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2010

March 2010

Leadership Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals

There`s a world of difference between managing patients and managing people and yet many consultants find themselves in charge of large numbers of people without formal training or development. Management Masterclass is designed to look practically at how you can excel in your role as manager in the context of today`s NHS and your concurrent role as a consultant. With an emphasis on creating effective clinical and team performance it gets to the heart of modern management science in a medical context. Comprehensive, fast paced and highly practical.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

International Congress on Epilepsy, Brain and Mind

CONFIRMED SYMPOSIA: Art and Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Depression and AEDs, The Interaction of Mind and Epileptic Activity in Epilepsy, Epilepsy and Developmental Processes, Imaging Higher Cortical Dysfunction in Epilepsy, Higher Cortical Function in Epilepsy, The Cerebral Basis of Religiosity – the Evidence from Epilepsy, Brain Stimulation and the Antidepressent Effects of VNS, Cosciousness, Emotion Recognition and Social Cognition in Patients with Epilepsy, Epilepsy as a Complex System, Epileptic and Non-epileptic Seizures: Video Session, Drugs, Epilepsy and the Mind, Behavioural Dysfunction and Psychiatric Co-morbidity.
Contact: Email: epilepsy2010@guarant.cz  Tel: +420 284 001 444 Website: www.epilepsy-brain-mind2010.eu

Personality Disorder and Parenting Course

Contact: For further information, and to book, please visit the website.

Approved Clinicians Induction Course

Clinical Management & Leadership for Latter Year Trainees & Newer Consultants: Mental Health

This course is available for specialist registrars approaching completion of training through to newer consultants of up to 3 years or so experience, designed to enable you to make a step change in your ability to be effective as a clinical leader and manager in your specialty. This course is designed to create exceptional clinical leaders ready for the challenges facing them and their services in the modern healthcare environment. It is packed with the knowledge and skills that you’ll need to competently achieve, as well as specialty-specific insight into the challenges you’ll be facing in the evolving health service.

Contact: Full course content, benefits & objectives. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk

Approved Clinicians Refresher Course

Living Life To The Full - Using Online CCBT and DVD Self-Help Materials

Date: 23 March 2010

Venue: The Parkinson Building, University of Leeds

The Living Life to the Full (LLTTF) website offers free online access to the accessible five areas CBT approach. The new NICE clinical guideline for Depression (CG90) recommends offering low-intensity psychosocial interventions, including computerised CBT (CCBT) such as the LLTTF website, for treatment of mild to moderate depression. This workshop will help you obtain an overview of the website and DVD resources, including practical hands-on computer experience. It focuses on how you can support people using these materials with short monitoring sessions, with practical things to say and do to enhance their use of the site, and use of the ‘Plan, Do, Review’ model.

Contact: For more information please visit http://www.andrewsimscentre.nhs.uk/ Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or call 0113 305 5638

Be Careful What You Wish For: Families, Drugs and Alcohol: Involvement or Support?

Date: 23 March 2010

Venue: ORT House Conference Centre, London

The Government’s drugs strategy 2008, emphasised the importance of support for families. But whilst recognition in policy is to be welcomed, challenges to delivering a cohesive and universal service still remain. The overall purpose of this conference is to present and debate the key issues for the future of family support, informed by intelligence collected from Adfam’s series of consultations. Key themes:

• Families and workforce development
• Families’ involvement in treatment
• Support and interventions for families in their own right
• The cost of caring for a drug user
• Families and primary care
• Think Family: the DCSF perspective

Contact: Email: info@pavpub.com Tel: 0844 880 5061 Fax: 0844 880 5062 Website www.pavpub.com/conferences

How Should We Represent Teenage Sex?

Date: 23 March 2010

Venue: Corpus Christi College, Oxford

At the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival,  playwright, screenwriter, novelist and father of teenagers William Nicholson, whose credits include Shadowlands, Gladiator and the acclaimed The Wind Singer trilogy for children, has now written Rich and Mad, a story, for young adults, of a teenage love affair. He discusses with consultant child and adult psychotherapist Gerry Byrne what he sees as the “pornification of teenage sex” and the need to put emotion back into physical relationships.
Contact: For more details and to book tickets Tel: 0870 343 1001.

Core Skills for the Clinical Service Lead

Most people end up in the role of clinical director or service lead either by straight line succession or because nobody else would do it! However, the role can be immensely satisfying with the right framework in which to manage clinical imperative with business responsibility. It’s a real opportunity to make a positive difference to healthcare outcomes whilst equipping the service for the future. This powerful course is designed to provide that framework and the practical skills necessary to get it right for clinical teams and business managers alike. You find it fundamentally easier to work with management without ever losing your clinical roots.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates, venues and cost. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

Films & Psychoanalysis CAPS Centre for the Advancement of Psychoanalytic Studies

The interdisciplinary seminars on Films and Psychoanalysis will introduce some of the contributions to the interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalytic theories and cinema. More specifically, we will consider how psychoanalysis has been (mis)represented on the screen. We will explore the voyeuristic aspects of watching movies, and examples of a psychoanalytic approach to film interpretation will be examined. Cost: £95 for the 5 week course. A certificate of attendance for Continuous Professional Development purposes will be issued to participants upon completion of their course.

• Seminar One: A brief historical introduction on psychoanalysis and cinema. The (mis)representation of psychoanalysis in film.
• Seminar Two: A psychoanalytic approach to film interpretation (1): Hitchcock’s Vertigo
• Seminar Three: A psychoanalytic approach to film interpretation (2): Powell’s Peeping Tom
• Seminar Four: A psychoanalytic approach to film interpretation (3): Buñuel’s Belle de Jour
• Seminar Five: Dreams in films / Films as dreams. Concluding remarks.
  

This is  run by Andrea Sabbadini. He is a practising psychoanalyst and is Chairman of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival and of the Screening Conditions series of films at the ICA. He is a fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, current director of publications of the British Psychoanalytical Society, honorary senior lecturer at University College London and the film section editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Contact: Email: marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk Tel: 0207 563 5016 Website: http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/advcentre.htm#intr

Hearts and Minds - An ECG Update

Date: 24 March 2010

Venue: The Village Hotel, Leeds

Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are becoming increasingly aware of the cardiac effects of the drugs that their patients are prescribed. Electrocardiographs (ECGs) are being regularly recommended in monitoring patients, but reading and interpreting them is a skill that you may not have practiced for some time. This day is designed to allow you to learn those skills and use them in practical scenarios. You will also receive an update on the cardiac effects of psychotropic medication and cardiac medication that many of our patients are currently prescribed.

