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May 2012
Risk Management in Eating Disorders: Managing
Minds and Bodies
Date: 17 May 2012
Venue: The Met Hotel,
Leeds
This one-day conference is designed to allow you to learn the
skills needed to assess both physical and psychological risk in
people with eating disorders. You will also receive an update on
mortality in eating disorders, including discussion of balancing
physical against psychological risks and practical information on
the MARSIPAN (Management of Really Sick Patients with Anorexia
Nervosa) report recently published by the Royal College of
Psychiatrists.
Contact: For more information please visit
the
website. Tel: 0113 3055638 or
email
The Reader Organisation's National Conference:
Reading to Live Well
Date: 17 May 2012
Venue: British Library, London, NW1
2DB
The Reader Organisation's third national conference.Day
delegate rate: £199.
Our Reading to Live Well conference is aimed at
professionals working to improve the health and wellbeing of
individuals and communities – those commissioning, delivering,
researching, referring or funding services – who want to learn how
our pioneering project ‘Get Into Reading’ can help support service
users in their recovery, improve the morale and motivation of staff
involved and promote the importance of reading aloud together for
pleasure. Speakers include:
- Dr Iona Heath, President of the Royal College of GPs.
- Jonathan Rose, Professor of History at Drew University (New
Jersey, USA), internationally acclaimed specialist on the history
of the book and reading.
- Lemn Sissay, award-winning poet and the first to write for the
Olympics 2012.
Contact: For more information please visit
the
website. Tel:
0151 207 7207
Mentalization-based Interventions for
Children, Young People and Families
Date: 18 May 2012
Venue: SOAS, The Brunei Gallery Lecture
Theatre
This one-day conference will present some of the most exciting
new developments in mentalization-based interventions with
children, young people and families. The day will begin with an
overview of the latest writing regarding the theory of
mentalization including a focus on the biology and neuroscience.
The rest of the day will link to innovative clinical practice
including work with parents, children in care, schools and outreach
services.
Who is this conference suitable for?
Clinicians and those working in child and youth services, academics
and students interested in mentalization-based approaches to
working with children, young people and families with a range of
psychological difficulties.
Aims of conference
The conference builds on the success of the first international
conference held in 2010. It will serve both as an introduction for
those new to mentalization-based interventions for children and
young people, but also as a follow-up for those who attended the
first conference, highlighting the most exciting new international
developments over the last two years.
Contact: For more information please visit
the
website.
Developments in
Intensive Community Interventions for Children & Young
People
Date: 18 May 2012
Venue: Copthorne Hotel Newcastle upon
Tyne NE1 3RT
Full day conference entitled 'Developments in Intensive
Community Interventions for Children and Young people: focussing on
Eating Disorders and Emerging Personality Disorder.
Contact:
Please contact Karyn Ambridge
at CAMH Head Office 39-41 Union treet London SE1 1SD
Tel: 0207 403 7458 Fax: 0207 403 7081 Visit the
website for registration form under
'Local Conferences'
Social Consequences of Poor Infant Attachment...Two is
Too Late
Date: 18 May 2012
Venue: The Atrium, Whittlebury Park
The aim of this conference is to generate a greater awareness
on the impact of poor infant attachment and how it affects the
individual and society as a whole.
Speakers include: Iain Duncan Smith MP, Baroness Susan Greenfield,
Dr Michael Gailbraith, Dr Amanda Jones, Camila Batmanghelidjh,
George Hosking and Andrea Leadsom MP. Invaluable for anyone working
with families or babies. Tickets starting at just
£37.Contact: Please email us for more details or visit
the website
RANZCP 2012 Congress
Date: 20 -
24 May 2012
Venue: Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart,
Tasmania
The Tasmanian Branch of the RANZCP extends a warm
welcome to all those interested in psychiatric practice, research
and teaching. “Cells, Circuits and Syndromes” will be an excellent
opportunity to share knowledge and exchange ideas with colleagues
and friends.
Contact: For more
information please visit the
website. Tel:
+61 3 9645
6311 Email ranzcp@wsm.com.au
Essentials: Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms
of Dementia
Date: 21 May 2012
Venue: Weetwood Hall Conference Centre,
Leeds
Presented by Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age-Related
Diseases, King’s College London. This seminar will inform all of
those responsible for caring for a patient with dementia about the
identification of BPSD, the nature of the symptoms, assessment of
their severity and recommends a structured and sequential approach
to management.
Contact: For more information please visit
the
website. Tel: 0113 3055638 or
email
4 day Mindfulness Retreat
Date: 22
- 26 May 2012
Venue: Trigonos
- North Wales
A 4 day residential retreat in North
Wales, offering space for nourishment, inspiration and learning
focusing on Mindfulness.
Retreats are offered in varying levels from the CMRP - please see
website for level for this course.
Tutors - Eluned Gold and Karunivra
Fee: see website
Contact: Please visit
the website for
more details. Contact Anne Douglas on 01248 382939
Learning Disability and the Law Conference
(RadcliffesLeBrasseur Solicitors)
Date: 23 May 2012
Venue: One Great George Street,
Westminster, London SW1P 3AA
Topics and speakers include:
- "How to solve a problem like capacity”: Assessment of
capacity and the interaction of the Mental Health Act, Mental
Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards - speaker: Ms
Jenni Richards QC, Barrister, 39 Essex Street
- “Deprivation of Liberty – Where are we now in identifying
a deprivation?” - speaker: Andrew Parsons, Solicitor,
RadcliffesLeBrasseur
- “Engaging carers meaningfully with acute healthcare
providers” - speakers: Veronica Corbin, Assistant Director of
Nursing, Education and Life Long Learning, Chelsea &
Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Sue Redmond, Chair,
Full of Life Group
- “Sefton and beyond: Care home fees and responding
to difficult Commissioners” - speakers: Mathew
Purchase, Barrister, Matrix Chambers and David Roe, Laing &
Buisson
Cost: £96 inc VAT
Mental Health Forum 2012
Date: 23 May 2012
Venue: London Novotel West One
A one-day national conference on achieving the best possible
outcomes for patients with mental health conditions. This event
will bring together GPs, hospital specialists and other partners in
mental health from local authorities, the private and third sector.
It will offer an unparalleled opportunity to share ideas on working
together effectively to commission and deliver mental health
services now and in the future. The programme will cover key
clinical topics, reflecting the realities of day-to-day practice,
as well as showcasing examples of real innovation in service
provision.
