Masterclass Australian Diabetes Society and the Australian Diabetes Educators Association Annual Scientific Meeting 2017

Increasingly, diabetes guidelines recommend ‘psychological’ care to be incorporated into diabetes pathways. It has become clear that an approach focused on diabetes treatment and complication screening is not achieving the expected outcomes. However, practical guidance on how to change clinical practice, is limited. The NDSS ‘Diabetes and emotional health’ handbook published in 2016, will be used as a reference for this masterclass.

For who?

Health professionals working in diabetes (e.g. GPs, endocrinologists, diabetes educators, dieticians)

• who are aware that diabetes management and outcomes are intertwined with a person’s emotions, lifestyle and behaviours,
• who believe these psycho-social components should be part of the conversations they have with people with diabetes
• but who struggle to let go of their habits to work through a ‘tick box list’.

What will be the outcome?

Enhanced skills and confidence to make small but significant changes to your clinical practice.

How?

Practical approach making use of case studies of adults with diabetes to demonstrate how to ask and talk about psycho-social issues.

Input of participants?

Health professionals enrolled in this masterclass will be invited to read material, reflect on their practice/skills beforehand and bring case studies they would like to discuss with their colleagues.

Max 50 Health professionals