Contact: For more information please visit http://www.andrewsimscentre.nhs.uk/ Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or call 0113 305 5638

Acute Mental Health Ward Learning Event

Date: 24 March 2010

Venue: The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London SE1

Due to popular demand, the SDO Network, in association with the Mental Health Network, is hosting an additional acute mental health ward seminar. This free one-day event will showcase some of the latest research on how we can improve the acute mental health ward experience for service users, carers and staff as part of our interactive learning seminar series.

The programme includes:

• Len Bowers, Professor of Psychiatric Nursing from City University will present his findings on keeping patients safer on acute mental health wards. Len will discuss the results from the 136 study which draws on 13 years of research experience.
• Sonia Johnson, Professor in Social and Community Psychiatry from University College London will highlight the factors affecting staff morale in mental health in-patient care.
• Melba Wilson, National Programme Lead for Mental Health Equalities, National Mental Health Development Unit will provide a BME perspective on the acute mental health ward. Melba is a mental health champion who is concerned with tackling discrimination against people from black and minority ethnic communities.
• Larry Ayuba, Consultant Psychiatrist from Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust will talk about how the pioneering role of Great Yarmouth adult acute services in promoting true continuity of care for its patients stands out as a model of excellence.
  

There will have a service user perspective to input their real world experience of trying to engage with these issues. The NHS Employers 'Open your mind' campaign will be showcased, which aims to reduce stigma and discrimination in mental health. Steve Shrubb, Director of the Mental Health Network, will be chairing the event.

First run in Nottingham in December 2009, delegates at the event described the seminar as "an extremely valuable conference" and "one of the best I have been to in a long time." Many said they would change their practice as a result of attending the event: "it has inspired me to address areas of practice in my clinical role and given me ideas on how to support both patients and staff more effectively".
Contact: For further information, including a copy of the draft programme, and to book online, please see the NHS Confederation website events section.

Quality, Innovation Productivity and Prevention in Mental Health

Date: 25 March 2010

Venue: Cavendish Conference Centre

Chaired by Ian McPherson Director National Mental Health Development Unit this one day conference provides a practical guide to delivering Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention in Mental Health. Jim Easton National Director for Improvement and Efficiency NHS Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) opens the day with a focus on developments from the NHS Productivity Unit and the individuals role in supporting quality, innovation, productivity and prevention.

Contact: For more information call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399. Email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/  Download Brochure

HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment Scheme

Date: 25 - 26 March 2010

Venue: The Village Hotel, Leeds

The HCR-20 is a practical tool for the clinical assessment of risk of violence in the mentally disordered. Its use is becoming increasingly widespread in forensic and general adult psychiatric services and provides empirically-based structured clinical guidance by combining information about historical risk factors that have a strong evidence base with dynamic, variable clinical risk factors and clinical judgments. The aim of this workshop is for you to become familiar with the principles underpinning risk assessment in the mentally disordered, competent in the use of the HCR-20 instrument and capable of formulating a comprehensive, detailed risk assessment and risk management plan for your patients.

Contact: For more information please visit http://www.andrewsimscentre.nhs.uk/ Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or call 0113 305 5638

3rd National Conference: Child & Adolescent Addictions: Risks, Consequences, Treatments & Management

Date: 25 - 26 March 2010

Venue: Institute of Physics

This two day event presents an excellent educational opportunity for specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology to update and extend their knowledge. It will also be indispensible to anyone working with young people and addictions.

Sessions will include:

• Keynote address: the rise and demise of an adolescent addiction service, Professor Ilana Crome, Keele
• Neurobiology of addiction, Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes, London
• Dual diagnosis: assessment and management in clinical practice. Lois Dugmore, Leicestershire
• Cannabis and psychosis: what can be done? Dr Zerrin Atakan, London
• Alcohol and suicidal behaviour, Dr Ella Arensman, Ireland
• Family focus: a multidimensional approach to family therapy, Tony France, Gloucestershire
   

Contact: For more information please visit the website. Tel: 0207 501 6761 Fax: 020 7733 8174

Legal Aspects of Clinical Psychiatry – The MHA 1983 (Amm.2007)

A one day masterclass updating clinicians on the real significance of the amendments contained in the Mental Health Act 2007 and their impact on clincial psychiatry. Delegate fee £100.00.
Contact: Jo Nairn, Marketing, St Andrew's Healthcare Tel. 01604 616537 or email jnairn@standrew.co.uk

Legal Aspects of Clinical Psychiatry: A Clinicians Guide to the Amended Mental Health Act

This meeting is designed for any professional that uses the amended Mental Health Act in their daily clinical practice. We will hear both from theoretical legal experts and from an expert Tribunal Chair and Clinician.

Confirmed speakers include Professor Phil Fennell, Professor of Law in Cardiff Law School and Professor Peter Bartlett, Professor of Mental Health Law in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, who has written extensively on Mental Health Law, Mental Disability and the Mental Capacity Act. Professor Jeremy Cooper was the first full time Regional Chairman of the Mental Health Review Tribunal and Chair of the Department of Health Mental Health Act 2007 Implementation Group. Dr Andy Bickle is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, a Master of Laws in Mental Health and is Medical Lead for the Mental Health Law Steering Group at St Andrew’s Healthcare.

This will be a stimulating, thought provoking and fundamentally educational day for all those involved. This meeting will be valid for up to five external CPD points, subject to peer group approval.
Contact: Amanda Cameron on 01604 616158 or email acameron@standrew.co.uk Visit the website

Theory, Research, Technique Brief Experiential Psychotherapy

Dr Robert Neborsky will present video footage of work with a patient to illustrate the theory and practice of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. There will be ample time for questions and discussion.
Contact: Email joseph.mishan@phonecoop.coop Website: http://www.istdp.org.uk/

Attachment in the 21st Century: Where Next?

