Speakers
Dr Michaela Baulderstone
FRACGP
Dr Baulderstone is a General Practitioner with special interests in mental health, developmental disability, child health and medical education. She has undertaken targeted training in child development and behaviour, and parenting counselling. She provides special clinics for child emotional and behavioral concerns, paediatric sleep and continence issues, and developmental disability. Dr Baulderstone also provides a psychological medicine service and is a FPS Provider (Interpersonal Therapy). She has worked with Emerging Minds developing RACGP accredited training modules in child mental health since 2018.
Amanda Warren
Engagement Officer - Primary Health Care, Emerging Minds
Amanda is a mum of two children aged 10 years and 12 years. Amanda and her family have been working with primary health, allied health and community paediatric services in a variety of contexts. Amanda also works at Emerging Minds and will be drawing on her personal and professional experiences to reflect on why GPs and other healthcare professionals play an important role in supporting child and family wellbeing.
Penny Sih
Psychologist, Developing Minds Psychology and ±«ÓãÊÓƵ
Penny Sih is a clinical Psychologist and a Team Leader at Developing Minds Psychology and ±«ÓãÊÓƵ, an Adelaide based group private psychology practice that specialises in working with children and teens. Penny has worked as a psychologist for over 20 years in both the private sector and a variety of government settings including Child Protection, ±«ÓãÊÓƵ and Community Health and has always been passionate about supporting young people, their families and networks. In her current work, she provides 1:1 therapy but also a significant amount of clinical, professional and crisis supervision to the psychology team at Developing Minds and external providers. Penny is a talented speaker and regularly provides seminars to teachers, parents and young people to help them understand and respond effectively to the relational, emotional, behavioural and developmental needs of young people in fun, engaging, informative and non-jargonistic ways. Penny draws on a range of evidence-based frameworks and adapts her approaches to meet the needs of clients and their families. She loves to tell a story (or two) and believes engagement and connection are the foundations to learning and psychological growth. Penny is also a proud Mum of two teens, so she experiences daily the challenge of knowing helpful stuff about parenting and finding it very hard to do those things on a daily basis!