- Free for the next 200 secondary care
NHS professionals, £99 + vat thereafter.
- £99 + vat for local authority and
third sector delegates.
- £199 + vat for private sector.
Contact:
Find out
more or book your place today. Email
book@mental-health-forum.co.uk
or call 020 7921 8575
Anxiety Disorders in Children and
Adolescents
Date:
24 May 2012
Venue: Holiday Inn, Ellesmere Port,
Merseyside CH65 2AL
With Professor cecilia Essau, Professor Vivette Glover and Dr
ben Laskey together with a local team, the day will focus on the
perennially relevant topic of Anxiety Disorders, it will target the
key aspects of this varied and pervasive condition in a
comprehensive ambitious programme of recognised national and local
presenters. Synthesising the academic, clinical and practical
elements and applying them to successive stages within the
life-cycle, the event opens with neonatal causes and effects,
moving to longer-term impacts and support requirements, and
rounding off the afternoon with an overview of the main
interventions, approaches and treatments which have shown to be
most effective in responding to specific manifestations.
Drawing on the presenters’ combined expertise, experience and
knowledge, the programme balances insights, updates, tips and
sensitivity within a structured multi-disciplinary framework, aimed
to highlight the main issues, identify the best pointers, and
provide applicable guidance.
Contact: Visit the website for further
details under 'Local Conferences' . Email karyn.ambridge@acamh.org.uk
for full details
Approved Clinician Induction
Date: 24
& 25 May 2012
Venue: The Met Hotel, Leeds
Presented by the Andrew Sims Centre’s established Mental
Health Law multi-professional training team. This two-day course is
accredited by the East Midlands and Yorkshire S12/AC Approval Panel
and is valid for those attending from other parts of England. It is
designed to deliver the necessary training to those who are able to
demonstrate the required competencies and wish to take up the role
of Approved Clinician.
Using 'Borderline Personality Disorder'
in Adolescence: Helpful or Harmful?
Date:
25 May 2012
Venue: NSCAP Headquarters, Leeds LS12 1AW
‘Emerging Borderline Personality Disorder’: A viable diagnosis
in adolescence, with effective clinical treatment? A label
discordant with the fluidity of adolescent personality development?
This conference and second collaboration between the Association
for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) and the Northern
School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (NSCAP), aims to
address some of the issues and controversies surrounding the use of
this label in adolescents. Margot Waddell, Psychoanalyst, Child
Analyst and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist from
London’s Tavistock Clinic, will set the scene for the day, giving
an overview of the development of the personality in adolescence,
from a psychoanalytic perspective.
The conference moves on to a dialogue in which Dr Greg
Richardson, retired Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
and Tom Mullen, Clinical Services Manager, Personality Disorder and
Criminal Justice Mental Health Services, Leeds, will discuss their
perspectives on the diagnostic significance of using ‘Emerging
Borderline Personality Disorder’ in adolescence; this is followed
by an opportunity for us to debate this further.
The afternoon of the conference focuses on new therapeutic
approaches to managing young people whose difficulties could be
conceptualised as ‘Emerging Borderline Personality Disorder’: Dr
Peter Fuggle, from London’s Anna Freud Centre, will give an
overview of ‘Mentalization’ and the ‘Adolescent Mentalization-based
Integrative Treatment’ (AMBIT) approach. Professor Jonathan Hill
from the University of Manchester, will conclude the day with an
introduction to the ‘Domains Based Approach’ to personality
development and disorder. There will be opportunities throughout
the day for multidisciplinary discussion and dialogue.
Contact: Visit the website for further
details under 'Local Conferences' . Email: karyn.ambridge@acamh.org.uk
Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and
Dissociation
Date: 26 May
2012
Venue: Bradford, West Yorkshire (details
upon booking)
PODS (Positive Outcomes for
Dissociative Survivors) follow-up workshop on the effects of trauma
on the brain and body led by Carolyn and Rob Spring. Combining
theory with lived experience, this workshop will look at the impact
of trauma and abuse on the body, the interplay of somatisation and
dissociation, what steps we can take to learn to co-operate with
our bodies, and the role this plays in recovery from trauma. It
will have a particular emphasis on dissociation but will have a
much wider relevance and applicability to the fields of PTSD (post
traumatic stress disorder) and childhood sexual abuse. Suitable for
therapists and other professionals, survivors and supporters.
Contact: For more information please visit the
website. Tel: 01480
878409 or email
Section 12 induction training
course
Date: 29 - 30 May 2012
Venue: Holiday Inn, Eastleigh (SO50 9PG)
A two day Section 12 induction training course designed for
doctors seeking approval for the first time under Section 12 (2) of
the Mental Health Act. The course is organised by the Centre for
Professional Development, Southern Health NHS FT and approved by
the South Central Strategic Health Authority, Section 12 approval
panel.
Contact: Visit the website
for further details. Tel 023 80874266 or
4007
June 2012
Modernising primary
mental healthcare services in the criminal justice system:
identifying need, improving access
Date: 6 June 2012
Venue: Midland
Hotel, Manchester
This conference & workshop
will bring together leading authorities from the research field and
clinical practice. This timely event will consider the next steps
for developing quality and inclusive primary care services in the
criminal justice system. The event will provide learning and
networking opportunities, for healthcare and criminal justice
professionals, 3rd sector organisations and the academic
community.
Contact: Please visit the
website for more
details. Booking
form Email Carlene.King@manchester.ac.uk
Safe and effective
reliving. Overcoming client (and therapist!) anxieties about
reliving traumatic
Date: 12 June 2012
Venue: South West
London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
The Masterclass provides an overview
of the principles used to determine how and when to use “reliving”
the traumatic event(s) in the treatment of post traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD).
The Masterclass will be facilitated by Pippa Stallworthy,
Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Contact: Please visit
the website for more details. Tel: 020
3513 6305 or email masterclass@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk
British Association for
Psychopharmacology Substance Misuse Module
Date: 14 - 15 June
2012
Venue: Marriott
Victoria and Albert Hotel, Manchester
At the end of the module, delegates would be
expected:
- To understand psychological mechanisms involved in
addiction.
- To understand psychological mechanisms involved in
addiction.
- To understand common neurobiological mechanisms
underlying addictive behaviour(s).
- To understand the neurobiology specific to particular
drugs of abuse including alcohol.
