in substance use and addiction.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM.....
Dr Vanessa Petersen is a Clinical Neuropsychologist at Turning Point, specialising in diagnostic clarification of substance-related cognitive disorders. Her experience in the AOD sector, along with tertiary paediatric mental health and neurology demonstrates the passion she has for helping people with cognitive impairment. Vanessa’s research credentials include her doctoral thesis exploring substance use, sleep and cognition, work examining MDMA neurotoxicity, and ongoing research investigating the interplay between AOD, mental health and prescribed substances on cognition. She has presented her findings at both national and international conferences. Vanessa actively runs statewide workshops, most recently presenting an evidence-based webinar on methamphetamine neurotoxicity.