This is the 17th annual conference for the Bowlby Centre. The Bowlby Memorial Lecturer will be Professor Jude Cassidy (University of Maryland – co-editor of The Attachment Handbook and Attachment and Human Development Journal). Other speakers include Dr Gwen Adshead, Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital.
Contact: Jo Gardetta, Conference Administrator, the Bowlby Centre, 147 Commercial Street, London E1 6BJ. Tel: 020 7247 9101 Website: http://www.thebowlbycentre.org.uk/

Contemporary Perspectives on Psychoanalysis

This free event is open to mental health professionals. It is one of the major events organised to celebrate the centenary of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Speakers:

• David Bell, London "Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: a conceptual mapping"
• Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Frankfurt "Psychoanalysis as a 'special science of the unconscious' (Freud) at the IPA centenary"
• René Roussillon, Lyon "A perspective on sexuality today - the language of the sexual"
  

Contact: More details. Contact to register (advance registration essential): geber-reusch@t-online.de

10th London International Eating Disorders 2011

Date: 29, 30 & 31 March 2010

Venue: Institute of Physics

This event will bring together speakers and delegates from around the world to discuss key topical issues in the field of eating disorders and will offer you a unique chance to update and extend your current skills. The high quality of their teaching as well as their clinical knowledge and expertise will be invaluable to the information gained over the three days.

We are delighted to announce that the Keynote Speaker will be Professor Simon Baron-Cohen from the Department of Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. In addition there will be plenary sessions, clinical workshops, training tracks, short paper sessions and poster. We are confident that Eating Disorders 2011 will be even more exciting with so may distinguished clinicians and researchers joining the faculty and the very latest ideas and research findings being presented by leaders in the field. 
Contact: Tel: 0207 501 6761 Fax: 020 7733 8174

Suicide: Recognition and Management of Risk

Date: 30 March 2010

Venue: City Inn, Leeds

The prevention of suicide has always been a challenge for mental health services. It drives assessments and is one of the major factors in clinical decision making. It seems to be inevitable that mental health practitioners will at some point work with someone who takes their own life as a result of mental health problems. This one day conference explores what is known about good assessment of suicide risk as well as exploring how individual and team practice could be improved.

Contact: For more information please visit http://www.andrewsimscentre.nhs.uk/ Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or call 0113 305 5638

April 2010

European Psychiatric Association – 6^th Annual Meeting of the Neuroimaging Section on “Brain Plasticity and Development

It is our great pleasure to announce the 6th Annual Meeting of the Neuroimaging Section of the European Psychiatric Association to be held in Paris, France. This year we focus on neuroplasticity as advances in this field are rapidly increasing our understanding of how "plastic" the brain is and how functions relate to brain structures across the lifespan. The meeting will feature recent findings from leading clinicians and neuroscientists in the field , in the form of lectures and posters.
Contact: For further information and registration visit http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/events/?id=843 Phone Caroline Zanelli on 020 7848 0299 Email: caroline.zanelli@iop.kcl.ac.uk

XVII International Symposium about Current Issues and Controversies in Psychiatry

1200 International specialists are expected to attend this important international event. For further information, please visit this website.

Contact: Maider Zalduondo Tel:+34 93 221 22 42 Fax: +34 93 221 70 05

2nd UK Paediatric Neuropsychology Symposium: Rehabilitation and Educational Support

Following the success of the 1st UK Paediatric Neuropsychology symposium, the 2nd symposium will focus on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and Educational Support. This symposium will provide a contemporary account of rehabilitation programmes, specific interventions and educational support for children with cognitive, behavioural and emotional difficulties following neurological injury or neurodevelopmental disorder. A host of leading international speakers will participate in this unique symposium in order to consider how professionals may best support children and their families following neurological injury and what opportunities there may be to exploit brain plasticity in promoting positive learning, behaviour and socio-emotional development.
Contact: Email: info@ichevents.com Tel: 020 7829 8692 Website: http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/education/short_courses/courses/2S43

Management Masterclass for Consultants

There`s a world of difference between managing patients and managing people and yet many consultants find themselves in charge of large numbers of people without formal training or development. Management Masterclass is designed to look practically at how you can excel in your role as manager in the context of today`s NHS and your concurrent role as a consultant. With an emphasis on creating effective clinical and team performance it gets to the heart of modern management science in a medical context. Comprehensive, fast paced and highly practical.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

Maudsley Annual Reviews of Psychiatry

The Institute of Psychiatry presents a new educational initiative which will highlight and synthesise key advances in psychiatry and will serve as an annual landmark of progress in the field.

We believe that this initiative will meet the challenge of translating scientific developments in mental health into advances in clinical care. There will be three themes covered each year selected to represent topics in psychiatry where substantial developments were achieved in elucidating disease mechanisms or improving clinical practice. These annual meeting will bring together internationally renowned researchers and clinicians who will discuss their findings and share their perspective on each of their expert themes in a clinically relevant manner. Establishing the Maudsley Annual reviews of Psychiatry as the foremost international gathering of its kind in mental health care, it is envisaged to inform scientists, clinicians, policy-makers and business leaders.

The scientific programme includes Plenary Lectures, three core Symposia in Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder and ADHD, and Satellite Symposia organised by pharmaceutical companies in consultation with the organising committee which complement topics presented in the core symposia. Early registration and poster submission deadline: 28 February 2010.
Contact: For further information and registration visit www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/mar Phone Caroline Zanelli on 020 7848 0299 Email: caroline.zanelli@iop.kcl.ac.uk

Jephcott Symposium: Enhancing your Teaching and Learning in Postgraduate Medicine

Have you lost some of the fun from teaching your juniors? Are you uncomfortable with the underlying rigidity of the current requirements? Then come to a day that will reaffirm what it is to be a doctor, remind you of the fun of teaching, reveal the profound nature of real education and show you how to enrich the meagre diet currently on offer. Go home with a number of ideas and a wide range of educational resources that will enable you to begin the cure back in your own clinical setting. This conference offers the opportunity to experience how to learn, teach and assess some invisible but key aspects of the practice of medicine. 
Contact: Website: http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/jephcott10.php

Berkshire Trauma Service - Using Compassion to work with Shame

This two day workshop on compassion-focused cognitive therapy for shame based trauma memories will use video, and role play to demonstrate and practise clinical skills. It is facilitated by Dr Deborah Lee, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead for Berkshire Traumatic Stress Service and Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL. 2 days for £190
Contact: Email: trauma@berkshire.nhs.uk Tel: 0118 9296449

Advanced Influencing, Negotiation & Engagement Skills

Starting with developing a greater understanding of people, this course then translates this into a range of advanced interpersonal skills such as advanced communications, negotiation skills, building rapport, developing effective teamwork & relationships, choosing appropriate language, fostering an environment of respect, as well as developing self-awareness. A busy and invaluable course designed to make you more effective in all of your dealings with people.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

Leadership Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals

Leadership Masterclass represents the latest thinking in how to drive groups of people to achieve great things. Focusing on both the leadership of self and others, it provides a deep level of insight into current theory and how it can be deployed in the leadership, motivation and influencing of people. At a practical level, it will help you provide strong guidance to people in a wide variety of scenarios from every day working to a sudden crisis.

