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September 2010
Emotional Wellbeing in Schools (Afternoon
Meeting)
Date: 9 September 2010
Venue: The Teacher Building, 14 St
Enoch Square, Glasgow G1 4DB
High levels of anxiety and depression are present in schools and
have significant long-term, impacts on the individual and their
education. Various initiatives have been introduced into schools to
address this issue. For example, the introduction of direct links
to educational psychology services aims to provide locally
delivered support and help for those with higher levels of clinical
distress.
A wide degree of low levels of distress continues however, and to
address this, training in a wider range of mental health topics has
been introduced into the curriculum within the Personal Health and
Social Education (PHSE) classes. To date, few of these
courses/classes have utilised a specific mental health delivery
model and are delivered inconsistently. Cognitive behavioural
therapy (CBT) approaches have particular promise as a support for
people facing anxiety and low mood. A series of CBT-based
classes that can be run by teachers or others within PHSE and other
settings has been developed. This will evolve into a
larger programme.
In the presentation, the work to date will be described and
it will include key learning points. Attendees will also have a
chance to participate in a sub-component of one of the classes and
consider issues of evaluation and how to support delivery. Cost:
ACAMH Member: £15.00; Non-Member: £25.00
Contact: Email Martin Pratt Tel: +44
(020) 7403 7458
Website
Economic
Evaluation
Date: 9 - 10 September 2010
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry
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
Learning to use the Structured Assessment of
Protective Factors for violence risk (SAPROF)
Date: 10 September 2010
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry
The SAPROF has recently been developed as an instrument for the
structured assessment of protective factors for violence risk.
Following the SPJ model, the SAPROF was designed as a positive
addition to other SPJ risk assessment tools, such as the HCR-20,
creating a more balanced assessment of risk for future (sexual)
violence. The SAPROF aims to contribute to an increasingly accurate
and well-rounded assessment of risk for future violent behaviour.
Moreover, the dynamic positive approach of protective factors aims
to create new opportunities for effective and achievable treatment
interventions.
The dynamic factors of the SAPROF can be helpful in formulating
treatment goals, evaluating treatment progress and stimulating
positive risk communication. Previous retrospective research
results with the SAPROF in Dutch samples of violent and sexually
violent offenders showed good interrater reliability and good
predictive validity for non-recidivism. Moreover, SAPROF scores
showed significant improvements during treatment.
This workshop will focus on the additional value of protective
factors for clinical practice. Participants will be introduced to
the SAPROF and will be trained in using the SAPROF in combination
with the HCR-20 or related instruments. Advantages for risk
assessment and risk management will be discussed and new research
results with the SAPROF will be presented.
Contact: For further details visit the
website. Email:
Forensic.Teachingunit@kcl.ac.uk
Weathering the Storms: Psychiatry in Difficult
Times
Date: 10 September 2010
Venue: Uffculme Centre,
Birmingham
This one day event will look at a range of clinical and non
clinical challenges that general adult psychiatrists are likely to
face in the current climate. The topics covered range from working
in the aftermath of natural calamities to working in a financially
cold environment. The guest speakers are Dr Raj Persaud, Dr Peter
Hughes and Professor Swaran Singh.
The attendees will also have the option of attending two out
of the four workshops. The workshops are based on the recent
clinical challenges and include master classes on adult ADHD and
ASD along with a range of other topics.
Fees(including lunch): Consultants: £50; Trainees & Specialty
Doctors: £30
Contact: Ms Carol Bennett, Post Graduate
Medical Education Administrator, Birminghan & Solihull Mental
Health NHS Foundation Trust Email: carol.bennett@bsmhft.nhs.uk
Problem-Solving Therapy (PST) for depression: an
integrative CBT approach
Date: 13 September 2010
Venue: Reading University
PST is based on research demonstrating that effective
problem-solving ability moderates the damaging effects of stressful
problems, and facilitates positive treatment goals. This brief
solution focus therapy technique has been shown to be effective
both as a stand-alone intervention, and as part of a larger care
programme, and focuses on what the client wants to achieve in the
future, rather than the events of the past. PST integrates
principles of change that include awareness and mindful acceptance
of emotions as important sources of information, cognitive change
strategies, clarification of values and goals, and behavioral skill
acquisition. This workshop will teach delegates to conduct PST and
adapt is to various populations.
Contact: Email: cwi@reading.ac.uk Website
Forensic Mental Health and Women
Date: 14 September 2010
Venue: ORT House Conference
Centre
This conference chaired by Professor Graham Towl of Durham
University (formerly chief psychologist at the Ministry of Justice)
will examine whether there have been effective changes and progress
in delivering women’s forensic health services since the
recommendations of the Corston Report of 2007.
An update on progress post-Corston will be followed by an
exploration of how the third sector will play a key role in
delivering effective services to women who are forensic mental
health service users. The third sector will be represented at the
conference to speak about how they see their role developing in
providing care and recovery services. A discussion will also
explore what changes need to happen to deliver care and recovery
services against a background of likely budgetary
constraints.
Specialised sessions will evaluate how early intervention and
prevention strategies can prevent reoffending among the young
female population. The approach to recovery in secure settings will
be explored including the design and implementation of care. And a
service user will give their perspective on current care and
recovery practice.
A panel discussion about the changes needed to deliver effective
care and recovery against budgetary constraints will provide a
forum for debate. Workshops will provide the opportunity to gain
some practical pointers on offender management; self-harm
management and reduction; recovery for long-term service
users.
Finally, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health will present their
evidence and research in the forensic mental health field.
Book your place by 28 July and SAVE
£50.
Contact: Website
Email: info@pavpub.com
Reducing Coercive Interventions in Mental Health
Care
Date: 15 September 2010
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry, Kings
College London
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
PSP
Symposium
Date: 15 September 2010
Venue: St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1
7EH
National day conference on Progressive
Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Cortico Basal Degeneration (CBD),
organised by The PSP Association. Dr Boyd Ghosh, University of
Cambridge, will be speaking on behaviour and cognition aspects,
(including depression) an area of growing interest in these neuro
conditions. Other sessions will include research, communication,
carer support and palliative care.
Contact: For further information
please visit the website. Tel: 01327 322410 Email
deborah.wheeler@pspeur.org
Improving Outcomes in
Depressive Illness
Date: 15 September 2010
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Leeds
Depressive Illness has a marked effect on the individual
and their life as well as the wider society. We know from research
that it is often incompletely treated, leaving people with a
reduced quality of life and perpetuating the impact on those around
them. This is all despite a wide range of evidence based
interventions being available to health professionals at all
levels. This conference is designed to provide up-to-date guidance
on the effective management of depressive illness, delivered by
experts in their fields. It will reflect clinical practice and seek
to bring findings from research into the clinical domain. The
management of depressive illness at all levels of severity will be
addressed.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
HCR-20 Violence Risk
Assessment Scheme
Date: 16 -
17 September 2010
Venue: The Met 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 the website. Email
ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or
call 0113 305 5638
Learning to use the
START
Date: 17 September 2010
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry
This workshop will provide training in the Short-Term
Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START: Webster, Martin, Brink,
Nicholls, & Middleton), a structured professional clinical
guide for the dynamic assessment of seven risk domains (violence,
suicide, self-harm, victimization, substance use, unauthorised
leave, and self-neglect). The START is intended for use alongside
other structured risk assessment devices such as the HCR-20. The
START provides a distinct opportunity to involve patient strengths
as well as vulnerabilities in the development of risk management
plans. The workshop will focus on how START can inform
decision-making when used with patients in correctional, civil and
forensic mental health settings. assessment and risk
management will be discussed and new research results with the
SAPROF will be presented.
Contact: For further details visit the
website. Email:
Forensic.Teachingunit@kcl.ac.uk
Refocus on Recovery
2010
Date: 20 - 22 September
2010
Venue: Friends House, 173 Euston Road,
London NW1 2BJ
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/
Moving Forward with CPD – 10 Years
On
Date: 21 September 2010
Venue: The Village Hotel,
Leeds
We are delighted to welcome you to this special evening seminar
celebrating ten years of continuing professional development
provision by the Andrew Sims Centre. This evening seminar will
examine the development of CPD, how it will promote and support
changes in practice, career development and the process of
revalidation, for all psychiatrists including consultants,
specialty doctors and trainees.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Essentials: Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome
Date: 22 September 2010
Venue: The Met Hotel, Leeds
Presented by Dr Hiroko Akagi, Consultant in Liaison
Psychiatry, Leeds and West Yorkshire CFS/ME Service, Leeds
Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust. Mental health professionals
often see patients who have had chronic fatigue symptoms, and
distinction between those due to mental health issues and CFS/ME
can be difficult. This session will cover the diagnosis,
assessment, and management of CFS/ME. It will also discuss the
relevance of exploring illness models and beliefs to facilitate a
shared understanding and management of the condition, and a patient
focussed approach to treatment planning. Clinical scenarios will be
used to illustrate common difficulties and dilemmas
encountered.
Contact: For more information please
visit the website. Email
ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or
call 0113 305 5638
3rd Evening Seminar
Date: 24 September 2010
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1,
Wimpole Street, W1G 0AE
Dr. Robert Neborsky will present theory and practice of ISTDP in
personality pathology, followed by discussion. Suitable for
registered clinicians in psychotherapy, psychology, psychiatry and
allied fields. £35per person; £20 ISTDP-UK members. Book before 22 September
2010.
Contact: Email Sharon Lewis Tel:
01494580018
Implementing Effective Supervision of Social
Workers
Date: 29 September 2010
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1, Wimpole
Street, W1G 0AE
This conference will explore many of the key areas around
implementing and maintaining a consistent, well-delivered programme
of supervision. The timetable for the new standards of supervision
and what will be expected will be outlined. The role and
responsibilities of employers will be explored in detail, with an
emphasis on reviewing and updating current policies.