- To understand strategies, both psychological and
pharmacological, involved in treating addiction.
- To understand the neurobiology of treating addiction and
possible future treatments.
Contact: Susan Chandler, BAP Executive Officer
Tel: 01223 358 395 Details and
booking facilities
Shaping the Conversation
Date: 14 June 2012
Venue: St Andrew’s
Healthcare, Northampton
Disorders in People with Learning Disability -
A National Dialogue for Treatment Needs and Care Pathways. This
conference is aimed at raising clinical and service delivery
interest in treatment and care pathway planning for this patient
group with complex care needs. The conference programme brings
together national experts in fields of Learning Disability and
Neuropsychiatry to come together in discussing areas of specific
clinical interest in addition to overall service specific gaps and
challenges in care delivery.
Attending this conference will provide you
with:
- Insights into challenging clinical case
management
- Knowledge framework in relation to core
conference theme and specific talks
- An opportunity to learn about service
delivery and current care pathway gaps
- An opportunity to engage with experts
and contribute in panel discussion proceedings
- An opportunity to network.
This conference is ideal for
professionals working within the learning disability psychiatric
services as well as those working in neuropsychiatry services both
in community and hospital based services. The conference will be of
particular interest to a multi-professional audience and
postgraduate psychiatric trainees. We’ll welcome commissioners and
managers of services to join us at this important event.
The day will finish with a Panel Discussion and a question and
answer session on the main issues of the day.
Delegate fee: £80.00 Postgraduate Trainees:
£30.00
Contact: To find out more
or book online please go to the
website. Tel:01604 616467 Email: events@standrew.co.uk
Critical Psychology and BME Communities
Date: 18 June 2012
Venue:London
This one day conference will critically look
at the application of psychological theory, research and practice
issues in relation to BME communities. The conference aims to
bring together academics, researchers, practitioners including
health and social care workers, and mental health clinicians who
have researched in this field and/or have experience in providing
medical, psychological and social care interventions across
fields. Learning points and good practice will be shared. The
challenges experienced and possible limitations will also be
discussed via anonymised case vignettes.
Contact: Ahmed
Qureshi Tel. 07540 356 526 Email: info@bmehealth.org or visit
the website
HSPR Summer School 2012: An Introduction to
Qualitative Research Methods
Date: 18 - 19 June
2012
Venue: Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College London, Denmark Hill Campus
The Institute of Psychiatry, Health Service
and Population Research Department presents the An Introduction to
Qualitative Research Methods Summer School course 2012. This three
day course aims to provide students with an understanding of the
purpose and appropriate use of qualitative research methods and to
equip them with the basic skills to design and conduct qualitative
research in the mental health field.
Different theoretical approaches to data collection and analysis
will be explained and explored, including the Grounded Theory
approach and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Methods to
be described will include in depth interviews, focus group
discussions, and participant observation.
Contact: For
further information on this, and other courses offered in this
year's Summer School Series please visit the website. Tel:
020 7848 5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
9th National Neuroscience Conference: Epilepsy in
Children 2012
Date: 20 June 2012
Venue: Hallam
Conference Centre
After the success of the last 8 years, we are
delighted to announce our 9th national neuroscience conference
‘Epilepsy in Children’, in association with British Journal of
Hospital Medicine and British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. This
conference has been carefully designed to provide participants with
updates on the current issues and latest developments in the
diagnosis and treatment of paediatric epilepsy.
It will provide an excellent opportunity for specialists and
trainees in neurology, neurosurgery and paediatrics, as well as GPs
and specialist nurses, to update and extend their knowledge.
Contact: For more
information please vist the website. Tel:
020 7501 6734
Annual West Midlands Old Age
Psychiatry Conference
Date: 20 June 2012
Venue: Uffculme centre,
Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8QY
This popular annual event is organised by the
West Midlands Old Age Psychiatry Higher Trainees Peer Group.
Speakers: Dr Jan Oyebode,Dr Lisle Scott,Professor David
Gerrett,Professor Ilana Crome,Professor Robert Howard,Dr Raghu
Paranthaman,Professor Susan Mary Benbow,Dr Jayashree
Viswanathan.
Fee: £40 with a special rate of £30 for Core Trainees and
Foundation Doctors (this fee is non‐refundable). Cheque: payable to
"OAP Higher Trainee Group"
Contact: Tel: 0121
301 3966 Email: carol.bennett@bsmhft.nhs.uk
Child Mental Health Expert
Witness Course
Date: 25 & 26
June 2012
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1
Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
Meeting aims: To increase the interest, knowledge, confidence
and skills of participants in undertaking Court work in all
jurisdictions affecting children.
Meeting objectives: At the end of the meeting, delegates
will:
- Have a working knowledge of the legal frameworks affecting
children and knowledge of how to access more detailed
information.
- Have been introduced to the process of accepting instructions
and planning and undertaking assessments in both civil and criminal
cases.
- Be enabled to prepare and write Court reports in an effective
and generally acceptable way.
- Have enhanced Courtroom skills.
Contact: For further information please
visit the website. Tel: 020
7290 2985 Email: psychiatry@rsm.ac.uk
HSPR Summer School 2012:
Recovery: from research evidence to clinical practice and
organisational transformation
Date: 25 - 29 June
2012
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry, King's College
London, Denmark Hill Campus
The Institute of Psychiatry, Health
Service and Population Research Department presents the Recovery:
from research evidence to clinical practice and organisational
transformation Summer School course. This course describes
research-based best practice in developing a focus on recovery in
mental health services.
The five day course are comprised of one taught and four workshop
days, covering empirical evidence, clinical practice and
organisational transformation. It is designed for clinicians,
managers, researchers and students with experience in the mental
health system and who want to learn from international experts
about approaches to supporting
recovery.
Contact: For further
information on this, and other courses offered in this year's
Summer School Series please visit the website. Tel: 020 7848
5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
FASD what is it ? How it happens its
impact on education"
Date: 28 June 2012
Venue: Manchester University
Hospitals Teaching and Research Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital,
Manchester
This event will provide FASD awarness,
information and educational strategies will include PowerPoint
presentation and personal experience. It is focused at all levels
of society e.g. Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and gives
delegates attending an overview of the problems, that a child,
client with FASD may experience.
