# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Medical Model, the Biopsychosocial Model and Mental Health Reform
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: An interactive seminar exploring the history of psychiatry, its impact on the mental health field and possibilities for meaningful reformAbout this EventThe Medical Model, the Biopsychosocial Model and Mental Health Reform.Presented by Dr Johnny PullmanACAP Senior LecturerDate: Tuesday 14 October 2025Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm AEDTDelivery Modes: On Campus (Sydney) and Online/WebinarLocation: ACAP Sydney Campus - 255 Elizabeth Street SydneyLecture Theatre, Level 1 (Enter from Elizabeth Street)The Medical Model, the Biopsychosocial Model and Mental Health Reform: An interactive seminar exploring the history of Psychiatry, its impact on the Mental Health field and possibilities for meaningful reform.You are invited to an interactive seminar on the competing forces and enduring structural problems that beset mental health reform in Australia and world-wide. Johnny spent three decades working for reform within Australasian mental health services and this remains a focus of his current academic work. This seminar explores the history of psychiatry, its ongoing hegemony as the dominant mental health discipline, the dominance of the medical model within psychiatry, the challenge posed to this by the biopsychosocial model and the ramifications for service-users and multidisciplinary workers alike.This particular seminar will be split into two parts with a Q&A in the middle as well as at the end with a total duration of one and a half hours.Please note: Professional Development certificates will only be issued to attendees with an 80% attendance; this is to uphold the integrity of the event and presenter.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sydney/the-medical-model-the-biopsychosocial-model-and-mental-health-reform/100001599265268469
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, mental-health, workshops, contests, art, theatre, virtual, webinar
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Sydney
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: ACAP Sydney Campus and Webinar
- **lat**: -33.875538
- **long**: 151.209353
- **full address**: ACAP Sydney Campus and Webinar, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, Australia

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Medical Model, the Biopsychosocial Model and Mental Health Reform being held?
  - **A:** The Medical Model, the Biopsychosocial Model and Mental Health Reform takes place on Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm at ACAP Sydney Campus and Webinar, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, Australia.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Medical Model, the Biopsychosocial Model and Mental Health Reform?
  - **A:** The Medical Model, the Biopsychosocial Model and Mental Health Reform is organized by ACAP Industry and Alumni.

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