Contact: Email: info@pavpub.com Tel: 08448805061
Website
Recent Advances in the Management of Eating
Disorders
Date: 30 September 2010
Venue: The Village Hotel,
Leeds
The speciality of eating disorders is rapidly developing and the
evidence base for treatments is expanding, which provides
professionals with a significant challenge in order to remain
up-to-date with progress in the field. A multitude of different
treatment approaches can be offered, and this conference will
explore the evidence behind some of the more widely used approaches
and consider where services could develop in the future. This
conference is specifically designed for those with an interest in,
or specialising in the management of eating disorders and is
intended to share experience and evidence of recent developments
from a national perspective and across a variety of treatment
modalities. This event is supported by beat, Yorkshire Centre for
Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders Service - St George's University
of London, Eating Disorders Unit - South London & Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust and Loughborough University Centre for Research
into Eating Disorders / Leicestershire Partnerships NHS Trust /
University of Leicester.
Contact: For more information please
visit the website. Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or call 0113
305 5638
RCP Educational Supervisor
Accreditation
Date: 30 September - 1 October
2010
Venue: Royal College of
Physicians
Educational Supervisors are responsible for the overall
supervision and management of a trainee’s educational progress. The
RCP has developed a new training and accreditation process which
will give formal recognition to doctors who are Educational
Supervisors, and which meets the GMC's requirements as set out in
their ‘Standards for Trainers’.
To achieve the award of ‘RCP Educational Supervisor’, delegates
will attend a 2-day workshop, which covers key aspects of
educational supervision, and then submit an assignment which is
based on their own supervisory practice. This accreditation is
suitable for doctors who are supervising trainees of any grade and
specialty.
Contact: For more information please
visit the website. Tel:
020 3075 1562/1563
October 2010
Essentials: Voice Hearing – The
Experience and Evidence Base
Date: 1 October 2010
Venue: Shine, Harehills, Leeds
Presented by Dr Anjula Gupta, Chartered Consultant Clinical
Psychologist, Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust and Eleanor
Longden, PhD researcher, University of Leeds. This seminar will
develop your skills and confidence in providing evidence based
collaborative interventions with voice hearers and will also
provide an overview of the most recent theoretical and research
developments. This will enable you to help support voice hearers to
overcome distress and work towards recovery.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Robert Schumann
– The Man, the Mind, the Music
Date: 2 & 3 October
2010
Venue: RCN Headquarters, 20 Cavendish Square,
London, W1G 0RN
In the 200th anniversary year of his birth, Robert Schumann’s
mind and his music will be centre stage. Professor Nigel Osborne
will lead a conference team of distinguished neuroscientists,
psychiatrists and musicians, BBC Radio 3 presenter Stephen Johnson
will speak on Schumann’s life and present studies of his work, and
there will be three concerts, programmed by The Musical Brain’s
Artistic Director, Ian Ritchie, and given by James Gilchrist tenor,
Anna Tilbrook piano, Ian Brown piano, and the Sacconi
Quartet.
The Musical Brain, now a registered charity, which aims to
bring together artists, scientists, teachers, therapists and the
public to examine the effects of music and other art forms upon the
human mind, brain and body, is presenting this two-day event at one
of London’s leading concert venues. The student rate is £50
for two days or £30 for one day. The full rate is £175 for two days
or £90 for one day.
Contact: For
more information please contact Hilary Bartlett, Secretary of
the Musical Brain Tel: 0208 404 1327 Website
3rd
International Forum on Buddhism and
Medicine
Date: 2 & 3 October
2010
Venue: Rigpa International, Lerab Ling,
L'Engayresque, 34650 Roqueredonde, South France
Bringing together leading experts who will present the most
recent research on the benefits of meditation in a wide range of
medical and therapeutic settings, and in everyday life.
These international experts will present the growing evidence of
the health benefits of meditation, which is the result of an
ongoing collaboration between scientists, medical professionals and
meditation practitioners.
The speakers will include Jon Kabat-Zinn, Clifford Saron, Frédéric
Rosenfeld, and Sogyal Rinpoche and Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche will
share perspectives and insights from the Tibetan Buddhist
tradition.
This conference is for anyone with a professional or personal
interest in meditation and health: academics, doctors, therapists,
healthcare professionals, Buddhist practitioners, and of course the
general public. Translation will be available in English, French,
German and Spanish.
In recent years, a growing body of research has emerged that
provides clear evidence of the health benefits of meditation. This
research is the result of a thriving collaboration between
scientists, medical professionals and meditation practitioners,
with the support and involvement of some of the world's best-known
meditators, including the Dalai Lama himself.
- Saturday 2 October: Day one will
give a comprehensive presentation of the most recent scientific
research on meditation, and an overview of some of the ways in
which meditation is being applied in medical and therapeutic
settings. Evening: Conference Dinner.
- Sunday 3 October: Day two will
take a closer look at some of the different meditation and
mindfulness techniques, and how they can be used in areas such as
pain management, healing, stress reduction and the treatment of
depression or addiction. There will be an opportunity for questions
and discussion, as well as the chance to experience first-hand some
of these meditation methods.
Beating Eating Disorders
- Children & Adolescents
Date: 4 October 2010
Venue: RCN Headquarters, 20 Cavendish
Square, London, W1G 0RN
A beat conference supported by the Royal College of Nursing
Eating Disorders Special Interest Group, for professionals working
with children and young people with eating disorders.
Who should attend: Nurses, psychiatrists, GPs, clinical
psychologists, social workers, dietitians, service managers, RMNs,
counsellors, school nurses and all those who want to update their
knowledge of eating disorders in children and adolescents.
The programme will include presentations and practical workshops
on:
- Keynote presentation – ‘A partnership approach to anorexia
nervosa’ – Dr Tony Jaffa
- Multi family group therapy
- Boys with eating disorders
- Treatment of very young patients
- Assessment
- A first-hand experience of eating disorders by a beat Young
Ambassador
- Networking oppportunities
Full programme to be announced shortly.
Contact: For more information or
to register your interest, please contact Dani Tanner on 01603
753304 or
email. Go to the
website
Self-Harm and Borderline
Personality Disorder
Date: 4 October 2010
Venue: ORT House Conference Centre,
London NW1
There are over 150,000 attendances to accident and emergency
departments each year for self-harm; it is one of the top five
causes of acute medical admission. The UK has the highest rate of
self-harm in Europe; this rate continues to increase. One half of
those who die by suicide each year will have self-harmed at some
time in the past. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an
increasingly prevalent, yet highly controversial diagnosis. It is
defined in DSM-IV as a prolonged disturbance of personality
function, characterised by depth and variability of moods. Suicidal
or self-harming behaviour is one of the core diagnostic criteria in
DSM, leading to a high rate of diagnosis in those who self-harm.
Service user activists and critical-thinking mental health
practitioners have questioned the diagnosis being made on the basis
of self-injury alone. Furthermore, there is significant concern
that the diagnosis of BPD stigmatizes people, usually women, and
can support pejorative and discriminatory practices.
Contact: For more information go
to the
website
12 Induction
Date: 4 - 5 October 2010
Venue: The Moller Centre
Cambridge
East of England SHA approved s. 12 induction course required
for doctors seeking s. 12 approval status. Encompasses lectures on
the law - Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, Human Rights Act,
Mental capacity Act, practical exercises for filling the forms and
on applying the statutory criteria. Speakers - Belinda Cheney,
lawyer, MHRT, assistant deputy coroner, Nicky Vidgeon, AMHP, Dr
Mary Whalley - Consultant Psychiatrist, MHT and MH Commission, Dr
Rebecca Jacob - Consultant Psychiatrist, Anthony Davis - Advocate.
Cost: £425 incl lunches.
Mastering Behavioural
Activation for Depression
Date: 4 - 5 October 2010
Venue: Cripps Business Centre, Bristol
BA sees avoidance behaviours, such as inactivity and rumination,
as the key maintaining factors underlying depression, and treatment
aims to combat clients’ use of such maladaptive behaviours.
Developers of BA have identified ten guiding principles that have
been observed in successful treatment of depressed adults, and
these guiding principles can apply to many psychological problems.
This workshop will cover these 10 guiding principles, and show how
the application of these core principles will be useful to
therapists from other theoretical orientations. Day 2 is intended
to be an interactive day with discussion of cases, and audience.
Presented by Professor Christopher Martell.
Contact: Email: cwi@reading.ac.uk Website
12 Refresher
Date: 5 October 2010
Venue: The Moller Centre
Cambridge
Course approved by East of England SHA as a refresher
for doctors with s. 12 approval. Will cover changes to the MHA, the
new Code of Practice, Capacity and Consent. Trainers - Belinda
Cheney, Lawyer, Tribunal Judge MHRT, assistant deputy coroner,
Nicky Vidgeon, AMHP, Dr Rebecca Jacobs - Consultant Psychiatrist.
Cost: £225.
Attachment Theory in Clinical
Practice
Date: 5 October 2010 – 14
December 2010 (Tuesday afternoons)
Venue: The Bowlby Centre, 147
Commercial Street, London E1 6BJ
This professional development short course introduces the key
concepts of attachment theory as they appear in therapeutic work
with adults. The course explores both clinical and personal
experience of attachment theory and discusses applications of new
attachment research from a relational perspective.
Autism and the Criminal Justice
System
Date: 5 October 2010
Venue: Wellcome Collection Conference Centre,
London
This unique one-day conference from The National Autistic
Society (NAS) will provide practical guidance for professionals
working in the criminal justice system to discuss best practice and
learn key skills and techniques for working with people with
autism.
The NAS is offering a special rate of £150 to The Royal College of
Psychiatrists. Register before 31 August 2010 quoting "CJSPRO2" to
take advantage of this promotion and save £75.
Key sessions include:
- The Bradley Report: what next? - Rt. Hon. the Lord
Bradley of Withington, Author of the Bradley Report will discuss
what the review means, and provide an overview of recommendations.