If you are in a leadership role, whether clinical or managerial (or both!), you will find this course immensely useful in helping you achieve your goals, targets and initiatives by providing practical strategies aimed at moving groups, departments or whole organisations in a consistent, aligned direction with maximum motivation.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

4th National Conference: Treating Schizophrenia

Date: 29-30 April 2010

Venue: Institute of Physics

This national conference ‘Treating Schizophrenia’ will assemble expert speakers from across the UK for two exciting days packed with discussion and debate. It will provide an excellent arena to discuss the latest developments in the field of schizophrenia and will be indispensable for practitioners working across all aspects of mental health as well as those looking to specialise.

Sessions will include the following:

• Prodrome of early psychosis
• Update on the Mental Capacity Act
• Improving prescribing practice: results from a POMH-UK study
• Using psychological therapies in routine practice
• Cognitive behavioural therapy
• Developing improved care pathways for schizophrenia and substance misuse
• Promoting recovery 

Contact: For more information please visit the website. Tel: 0207 501 6761 Fax: 020 7733 8174

The 9th Annual Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Higher Trainees Conference

Date: 30 April 2010

Venue: Clare College, Cambridge

Brave New World: The Future of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: This one day even for Higher Trainees looks at the future of Child and Adolescent Mental Health in the changing landscape of 21st century Britain.

The programme for the day includes lectures from internationally well known speakers in our speciality and 7 workshops aimed to meet the needs of trainees preparing to become consultants over the next few years. In addition, we are organinsing a plenary at the end of the day where trainees can meet panel members from the deanery and the Royal College Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

This conference is aimed at Child Psychiatry Higher Trainees [ST4-6,CT4-6, SpR] and other core trainees with an interest in Child and Adolescent Mental Health [CT1-3, Paediatric trainees, SAS doctors etc].
Contact: For more information please visit the website.

May 2010

Core Skills in Finance & Business Planning for Consultants & Clinical Leaders

Developed in conjunction with a Senior NHS Finance Director, this course is designed for the many consultants, senior nurses and PAMs who would like NHS finance and business planning demystified to the point of being both understandable and manageable. With particularly emphasis on what it takes to be financially successful in today’s NHS environment, the course balances a detailed understanding of the principles and process of NHS money flow with the practical skills to operate successfully to ensure services survive and thrive in the new market economy.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

Nutrition and Addiction: Promoting Recovery Through Nutritional and Lifestyle Interventions

Drug and alcohol-related deaths have tripled in the last three decades, while substance misuse in the workplace remains a significant cause of accidents, lowered productivity and absenteeism. Addiction treatment centres in the UK combine medication, counselling and behaviour modification to tackle cravings and aid recovery. Relapse rates, however, remain alarmingly high. Many addiction centres lack a nutritional component in their treatment approaches. This conference examines the importance of nutrition in prevention, and the potential underlying nutritional and biochemical factors involved in addictive behaviour. Nutritional and lifestyle interventions, in combination with counselling and other support programmes, offer positive additional approaches for successful, cost effective treatment and sustainable recovery.

The aims of the conference include:

• Exploring ways of introducing nutritional approaches to treatment programmes
• Restoring nutritional and biochemical imbalances affecting neurotransmitters and reward pathways in the brain
• Supporting liver detoxification and repair digestive function
• Improving blood sugar regulation and reduce excessive cravings
• Encouraging discussion between participants and presenters and develop networking opportunities.

Contact: Pavilion Tel: 0844 880 5061 Email: info@pavpub.com

Children's Mental Health Conference  

This popular conference is now in its 6th year and we are pleased to invite you to attend this years event. We have brought together a great programme, so come and get your knowledge updated on key topics on children’s mental health addressed by leading experts, take away practical information which can be applied in the work setting and hear about projects and work going on throughout the country. The conference also serves as a good meeting place where you can network with colleagues and pick up educational resources.

Contact: Email Carolyn Fraser: cf24f@clinmed.gla.ac.uk Tel 0141 201 9264 Website: www.gla.ac.uk/departments/developmental/cpd/newcourses/

RANZCP 2010 CONGRESS 

This year's theme is 'A Shared Endeavour.' The focus is to emphasize the complex and interconnected nature of modern mental health care, a weaving of personal, cultural and historical narrative, with the learning and understanding of science and practice. We are grateful to the keynote speakers who will present a diverse range of understandings of the human condition, and of critical themes of mental health care. We know there will be elements to Congress 2010 to intrigue and challenge all perspectives, and we invite everyone’s presence and contributions to the meeting.

Contact: Email: ranzcp2010@tcc.co.nz Tel: +64 9 360 1240 Website: http://www.ranzcp2010.co.nz/

Children's Mental Health and Law

The University of Glasgow has convened this memorial conference in recognition of Professor Stone’s outstanding contribution to child psychiatry services and to celebrate his life. Professor Stone was a member of the Kilbrandon Committee which established The Children’s Hearings System and played a key role in changing the way Scotland’s children experience the legal system.

This major conference will give you the opportunity to hear presentations from leading experts from Scotland, Europe and the United States, to discuss and debate the challenging issues and key unanswered questions about what happens when vulnerable children interact with the legal system. We aim to do what Fred did best – widen our perspectives and help us collaborate in building a better Scotland for vulnerable children.

Contact: Email Carolyn Fraser: cf24f@clinmed.gla.ac.uk Tel 0141 201 9264 Website

Good Practice in Consent

This one day conference has been developed to provide a practical guide to implementing Consent guidance along with important updates from the Department of Health on their planned review of their guidance for Consent.

Contact:For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399. Email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/ Download Brochure

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults in Hospitals

Chaired by Professor Susan Benbow Professor of Mental Health and Ageing Centre for Ageing and Mental Health, Staffordshire University, this one day conference is a practical guide to safeguarding vulnerable adults in hospitals with a focus on No Secrets and health services and safeguarding.