The workshop will help identify the need
for more information of FASD. Fee
£25
Contact: More details can
be found on the website. Tel: 01942 223780 /
078 154 28361 Email fasawareuk@blueyonder.co.uk
Integrated Primary Care mental Health &
Wellbeing -Demystified
Date: 28 June 2012
Venue: Stafford
University Campus
Keynote speakers:
- Clare Gerada, Chair, RCGP - 'Making it
happen: integrating mental health and wellbeing
nationally'
- David McDaid, Research Fellow in Health
Policy and Health Economics at LSE - 'Global and national picture
of health economics'
- Lynne Friedli, Mental Health Promotion
Specialist World Health Organisation - 'World Health Organisation
picture of wellbeing'
- Ruth Hussey, Regional Director of
Public Health/ Medical Director for NHS North West - 'National
perspective of wellbeing from Public Health England'
Plus learn practical techniques you can use
tomorrow on patients with symptoms but no apparent cause:
Resilience building, EFT, Breathing techniques, Solution Focussed
techniques.
Contributors: Professor Tony Stewart, David Boiskin, Dr Anand
Chitnis, Dr Paul Harding, Dr Neil Deuchar, Dr Ross Bryson, Dr
Venetia Young
Price £195.00, £165.00 early bird offer until 30 March 2012
Contact: More details
can be found on the website. Tel: 0121 530
8037 Email admin@primhe.org.uk
International Conference on Cyberbullying,
Paris
Date: 28 - 29 June 2012
Venue: Sorbonne,
Paris
As part of the 8th meeting of COST
IS0801 on Cyberbullying, there is an opportunity to present
individual research papers on the afternoon of 29
June. All together 16 papers can be selected. Papers will be
20 minutes in length. They should be on the theme of
cyberbullying, or on positive uses of ICT in educational settings,
as in the aims of COST IS0801.
Submissions are invited for these presentations. Submissions
should give: Title of presentation, Authors, and an Abstract of up
to 300 words. Deadline for submission: 12 February 2012.
The Steering Committee comprises: Professor Peter Smith,
Professor Georges Steffgen, Professor Catherine Blaya, and Dr
Vasiliki Gountsidou.
Contact: Details of the Paris
Conference can be found on the
COST IS0801 website
ADHD - Transition from Childhood to
Adulthood
Date: 29 June 2012
Venue: IET Savoy
Place
The UK Adult ADHD Network (UKAAN) will hold
the 3rd Congress on the 29 June 2012. The theme will be ‘Transition
of ADHD from Adolescence to Adulthood’. The congress aims to bring
important topics on transition in ADHD to a wider audience. The
scientific program will include five main sessions, with a panel
and audience discussion.
Clinical services for ADHD during the transition years from
adolescence to adulthood and for those newly diagnosed as adults
are developing rapidly. This meeting aims to raise the level of
awareness and knowledge among health care professionals about
people with ADHD as they grow older; and to provide a better
understanding of the causal pathways involved in the persistence of
the disorder and the development of important clinical
comorbidities.
The meeting will be relevant to anyone interested in the mental
health of people from the adolescent years through to early, middle
and later adult life.
Contact: Full details
including how to register can be found on the UKAAN website
Recovering from Trauma:
Healthy Boundaries and Relationships
Date: 30
June 2012
Venue: Huntingdon, Cambs (details upon
booking)
PODS (Positive Outcomes for
Dissociative Survivors) follow-up workshop to the ‘Living with
Dissociation’ day led by Carolyn and Rob Spring. Sexual trauma such
as childhood sexual abuse is the ultimate violation of boundaries.
Rather than growing up with a secure attachment where our personal,
physical and psychological boundaries are respected, trauma
survivors we have often grown up in toxic relationships, where we
have developed a shame-based sense of self, and consequently in
adulthood we may struggle to maintain our own boundaries as well to
respect other people’s. Covering topics such as how to identify
safe and unsafe people, what role mindfulness can play in the
development of our interpersonal capacities, and how to develop a
healthy relationship with both others and our self (or selves),
this workshop is suitable for both trauma survivors and those
working with them. Although it will have a focus on dissociative
disorders, it will be applicable to a far wider audience.
Contact: For more
information please visit the website. Tel: 01480 878409 or
email
July 2012
Teacher Training in MBCT - 3 day
residential
Date: 4
- 7 July 2012
Venue: Trigonos,
North Wales
Taught in the context of a retreat,
this training will offer participants an opportunity to focus on
the intentions and specifics of the MBCT programme. It will provide
an opportunity to develop and refine teaching skills and explore
the underpinning integration of modern cognitive science and
ancient wisdom
The event is open both to experienced MBCT teachers as an
opportunity to refresh their personal and teaching practice and
newer teachers who are in the earlier stages of developing MBCT
teaching skills. This course is particularly suitable for
clinicians implementing MBCT in NHS contexts
There is some entry criteria - please see the website.
Tutors: Rebecca Crane and Sarah Silverton
Provider: CMRP - Bangor University
Fees - See website
Contact: Please visit
the website for
more details. Contact Anne Douglas on 01248 382939
Autism Today: Summer Meeting
Date: 5
- 6 July 2012
Venue: Cavendish
Conference Centre, London
Following on from the huge success of
the last few years, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, in
association with EYE, Primary Teacher Update and SecEd is delighted
to invite you to the 10th National Autism Today Summer Meeting.
This major two day event presents an excellent opportunity for all
professionals working with individuals with ASD from the fields of
both healthcare and education, to update and extend their knowledge
and skills. The programme has been carefully designed to provide
participants with research updates and expert insights into the
diagnosis and management of children and adolescents with autism.
Highlights of the conference will include:
- Genetic updates in autism and
clinical implications: Professor David Skuse, London
- Which diagnostic criteria should be
incorporated into DSM-V? Dr William Mandy, London
- Living with autism, Joshua Muggleton,
Surrey
- Management of aggression and
difficult behaviour, Mike Stanton, Cumbria
- Easing the transition from childhood
to adulthood, Sue Osborn, Berkshire
- Speech and language therapy in
management of ASD, Gina Davies, Surrey
- Evidence-based practice: Applied
behaviour analysis based treatments for ASD, Dr Karola
Dillenburger, Belfast
Contact: Please visit
the website for
more details. Contact Anne Douglas on 01248 382939
Leadership, Quality, Management in
Healthcare
Date: 7
- 8 July 2012
Venue: London Hilton
Euston
A well designed course on Leadership
and Management skills for senior NHS trainees hoping to apply for
consultant posts in the near future.