He will give advice on measuring progress and maintaining the
momentum of this work, and on providing clear strategic direction
and a fully costed Delivery Plan for all of the
recommendations.
- Identifying autism: why effective screening and
assessment is vital across all areas within the criminal justice
and penal systems.
- Dr Ekkehart Staufenberg, Consultant Forensic
Neuropsychiatrist, Broadland Clinic Forensic Service, HPFT Norfolk
will address the issue of effective screening, and identifying and
recognising the behavioural responses of people with autism. He
will also discuss ways of communicating and engaging effectively
with people with autism, and the different scenarios that may
happen when meeting a person with autism.
18th International Congress on Palliative
Care
Date: 5 - 8 October 2010
Venue: Palais de Congrès, Montréal,
Canada
Presented by the Palliative Care Division of the Departments
of Medicine and Oncology of McGill University, this biennial
Congress has grown to become one of the premier international
events in palliative care.
Participants representing all disciplines – nurses,
physicians, social workers, physical and occupational therapists,
music therapists, pharmacists, pastoral care workers,
administrators, volunteers, psychologists – come to hear inspiring
speakers and to participate in in-depth workshops and seminars on a
broad range of topics covering all aspects of palliative care, from
the most current scientific developments in pain and symptom
control, to the large existential questions, to hands-on
experiential sessions addressing practical issues faced every day.
There are over 200 workshops, proffered papers, research forums,
special seminars, and symposiums.
Infection Control: Working Together to
Fight Infection
Date: 6 October 2010
Venue: The Barbican Centre,
London
The focus of work in infection prevention and control has
traditionally been on acute hospitals, but many infectious diseases
can spread in other care settings within the wider community. The
latest in Public Service Events’ series of Infection Control
conferences, this event will broaden the perspective to look at the
prevention and control of healthcare associated infections (HCAI),
not just in hospitals, but across care homes, ambulances, and
primary medical care.
Featuring several key case studies from across the health and
social care sector, providing delegates with practical advice on
processes, techniques and technologies that have been effective,
Infection Control: working together to fight infection will give
delegates with the opportunity to hear about the need for the
application of standards in infection control across all care
settings, and the continued need for innovative technology in
fighting infection.
Working With People Who Self
Harm
Date: 6 October 2010
Venue: Shine, Harehills,
Leeds
Many people who self harm do so as a way of surviving and coping
with unbearable emotions, but then have to deal with a range of
other problems from the results of the injury and a feeling that
they can’t control the behaviour, to the reactions of others. The
aim of this workshop is to promote better understanding of
self-harming behaviours, the underlying meaning and function, and
to share ways of working with people who harm themselves. This
workshop is presented by Annette Morris, Accredited EMDR
Practitioner, BACP Accredited Psychotherapist and Senior Counsellor
/ Psychotherapist at South West Yorkshire NHS Mental Health
Trust.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Criminal
Justice System: Meeting the Challenge
Date: 7 October 2010
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry
This one day meeting will focus on the issues around the
assessment and management of mentally disordered offenders in the
prison service and their transfer to secure mental health care. The
meeting will tackle the issues from both services’ perspectives and
consider clinical, managerial and service planning demands.
The meeting will have a broad appeal to Prison In-Reach, PICU and
RSU staff, Commissioners and local policy makers. The day will span
two sessions. In the morning we will focus on the nature of the
health need and how services try to meet this. In the afternoon we
will start to think about solutions, presenting results from the
pilot transfer projects and foster a discussion around how services
can develop to meet the mental health needs of this neglected group
more effectively.
Speakers include: Lord Bradley of Withington, Alison Armstrong,
Richard Bradshaw, John Enser, District Judge Susan Green, Dr Andrew
Forrester, Victoria Man, Dr Fiona Mason, Dr Janet Parrott,
Professor Jenny Shaw, Dr Simon Wilson
Contact: For further details visit the
website. Email:
Forensic.Teachingunit@kcl.ac.uk
Sleep and Children with
Disabilities
Date: 7 October 2010
Venue: Innovation Centre, York Science
Park, York, YO10 5DG
Sleep problems in children with additional support needs are
chronic, difficult to treat and significantly impact on a family’s
quality of life. Professionals involved can find it difficult to
know the best strategies to manage these difficulties. After
attending this one day course you will be better equipped to manage
sleep problems using both biological and psychological
treatments.
Medical approaches will be discussed by Dr Barry Wright with
reference to his research into the effectiveness of melatonin upon
sleep patterns in children with autism where behavioural management
has been ineffective. This will be followed by a review of
behavioural interventions used in children with disabilities and
sleep problems discussed by Professor Tricia Sloper from the Social
Policy Research Unit at York University.
Cognitive behavioural approaches used in managing sleep disorders
will be discussed by Jane Ansell, director of Sleep Scotland. Sleep
Scotland is a charity that has specially designed sleep clinics
throughout Scotland and provides input into CAMHS services in the
North of England. An overview of the important work of Sleep
Scotland and the theory behind sleep counselling will be presented.
This will be complemented by a parent’s perspective of this
service.
Throughout the day there will also be opportunity to question
professionals with experience and expertise in this important area
of work.
ACAMH Members: GBP55.00 ACAMH Non-Members : GBP 65.00
Contact: Association of Child and
Adolescent Mental Health(ACAMH) Conference Dept, 39-41 Union
Street, London SE1 1SD Phone: +44 (0)20 7403 7458 Fax: +44 (0)20
7403 7081 Email: karyn.ambridge@acamh.org.uk
Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP)
Date: 7 -
8 October 2010
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Leeds
Presented by Dr Raj Darjee, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and
Dr Katharine Russell, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, NHS Lothian
Sex Offender Liaison Service, Royal Edinburgh Hospital. The RSVP
(Risk For Sexual Violence Protocol) is a structured professional
judgement risk assessment instrument which guides evaluators in
assessing risk of sexual violence and in making risk management
plans to prevent sexual violence. This two-day workshop will
provide you with training in the administration of the RSVP and
will cover the structured professional judgement approach to risk
assessment, characteristics and management of sexual offenders,
administering the RSVP, a comparison between the RSVP and other
sexual violence risk assessment tools and two practice cases.
Contact: For more information please
visit the website. Email
ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or
call 0113 305 5638
Faculty of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry 2010 Annual Meeting
Date: 7 - 10 October 2010
Venue: Novotel Barossa Valley Resort,
South Australia
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
A Mental Health Law Update
Date: 8 October 2010
Venue: The Met Hotel,
Leeds
This one-day course will provide an update on statutory changes
as well as significant case law for practicing mental health
professionals. It is recommended for all who wish to update their
knowledge of mental health law. This course is accredited by the
East Midlands and Yorkshire Section 12 Approval Panel as a
refresher course for Section 12 Approved doctors requiring
re-approval and is also designed to deliver the regulatory
requirement for annual further relevant training essential for DoLS
Mental Health Assessors.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy NOW
Date: 9 October 2010
Venue: Mermaid Theatre, Blackfriars,
London
Meeting the challenge of complexity
together'
A one day conference for psychodynamic and psychoanalytic
colleagues, exploring how psychoanalytic thinking can be applied to
the complex issues of the contemporary world. Over 30 national
& international speakers. Registration fee £55 to £115,
includes lunch and awards reception.
Contact: British Psychoanalytic Council Tel:
020 7267 3626, or email: mail@psychoanalytic-council.org
Download
programme
Strengthened Medical Appraisal &
Revalidation
Date: 11 October 2010
Venue: Royal College of Physicians
This one-day workshop is designed specifically
to introduce appraisees and appraisers to Strengthened Medical
Appraisal as part of Revalidation. The workshop will cover the
following topics:
- The nature and purpose of consultant
appraisal
- Strengthened medical appraisal and
revalidation
- Good Medical Practice Framework for appraisal
- The changing role of appraisal and how this links
directly to Revalidation
- Specialty-specific frameworks for
revalidation
- The supporting information needed for
appraisal
- The skills required by appraisers and the structure of
the appraisal meeting
- The appraisal meeting and the Personal Development
Plan
- Delegates will also have the opportunity to practise
appraisal skills and to analyse ways of tackling concerns over
doctors in difficulty.
Facilitators for this one-day workshop will be
a combination of skilled medical educationalists and doctors who
have direct involvement in the Revalidation Pathfinder
pilots.
Audience: Consultants from all specialties (Surgeon, GP,
Anaesthetist, Psychiatrist etc)
Contact: For more information please visit our
website.
Tel: 020 3075 1563/1562
Common Psychological and Behavioural
Disorders in Childhood, Adolescence and Early
Adulthood
Date: 12 October 2010
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1
Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
Joint meeting of the Paediatrics & Child Health and
Psychiatry Sections, RSM and the Royal College of Paediatrics and
Child Health. More details can be found on the
website.
Approved Clinicians Induction
Course
Date: 12 - 13 October 2010
Venue: The Moller Centre Cambridge
East of England SHA accredited course for Approved Clinician
status. Covers the law - Mental Health Act and Code of Practice,
Human Rights, Mental Capacity Act, and specialist lectures of
Children and Young Persons, Role of the SOAD, Forensic psychiatry.