Contact:For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399. Email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/ Download Brochure

Child and Adolescent Learning Disability Psychiatry Network (CALDPN) Annual Meeting 2010

St Andrew's Healthcare is privileged to be hosting the 2010 Annual Residential Conference of the Child and Adolescent Learning Disability Psychiatry Network (CALDPN) at Northampton. Aimed at psychiatric professionals in the field of child and adolescent learning disability, we look forward to utilising the combined expertise of those present and to sharing examples of good practice.

To reflect the increasing legislative recognition of the needs of young people with learning disabilities, this two day national conference will focus on models of service development, with discussion geared towards evolving a toolkit for specialised services.

The full programme of lectures, workshops and posters has particular emphasis on challenging behaviours and the interface with the criminal justice system. Delegates also have opportunity to visit the adolescent inpatient secure unit at Malcolm Arnold House on the evening of Thursday 13 May.

Sedgebrook Hall is a Victorian country house set in landscaped grounds and within easy access of the M1 and M6 motorways. Go to the website to download conference programme and booking form. Conference fee: £120.00 - £260.00 per person depending on attendance
Contact: Alison Beeby on 01604 614242 or email abeeby@standrew.co.uk for more information or to book your place.

Child and Adolescent Learning Disability Psychiatry Network (CALDPN) Annual Meeting 2010

St Andrew's Healthcare is privileged to be hosting the 2010 Annual Residential Conference of the Child and Adolescent Learning Disability Psychiatry Network (CALDPN) at Northampton. Aimed at psychiatric professionals in the field of child and adolescent learning disability, we look forward to utilising the combined expertise of those present and to sharing examples of good practice.

To reflect the increasing legislative recognition of the needs of young people with learning disabilities, this two day national conference will focus on models of service development, with discussion geared towards evolving a toolkit for specialised services.

The full programme of lectures, workshops and posters has particular emphasis on challenging behaviours and the interface with the criminal justice system. Delegates also have opportunity to visit the adolescent inpatient secure unit at Malcolm Arnold House on the evening of Thursday 13 May.

Sedgebrook Hall is a Victorian country house set in landscaped grounds and within easy access of the M1 and M6 motorways. Go to the website to download conference programme and booking form. Conference fee: £120.00 - £260.00 per person depending on attendance
Contact: Alison Beeby on 01604 614242 or email abeeby@standrew.co.uk for more information or to book your place.

Core Skills for the Clinical Service Lead

Most people end up in the role of clinical director or service lead either by straight line succession or because nobody else would do it! However, the role can be immensely satisfying with the right framework in which to manage clinical imperative with business responsibility. It’s a real opportunity to make a positive difference to healthcare outcomes whilst equipping the service for the future. This powerful course is designed to provide that framework and the practical skills necessary to get it right for clinical teams and business managers alike. You find it fundamentally easier to work with management without ever losing your clinical roots.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates, venues and cost. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

Richard Lucas Memorial Event

Date: 15 May 2010

Venue: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ

A one day conference plus book launch on the topic of "The Psychotic Wavelength: The Contribution of Psychoanalytical Understanding to Severe and Enduring Mental Illness. Speakers and Chairs include Drs John Steiner, Rob Harland, Michael Feldman, David Bell, Jane Milton, Ronald Doctor, Antyony Garelick, Mary Heller, Carine Minne, Leslie Sohn and Mr Marcus Evans.

Tickets cost £60 if booked before 10 April and £75 after that date..

Contact: Website: http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Presenting Evidence

Date: 18 May 2010

Venue: City Inn, Leeds

All health professionals are likely, during their careers, to be called to give evidence at tribunals, inquiries, inquests and in civil, criminal and family courts. This interactive session will provide the tools necessary to provide excellent oral evidence. A fictional court will be set up and delegates will face the realities of questioning under pressure. Feedback will then be given to delegates and training will be given on how to deal with common questioning techniques.

Contact: For more information please visit http://www.andrewsimscentre.nhs.uk/ Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or call 0113 305 5638

Enhancing Quality of Life in Dementia

Date: 18 May 2010

Venue: The Teacher Building, Glasgow

This one day conference is themed specifically around enhancing the quality of life for people living with Dementia. Quality of life in Dementia is about understanding and meeting not just a person’s physical needs but their psychological, emotional and social needs too. Dementia is a progressive condition, characterised by a decline in mental abilities and changes in personality and behaviour over time. By understanding more about how we can enhance their quality of life, we can positively improve the lives of those living with Dementia and their families.

This interesting event will be invaluable to all service providers working within public, voluntary and private sectors including social care workers, social workers, service managers, residential and care home managers, old age psychiatrists, general practitioners, carers, allied health professionals, board directors, senior NHS managers, mental health workers, dieticians and nutritionists, voluntary and community organisations, and all other professionals interested in this area.

Contact: For more information and to register online, please visit the conference website or email Debbie Martin D.Martin@clinmed.gla.ac.uk Tel: 0141 201 0441

Practical Guide to Handling, Resolving and Learning from Complaints

The conference opens with a presentation from Chairman, Chris Bostock Head of Public and Patient Experience Department of Health, who addresses good Complaints handling and how we are moving forward with the new system. Since the reform of the Complaints systems, the role of the Ombudsman’s office has become increasingly important. You will hear lessons from Complaints to the Ombudsman, ensuring a proportionate response and the new single system for independent review.

Contact:For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399. Email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/ Download Brochure

James MacKeith Memorial Lecture 2010

Date: 21 May 2010

Venue: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ

Justice Chaskalon will examine new methods of torture, adopted by various countries in the later part of the 20th century and refined post 9/11 by the US administration in its counter-terrorism programme, where the psychological impact is central to the methods used. He will examine the part played by psychologists, doctors, lawyers and the security services in devising and implementing the new methods, contrary to international and most domestic law, and their attempts to legitimate these methods with the complicity of others in this endeavour, facilitated by secrecy, impunity and international cooperation. He will argue that this calls for countervailing action by professional bodies, civil society, and democratic governments: to ensure that the absolute prohibition of torture and cruel and degrading treatment entrenched in the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and in other international conventions, is respected and upheld.

TICKETS: £15 (concession £12) Please make cheques payable to: The Institute of Psychoanalysis and send to Marjory Goodall, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, London W9 or call 020 7563 5016 to purchase tickets using a credit or debit card.
Contact: Marjory Goodall, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ
Tel: 020 7563 5016 Email: marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk

New Horizons

Conference chair Ian McPherson Director National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU), comments ‘We should all welcome today’s publication of the New Horizons strategy with its shared vision for mental health, together with the publications on employment and mental health. New Horizons is an immensely important step forward that recognises the need to address the mental well-being of the whole population, as well as ensure the continued improvement of service delivery and support for recovery for those with mental health problems’.

