TALK AND COMMUNITY FORUM
GUEST SPEAKER:
Professor Tim Carey
Tim is Director of Flinders University's Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs.
He is a scientist-practitioner He has worked as a clinical psychologist in
rural Scotland and remote Australia. A central focus of his work is the
importance of control to health and wellbeing and recognition of conflict as an
explanation of psychological distress. He has pioneered clinical such as
patient -led appointment scheduling and patient- perspective care. He is a
Fulbright Scholar who has over 100 publications. He has a blog on Psychology
Today where he writes about promoting robust mental health. He has also
developed a smartphone app called Mindsurf. Tim is particularly interested in
different ways of understanding psychological functioning particularly
different cultural understandings such as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander's model of social and emotional wellbeing. In 2018 Tim appeared on a
popular SBS series "How Mad are You? "which was a program to help
address stigma associated with mental health problems.
