Michael Carr-Gregg Talks

MICHAEL CARR GREGG TALKS

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is an adolescent psychologist working at the Albert Road Centre for Health in South Melbourne. He specialises in the area of parenting young people and adolescent mental health. He is one of Australia's most respected providers of professional staff development and training in adolescent mental health issues.

More About Dr. Michael Carr-Gregg

Described recently by the Sunday Age, as one of the country's leading authorities on teenage behaviour, Michael is an Adolescent Psychologist working at the Albert Road Centre for Health in Melbourne. He specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health. Michael is the Consultant Psychologist to the Victorian Secondary Schools Principal's Association, the Australian Ballet School and Melbourne Girls College.

Educated in Kenya, England, New Zealand and Australia. In 1985, he founded the world's first national teenage cancer patients support group, CanTeen - The Australian Teenage Cancer Patient's Society. Michael has worked in private practice as a family therapist, child psychologist and clinical psychologist, as an academic, researcher and he spent 4 years working as a political lobbyist.

He has held a variety of appointments including Executive Director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Director of the Centre for Social Health at the University of Melbourne, and spent 6 years as Head of Education, at the Centre for Adolescent Health, which is part of the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.

Michael has been the recipient of a number of awards including the James MacIntosh Scholarship in 1982, the Australian Jaycees Outstanding Young Australian of the Year (1987) and in 1989 was awarded the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation's Inaugural Award for the Most Outstanding Achievement in the area of international health promotion. In 1997, he was made a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International in recognition of his work in the prevention of youth suicide. In the year 2000 he was the Dr Ann D Clark Visiting Fellow at St Ignatius College Riverview in Sydney. In 2001 Michael was the inaugural Visiting Fellow at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (PLC).

Michael has extensive experience in the media having spent almost 2 years as Channel 7's health psychologist on "11 AM" - a morning television program that was shown nationally in Australia. In 2002 Michael has been asked to be the official psychologist to Girlfriend Magazine, the largest selling magazine for young women in Australia.

Most importantly, Michael is married and has two children, supports Hawthorn in the AFL and Souths Sydney in the NRL.

Contact Details
Phone: (03) 9851-6719
Fax: (03) 9851-6713
Mobile: 0418 532 128

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