Mix of lectures and practical exercises in small groups. Trainers -
Belinda Cheney, Tribunal Judge MHT, assistant deputy coroner, Dr
Claire Royston - Consultant Psychiatrist, MHT, SOAD, Dr Paul
Millard - Consultant Child and Adolescent, Dr Ekkehart
Stauffenberg, Consultant Forensic Pyschiatry, Nicky Vidgeon AMPH,
Anthony Davis, Advocate. Cost: £425
Section Of Forensic Psychiatry International Conference
2010
Date: 12 - 15 October 2010
Venue: Monash University, Prato Centre,
Italy
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
Date: 13 October 2010
Venue: The Moller Centre Cambridge
East of England SHA accredited course for Approved Clinician
refresher. Covers changes to the Mental Health Act and new Code of
Practice, Mental Capacity Act, and specialist lectures on Children
and Young Persons, Role of the SOAD, Forensic psychiatry. Mix of
lectures and practical exercises in small groups. Trainers -
Belinda Cheney, Tribunal Judge MHT, assistant deputy coroner, Dr
Claire Royston - Consultant Psychiatrist, MHT, SOAD, Dr Paul
Millard - Consultant Child and Adolescent, Dr Ekkehart
Stauffenberg, Consultant Forensic Pyschiatry. Cost: £225
Aiming High for Drug and Alcohol
Treatment
Date: 13 October 2010
Venue: ORT House Conference Centre,
London NW1
This conference addresses where drug and alcohol treatment
goes from here. In light of some major changes in the political
landscape and a potential shake-up in how drug and alcohol
treatment is managed, this conference provides an opportunity to
discuss these changes and get some perspective. We aim to make
recommendations for presentation to service providers, opinion
formers, decision-makers and policymakers regarding the future
shape of treatment and its future direction of travel. The
conference will bring together professionals from across a broad
spectrum of the voluntary and independent treatment sector, from
the public sector and from government and relevant government
agencies.
Contact:
For more information or
to book your place online visit the
website Alternatively call Pavilion on 01273 623 222 or
email info@pavpub.com
Concepts and Theories - Assessment and
Management of Personality Disorder Over
Decades
Date: 13 October 2010
Venue: Mercure Sheffield St. Paul's
Hotel, Sheffield City Centre
The evidence base for the management of patients with
Personality Disorder is the most disparate and at time conflicting,
and this conference aims to provide an overview of some of the
theories and practical developments which have evolved within this
field over recent years. Alpha Hospital Sheffield’s fourth annual
conference will focus on Personality Disorder. It wil feature
the following leading national and international academics and
medico-legal experts in the Personality Disorder Field;
- Professor John Livesley, Editor Emeritus, Journal of
Personality Disorders British Columbia
- Professor Nigel Eastman, Professor in Law and Ethics in
Psychiatry, St George’s University London
- Ashley Irons, Mental Health Partner,
Capsticks
- Professor Conor Duggan, Editor, Journal of Forensic
Psychiatry and Psychology
There will be provision for questions and answers and delegate
discussion. Delegate rates are as follows;
- £99.00 Early Booking Rate for all places booked before 31
August 2010
- £125.00 Standard Rate
- £85.00 Students/Voluntary Organisations
Please note that this conference is not for profit and all
proceeds will go to a charity as nominated by the patients at Alpha
Hospital Sheffield.
Contact:
For further information
or to reserve a place please contact Caroline Mirams, Business
Development Coordinator on 0114 279 3361 or via email.
Alternatively please visit the website for further
information.
Spirituality in Practice: Caring for the Whole
Person in the Secure Setting
Date: 14 October 2010
Venue: St Andrew's Healthcare,
Northampton
Hosted by St Andrew’s Healthcare, this national conference
brings together practitioners who wish to share and build on
experience of spiritual care delivery in the mental health and
other secure settings.
In view of the interest in evidence-based literature, spirituality
can no longer be dismissed as the ‘forgotten dimension’ in mental
health care and other secure settings. This conference will provide
delegates with the ‘vocabulary of spirituality’ and draw attention
to the potential therapeutic benefit of spiritual care to service
users. There will be opportunity to share best practice in
spiritual care, and the relationship between spirituality and
pathology will be considered.
This leading event seeks to help practitioners integrate
evidence-based theory into practice inmental health and other
secure settings, with particular reference to the potential
therapeutic benefit of addressing spiritual needs.
Key national speakers include Professor Peter Gilbert, Dr Susan
Mitchell, Dr Larry Culliford and Professor Chris Cook, all of whom
have contributed to the recently published book
Spirituality and Psychiatry (RCPsych
Publications 2009). They will address current research trends
and recent developments in evidence based practice in broad
spectrum spiritual, including religious, care. Spirituality in the
recovery process will also be examined. Delegate fee: £100.00
Contact:
To view the full
programme and book your place, visit the
website
The Impact of Parental Mental Illness and Parent
Personality Disorder
Date: 14 October 2010
Venue: Liverpool
This afternoon meeting will focus on the impact of Parental
Mental Illness and particuarly the impact of Parental personality
disorder on infants, children and young people.
Contact: Karyn Ambridge at the ACAMH
Conference Dept, Phone: +44 (0)20 7403 7458 Fax: +44 (0)20 7403
7081 Email
Section 12 Refresher Course
Date: 14 - 15 October 2010
Venue: Maudsley Hospital, London
This is a two-day introductory course for doctors and
professionals who require section 12 approval under the 1983 Mental
Health Act. The fee for this two-day course is £350 including
lunch.
Contact: To book please email slamlearningsolutions@slam.nhs.uk
or call 020 3228 3177. For further information please visit our
website.
Between Mind and Body
Date: 15 October 2010
Venue: Royal Geographic
Society
Eminent psychoanalyst Ronald Britton examines the position of
psychoanalysis on a conceptual axis which puts physical and mental
at opposite ends of a continuum - one which as yet does not meet in
the middle. Currently the neurosciences are approaching from one
end of this continuum and the mental sciences from the other.
In discussion with Peter Hobson, Professor of Developmental
Psychopathology at University College London, Dr Britton will
explore the idea that psychoanalysis operates in the uncharted
middle ground, studying mental life in much the same way as Darwin
studied natural history before it was able to join up with the new
science of the biology laboratory.
Time: 6.00pm (drinks reception at 8.00pm) Price: £15/£12 including
wine
Contact: For more details visit the
website
Overcoming Roadblocks in
Trauma
Date: 15 October 2010
Venue: York, North
Yorkshire
This unique workshop is facilitated by one of
the UK’s leading trauma specialists - Dr Claudia Herbert. This one
day event (workshop fee: £100) is open to anyone who works in the
field of human suffering and wishes to enhance their skills and
knowledge to help them overcome roadblocks in therapy.
Working with traumatized clients can be overwhelming, especially
when the trauma is complex, involves dissociative symptoms and
fragmented memories or client affect is intense and poorly
regulated. It is not uncommon for therapists, in an attempt to be
helpful to their clients, to unintentionally use strategies, which
are experienced as re-traumatizing or which lead to an increase in
their clients’ survival based coping strategies. Further,
therapists might notice that the work with trauma challenges their
previously held values, world view and even sense of Self,
confronting them with experiences, which they find hard to
integrate. This workshop addresses some of these therapeutic
roadblocks and will introduce therapists to practical strategies,
which can help overcome these and enhance the work with trauma.
While incorporating principles from trauma-focussed CBT and EMDR,
this workshop will transcend singular therapeutic modalities and,
instead, is underpinned by findings from a variety of disciplines,
including positive psychology, information-processing theory,
neurobiology, developmental psychology, attachment theory,
mindfulness, focussing and others.
This workshop will suit therapists who are relatively new to
working with trauma and those who want to refresh, update and
confirm some of their current practices in this ever expanding and
exciting therapeutic field. BABCP & EMDR Europe (TBC) approved
CPD event.
Contact: For
more information please visit the website or ring Matthew Cole on
07717 854355
A Weekend Conference on Engaging with
Climate Change: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Date: 16 -
17 October 2010
Venue: The Institute of Psychoanalysis,
112a Shirland Road, off Elgin Avenue, London, W9 2EQ
Hosted by St Andrew’s Healthcare, this national conference
brings together practitioners who wish to share and build on
experience of spiritual care delivery in the mental health and
other secure settings.
In view of the interest in evidence-based literature, spirituality
can no longer be dismissed as the ‘forgotten dimension’ in mental
health care and other secure settings. This conference will provide
delegates with the ‘vocabulary of spirituality’ and draw attention
to the potential therapeutic benefit of spiritual care to service
users. There will be opportunity to share best practice in
spiritual care, and the relationship between spirituality and
pathology will be considered.
This leading event seeks to help practitioners integrate
evidence-based theory into practice inmental health and other
secure settings, with particular reference to the potential
therapeutic benefit of addressing spiritual needs.
Key national speakers include Professor Peter Gilbert, Dr Susan
Mitchell, Dr Larry Culliford and Professor Chris Cook, all of whom
have contributed to the recently published book
Spirituality and Psychiatry (RCPsych
Publications 2009). They will address current research trends
and recent developments in evidence based practice in broad
spectrum spiritual, including religious, care. Spirituality in the
recovery process will also be examined. Delegate fee: £100.00
Contact:
Tickets: £60 (including
lunch on both days), concessions £50, to book call 020 7563 5016 or
email. For more
details and to book online, visit this website (live from 30
July) or the Institute of
Psychiatry
Institute of Psychiatry - Autumn Master Classes
in Research Methods
Date: 18 -
22 October 2010
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry, Kings
College London
This exciting week long series of Master Classes in
Research Methods is designed for junior academic psychiatrists
occupying NIHR funded research posts. The series is sponsored by
the National Institute for Health Research and will be of
particular interest to postgraduate clinician researchers occupying
Academic Foundation Posts, Academic Clinical Fellowships, and
Clinical Lectureships.The series is limited to 30 places all of
which are fully funded by the NIHR . The curriculum offers a
flexible choice of modules and is supported by lunchtime and
evening events designed to foster the development of collaborative
research networks. The Institute of Psychiatry is an
internationally recognised centre of excellence for mental health
research and the programme will be delivered by leading
researchers, clinicians and policy advisors.
