Remote Mental Health Therapy For People With Epilepsy - Milena Gandy, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia

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Learn how the depression and anxiety of people with epilepsy can be addressed in a unique, remote way by clinical psychologist & senior research fellow Milena Gandy - writer of The Wellbeing Neuro Course.

• Episode chapters

  • Meet Milena & her focus on mental health

  • Figuring out what patients needed

  • How the course therapy works

  • Clinicians' responses to the course

  • Course effectiveness analysis

  • Patient criteria for the course

  • What this has brought Milena

  • Next steps re integrating mental health care with epilepsy care

• About Milena

  Milena is a clinical psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at the eCentreClinic in the School of Psychological Sciences. Her applied clinical research aims to improve the mental health and psychological care of people living with neurological disorders, such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and Acquired Brain Injury. As an emerging researcher, she has developed several streams of research in this area, spanning mental health detection, epidemiology, treatment, and policy work.

  Milena has developed a transdiagnostic internet-delivered self-management program for neurological disorders called the Wellbeing Neuro Course. This innovative program combines psychological treatment components for mental health and cognitive rehabilitation and is suitable for a variety of neurological disorders - such as epilepsy.

• Links to Milena

  LinkedIn | ResearchGate | Macquarie University | eCentreClinic | Mindspot |

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