Contact: Please visit
the website for more details. Tel:
07861639010
Parkinson Disease: 14th
National
Date: 9 July 2012
Venue: CBI Centre, London
Benefits of attending Parkinson’s 2012:
- Recent advances in clinical management.
- Hear about the current issues, latest developments and
practical management of Parkinson’s.
- Focus on Parkinson’s medications including dopamine
withdrawal symptom.
- Gain an insight into therapy interventions and
multi-disciplinary team working.
- Increase your understanding of recognising non-motor
symptoms and deep brain stimulation.
- Obtain an update on cognitive impairment in
Parkinson’s.
- Share and exchange ideas with leading practitioners in
the field.
Contact: Tel: 0207 501 6760 Email:
heather.ikwuemesi@markallengroup.com
HSPR Summer School 2012: Women's Mental
Health
Date: 9 - 10 July 2012
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry, King's College
London, Denmark Hill Campus
For the first time, the Institute of
Psychiatry, Health Service and Population Research Department
presents the Women's Mental Health Summer School course. This two
day course aims to provide students with an understanding of
relevant research methods which can be used when investigating
women's mental health problems, specific risk factors and the
effectiveness of interventions for women's mental health
problems.
Contact: For further
information on this, and other courses offered in this year's
Summer School Series please visit the website. Tel: 020 7848
5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
Recovering from Trauma: Healthy Boundaries and
Relationships
Date: 14 July 2012
Venue: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
(details upon booking)
PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors) follow-up
workshop to the ‘Living with Dissociation’ day led by Carolyn and
Rob Spring. Sexual trauma such as childhood sexual abuse is the
ultimate violation of boundaries. Rather than growing up with a
secure attachment where our personal, physical and psychological
boundaries are respected, trauma survivors we have often grown up
in toxic relationships, where we have developed a shame-based sense
of self, and consequently in adulthood we may struggle to maintain
our own boundaries as well to respect other people’s. Covering
topics such as how to identify safe and unsafe people, what role
mindfulness can play in the development of our interpersonal
capacities, and how to develop a healthy relationship with both
others and our self (or selves), this workshop is suitable for both
trauma survivors and those working with them. Although it will have
a focus on dissociative disorders, it will be applicable to a far
wider audience.
Contact: For more
information please visit the website. Tel: 01480 878409 or
email
HSPR Summer School 2012: Research on Stigma and
Discrimination
Date: 18 - 19 July 2012
Venue: Institute of Psychiatry, King's College
London, Denmark Hill Campus
The Institute of Psychiatry, Health Service
and Population Research Department presents the Research on Stigma
and Discrimination Summer School course 2012. This two-day course
will provide a basic background in theoretical concepts of mental
health related stigma and discrimination and new developments in
this field. We will also discuss research applications using real
world examples.
Contact: For further
information on this, and other courses offered in this year's
Summer School Series please visit the website. Tel: 020 7848
5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
The Management of ADHD in Children, Young People
and Adults
Date: 19 July 2012
Venue: The Royal College of Physicians,
St Andrews Place, Regents Park, London
- What have we learned from neuroimaging? Professor Katya
Rubia.
- Treatment and the NICE Guidelines, Professor Peter
Hill.
- Assessment of ADHD and response to treatment, Dr David
Coghill.
- Adverse effects of treatment, Professor Frank
Besag.
- The Place of non-drug Treatment, Professor Eric
Taylor.
- Teaching the child with ADHD, Fintan O’Regan
- ADHD and offending, Dr Susan Young.
- ADHD and comorbidity including sleep problems, Dr
Chinnaiah Yemula.
- The assessment and management of adult ADHD, Professor
Philip Asherson.
- A parent’s perspective and the role of support groups,
Andrea Bilbow.
Contact: For information and
registration: Dawn.Law@sept.nhs.uk
(Please note this conference is strictly limited to 140 places, on
a first-come, first-served basis.) For information only: Sheila.Sharples@sept.nhs.uk
Academic PA to Professor Frank M C Besag
Going for Therapeutic Gold
Date: 20 - 22 July 2012
Venue: Oxford
6th International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association
Conference: demonstrating theory and practice of a range of
Experiential Dynamic Therapies.keynote speaker; Dr Amanda Jones NE
London NHS Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service &
Honorary Assistant Professor at Warwick Medical School, therapist
in award winning Channel 4 Documentary, Help me love my
baby.
Contact: For further information on this,
and other courses offered in this year's Summer School Series
please visit the website.
August 2012
Mindful Self Compassion - 2 day
Workshop
Date: 4 - 5 August
2012
Venue: Bangor University - North
Wales
This 2-day workshop presents the theory and core practices of
the empirically-supported, 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)
training program, a new program specifically designed to help
participants become more self-compassionate using meditation,
experiential exercises and group discussion. The structure of MSC
is similar to MBSR and the two programs appear to complement each
other just as the concepts of mindfulness and self-compassion
overlap in important ways.
Trainers: Christopher Germer & Kirstin Neff
Provider@ CMRP - Bangor University
Fees: See website
Contact: Please visit
the website for
more details. Contact Anne Douglas on 01248 382939
5 day MBSR - Residential
Date: 6 -
11 August 2012
Venue: Trigonos,
North Wales
This programme offers an alternative
way to experience the mindfulness-based stress reduction 8-week
course and may be the first step towards training to deliver
Mindfulness-based courses. It is suitable for professionals who are
not able to access an 8-week course locally, or prefer a
residential experience.
Trainers: Jody Mardula & Taravajra
Provider: CMRP - Bangor University
Fees: see website
Contact: Please visit
the website for
more details. Contact Anne Douglas on 01248 382939
HSPR Summer School 2012: Principles of Social
Psychiatry
Date: 13 - 14 August 2012
Venue: Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College London, Denmark Hill Campus
The Institute of Psychiatry, Health Service
and Population Research Department presents the Principles of
Social Psychiatry Summer School course 2012. Social psychiatry is
concerned with the relationship between the social environment and
the onset, course and treatment of mental illness.This two day
summer school aims to provide students with an introduction to the
theoretical, conceptual and methodological foundations of social
psychiatry. Teaching sessions on theory, methods and research draw
on studies conducted by the course tutors and provide
state-of-the-art overviews of the field.Topics include:
- The interface between social psychiatry
and both the social and biological sciences
- Adversity, stress and trauma and
culture
- Ethnicity and mental
health.