Contact:
Stuart Lancashire, Head of
Section for Teaching and Learning Tel: 020 7848 0493
Website
Masterclass: Management of Borderline
Personality Disorder
Date: 19 October 2010
Venue: The Village Hotel,
Leeds
Presented by Dr Birgit Völlm, Clinical
Associate Professor in Forensic Psychiatry, University of
Nottingham and Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Rampton
Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. This seminar will
present the latest NICE guidance on the management of patients with
borderline personality disorder (PD) as it relates to
pharmacological interventions and a brief overview of
neurobiological factors in borderline PD and potential treatment
targets for drug treatment. The latest Cochrane review on
pharmacological interventions for borderline PD will be covered in
detail. Case studies will complement the presentations and
participants are encouraged to bring their own cases for
discussion.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
ORT House Conference Centre, London
NW1
Date: 19 October 2010
Venue: ORT House Conference Centre,
London NW1
The coalition government has signalled its
intention to set out a new framework for the devolution of power to
local communities. Its objective is to ensure that individual
citizens and local communities are more engaged in the design and
delivery of the services they need and it sees a greater role for
charities, social enterprises, co-operatives and the like in the
management of public services. Set against this is the government’s
drive to reduce the deficit and a consequential new financial
climate for all public services.
This conference will draw on expert speakers from across the
public, voluntary and community sectors, and academia and
government to help signpost the development of enhanced
relationships between the three sectors. It comes at a time when
the public, voluntary and community sectors seek to continue to
modernise care and support services and work more closely with
citizens and local communities in the context of the challenges
presented by the new fiscal and demographic realities.
Contact: For more information or to
book your place at this event please call Pavilion on 01273 623 222
or email info@pavpub.com
Section 12 Refresher and Approved Clinician
Training
Date: 19 & 20 October
2010
Venue: 50 Eastbourne Terrace
It is possible to attend one or both days of
this training.
Contact: Please contact us on
admin.section12course@nhs.net
or 0203 214 5880 for flyer and booking form.
Coming of Age: Dementia in the 21st
Century
Date: 19 -
21 October 2010
Venue: ExCel, London
The conference is aimed at all those who work with and support
people with dementia. The audience will include professionals from
a diverse range of backgrounds including architects, emergency
service personnel, volunteers, psychiatrists, people with dementia
and carers. Keynote speakers include:
- Professor Stephen G. Post, USA
- Professor Henry Brodaty, AU
- Professor Sandrine Andrieu, FR
- Professor Emma Reynish, UK
The Cognitive Neuroscience of
Adolescence: brain development, cognition, mental
health
Date: 20 October
2010
Venue: ACAMH Head Office, St Saviours
House, 39/41 Union Street, London SE1 1SD
The presenters, both experts in their fields, will provide a
comprehensive background and valuable up-to-date developments
showing the importance of adolescence in terms of profound physical
and psychosocial change.
Structural neuroimaging studies from the last decade have shown
that the brain continues to develop substantially during
adolescence – linear increases in white matter volume occur across
the brain, and grey matter density changes in a non-linear and
region-specific manner. The prefrontal cortex and other brain
regions important for 'higher' cognitive functions, such as social
cognition and executive control, develop late. These may contribute
to aspects of typically adolescent behaviour, for example emerging
social competence and heightened risk-taking. Knowledge of
adolescent brain development may contribute to understanding the
increased risk for certain mental health issues during this period
of life, for example schizophrenia, addiction and effective
disorders.
Contact: Martin Pratt, The
Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)
Email: martin.pratt@acamh.org.uk Tel:
020 7403 7458 Fax: 020 7403 7081
Website
Integrative Medicine
Convention
Date: 20 - 21 October
2010
Venue: Jerusalem International
Convention Center
An Internation meeting of experts in Medicine fron
"Conventional" Medicine and "alternative" Medicine.
A unique meeting of east and west in the Middle East.
Contact: Website
Assessing Fitness to Plead and Fitness
to Be Interviewed
Date: 21 October 2010
Venue: Prout Conference Centre,
Leeds
Psychiatrists are increasingly being asked to comment on fitness
to be interviewed and fitness to plead. The outcomes and accuracy
of these assessments greatly impact on the Criminal Justice process
and clinicians may be asked to justify their findings in court. The
aim of this seminar is to enable fair, robust and legal procedures
on behalf of mentally disordered detainees and allow you to give
reliable evidence in court.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Annual East of England Psychiatry SpR conference,
2010
Date: 22 October 2010
Venue: Clinical School, Addenbrooke's
Hospital, Cambridge
The higher trainees in the East of England organise this annual
conference with a different theme every year. This year the
conference will be called The Past, the Present and the
Future-Perfect of Psychiatry.
The discussion will be about how our understanding of illnesses,
psychopathology and treatments has changed over time and continues
to develop into the future. The speakers are reknowned for their
academic experience and excellence:
- Professor Peter Jones
- Professor Tim Thornton
- Profesor German E Berrios, Dr Moncreiff
- Dr Perez
- Dr McGilchrist.
The fee for the conference is £50 before the 2nd of October and
£60 thereafter.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email Vivek.Agarwal@nhs.net
Anxiety and Depression 2010: diagnosis, management
and treatment in the child and adolescent
Date: 25 - 26 October 2010
Venue: Prout Conference Centre, Leeds
Anxiety and Depression 2010 will assemble expert speakers from
across the UK for two exciting days packed with discussion and
debate. The conference will be indispensable for practitioners
working across all areas of child and adolescent mental health as
well as those looking to specialise.
Contact: Tel: 0207 501 6761 Fax:
0207 978 8319
Website
Building a secure future for people with acquired
brain injury
Date: 26 October 2010
Venue: ORT House Conference Centre,
London NW1
:People with acquired brain injury (ABI) face
many hurdles in their pathway to rehabilitation and recovery. The
role of those delivering social and health care to this group
should be focused on helping survivors of ABI build a secure
future. A cornerstone of this process is to deliver personalised
services to each individual, through the routes of finance, housing
and care provision. This conference will explore how these needs
are being delivered.
Contact: Visit the website. Call 0844 880 5061
Email info@pavpub.com
Professor Paul Mullen - National Whole Day
Conference
Date: 27 October 2010
Venue: Atlantic Hotel, Newquay, Dane
Road, Newquay, TR7 1EN
For the General Adult clinician in particular, presentations
including Persistent Complainants, Stalkers and Attackers of Public
Figures or Sadists, are likely to be encountered infrequently in
one’s clinical practice. However, they are of considerable clinical
and societal relevance and impact. Professor Mullen has taken a
long interest in such conditions. The up-coming conference during
this year’s October mid-term break in Cornwall is an opportunity to
listen to a series of topics considered and presented by an
experienced clinician and scientist who has dedicated his
professional life to understanding these and other aspects of human
behaviour. We would like to draw your attention to this opportunity
to both listen to and talk with Paul whilst sampling Cornish
hospitality and its geographical splendour. Delegate fee is
£250
Contact: Jackie Pountney Tel: 07826
873726 Email: jackie.pountney@cft.cornwall.nhs.uk Website
14th Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists Scientific
Meeting
Date: 28 – 30 October 2010
Venue:
Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia
Advancing together in
Psychiatric Treatment, Research and Education
This will be the major
international meeting of psychiatrists in Australia and the
Asia-Pacific region in 2010 with over 150 presenters from 12
countries. The conference is endorsed by the Royal
Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the World
Psychiatric Association. The meeting brings together leading mental
health practitioners in the fields of clinical work (psychiatrists,
general practitioners, mental health nurses, and psychologists),
academic psychiatry, and public and private mental health services
from the west coasts of North America and South America to East
Asia and South-East Asia and Oceania.
Visit the conference
website for more
information
Working
with People who Self Harm
Date: 28 October 2010
Venue: Maudsley Hospital, London
Self-harm is a complex issue which is frequently misunderstood,
often being viewed as attempted suicide or as a means of gaining
attention, but for many it is a means of coping with internal
distress.
This one day course is designed to provide workers from all
disciplines with an introduction to understanding self-harm and the
opportunity to explore the dynamics and clinical dilemmas involved
in this difficult area of work. The training aims to be
informative, challenging, and supportive and to provide a forum for
individuals to share experiences of working with this client group.
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Recognise what constitutes self-harm
- Understand the reasons and functions that lie behind an
individual harming themselves
- Be able to understand the complex association and differences
between self-harm and suicide
- Be aware of the NICE guidelines
- Recognise the associated dilemmas of working with
self-harm
- Consider how these dilemmas can be addressed
- Be aware of what support needs to be in place for workers to be
enabled in their task with individuals who self-harm
This one-day course is run by Jane Bunclark, Clinical Service
Lead for the National Self-Harm Service, South London and Maudsley
NHS Foundation Trust.The cost of this one day course is £150
per person
Contact: To book please email slamlearningsolutions@slam.nhs.uk
or call 020 3228 3177. For further information please visit our
website.
November 2010
Master Class: Supporting and
Enabling Employment in Those with Severe Mental
Illness
Date: 2 November 2010
Venue: Shine, Harehills, Leeds
Presented by Dr Steven Marwaha, Associate Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist, Health Sciences Research
Institute, Warwick Medical School. People with severe mental health
problems say that they want to work but their rates of employment
in the UK are low. The costs to the individual, the NHS and society
are large. Policy documents such as ‘Realising Ambitions’, and ‘New
Horizons’ put a considerable amount of emphasis on mental health
services to improve the employment outcomes of people with mental
health problems. The purpose of this seminar is to update your
knowledge on the factors associated with employment in people with
severe mental illness and to discuss service models that may enable
people with mental health problems.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Obstetrics, Gynaecology
and Andrology from conception to
convalescence...
Date: 2 November 2010
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine 1
Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
This one day conference aims to educate attendees, particularly
those in training, about the need to understand the wide remit of
mind-body interactions in the presentation and management of
current disease conditions. Attendees will learn when a
psychosomatic approach is useful as the sole method and where it
should be combined with other treatments to improve outcomes.
