"Coping with the VCE” - A night for parents and students to prepare them for the VCE with practical tips and strategies from the applied psychological research, for both student and parents designed to reduce stress and increase productivity.
Year 12 students & parents
Guest Speaker: Dr Michael Carr-Gregg
7pm Tuesday 3rd March, 2015
NATURE OF STUDENT ACTIVITY: "Coping with the VCE” - A night for parents and students to prepare them for the VCE with practical tips and strategies from the applied psychological research, for both student and parents designed to reduce stress and increase productivity. See below for a profile of Dr Carr-Gregg.
Thank you to Friends of Buckley Park for supporting this event with a donation and for organising tea & coffee on the evening.
COST & DUE DATE: $20 per family by Friday 20th February
TEACHER/S IN CHARGE: Kathleen Mc Garrity & Jess McWilliam
VENUE: Performing Arts Centre, BPC
Kathleen Mc Garritty
Year 12 Engagement & Wellbeing Leader
Jess McWilliam
Student Wellbeing Leader
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Cost: $20 per family
Michael Carr-Gregg (Guest Speaker) Date: Friday 20th February
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Michael Carr-Gregg
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Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's highest profile psychologists who specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health. He sits on the Board of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, and is the parenting expert for Channel 7's top rating Sunrise and The Morning Show and is a columnist for Girlfriend magazine. He is also the psychologist on 3AW's Morning Show with Neil Mitchell.
Educated in Kenya, England, New Zealand and Australia, in 1985 Michael founded the world's first national teenage cancer patients support group, CanTeen - The Australian Teenage Cancer Patient's Society. A founding member of the National Centre Against Bullying (an Initiative of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation), he has worked in private practice as a family therapist, child psychologist and clinical psychologist, as an academic and researcher, and for four years as a political lobbyist.
He has held a variety of appointments including Executive Director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation and Director of the Centre for Social Health at the University of Melbourne and Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. Michael has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Australian Jaycees Outstanding Young Australian of the Year (1987) and in 1997 he was made a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International in recognition of his work in the prevention of youth suicide.
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