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“An excellent course! It’s so important to spread this knowledge about hormones—not just among mental health professionals, but across all healthcare providers.”

Women often get split into systems.

Mood goes to mental health.

Hormones go somewhere else.

But hormone-related mood disorders sit right at the intersection of these 2 factors.

This is exactly where bridging psychiatry and hormone health stops being a “nice to know” and becomes clinically necessary.

Led by Dr Ceri Cashell, our Practical Prescribing of Hormone Therapy for Clinicians: Managing Mood Disorders Across the Female Life Cycle is an on-demand webinar exploring the relationship between sex hormones and mental health across the female life cycle, with practical strategies for diagnosing and prescribing hormone therapy during key hormonal transitions.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

- Understand the impact of reproductive hormones on mood regulation and psychiatric disorders

- Recognise and differentiate PMDD, perinatal, and menopausal mood disorders across the life cycle

- Prescribe hormonal contraception and HRT/MHT with practical clinical guidance

- Navigate myths, risks, and contraindications, including when hormone therapy may not be appropriate

- Integrate hormonal considerations into mental health care to bridge psychiatry and hormone health

Accreditation:
✅ 1.5 CPD hours
✅ Self-accreditable with RACGP
✅ Self-accreditable with the RANZCP and other relevant organisations
✅ Certificate of Completion

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy is built on 2 core processes.

Take one away, and therapy may not progress.

Here are those 2 processes and how they apply in practice.

(scroll through to see number 2)

To learn more about the nuanced intricacies of psychodynamic psychotherapy and how it reflects in practice, click the link in the comments below and check out our new course on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology inside The Academy.

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GLP-1 receptor agonists are not just weight-loss drugs.

They sit at the intersection of metabolism, inflammation, neuroplasticity, and cognition.

That is why their relevance to metabolic psychiatry is becoming harder to ignore.

To learn more about brain insulin resistance, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry, read the full article “Brain Insulin Resistance: Mechanisms, Neuropsychiatric Implications, and Therapeutic Frontiers” inside Psych Scene Hub.

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Eating disorder care rarely rests with one clinician alone.

Instead, it requires collaboration between psychiatrists, GPs, and a wider management team.

But when those involved start working in parallel rather than as a team, care quietly fragments.

Join Dr Karen Spielman and Dr Lilian Zou for a clinical webinar designed to help clinicians move toward safer, more coordinated, team-based care — with practical guidance from both psychiatric and general practice perspectives.

Throughout the session, we’ll talk about:

- Core principles in the assessment and management of eating disorders

- Key clinical considerations that should not be missed

- Roles of psychiatrists, GPs, and the wider treating team in eating disorder care

- Eating Disorder Plan reviews: what GPs need from psychiatrists and vice versa

- Practical strategies to improve collaborative care

Upon completion, all participants will receive:
✔️ CPD certificate
✔️ 1.5 EA CPD hours
✔️ Q&A
✔️ 30-day replay access

Live Online, 28 May | 7:00 PM AEST

Limited spots available.

Reserve your spot now.

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New! 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐂𝐎𝐒 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐌𝐎𝐒: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 🚨
The renaming of PCOS to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS) is an important recognition of the wider impacts of this condition.

For too long, this condition has been framed primarily through fertility, ovarian morphology and reproductive symptoms.

Many women have effectively been told:

“Come back when you want to have a baby.”

Here is what psychiatrists and mental health professionals need to know.

1️⃣ PMOS is a multi-system condition

PMOS is an endocrine-metabolic condition with reproductive, dermatological, cardiometabolic, immune, inflammatory, sleep and neuropsychiatric implications.

It is not simply a gynaecological diagnosis.


2️⃣ The psychiatric associations are clinically relevant

PMOS is associated with higher rates of:
depression
anxiety
sleep disorders
eating disorders
OCD symptoms
somatisation
emotional dysregulation
ADHD-like cognitive symptoms

3️⃣ The mechanisms overlap with psychiatric vulnerability

PMOS intersects with insulin resistance, androgen excess, HPA-axis dysfunction, inflammatory signalling, sleep disruption and long-term cardiometabolic risk.

They influence mood, cognition, energy regulation, arousal, sleep quality, appetite, body weight, emotional stability and treatment response.

4️⃣ PMOS should be part of the psychiatric formulation

When a woman presents with mood instability, anxiety, fatigue, binge eating, weight gain, sleep disturbance, menstrual irregularity, acne, hirsutism, cognitive symptoms or apparent treatment resistance, PMOS may be part of the underlying system maintaining the presentation.

