Expert Insights – Health and Happiness: The impact of exercise on mental health

Exercise is a neglected area for intervention in mood and anxiety disorders, yet the evidence is unequivocal in terms of benefit to mental health.

This Expert Insights panel session examines some of the predictors of poor implementation in the clinical space, and what practitioners can do to overcome these barriers to exercise. We’ll also focus on some of the major benefits as well as emerging innovations in wellbeing and exercise.

Panel

• Simon Rosenbaum: Scientia Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney; President, Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
• Alexander Svenson: Clinical Psychologist at the Black Dog Institute
• Caroline Bellenger: Lived Experience Representative