Contact: For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399, email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/ Download Brochure

Mental Health and Substance Use

Government guidance on supporting people with co-occurring substance misuse and mental health problems was published in 2002. Yet many people in this group find themselves being batted between substance misuse and mental health services or receive no service at all. Too many end up living impoverished lives, excluded from their communities, denied an ordinary life and frequently in trouble with the law.

People with a dual diagnosis tend to have multiple and complex problems. They do not fit into the neat silos constructed by public services. Instead they need integrated support from a variety of providers in order for care to be effective. This conference aims to address the issue of complexity and looks at both developing policy and practice to achieve real integrated services.
Contact: For more information Tel: 0844 880 5061 Fax: 0844 880 5062 Email: info@pavpub.comor visit http://www.pavpub.com/conferences

Addiction

The aim of the meeting is to examine current trends in Class A drug abuse in the UK, to improve multidisciplinary working and to improve treatment available to patient groups.
Contact: Full programme details and booking is available at http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/addiction.php

Management Masterclass for Consultants

There`s a world of difference between managing patients and managing people and yet many consultants find themselves in charge of large numbers of people without formal training or development. Management Masterclass is designed to look practically at how you can excel in your role as manager in the context of today`s NHS and your concurrent role as a consultant. With an emphasis on creating effective clinical and team performance it gets to the heart of modern management science in a medical context. Comprehensive, fast paced and highly practical.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

Epilepsy Study Day for Non-Specialists

MCN multidisciplinary event covering all general epilepsy issues with parallel session in afternoon for others. particular session for psychiatrists and learning disability psychiatrists.

Contact: Irene Hamill Tel: 0141 201 2556  Email: irene.hamill@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

5th National Neuroscience Conference: Epilepsy

Date: 27 May 2010

Venue: The Hallam Conference Centre

The British Journal of Hospital Medicine and British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing are delighted to announce their 5th Annual National Neuroscience Conference. This year’s neuroscience conference will focus on epilepsy and will be indispensible for all practitioners involved in the treatment and management of people with epilepsy. Recent Advances in Epilepsy will be an interactive educational event providing a state-of-the art update on the current clinical developments taking place in the field.

Participants will benefit from receiving:

• A comprehensive overview of the current and future pharmacotherapies in use.
• A greater understanding of diagnosis of epilepsy.
• A review of the current surgical interventions used in the treatment of epilepsy.
• An insight into specific treatment considerations in the elderly and in women of child bearing age.
• Information from leading experts in the field on the optimal management strategies in use today.
  

We would be delighted if you could join us for what promises to be an exciting and informative day.

Contact: Tel: +44 (0)207 501 6761 For more information, visit this website.

June 2010

Suicidal Young People: Reducing the Risk

Adults who work with and care for children and young people know that in this age range suicide is a significant cause of death which may be prevented. Recently, efforts to reduce the risks of suicide and self harm in young people have received considerable attention; this conference draws together a range of speakers from different areas and backgrounds to explore current knowledge and learn from experience.

Contact: Website Tel: +44 (0) 141 201 9353 / 0825 / 9264 Email: j.leitch@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

Management Masterclass for Consultants

There`s a world of difference between managing patients and managing people and yet many consultants find themselves in charge of large numbers of people without formal training or development. Management Masterclass is designed to look practically at how you can excel in your role as manager in the context of today`s NHS and your concurrent role as a consultant. With an emphasis on creating effective clinical and team performance it gets to the heart of modern management science in a medical context. Comprehensive, fast paced and highly practical.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

Mental Health Services Research - Evaluating Complexity

This course will teach participants to choose appropriate research designs for studying complex interventions in mental health services. The content ranges from developing the theoretical basis for an intervention to implementation studies of evidence based interventions, covering key aspects of design such as mixed methods evaluation and cluster randomised trials. Participants will learn to appraise randomised controlled trials, and to decide what to do before, during, after or instead of this gold standard.

Contact: Website: http://www.hsr.iop.kcl.ac.uk  Email the summer school administrator: imh@kcl.ac.uk

Autism Spectrum Conditions Training Course

Date: 10 & 11 June, 30 September & 1 October, 2 & 3 December 2010

Venue: Cambridge

This is a two-day training course for clinicians (clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and related professionals) who want to set up their own diagnostic service or want to improve their diagnostic skills. The course covers training in the use of our diagnostic instrument (the Adult Asperger Assessment (AAA)), and our screening instruments (the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), the Empathy Quotient (EQ), and the Relatives’ Questionnaire).

This course is led by Dr Janine Robinson, Chartered Clinical Psychologist and senior clinician in the CLASS Clinic in Cambridge. The CLASS Clinic has assessed and diagnosed over 400 adults with AS over the last 10 years and is a unique specialist clinic.

The course covers all aspects surrounding screening, assessment and diagnosis, with invited lecturers on the first day. The second day provides the opportunity for interactive discussion, with a DVD presentation of the standard AAA assessment procedure. Trainees gain experience in conducting Asperger Syndrome (AS) assessments for adults, employing the AAA diagnostic method. Courses are run 4 times per year with an average of 10 trainees per course.

The cost of attending is £500 per trainee, which covers course fees, handouts and refreshments (but not accommodation, which is arranged by you). To book, please contact the
Contact: Course administrator, Mrs Jenny Hannah by email

Advanced Influencing, Negotiation & Engagement Skills

Starting with developing a greater understanding of people, this course then translates this into a range of advanced interpersonal skills such as advanced communications, negotiation skills, building rapport, developing effective teamwork & relationships, choosing appropriate language, fostering an environment of respect, as well as developing self-awareness. A busy and invaluable course designed to make you more effective in all of your dealings with people.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

This three day course aims to provide students with an understanding of the purpose and appropriate use of qualitative research methods and to equip them with the basic skills to design and conduct qualitative research in the mental health field.