5️⃣ It is modifiable

This is the most important clinical point.

Addressing insulin resistance, sleep, nutrition, metabolic health, endocrine dysfunction and inflammatory load can produce meaningful changes over time.

In clinical practice, these benefits are often seen over months rather than weeks.

Beyond six months, improvements may be reflected in mood stability, energy regulation, sleep quality, emotional volatility, biochemical markers and, in some cases, overall medication burden.

The brain is not separate from the endocrine, metabolic and immune systems.

And psychiatry sits at the intersections.

Covered more in the article on the Hub 👉 psychscenehub.com/psychinsights/female-specific-ps…

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BPD is not just “emotional instability.”

And it is not solved by treating every crisis as a new diagnosis.

The clinical task is harder:

separate the acute state from the enduring pattern.

To learn more about the key considerations in BPD assessment and how they translate into clinical practice, click the link in the comments below and check out the full article inside Psych Scene Hub.

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“This was an excellent series. The presenter put a significant effort into making the content highly relevant to clinical practice.”

Adult ADHD care changes as context changes.

Lifestyle factors matter. Comorbidity matters. Life stage matters.

With so many variables in play, it’s no surprise that diagnostic drift is common, and treatment often becomes reactive rather than structured.

Led by Dr Sanil Rege, our Adult ADHD Clinical Training Program | 7-Course Series for Psychiatrists & GPs delivers a comprehensive curriculum on adult ADHD, from neurobiology and diagnosis to real-world prescribing and management decision-making.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

- Understand the neurobiology of ADHD across the lifespan
- Recognise variability in ADHD and outline structured approaches for its assessment and diagnosis
- Apply evidence-based management principles and strategies for treating ADHD
- Understand stimulant vs non-stimulant psychopharmacology, including prescribing and legal implications
- Translate diagnostic criteria into real-world adult ADHD decision-making through case-based learning

Accreditation:
✅ 24 CPD hours
✅ RACGP, ACRRM and GPMHSC Accredited
✅ Self-accreditable with the RANZCP and other relevant organisations
✅ Certificate of Completion

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“Very informative and well presented — indeed an excellent integration of neuroscience and clinical practice.”

In addiction, one of the most practical clinical questions is also one of the most contested:

“Is addiction a disease?”

How you answer this question changes how you conceptualise behaviour, relapse, and what treatment is trying to achieve in the context of addiction.

Led by Dr Sanil Rege, our Addiction Neurobiology & Treatment: Advanced Neuropsychiatric Training for Psychiatrists course provides a clinically focused exploration of addiction neuroscience, then translates these insights into treatment principles that can immediately be applied in practice.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

- Explain the neuroscience of pleasure and pain in addiction
- Evaluate the Brain Disease Model of Addiction and what it means clinically
- Understand the role of dopamine, opioids, and other neurotransmitters in addictive behaviours
- Describe the neuroadaptations that contribute to the shift from liking to compulsive seeking
- Apply treatment principles based on neuroscientific targets in addiction

Accreditation:
✅ 2 CPD
✅ Self-accreditable with RANZCP and other relevant organisations
✅ Self-accreditable with RACGP
✅ Certificate of completion

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Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is seen as a breakthrough and emerging field, but clinicians must navigate evidence, judgement, and safeguards.

Join Dr Jonathan Laugharne for a live webinar on practical, grounded clinical application.

Inside the session, we’ll talk about:

- Core principles of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

- MDMA and psilocybin mechanisms of action

- Current research evidence and clinical outcomes

- Australian legal and regulatory frameworks

- Patient selection, safety, setting, and supervision

- Multidisciplinary care in treatment delivery

Upon completion, all participants will receive:
✔️ CPD certificate
✔️ 1.5 EA CPD hours
✔️ Q&A
✔️ 30-day replay access

Live Online, 12 May | 6:00 PM AEST

Limited spots available.

Reserve your spot now.

Link in the comments below.

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We're heading to Melbourne for RANZCP 2026! 🎉

Come visit us at Booth 14.

We've got a clinical quiz running across the congress, a daily scoreboard to see how you stack up against your peers, and free article handouts to take home.

Enter through the main entry, walk straight to the Posters display, and turn right. We'll be there.

3–7 May · Melbourne · Booth 14

See you! 👋

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