Contact: For further
information on this, and other courses offered in this year's
Summer School Series please visit the website. Tel: 020 7848
5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
Interrogating Trauma in the
Humanities
Date: 20 - 23 August 2012
Venue: University of
Lincoln
Since 9/11 and the so called ‘terror
attacks’, questions surrounding the nature of traumatic experience
and how that experience may be presented/represented have dominated
the Humanities. This has led to a range of critical works which
have attempted to evaluate the parameters of memory, testimony and
the ethics of witnessing on both an individual and a collective
level. Trauma theories exist at the intersection of disciplines
such as psychology, history, cultural and media studies and the
dramatic arts. More recently this inter-disciplinarity has led to a
growing area known as the ‘Medical Humanities’ in which literary
and cultural theorists work alongside practitioners and clinicians
involved in furthering insights into psychiatric conditions such as
bi-polar disorder, PTSD and schizophrenia. Trauma theory is
therefore at the forefront of contemporary debates about human
subjectivity and experience, but also locates such discourses
within historical and political contexts and agendas.
Submissions of approximately 300 words
are invited. Please send abstracts together with a brief
biographical note to the University's Conference
Office. Deadline for the first call is 29 April 2012 (23:59
GMT).
Contact: Further
details can be found on the flyer or
by visiting the
website. Email the Conference Office.
HSPR Summer School 2012:
Global Mental Health
Date: 20 -
24 August 2012
Venue: Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College London, Denmark Hill Campus
Delivered in collaboration with the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, The Institute of
Psychiatry, Health Service and Population Research Department
presents the Global Mental Health Summer School course 2011. This
five day course is designed to provide participants with an in
depth understanding of the clinical and public health significance
of mental health in the global context, the challenges involved in
scaling up the coverage of evidence-based interventions to close
the 'mental health gap' and recent progress towards achieving this
objective.
The course also aims to equip participants with an understanding of
the application of epidemiological, health service and health
system research methodologies to the furtherance of the global
mental health agenda.
Contact: For further information on this, and
other courses offered in this year's Summer School Series please
visit the website. Tel: 020 7848
5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
September 2012
HSPR Summer School 2012: Mental Health Services
Research: Theory To Practice
Date: 3 - 4 September 2012
Venue: Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College London, Denmark Hill Campus
The Institute of Psychiatry, Health Service
and Population Research Department presents the Mental Health
Services Research: Theory to Practice Summer School course 2012.
This two day course will teach participants to choose appropriate
research designs for studying complex interventions in mental
health services. The content ranges from developing the theoretical
basis for an intervention to implementation studies of evidence
based interventions, covering key aspects of design such as mixed
methods evaluation and cluster randomised trials. Participants will
learn to appraise randomised controlled trials, and to decide what
to do before, during, after, or instead of this gold standard.
Contact: For further
information on this, and other courses offered in this year's
Summer School Series please visit the website. Tel: 020 7848
5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
The Eating & Meal Preparation Skills
Assessment. An outcome measure for clients with eating
disorder
Date: 4 September 2012
Venue: South West
London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
This Masterclass is an opportunity to
learn about a specialist occupational therapy asessment/outcome
measure called the Eating & Meal Preparation Skills Assesment
(EMPSA) that measures service users’ perceptions of their eating
and meal preparation skills before and after meal preparation
interventions.
Delegates will also learn about South West London and St George’s
Eating Disorders Service meal preparation interventions and how the
EMPSA was used to demonstrate their effectiveness in a research
study due for imminent publication in the European Eating Disorders
Review.
Laura Lock, Associate Director of Occupational Therapy, South West
London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and Co-Author of the
EMPSA and Chair of the College of Occupational Therapists Special
Interest Group in Eating Disorders.
Contact: Please visit
the website for more details. Tel: 020
3513 6305 or email masterclass@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk
RANZCP Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry 2012
Conference
Date: 4 - 7 September 2012
Venue: Hong
Kong Academy of Medicine, Hong Kong
We anticipate this conference will
attract psychiatrists and forensic mental health practitioners from
around the world, providing a unique opportunity to compare
approaches and findings from research and practice.
We hope you will join us in Hong Kong, a kaleidoscopic,
sophisticated fusion of East and West; a city of diversity where
old meets new at every turn. It is a unique experience shaped by a
distinctive past and dreams of the future; an age-old synthesis of
cultures and traditions that opens a window into what will be,
while embracing what has passed.
Registration for the conference will open in May 2012. If needed,
delegates will be able to book accommodation when they
register.
Contact: Email:info@conorg.com.au Tel:
+61 3 9349 2230
HSPR Summer School 2012: Developing Community
Mental Health Services
Date: 5 -
7 September 2012
Venue: Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College London, Denmark Hill Campus
The Institute of Psychiatry, Health Service
and Population Research Department presents the Developing
Community Mental Health Services Summer School course 2012. This
course will provide a detailed and intensive examination of the key
concepts that underpin the planning and delivery of an appropriate
balance of hospital and community based services. The course will
consider care models appropriate to low, medium and high resource
settings.
Contact: For further
information on this, and other courses offered in this year's
Summer School Series please visit the website. Tel: 020 7848
5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
17th Annual NAPICU
Conference
Date: 6 -
7 September 2012
Venue: Manchester
Conference Centre
'Low Secure and Psychiatric Intensive Care:
Pathways to High Quality Acute Inpatient Care'. Our theme this year
is wide-ranging. There is a real push at present to look at the
building-blocks of acute inpatient care at all levels of security.
We are all well aware that our wards do not function in isolation,
but are part of pathways and systems with multiple interfaces. The
constant drive to deliver high quality care to our patients is a
core feature of all highly functioning clinical teams. Irrespective
of our professional allegiance, clinical or managerial, within PICU
and low secure services, we continue to develop and improve to
ensure that we produce the best possible outcomes for our
patients.
Ranging from clinical opinion, to pilot studies, to practice-based
projects, to more scientifically rigorous investigational studies,
this year we have compiled a diverse and comprehensive programme
covering many aspects of acute inpatient care. There should be
something of interest for everyone.
There will be a wide array of breakout sessions for delegates to
attend based around the theme of the conference, including the
judging session for the Team of the Year Award, also we will be
running most of the sessions twice so you won't be
disappointed!
We also are excited to announce the return of the Poster Session
for a second year where you can present completed research, audit
or practice related projects to be included in the conference
exhibition as a poster.