Contact: Website: http://www.hsr.iop.kcl.ac.uk Email the summer school administrator: imh@kcl.ac.uk

Core Skills for the Clinical Service Lead

Most people end up in the role of clinical director or service lead either by straight line succession or because nobody else would do it! However, the role can be immensely satisfying with the right framework in which to manage clinical imperative with business responsibility. It’s a real opportunity to make a positive difference to healthcare outcomes whilst equipping the service for the future. This powerful course is designed to provide that framework and the practical skills necessary to get it right for clinical teams and business managers alike. You find it fundamentally easier to work with management without ever losing your clinical roots.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates, venues and cost. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

Measurements in Mental Health

The Centre for Public Mental Health has accumulated extensive experience in the development and validation of diagnostic assessments and scale based measures of psychiatric morbidity, disability and health related quality of life. The Centre has particular expertise in the adaptation and validation of assessments for use in diverse cultural settings.

Contact: Website: http://www.hsr.iop.kcl.ac.uk Email the summer school administrator: imh@kcl.ac.uk

12th National Conference Parkinson's 2010: Recent Clinical Advances in the Management of Parkinson's

Date: 23 June 2010

Venue: Dexter House

The British Journal of Hospital Medicine in conjunction with the Parkinson’s Disease Society is delighted to announce its 12th National Parkinson’s Conference. Parkinson’s 2010 is aimed at all health and social care professionals involved in the clinical management of people with Parkinson’s. It will be an educational event providing a state-of-the art update on the current clinical developments taking place in the field.

Participants will benefit from receiving:

• A comprehensive overview of the current and future pharmacotherapies in use
• A greater understanding of the management of non-motor symptoms including sleep disorders, impulse control disorders, visual dysfunction and Parkinson’s dementia
• A raised awareness of the indications for deep brain stimulation
• An insight into end of life care for people with Parkinson’s
• Information from leading experts in the field on the optimal management strategies in use today
  

We would be delighted if you could join us for what promises to be an exciting and informative day.

Contact: Tel: +44 (0)207 501 6761 For more information, visit this website.

Chronic pain - Problems and Solutions

The Royal Society of Medicine and St Paul's Cathedral are holding a symposium on chronic pain. Both doctors and clergy regularly seek to help people with chronic pain. Doctors know that there is a lot more to chronic pain than acute pain that goes on a long time. And clergy know the difficult pastoral challenges that they face in helping these people. Both groups have specific contributions and skills relevant to the care of people with chronic pain.
This symposium will enable doctors and clergy to share their knowledge and insights in this area and to discuss joined up ways of working.

Contact: Website

Leadership Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals

Leadership Masterclass represents the latest thinking in how to drive groups of people to achieve great things. Focusing on both the leadership of self and others, it provides a deep level of insight into current theory and how it can be deployed in the leadership, motivation and influencing of people. At a practical level, it will help you provide strong guidance to people in a wide variety of scenarios from every day working to a sudden crisis.

If you are in a leadership role, whether clinical or managerial (or both!), you will find this course immensely useful in helping you achieve your goals, targets and initiatives by providing practical strategies aimed at moving groups, departments or whole organisations in a consistent, aligned direction with maximum motivation.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

13th Annual Meeting of the EACLPP and 28th meeting of ECPR

This conference will look at developments of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine in different medical settings – from basic care to specialization. This broad topic gives us the possibility of discussing the developments, gains, problems and future challenges of this area at a time when medicine is confronted with a biotechnical revolution (genetic-biochemical “personalized” medicine) and cost-economic restraints

Contact: Programme and booking information

July 2010

Management Masterclass for Consultants

Date: 9 - 10 July 2010

Venue: Cambridge

There`s a world of difference between managing patients and managing people and yet many consultants find themselves in charge of large numbers of people without formal training or development. Management Masterclass is designed to look practically at how you can excel in your role as manager in the context of today`s NHS and your concurrent role as a consultant. With an emphasis on creating effective clinical and team performance it gets to the heart of modern management science in a medical context. Comprehensive, fast paced and highly practical.

Contact: Full course content and alternative dates and venues. Contact the delegate support team on 01332 821 260 asking for Bronwyn or Jessica. Email: customer.services@medicology.co.uk For information on running this course in-house, please contact Dean Kellogg on 01332 821 261

The 'Third Wave' and beyond: Building Skills in Emerging and Developing Treatments

Date: 14 - 16 July 2010

Venue: University College London

Following from the success of our 2009 Summer Conference on Third Wave approaches, we now offer this exciting event during which you can engage and experiment with these novel approaches and consider how to use them in your clinical practice. The Conference comprises five consecutive half-day experiential workshops over two and a half days. This will provide the opportunity for you to develop a range of basic competences in applying these contemporary approaches in your therapeutic work with clients. Topics to be covered: mindfulness, DBT, metacognitive therapy, compassion-focused therapy and ACT.

Fees for attending the Conference are £300 (early bird rate of £250 until 1st May 2010). Fees include attendance at all five workshops, all lunches, refreshments and a wine reception on the evening of Wednesday 14 July. iscounts available for DClinPsy trainees.

Contact: For further information, please visit the website

August 2010

International Mental Health Course

The annual International Mental Health Short Courses (in partnership with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the World Federation for Mental Health) are offering a week-long intensive training on key topics in international mental health. Students will be introduced to key themes and encouraged to develop their research questions.

Contact: Website: http://www.hsr.iop.kcl.ac.uk/ Email the summer school administrator: imh@kcl.ac.uk

QRMH3 (The Third Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference)

Qualitative mental health research focuses on questions pertaining to individual, social, and cultural meanings related to mental health. These include, for example, how victims of mental health problems make sense of their experiences, how the victim’s social milieu can enhance or hinder recovery from their difficulties, and what happens in treatment settings and encounters.

The theme of QRMH3 is The Disabled Self. Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Stigma and Recovery. Illness, whether physical or mental, has important social dimensions. The success with which anyone recovers their autonomy and independence after an episode of illness reflects far more than just how tissues have healed or infection resolved. Social support, professional attitudes, esteem and other features of psychological adjustment all play their part.

These are important in determining and limiting disability and they are particularly important in mental health where boundaries between illness and social constructs are far from clear and often openly disputed.

QRMH3 will focus upon these matters. Stigma, and recovery from illness can both be viewed as developments of ‘self’, whether as how an individual is viewed by others, or as how they view themselves. Keynotes will include accounts of mental and physical patient-hood, methodological approaches to understanding constructions and development of ‘self’ in relation to experiences of illness and health services, and differing theoretical accounts.

The conference will be of interest to health and social care professionals from all backgrounds but particularly those with an interest in the management of chronic conditions, rehabilitation and mental health: psychological and social scientists and health policy makers.

