*** This webinar series is strictly for Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Only ***

This is a 3-part webinar series

Where: Online

CPE: 6 CPE points

Webinar Recordings: Registering for this event will give you access to the webinar recordings.

Part 1- Understanding people with mental disorders

We all know about depression and anxiety, but how much do you know about mania, delusion, conversion disorder and trichotillomania? Can you differentiate depression due to qi deficiency and depression due to qi constraint? In the first part of this series, we will provide a comprehensive but accessible overview of mental disorders, teach you to identify relevant signs and symptoms, and train you how to differentiate the main (Chinese medicine) patterns relevant to these conditions. This workshop will provide natural medicine practitioners with diagnostic skills that enable them to understand their patients better.

Part 2 - The aetiology of mental disorders - the quest for the root cause

How many factors influence our emotions? Five? Six? What makes our patient so vulnerable to stressful events? In the second part of this series, we will describe the physiological reactions related with our emotions and explore the multiple physical, social, climatic, spatiotemporal, and sensorial factors that affect emotions. We will present the causes of mental disorders, with an emphasis on the constitutional factors that can be modified with natural medicine and prevent patients to be vulnerable to future stressful events. We will finish by providing the methods that Chinese medicine practitioners use to manage mental disorders.

Part 3 - Managing mental disorders naturally - challenges and opportunities

How can you individualise your therapeutic approach to mental disorders to optimise treatment outcomes? What can you do if your patient does not or cannot follow your lifestyle recommendations? What if they don’t stop talking during the session? In the third part of this series, we will present the scientific evidence of the efficacy of natural medicine for mental disorders and explain how to individualise natural medicine to increase treatment outcomes. We will also present the challenges posed by mental health patients and practical methods to overcome these challenges.

Presenter: Yoann Birling

Motivated by a desire to improve health care, Dr Birling left France at 18 years old to further medical knowledge in China. After 10 years of learning in one of the best Chinese medicine universities in China and practicing medicine in large hospitals, he acquired rich knowledge and clinical skills. Interested in improving evidence in health care through clinical research, Dr Birling undertook a doctoral degree at Western Sydney University from 2018 to 2022, during which he designed and managed a clinical trial. Since receiving his doctoral degree, Dr Birling has been leading three other clinical trials.