Contact: Tel:
01355 244 585 Email: info@napicu.org.uk For more details
please visit the website
International Psychogeriatric Association
International Meeting 2012
Date: 7
- 11 September 2012
Venue: Cairns
Convention Centre
The International Psychogeriatric
Association and The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age invite you to a
joint international meeting in Cairns, Australia.
The two organisations have jointly hosted three previous meetings
in Australia and New Zealand, all of which were noted for their
robust scientific content, friendly atmosphere and excellent
weather. Our meeting in Cairns should prove no exception. We are
particularly keen to involve clinical and research leaders of all
disciplines from around the world. Cutting edge research will be
supplemented by many opportunities for clinicians to inform their
colleagues of treatment issues, service development and social
policy.
Contact: Email:
ipa2012@wsm.com.au Tel:
+61 3 9645 6311 For more details please visit the website
HSPR Summer School 2012:
Mental Health Policy
Date: 11
- 12 September 2012
Venue: Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College London, Denmark Hill Campus
The Institute of Psychiatry, Health Service
and Population Research Department presents the Mental Health
Policy Summer School course 2012. This two-day course aims to
provide students with an understanding of economic evaluation and
its relevance to mental health policy and practice. The principle
elements of an economic evaluation will be introduced, including
the identification, measurement and valuation of costs, measurement
of outcomes and methods of cost-effectiveness analysis. A range of
examples will be used throughout the course to illustrate economic
evaluation in practice, drawn from the work of the course tutors
and spanning the full extent of mental health needs.
Contact: For further
information on this, and other courses offered in this year's
Summer School Series please visit the website. Tel: 020 7848
5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
HSPR Summer School 2012:
Economic Evaluation in Mental Health
Date: 13
-14 September 2012
Venue: Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College London, Denmark Hill Campus
The Institute of Psychiatry, Health Service
and Population Research Department presents the Mental Health
Policy Summer School course 2012. This two day course will look at
the principles of mental health policy and consider examples of
their implementation. The 2012 topics are yet to be confirmed, but
previous years' subjects have included: financing and resource
allocation; commissioning and governance; need, prevalance and
demand; provision and delivery of treatment and support; stigma and
discrimination; safeguarding; serious incidents and personality
disorder; choice and control; system interfaces (with social care
and housing, for example); prevention and promotion.
Contact: For further
information on this, and other courses offered in this year's
Summer School Series please visit the website. Tel: 020 7848
5061 Email: seynam.kluvitse@kcl.ac.uk
Why Attachment Matters
in Education
Date: 14 September 2012
Venue: The
Thistle Hotel, Cambridge Street, Glasgow G2 3HN
- ACAMH or SAIA members:
£96
- Adoptive, foster and kinship
carers: £96
- Non-members: £108
Louise Bomber – internationally
renowned expert in the field of education and attachment and author
of Inside I’m Hurting and What About Me? will
present a talk on supporting pupils, at home and in
residential care, who have experienced significant relational
traumas and losses.
Some of the themes Louise will cover
over the course of the day will be:
- the attachment
framework
- the specific difficulties these
pupils face
- The need for
translation
- The pupil’s voice
- The parent/carer’s
voice
- Features of an attachment
friendly school
- Practical strategies to address
relational capacities that need development.
Contact: To
request a booking form please email martin.pratt@acamh.org.uk Alternatively you
can book over the phone with your credit card. Please call
Martin Pratt on 020 7403 7458
The 7th Northern and
Yorkshire Annual Mood Disorders Conference
Date: 21 September 2012
Venue: The Marriott,
Metro Centre, Gateshead
This meeting aimed at psychiatrists
aims to enhance our skills in the management of patients with mood
disorders. Hamish McAllister Williams, Ian Anderson and David
Christmas talk in the morning about unipolar depression,
respectively, stress and resilience, physical interventions (beyond
the guidelines) and current treatment controversies. The afternoon
is reserved for bipolar disorder- Nicol Ferrier, Iain Macmillan and
Allan Young will discuss treatment (beyond the guidelines), early
intervention and the use of antidepressants. The cost of £100 for
consultants and £50 to all others is passed on to a North-East
hospice. Lundbeck are supporting the meeting.
Contact: Dr
Stuart Watson Tel: 0191 2468612 Email: stuart.watson@ntw.nhs.uk Margaret
Cunningham Tel: 0191 2468612 Email: margaret.cunningham@ntw.nhs.uk
International Conference on Schizophrenia
2012
Date: 21 - 23 September 2012
Venue: Chennai,
India
ICONS 2012 features a faculty of
distinguished national and international speakers. The theme for
2012 is "Working towards recovery". IConS has had about 400
delegates from over a dozen countries including Switzerland,
Canada, UK, USA, Hong Kong, Italy, Iran, Sri Lanka, Australia,
Pakistan, Norway, New Zealand, Romania and India, ranking it among
the best scientific conferences in the world.
Awards will be presented for best
original research by young researchers (under 35) and for the best
poster.
Contact: Please visit
the website for more details
Network for Psychiatric
Nursing Research
Date: 26 - 27 September 2012
Venue: Oxford,
UK
A two day collaborative conference for
mental health nursing researchers alike. Psychiatrists, Students,
Professors, Readers, Lecturers, Doctoral Students, Mental Health
Nurses, Public Health Specialists, Researchers and all health care
professionals welcome to attend. Two day fees from £220.
This is your chance to participate on
a variety of levels; present your latest research by poster, oral,
workshop presentation or simply use the conference to update your
knowledge and catch up with colleagues and friends Internationally,
nationally or locally. Oral, workshop and poster presentations are
invited which fall into the following themes:
- Mental health nursing research
across the generations
a. Children and adolescents
b. Working age
c. Older people
- No health without mental
health
- Historical, biographical and
narrative approaches to mental health research
- New researchers, new
ideas
Contact: Please visit
the website for more details.
Email: npnr@rcn.org.uk Twitter: www.twitter.com/laurabenfield
2nd International
Congress on Borderline Personality
Date: 27 - 29
September 2012
Venue: RAI
Amsterdam Netherlands
The conference focusses on borderline
personality disorder and associated disorders There remains a
mismatch between our understanding of the disorder, treatment
methods, treatment demand, and the provision of clinical services.
This conference will address all these issues and more.