Contact: Please visit the website for further details, confirmed speakers, instructions about abstract submission and registration.

September 2010

The 10th Walsall MRCPsych Workshop

Since its foundation in April 2005, the Walsall MRCPsych Workshop has gained a huge popularity amongst trainees appearing in MRCPsych Part 1 (OSCE) examinations. This workshop is unique in its format involving two mini-circuits of six stations with video, examiners, role players and peer group feedback. Both the examiners and role players have experience of actual MRCPsych Examinations. This workshop has consistently received excellent feedback from participants. It is suitable for Trainees who are appearing or intend to appear in MRCPsych CASC Examination.

Contact: Dr S H Jawed by email: syed.jawed@dwmh.nhs.uk or his secretary at Tel:01922 858095

Mental Health Policy

The course will look at the principles of mental health policy and consider examples of their implementation. Among the topics to be covered will be: financing and resource allocation; commissioning and governance; need, prevalence and demand; provision and delivery of treatment and support; stigma and discrimination; safeguarding; serious incidents and personality disorder; choice and control; system interfaces (into social care, housing, ...); prevention and promotion.

Contact: Website: http://www.hsr.iop.kcl.ac.uk/ Email the summer school administrator: imh@kcl.ac.uk

Economic Evaluation

The two day course aims to provide students with an understanding of economic evaluation and its relevance to mental health research. The principle elements of an economic evolution will be introduced including the identification, measurement and valuation of costs, measurement of outcomes and methods of cost-effectiveness analysis. A range of examples from existing studies conducted by the course tutors will then be used to illustrate economic evaluation in practice.

Contact: Website: http://www.hsr.iop.kcl.ac.uk/ Email the summer school administrator: imh@kcl.ac.uk

Reducing Coercive Interventions in Mental Health Care

The one day course will cover the following. Conceptual and clinical accounts of ’treatment pressures’, ethical frameworks for justifying coercive interventions, analysis of’capacity’ and ’best interests’, legal framework for coercive interventions, reducing the need for compulsion through enhanced service user involvement in their care, case discussions. Course fee £140.00. Speakers include Jill Craigie, Claire Henderson, Gareth Owen, Genevra Richardson and George Szmukler.

Contact: Website: http://www.hsr.iop.kcl.ac.uk/ Email the summer school administrator: imh@kcl.ac.uk

Refocus on Recovery 2010

Presenting the best international recovery research, this conference will feature international keynote speakers, pre-conference master classes and showcase national studies about changing practice.

Contact: Website: http://www.researchintorecovery.com/

October 2010

12 Induction

12 Refresher

Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2010 Annual Meeting

The theme of this event is Tracking Trajectories - Influences on Developmental Pathways from Infancy to Whatever! The issues reflected in the vista from Child2010 - alienation, persecution, disenfranchisement, subjugation of dissent - will be a reminder of the issues of development “from infancy to whatever!”. It will be the task of Child2010 to explore the intertwining biopsychosocial influences on that development through keynote addresses, workshops, themed symposia, papers and poster sessions. In these early stages of planning we are delighted that Daniel Hughes, a leading figure in attachment trauma and relationship therapy, and Jerome Holmes, whose main expertise is in attachment based psychotherapy, have accepted our invitation to be keynote speakers.

Contact: Website: http://www.fcconventions.com.au/child2010/ Tel: +61 8 8363 1307 Email: child2010@fcconventions.com.au

Approved Clinicians Induction Course

Section Of Forensic Psychiatry International Conference 2010

The theme for the conference - Justice at Risk: Factitious Disorders, Malingering and the Inherent Risks of Risk Evaluation for Courts - is to take risk assessment one step further than the risks presented by the patient, yet also to step back and re-evaluate the bases on which forensic opinions are formed. This conference will provide a unique opportunity to compare approaches and findings from research and practice. Call for papers.

Contact: The Conference Organiser Tel:(+61) (03) 9349 2220 Email: info@conorg.com.au

Approved Clinicians Refresher Course

• Professor Stephen G. Post, USA
• Professor Henry Brodaty, AU
• Professor Sandrine Andrieu, FR
• Professor Emma Reynish, UK
  

November 2010

The 6th National Conference on Medicine for Old Age Psychiatrists

The 6th National Conference on Medicine for Old Age Psychiatrists will once again bring together a number of the UKs leading experts in their various fields to discuss and debate the key clinical issues old age psychiatrists face in their daily work.
Topics will include: Parkinson's Disease, Cardiology, Dementia as well as many other areas vital to old age psychiatrists. The fee for the two days will once again remain at £499 and the conference will have 12 CPD points accreditation.

Contact: For further details or to book your place, contact Expotel Events on 0845 054 8422 or visit the website.

Rethinking Psycho-Social Interventions in South Asia'

Objectives: This 3 day intensive course is aimed at providing an understanding of the conceptual theoretical and practical clinical challenges in applying existing psychological and social theory to psychosocial interventions within the sub-continent, and to deliberate alternative solutions.

Target audience: The course will benefit: Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatric Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Medical Anthropologists, and Clinical Practitioners in Mental Health from the NGO, Public and Private Health sectors. Participants will be expected to have a sound basic knowledge of social sciences and its relationship to mental health in South Asia.

Speakers: Clinical Medical Anthropologists from University College London: Dr Sushrut Jadhav (Course Director), Dr Jane Derges, Dr David Goldberg, Mr Sumeet Jain & Prof Roland Littlewood.

Fees: 275 GBP (excluding travel and accomodation)

Contact: Course director, Dr Sushrut Jadhav Email: s.jadhav@ucl.ac.uk Website: http://www.balm.in/

December 2010

Models of Dementia: the Good, the Bad and the Future

There are many limitations associated with modelling chronic diseases that take decades to fully develop in humans and of which there is a lack of insight to the initiating molecular processes. The majority of models of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias mimic pathological features of the disease rather than potential causal events and many models often harbour gene mutations associated with rare familial forms of the disease.

The time is right for a focused debate to establish the good, the bad and the future of this important aspect of the fight to reduce dementia in the human population. The meeting has three major aims:

• To reduce the number of animals used in this field by highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of the current models
• To identify specific research needs that should be supported and developed in the future
• To provide funding agencies with a balanced published record of the use of these models, for more effective assessment of future applications for support.

Contact: Email: elizabeth.faircliffe@biochemistry.org Tel: 0207 685 2450 Website

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