Familiarity will aid clinical application and facilitate the
learning of relevant skills at future courses.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Evidence Based Practice for Women in
Secure Settings - Developments in Psychosocial
Treatment
Date: 3 November 2010
Venue: St Andrew's Healthcare, Northampton
Gender sensitive care requires careful planning to ensure
national standards are met; to ensure treatment integrity and to be
cost effective. However, research on treatment effectiveness for
women in secure settings is sparse.
This half day conference focuses on national and local initiatives
that impact on the treatment of women in secure settings and on how
to ensure quality in service delivery.
The event will benefit those professionals commissioning, referring
to, developing or working within women’s secure services who seek
to ensure the most cost effective, quality-driven, evidence-based,
use of healthcare resources.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Approved Clinician
Course
Date: 4 & 5 November
2010
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Leeds
The 2007 Mental Health Act has introduced the
need for specific training to be delivered to those professionals,
derived from both medical and other professional bodies, who will
assume the role of an Approved Clinician. This two-day course,
approved by NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, is designed to deliver
the necessary training to those who already have the required
competencies, and wish to take up the role of Approved
Clinician.
Contact: For more information please
visit the website. Email
ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or
call 0113 305 5638
Learning to use the HCR-20
Date: 4 & 5 November
2010
Venue: The Brunei Gallery, London WC1H
0XG
The aim of this course, organised by the
Institute of Psychiatry, is to assist practitioners working in
civil mental health, forensic mental health and criminal justice
settings to acquire skills in the assessment of risk for future
violence in mentally disordered offenders. Features and Learning
Outcomes include:
- Recent developments in research on
psychopath and violence risk assessment
- Learning to apply the HCR-20 with
confidence
- Individual case exercises
- Introduction to recently evolved
decision support guides
- How to evaluate and implement risk
assessment procedures
- Recommendations on good practice in
risk assessment, risk formulation, risk management planning and
evaluation and report-writing
- Post Workshop Follow up and
consultation.
Contact: For further information
please visit the website or contact Alessandra Scotti Tel: 020 7848
0694
3rd Practical Cognition Course
Date: 4 - 5 November
2010
Venue: North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
upon Tyne
A course for consultants and trainees who want
to develop their practical expertise in cognitive assessment and
relate this to clinically relevant neuroscience. Organised by
neurologists Tim Griffiths (Newcastle University) and Chris Butler
(University of Oxford), hosted by the Institute of Neuroscience and
sponsored by the Guarantors of Brain.
This year’s programme will cover disorders of memory, frontal lobe
function and cognitive impairment associated with cerebellar
dysfunction. Our guest speakers this year are Joern Diedrichson
(UCL), Rhys Davies (Liverpool), Narinder Kapur (Cambridge), Tom
Kelly (Newcastle) and Andrew Larner (Liverpool). For more
information and registration visit the website.
Contact: Laura Batty, External Liaison
Coordinator, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Tel:
0191 222 8320
Functional Family
Therapy
Date: 5, 8, 10, 12 November
2010
Venue: Newcastle, London, Cardiff,
Dublin
Professor Sexton was heavily involved with the
development of the FFT clinical model and its national and
international dissemination. He is one of the nation’s leading
researchers in the transportation of evidence-based practices into
community settings. His research interests include family
psychology, family-based interventions for at-risk youth,
functional family therapy, and outcome and process research in
evidence-based psychological intervention programs. His interest in
family psychology and psychotherapy research have resulted in over
40 journal articles, 25 book chapters, and 4 books, including his
most recent – and the first book to be published on FFT in over
thirty years – Functional Family Therapy in Clinical Practice
(2010), as well as his very popular Handbook of Family Therapy, a
major reference in the field. As a member of the Division 43 Task
Force for Evidence-Based Practices, he is the senior author of the
Recommendations for evidence-based practices in Family Psychology.
He has presented more than 300 workshops on Functional Family
Therapy and consulted with systems of care helping to integrate
evidence-based practices into clinical settings both nationally and
internationally.
Contact: For more information please visit
the
website.
The 6th National
Conference on Medicine for Old Age
Psychiatrists
Date: 8 & 9 November
2010
Venue: The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland
Place, London
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
Date: 8 - 10 November 2010
Venue: BALM campus, Chennai, India
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 & Professor 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/
Psychosocial Treatments for Substance
Misuse
Date: 9 November 2010
Venue: Reading University
In this workshop, Dr. Carroll will use the Stage Model of
Therapy development as a structure for describing the development
of several evidence-based therapies in the addictions, their
defining characteristics and current level of empirical support,
and strategies for therapist training and dissemination.
Contact: Email: cwi@reading.ac.uk Website
Implementing NICE Guidelines for
Psychosis
Date: 11 November 2010
Venue: The Crowne Plaza Hotel Reading
RG1 8BD
Keynote speakers:
- Professor David Kingdon, University of
Southampton
- Dr Michael Phelan, West London Mental Health NHS
Trust
- Professor Geoff Shepherd, Sainsbury Centre for Mental
Health NHS Trust & IOP
- Marion Walker Chief Pharmacist, BHFT
Master Class Workshops
- Implementing Psychological Interventions
- Promoting Physical Health and Well-Being
- Implementing Recovery
Contact: Places are limited please
apply for a registration form to jane.vango@berkshire.nhs.uk
People not Boxes - The Challenge of Integrating
Health & Safety Compliance in Mental
Healthcare
Date: 11 November 2010
Venue: St Andrew's Healthcare,
Northampton
Mental healthcare services face significant challenges in
providing safe environments and working practices - from
legislative health
and safety requirements, to the expanding elements of service
registration/licensing and the service users we cater for. In
contrast to
most other workplace environments, it is the very process of
looking after our service users that presents the varied and
challenging aspects of compliance. The essence of this obstacle to
mental healthcare services is to present best practice over
conformity.
Set against the complexities of funding and budget pressures and
the potential legislative change that will present many cost vs
benefit decisions, it will become increasingly difficult to present
effective proposals to maintain and improve health and safety
standards to management and board members.
The more recent challenges of corporate manslaughter and greater
involvement of the HSE in healthcare investigations present new and
greater pressure to ensure the basics are
carried out and that organisations learn, with the improving of
incident reporting being a key aspect in dealing with “hidden”
health and safety problems.
Aimed at healthcare health and safety professionals, solicitors and
healthcare management, conference delegates will hear
from industry experts on key aspects of health and safety within
healthcare, and be provided with usable knowledge and practice to
take back to their workplace.
St Andrew’s Healthcare is proud to host this leading and timely
national conference and welcomes its prominent external
speakers.
Contact: Go to the website for
full programme and booking form. Alternatively call Lorraine Stone
on 01604 616704 or email lstone@standrew.co.uk for more
information.
Attachment: From Theory to Creative Therapeutic
Solutions
Date: 12 November 2010
Venue: Engineers House, Clifton,
Bristol, BS8 3NB
This conference aims to help develop an understanding of
attachment theory as well as exploring ways in which creative
therapies can be used to work with mother and child dyads where
children are presenting with attachment difficulties.
Contact: Karyn Ambridge at the ACAMH
Conference Dept, Phone: +44 (0)20 7403 7458 Fax: +44 (0)20 7403
7081 Email
Revalidation – The Essentials
Date: 12 November 2010
Venue: Shine, Harehills,
Leeds
Presented by: Dr Douglas Fraser, Medical Director, Leeds
Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust, and; Robert Jackson, Director of
Professional Standards, Royal College of Psychiatrists. The need
for doctors to be involved in an ongoing process of revalidation
has long been accepted. Some of the details are clear, but there
are still significant uncertainties. However, it is likely that
appraisals already undertaken will, for some, form part of their
revalidation portfolio. This half-day seminar will outline the
current situation and is essential for those who feel left behind
in the developments.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website. Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk or call 0113
305 5638
Attachment; From Theory to Creative
Therapeutic Solutions
Date: 12 November 2010
Venue: Engineer House, The Promenade,
Clifton Down, Bristol, BS8 3NB
Now almost 70 years since Bowlby first hit the headlines with
his WHO monograph based on his observations of children raised in
institutions, it is inspiring and rewarding to see how far the
concept of attachment and our understanding of its place and impact
in terms of childhood, later adulthood and relationships have
developed during the intervening period.
The programme explores the theory linked with attachment and
provides a summary of ways in which creative therapeutic
interventions can be used to work with mother and child dyads where
children are presenting with attachment difficulties. The arts
focus introduces a welcome balance to current clinical work and
promotes an inclusive, positive and innovative approach to
successful management of this condition.
ACAMH Member GBP60.00 ACAMH Non-Member GBP70.00
Contact: Karyn Ambridge, ACAMH
Conference Dept, 39-41 Union Street, London SE1 1SD
Phone: +44 (0)20 7403 7458 Fax: +44 (0)20 7403 7081 Email: karyn.ambridge@acamh.org.uk
Working With Adults Who Were Sexually Abused As
Children
Date: 15 - 16 November 2010
Venue: The Village Hotel,
Leeds
Presented by Annette Morris, Accredited EMDR Practitioner, BACP
Accredited Psychotherapist and Senior Counsellor / Psychotherapist
at South West Yorkshire NHS Mental Health Trust. A high proportion
of women and men attending adult mental health services have been
sexually abused in childhood. Sexual abuse is often not recognised,
leading to multiple diagnoses and treatment of presenting symptoms
without resolving the underlying distress. With so many people
attending the mental health services with a history of sexual abuse
it is important to be able to recognise the possibility of early
abuse, to facilitate disclosures and to find the most appropriate
treatment approach. This two day small group workshop is designed
to increase knowledge of child sexual abuse and its effects; and to
increase skills in managing and working in a psychological way with
adults who have been abused as children.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Addiction: The Case for Recovery in the Changing
World
Date: 17 November 2010
Venue: Congress Centre, London
Leaders in the field will discuss the evidence base for drug and
alcohol recovery models and what the implications are for
therapeutic interventions. Using examples of best practice we will
explore how drug treatment systems can gear up for the increased
demand for recovery options from the public; the political support
for recovery options and how to make this possible within the
economic climate.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website
Essentials: NPSA Suicide Prevention Toolkit -
Updating Suicide Prevention Policy
Date: 17 November 2010
Venue: Shine, Harehills,
Leeds
Presented by: Vanessa Gordon, Head of Patient Safety, Mental
Health & Learning Disabilities, and; Tyler Schofield, Research
Associate and Business Analyst, National Patient Safety Agency.
