MERTIL online learning & Clinical Workshop - DH-ICYF 2024-25

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Founded on attachment theory, MERTIL is a self-paced, online training program that teaches recognition of early trauma in the parent-child relationship and explores options for effective immediate response by frontline services.

The Department of Health has commissioned new training opportunities for the expanding workforce in public clinical Infant, Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health services. A key component of this initiative is to support the growing early-career workforce to work confidently and effectively with clients and their families, carers and supporters.

Under the initiative, Bouverie is delivering 5 training packages at no cost for professionals working in a publicly funded, Victorian based CAMHS/CYMHS* service. (*CAMHS: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service; CYMHS: Child and Youth Mental Health Service.)

Note: Completion of MERTIL online learning is a prerequisite for workshop attendance.

Duration
12 hours self-paced online learning + 6 hours live workshop
Mode
Online, In person
$0.00

Eligible participants

As part of this initiative, registrations are subsidised for early-career clinicians who work at one of the following services:

Metro:

  • Alfred CAMHS
  • Austin CAMHS
  • Eastern Health CAMHS/CYMHS
  • Monash Health ELMHS
  • Orygen
  • Royal Children's Mental Health

Regional:

  • Barwon CAMHS & Jigsaw
  • Bendigo Health CAMHS
  • Goulburn Valley AMHS CAMHS
  • Grampians Area Mental Health Service
  • Latrobe Valley & Latrobe Regional Hospital Mental Health Services
  • Mildura Base Hospital CYMHS
  • North East Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (Wodonga)
  • South West Healthcare Mental Health Services

Relevant audience

MERTIL is suitable for:

  • Nurses
  • Midwives
  • Psychologists/Psychiatrists
  • Social Workers
  • Family Support Workers
  • Child Protection Workers
  • Infant Mental Health Workers
  • General Practitioners

What is included in this training package?

This training package includes:

  1. MERTIL self-paced online learning (approx. 12 hours)
  2. MERTIL Clinical Workshop (6 hours) | 9:30am -- 4:30pm, Tuesday, 18 March 2025; in-person @ The Bouverie Centre

BONUS item: Mini-MERTIL self-paced online learning (bonus item; not required learning)*

BONUS item: MERTIL Library (bonus item; not required learning; available on the LMS alongside the self-paced online learning above)*

 

*When completing your registration, please ensure that both of these items are included.

Note: You must first complete your MERTIL self-paced online learning before your In Practice workshop.


1. MERTIL self-paced online learning

The course emanates from the Bowlby/Ainsworth paradigm and was created by infant trauma specialists, Professor Jennifer McIntosh (Bouverie Director), Professor Louise Newman, and a team of local and international infant trauma experts. Included with the training is ongoing access to our 2-hr Mini MERTIL-Refresher course and ongoing access to an extensive resource library of research articles, factsheets, podcasts, case consultations and more.

The MERTIL online modules provide a strong grounding in early relational trauma, including addressing the needs of special population groups (e.g. drug and alcohol, family violence, refugee/asylum seekers, culturally diverse populations, those experiencing various forms of mental illness and neuro-developmental conditions).

MERTIL has 8 online modules (12 hours) that:
  • Build capacity for earliest detection of relational trauma
  • Extend skills and enhance confidence in response to early relational trauma
  • Enhance prevention of complex sequelae for parents, infants and young children
Course outline:

MERTIL operates as an online portal; learning is self-paced, allowing for reflection and pauses as required. The course includes 8 learning chapters, totalling approximately 12 hours of learning. The chapters are presented in three themes as outlined below:

Theme 1: Development in a relational context

Theme 2: Signs and symptoms of early relational trauma

Theme 3: Conversations and interventions


2. MERTIL Clinical Workshop

9:30am -- 4:30pm, Tuesday, 18 March 2025 | In-person @ The Bouverie Centre

The MERTIL Clinical Workshop strongly augments and enhances the online MERTIL training materials with extensive supported practice of clinical skills. This full-day workshop includes in-depth analysis of real trauma cases, practice of effective trauma based conversations and demonstrations to illustrate key points. 

Prerequisite

Completion of all 8 chapters of the MERTIL self-paced online training. Completion is automatically tracked by the learning platform. Please note that you will be unable to attend the workshop if the online component has not been completed.

Registration & Accessing your online learning

You can register for this training package by pressing "Register Now" below. Please ensure that all 3 below items are selected:

  • Option 1: MERTIL online learning & Clinical Workshop - DH-ICYF 2024-25
  • Option 2: Mini-MERTIL (bonus item; not required learning)
  • Option 3: MERTIL Library (bonus item; not required learning)

Please note the workshop details (date, time, venue) before registering.

Once registered you will receive an automated email containing instruction on how to access the prerequisite self-paced online learning.

If you require any assistance with this process, please get in touch at bouverie.training@latrobe.edu.au

Key facts

Course category
The Bouverie Centre
Options
Option 1 Tuesday, 18 March 2025 9:30am - 4:30pm (AEDT)In Person (Melbourne)
Option 2 Online (start anytime) Ongoing accessOnline (On demand)
Option 3 Online (start anytime) Ongoing accessOnline (On demand)
Duration
12 hours self-paced online learning + 6 hours live workshop
Prerequisite/s
To attend your workshop you must first complete the included self-paced online learning
Certification
Certificate of Completion

Contact The Bouverie Centre

If you have any questions about this course, or are curious about our other courses and workshops, please get in touch at bouverie.training@latrobe.edu.au, thank you.

You can browse our list of professional development courses and workshops here and see what is coming up on our calendar here.

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  • Microcredentials:  You will receive a digital credential that confirms the skills you’ve acquired, any assessments you’ve completed and potential pathways for credit or advanced standing towards a degree. 
  • Other assessed short courses:  This may include bridging programs or courses that prepare you for external certification from a professional body.  You might receive a certificate of achievement or a digital badge (a digital version of a certificate of achievement).
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  • Single-subject enrolment: If you enrol in a single subject, you will receive an official transcript for that subject.

Please note that short courses or microcredentials are not formal qualifications under the Australian Qualifications Framework but may be eligible for consideration as advanced standing (credit) towards a degree.

What is a microcredential? 

Microcredentials are short courses that are assessed, carry academic credit, and to deliver specific skills or knowledge.  While they can be taken as standalone courses, many are designed to be combined or ‘stacked’ with other microcredentials to form the equivalent of a subject within a degree program.  Upon successful completion, you’ll earn a digital credential that outlines the skills and credit obtained, and any opportunities for stacking.

For La Trobe microcredentials, any advanced standing or stacking pathways are clearly expressed on the course page.   

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Advanced standing refers to credit for prior study or formal learning that can be credited towards a qualification, thereby reducing the number of subjects required to complete a course. For short courses or microcredentials (if these have been completed through recognised institutions or platforms and are deemed equivalent to La Trobe University subjects), credit may be granted either for specific La Trobe subjects or as unspecified credit towards elective requirements of a La Trobe course.

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