Despite the decline in inpatient suicides over the past 10 years
(Appleby et al 2006), it still remains a concern that patients are
able to take their lives by suicide whilst under the care of
inpatient treatment. In November 2009, the NPSA launched an updated
Suicide Prevention Toolkit for mental health inpatient wards. The
toolkit is aimed at all mental health staff working within the
inpatient setting. The purpose of this half-day seminar is to
support the development of local suicide prevention strategies and
establishing systems for suicide audit that fits local context.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Masterclass: CBT for Negative Symptoms in
Schizophrenia
Date: 18 November 2010
Venue: Shine, Harehills, Leeds
Presented by Dr Bill Sellwood, Senior Lecturer, Division of
Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool. There have been
advances in the psychological management of psychosis over the past
twenty years. However these have focussed largely on hallucinations
and delusions and the negative symptoms associated with psychosis
have been ignored despite their disabling effects. This seminar
aims to provide a state of play summary of cognitive behavioural
approaches to this important clinical problem and will focus on the
underlying nature of the negative syndrome and assessment, together
with confounding factors and cognitive behavioural interventions.
By the end of the session you should feel confident in developing
CBT management plans for service users affected by the negative
syndrome.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Challenging Behaviour
Date: 18 November 2010
Venue: ORT House Conference Centre,
London NW1
People whose behaviour is described as challenging are among the
most vulnerable to poor services, poor intervention and abuse. Yet
over the last two decades we have seen a wealth of policy, research
evidence and good practice guidance as to what works and how
services should be developed and delivered. This conference will
bring together the main stakeholders in services for people whose
behaviour is described as challenging and examine what is good
practice and how this can become embedded in everyday
practice.
Pricing:
- £ 255.00 + VAT for Public
sector/educational/charity/NHS'/local gov/voluntary
orgs
- £ 295.00 + VAT for Central gov/private orgs
- £ 195.00 + VAT for Unwaged/student/small vol
orgs
Contact: For further information and
to download the full conference flyer please visit the
website. Call Pavilion on 01273 623 222, email info@pavpub.com
Third Annual Safeguarding
Conference
Date: 18 November 2010
Venue: Keyworth Centre,
London
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to
annouce our 3rd annual safeguarding conference to be held in
November 2010. The theme of this year's conference is "prevention
issues in child maltreatment". Experts in the field will be
presenting on various topics relevant to the prevention of child
maltreatment.
The delegate fee for this one-day conference is £199 including
lunch, refreshments and conference materials. Speakers include
Professor Kevin Browne, Dr Arnon Bentovim and AFRUCA.
Contact: To book please email slamlearningsolutions@slam.nhs.uk
or call 020 3228 3177. For further information please visit our
website.
Essentials: Mindfulness and Acceptance Based
Treatment for Chronic Pain
Date: 19 November 2010
Venue: The Village Hotel, Leeds
Presented by Dr Lance McCracken, Consultant Clinical
Psychologist and Clinical Lead, Centre for Pain Services, Royal
National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath. Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is currently the dominant psychological
approach to chronic pain management. New treatment approaches
within CBT include mindfulness-based methods and Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy (ACT). The purpose of this seminar is to
introduce the theory, evidence, and methods of acceptance and
mindfulness approaches to chronic pain. This will be done with a
small amount of lecturing, additional discussion, demonstrations,
and experiential exercises.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Masterclass: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards –
Where Are We Now?
Date: 19 November 2010
Venue: Shine, Harehills,
Leeds
Presented by Dr Tim Branton, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist and
AMD for Mental Health Legislation, Leeds Partnerships NHS
Foundation Trust and Yogi Amin, Partner, Irwin Mitchell LLP. This
half-day seminar aims to review the legal framework for lawful
deprivation of liberty and bring you up to date with the latest
decisions from the courts. The course is suitable for practitioners
with responsibility for assessments, or management and
commissioning of services and is recommended for DoLS Mental Health
Assessors seeking annual ‘further relevant training’ which is
required but not defined in regulations.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Rio International Eating Disorders and Obesity
Conference 2010
Date: 19 - 20 November 2010
plus add-on session 18 November
Venue: Rio Othon Palace Hotel,
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
There has been a tremendous response to ‘Rio
International Eating Disorders and Obesity Conference 2010’. Our
programme advisors, Professor Bryan Lask and Dr Rachel
Bryant-Waugh, both leading authorities in the field, have brought
together many international specialists to discuss key topical
issues, offering you a unique chance to update and extend your
current skills. The keynote presentations will be given by two of
the world’s leading eating disorders experts:
- Professor Christopher G. Fairburn
(UK)
- Professor Kelly Brownell
(USA)
ADD-ON ALL DAY SESSION: 18 November:
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E): an
overview
We are delighted to confirm that Professor Fairburn will be heading
this add-on all day session. Places are strictly limited and can
only be booked when registering for the
conference.
Contact: For
more information please visit the website or tel: +44
(0)207 5016762
Essentials: Challenges Facing Mental Health
Services Working With Survivors of Torture
Date: 23 November 2010
Venue: The Village Hotel, Leeds
Presented by Dr Alison Scott, Head of Doctors, Medical
Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, Scotland. Victims of
torture can present in out-patient and in-patient settings and it
can be a challenging and sometimes overwhelming experience for the
clinician. The aim of this seminar is to provide some context and
background information explaining some common threads of the
refugee experience. We will consider a framework and resources for
responding to what can seem like an overwhelming need. There will
be examples of clinical scenarios and information about the mental
health issues which arise for victims of torture.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Co-Morbid Mental Illness & Substance Misuse –
Improving the Delivery of Effective Treatment
Date: 25 November 2010
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Leeds
The management of co-morbid mental health and substance misuse
problems is one of the greatest challenges in psychiatry. Effective
engagement may be difficult and consistent long term treatment
seemingly impossible. However such co-morbidity is linked to an
increased risk of both violence and suicide and it is therefore an
area which will occupy much of a clinician’s time. This conference
will explore both the challenges for clinicians and also strategies
which can help effective management.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Section 12 Refresher Course
Date: 25 November 2010
Venue: Maudsley Hospital, London
This is a one-day course for doctors who need renewal of section
12 approval and do not require an Approved Clinician course. The
fee for this one-day course is £200 including lunch.
Contact: To book please email slamlearningsolutions@slam.nhs.uk
or call 020 3228 3177. For further information please visit our
website.
XV Annual Course of Schizophrenia
Date: 25 - 27 November
2010
Venue:Hotel Meliá Castilla - Madrid
The Schizophrenia Courses is aimed at mental
health care professionals. Organized by the Psychiatry Service I of
the General University Hospital “Gregorio Marañón” of Madrid, with
the institutional and financial support of the Foundation for the
Investigation and Treatment of Schizophrenia and other Psychotic
Disorders and institutional member of ISPS (International Society
for Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses)
. The objective is to facilitate the relationship and up-date the
knowledge of all the professionals involved in and interested in
understanding these patients better and helping them
furthermore.
Contact: C/ Francisca Delgado 9, 5º.
28108 Alcobendas, Madrid Tel: 91 196 76 54, Fax: 91 196 76
64 Email: sec.tecnica@cursoesquizofreniamadrid.com
Website: http://www.viajesiberiacongresos.com/
Approved Clinician
Training
Date: 26 November 2010
Venue: Maudsley Hospital,
London
A one-day course for Section 12 Approved Clinicians who have
attended a one day section 12 validation course since January 2009.
This course is lead by Dr Frank Holloway Clinical Director and
Consultant Psychiatrist.
The fee for this one day course is £200 including lunch.
Contact: To book please email
slamlearningsolutions@slam.nhs.uk
or call 020 3228 3177. For further information please visit our
website.
Are Mental Health Services Killing
Thinking?
Date: 26 November 2010
Venue: Loewenthal Auditorium, Education
Block, Westmead Hospital
This conference will consider the relationship
between stress and clear thinking, and the impact of arousal on
clients, their families, therapists, and wider systems. It will
then explore ways clinicians from different professional and
theoretical backgrounds have worked at retaining thinking whilst
also responding to the realities of their work contexts. Speakers
are Professor Carolyn Quadrio, Dr Josey Anderson, Jenny Brown,
Richard Elms and Dr Megan Chambers. Registration fees by 30
September (including GST) for regular: $80, medical specialists:
$220 and full time students: $50. Add $30 from 1 October.
Contact: Kerry Gunning Tel: (02)
9845-6577 Email: redbankconference@swahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Learning to use the Structured Assessment of
Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY)
Date: 30 November 2010
Venue: Institute of
Psychiatry
The aim of this workshop is to introduce
practitioners to the structured professional judgement approach to
risk appraisal and management, as is pertained to adolescence. In
particular, you will be introduced to the SAVRY (Structured
Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth; Borum, Bartel and Forth). The
SAVRY is useful in the assessment of either male or female
adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 years. It may be used by
professionals in a variety of disciplines to conduct assessments
and guide management plans concerning the prevention of violence in
youth.
Contact: For more information please visit
the website.
Email: Forensic.teachingunit@kcl.ac.uk
December 2010
Turning Treatment
Failures into Success: CBT for OCD
Date: 1 December 2010
Venue: Reading University
This workshop will begin with a review of the
theoretical and empirical work conducted on the psychopathology and
treatment of different manifestations of OCD. The workshop will
continue with practical instruction on the cognitive-behavioural
assessment and treatment of a variety of forms of the disorder,
with particular emphasis on the treatment of compulsive checking,
contamination-related OCD and primary obsessions. Attendees will
learn about cognitive case formulation, the importance of ongoing
assessment, and specific therapeutic interventions, all following
from cognitive-behavioural models of OCD. Presented by Professor
Adam Radmonsky.
Contact: Email:
cwi@reading.ac.uk
Website
Revalidation – Can You
Deliver?
Date: 1 December 2010
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Leeds
Despite a clear acceptance of the need, it is as yet far from
certain how revalidation will be delivered on the ground.
Demonstration of the requirements is far from straightforward and
it has become increasingly apparent that outcomes and activity are
difficult to link to a single doctor’s performance. This one day
conference will explore the factors which make up revalidation. The
theoretical underpinnings will be followed by a discussion around
how the process may be implemented, and the challenges still being
faced.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Do Behavioural Addictions Really
Exist?
Date: 1 December
2010
Venue: ACAMH Head Office, St Saviours House,
39/41 Union Street, London SE1 1SD
For many people, the concept of addiction involves the taking of
drugs. Therefore it is
perhaps unsurprising that most official definitions concentrate on
drug ingestion. Despite such definitions, there is now a
growing movement that views a number of behaviours as potentially
addictive including many behaviours that do not involve the
ingestion of a drug such as gambling, sex, exercise, videogame
playing and internet use. This session will argue:
- that all addictions consist of a number of distinct
common components (salience, mood modification, tolerance,
withdrawal, conflict and relapse) and that there are many other
types of commonality on a psychological, biological, sociological,
and cultural level
- that addictions are a part of a biopsychosocial process
and evidence is growing that excessive behaviours of all types do
seem to have many commonalities. This may reflect a common etiology
of addictive behaviour and suggests that addiction may be a
syndrome an eclectic approach to the studying of addictive
behaviour appears to be the most pragmatic way forward in the
field.
Contact: Martin Pratt, The Association for
Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) Email: martin.pratt@acamh.org.uk Tel:
020 7403 7458 Fax: 020 7403 7081
Website
HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment
Scheme
Date: 2 -
3 December 2010
Venue: The Met Hotel
Presented by Dr Steve Barlow, Consultant Forensic
Psychiatrist, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust. 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 small group 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: Andrew Sims Centre Email:
ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk Tel:
0113 305 5638, or visit the website
Sleep Disorders
2010
Date: 7 December
2010
Venue: Institute of Physics, London W1B
1NT
Sleep Disorders 2010 will provide an excellent arena to
discuss the current management strategies used in the field of
sleep disorders and will be of particular relevance to specialists
in sleep medicine, neurology, respiratory medicine and dentistry as
well as general medical practitioners and specialist nurses.
Contact: Tel: +44 (0) 207 501 6761 Fax:
+44 (0) 207 978 8319 Email: flo.doel@markallengroup.com
Improving Prison Mental
Health Care: The Challenges Ahead
Date: 8 December 2010
Venue: The Village Hotel,
Leeds
A great deal of literature and policies have been published and
developed over the last 10 years in regards to improving mental
health services within prisons and improving integration of
services across the criminal justice system for those with mental
health problems. This conference will allow professionals to
consider how the mental health needs of prisons can be successfully
met by understanding the key challenges and learning from services
delivered elsewhere in the UK.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Substance Misuse and
Mental Illness
Date: 10 December
2010
Venue: The Village Hotel
Presented by Professor Ilana Crome, Professor of Addiction
Psychiatry, Keele University and; Consultant Addiction
Psychiatrist, South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Foundation
Trust. There has been an increasing awareness of the prevalence of
co-morbid conditions in primary and secondary care as well as in
social and criminal justice services. The accumulation of improved
treatment interventions for both addiction and mental health needs
to be translated into optimal treatment for those who have combined
disorders. This seminar aims to enable you to understand the
complex nature of the interaction between different substances of
misuse and mental and physical co-morbidities, the factors which
predispose to, and the physical and psychosocial consequences of
co-morbidity, and the treatment options available for combined
disorders.
Contact: Andrew Sims Centre Email:
ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk Tel:
0113 305 5638, or visit the website
Essentials: Mindfulness
Based Cognitive Therapy
Date: 14 December
2010
Venue: The Village Hotel
Presented by: Rebecca Crane, Clinical Research
Fellow, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor
University. Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is now
recommended by NICE as a treatment of choice for preventing future
depression in those individuals who have experience three or more
episodes. It uses the structure and process of the
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programme and integrates within
these some aspects of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. This seminar
will offer an orientation to the theoretical and scientific
background to MBCT and to the evidence based and ongoing research
on the approach, and also the particular teaching themes and
methodologies employed within MBCT which support participants in
working in new ways with their vulnerability to depression.
Contact: Andrew Sims Centre Email:
ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk Tel:
0113 305 5638, or visit the website
Working with People who Self
Harm
Date: 14 December 2010
Venue: Maudsley Hospital, London
Self-harm is a complex issue which is frequently misunderstood,
often being viewed as attempted suicide or as a means of gaining
attention, but for many it is a means of coping with internal
distress.
This one day course is designed to provide workers from all
disciplines with an introduction to understanding self-harm and the
opportunity to explore the dynamics and clinical dilemmas involved
in this difficult area of work. The training aims to be
informative, challenging, and supportive and to provide a forum for
individuals to share experiences of working with this client group.
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Recognise what constitutes self-harm
- Understand the reasons and functions that lie behind an
individual harming themselves
- Be able to understand the complex association and differences
between self-harm and suicide
- Be aware of the NICE guidelines
- Recognise the associated dilemmas of working with
self-harm
- Consider how these dilemmas can be addressed
- Be aware of what support needs to be in place for workers to be
enabled in their task with individuals who self-harm
This one-day course is run by Jane Bunclark, Clinical Service
Lead for the National Self-Harm Service, South London and Maudsley
NHS Foundation Trust.The cost of this one day course is £150 per
person
Contact: To book please email slamlearningsolutions@slam.nhs.uk
or call 020 3228 3177. For further information please visit our
website.
Models of Dementia: the
Good, the Bad and the Future
Date: 15 - 17 December
2010
Venue: Robinson College,
Cambridge
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
January 2011
Research Methodology
Course for Medical and Scientific Graduates
Date: 12 & 13
January 2011
Venue: The University of Edinburgh
Medical School
The objective of this Course is to provide a
comprehensive overview of the current and future research tools
required to perform cutting-edge basic science, translational and
clinical research. The Course will consist of interactive lectures
and opportunities for delegates to network with distinguished
scientists, all of whom are recognised experts in their field. Our
Course is aimed at scientists and medical graduates who are either
seeking to pursue, or currently engaged in post-graduate research.
The Course would also be useful for those involved in research who
wish to update their knowledge of current research methods. Course
Fee: £95
Contact: To find out more about the
Research Methodology Course, please email Jill McNaughton, Secretariat
Website
Psychological Therapies – Principles, Application,
Guidance and Evidence
Date: 20 January 2010
Venue: The Village Hotel, Leeds
Recognition of the need for timely access to psychological
therapies has never been greater. The evidence base is growing and
guidance about the use of particular therapies is increasingly
prominent. All professionals working in mental health services need
to be aware of the indications for particular therapies and the
guidance relating to them in order to make useful referrals and
support service users through the process. This conference is
designed to give you a clear understanding of each of these
therapies, the evidence base for their use, and how and when they
are used.
Contact: For more information please visit
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
Mentalization Based Treatment for Borderline
Personality Disorder
Date: 20 January 2010
Venue: Maudsley Hospital, London
This one day workshop offers an introduction to a new therapy
for Bordeline Personality Disorders. Mentalization refers to the
ability to recognise and differentiate one's own behaviours,
thoughts adn feelings and those of others. MBT is effective in
Borderline Personality Disorders. The aim of the workshop is to
develop and use concepts of mentalization and MBT in clinical work.
This workshop is suitable for all mental health professionals and
others working with Borderline Personality Disorders. Course tutors
are Dr Duncan McLean, Cawley Centre, Maudsley Hospital and Dr
Giovanni Polizzi, Maudsley Psychotherapy Services.
The fee for this one day course is £250 including copy of
"Mentalization Based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder"
by Bateman and Fonagy and lunch.
Contact: To book please email slamlearningsolutions@slam.nhs.uk
or call 020 3228 3177. For further information please visit our
website.
February 2011
Neuroanatomy for
Psychiatry
Date: 12 February 2011
Venue: Department of Anatomy,
University College London, WC1
One day advanced functional brain anatomy
course which covers the neuroanatomy of memory, cognition and
emotion. There will be a detailed discussion of cerebral cortex,
basal ganglia and limbic system - includes diffuse neurotransmitter
systems. This is a excellent refresher course for consultants.
It is also ideal MRCPsych revision course for trainees. Mean
feedback score (Feb 2009): 4.8/5.0
Price including lunch and refreshments:
£175
Contact: More details on the
website.
March 2011
HCR-20 Violence Risk
Assessment Scheme
Date: 24 - 25 March 2010
Venue: The Met Hotel,
Leeds
Presented by Dr Steve Barlow, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist,
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust. 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 small group 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
our website.
Email ASC@leedspft.nhs.uk
or call 0113 305 5638
10th London
International Eating Disorders Conference
Date: 29, 30 & 31 March
2011
Venue: Institute of Education, 20,
Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL
The three day conference combines plenary
sessions, concurrent sessions, short papers and posters. These will
convey the very latest ideas and research findings in the field of
eating disorders. The aim is to encourage maximum response
from participants and a lively exchange of ideas The conference
offers participants the opportunity to choose six 90 minute
sessions out of a total of 36 to maximize the relevance of the
meeting to each individual. Plenary themes:
- Men and eating disorders
- The therapeutic alliance
- Coping and resilience
Contact: For more information please visit
the website or Tel: +44
(0)207 5016762
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