Distinguished speakers include Marsha Linehan, John Gunderson, John
Livesley, Anthony Bateman, Andrew Chanen,Peter Tyrer, Roel Verheul,
Klaus Lieb, Christian Schmahl, Arnoud Arntz and many others.
A series of workshops are offered pre-congress by these
experts.
Contact: Please visit
the website for more
details
Veterans Mental Health
Conference
Date: 28
September 2012
Venue:
University of York
This one day national conference will
be a unique opportunity to hear a range of internationally
recognised speakers, including Simon Weston OBE, discussing the
best practice interventions for veterans and the veterans community
in a range of settings including the NHS, mental health charities,
and the criminal justice system, plus there will be an overview of
the neurobiology of trauma. This day will be very informative for
all health care professionals who work with veterans and those who
manage services for veterans. The delegate fee is £195, but an
early bird discount is available.
Contact: Please visit
the website for more details. Email:
mattcolecbt@talktalk.net
October 2012
RANZCP Section of Psychotherapy
2012 Conference
Date: 1 -
3 October 2012
Venue: Monash University Prato
Centre
The theme of our Section Prato conference is Speaking
Different Tongues: Diversity in the Therapeutic Endeavour.
Our aim is to find enrichment in diversity and the possibility of
clear communication based on our common humanity, in spite of
theoretical and clinical differences. A particular focus in the
conference will be the examination of how individual therapists
deal with the presence of different theoretical models in their
mind concurrently, whether to keep them separate or to integrate
them.
RANZCP Section of Psychotherapy 2012
Conference
Date: 2 -
3 October 2012
Venue: Conference Aston,
Birmingham
Objectives: to provide an overview of current developments in
psychological and social interventions in psychosis, and also
opportunity to attend skill development workshops. Aimed at:
psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and professionals from
all disciplines, service users and carers. (A limited number of
free and subsidized places are available for service users and
carers). Early bird rate available to 31 May: £255, £205 to ISPS
members.
RANZCP Faculty of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting
Date: 3 -
5 October 2012
Venue: Novotel Manly
Pacific, Sydney
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, invites you to Sydney
for the National Faculty Conference. The venue, the Novotel Sydney
Manly Pacific, overlooks the very beautiful Manly beach.
The Conference Theme – “To Infinity and Beyond” – has been chosen
to stimulate delegates to think outside the square and to push the
boundaries of our current knowledge in Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry.
Recovering from Trauma: Healthy Boundaries and
Relationships
Date: 13 October 2012
Venue: Bradford, West Yorkshire (details
upon booking)
PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors) follow-up
workshop to the ‘Living with Dissociation’ day led by Carolyn and
Rob Spring. Sexual trauma such as childhood sexual abuse is the
ultimate violation of boundaries. Rather than growing up with a
secure attachment where our personal, physical and psychological
boundaries are respected, trauma survivors we have often grown up
in toxic relationships, where we have developed a shame-based sense
of self, and consequently in adulthood we may struggle to maintain
our own boundaries as well to respect other people’s. Covering
topics such as how to identify safe and unsafe people, what role
mindfulness can play in the development of our interpersonal
capacities, and how to develop a healthy relationship with both
others and our self (or selves), this workshop is suitable for both
trauma survivors and those working with them. Although it will have
a focus on dissociative disorders, it will be applicable to a far
wider audience.
Contact: For more
information please visit the website. Tel: 01480 878409 or
email
XXth World Congress of
Psychiatric Genetics
Date: 14 - 18
October 2012
Venue: Hamburg,
Germany
We look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Hamburg, Germany
for the XXth World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, 14 – 18
October 2012. Psychiatric genetics is the application of empirical
quantitative and molecular methods to understand the genetic
underpinnings of mental illness. WCPG is the major psychiatric
genetics meeting of the year, where hundreds of researchers and
clinicians from all over the world converge to discuss advances in
the field.
Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging
Concepts, Methods, Applications
Date: 19 - 20
October 2012
Venue: UCLA
The conference highlights emerging concepts,
methods, and applications in the study of culture, mind, brain,
with attention to cutting-edge research, the context in which
methods are used, and the kinds and quality of collaborations that
advance interdisciplinary training.
Contact: Email: CMB@thefpr.org
Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging
Concepts, Methods, Applications
Date: 19 - 20
October 2012
Venue: UCLA
The conference highlights emerging concepts,
methods, and applications in the study of culture, mind, brain,
with attention to cutting-edge research, the context in which
methods are used, and the kinds and quality of collaborations that
advance interdisciplinary training.
Contact: Email:
CMB@thefpr.org
Living with
Dissociation
Date: 20
October 2012
Venue: Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands (details
upon booking)
PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors) introductory
workshop on dissociative identity disorder (DID) led by Carolyn and
Rob Spring. Combining theory with lived experience, it looks at
what dissociative disorders are, how they develop, and how there is
real hope for healing and recovery with appropriate therapy.
Suitable for therapists and other professionals, survivors and
supporters.
Contact: For more information please visit the
website. Tel: 01480
878409 or email
Interactive Technologies and
Games: Education, Health and Disability 2012
Date: 23 - 24 October
2012
Venue: Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham
The aim of the conference is to bring
together academics and practitioners working with interactive
technologies to explore and innovate within the areas of Education,
Health and Disability. We have a particular focus on the use of
gaming hardware and software to implement accessible solutions,
interaction design using new input/output devices and the
increasing impact of ubiquitous computing on our everyday well
being.
The conference provides an excellent
opportunity to showcase practice and to mainstream research ideas
and outcomes. It introduces a wider audience to key findings and
products from research and illustrates how practice feeds back into
and informs research. The conference creates a forum for two-way
communication between the academic and practitioner communities and
particularly welcomes user led presentations and workshops.
The programme includes presentations of
papers, workshops, and an exhibition space for demonstrations and
posters. This event is held in partnership with GameCity - the World’s best-loved
videogame festival - and delegates are welcome to attend all
GameCity events including the opening drinks reception.
Contact: More details can be
found on ther website.
Call for papers
Third International Conference on Violence in the
Health Sector
Date: 24 - 26 October
2012
Venue: Vancouver, Canada
Work related
aggression and violence within the health and social
services sector is a major problem which diminishes the quality of
working life for staff, compromises organizational effectiveness
and ultimately impacts negatively on the provision and quality of
care. These problems pervade both service settings and occupational
groups.
Considerable attention and advancements in
addressing this problem have been achieved from service and
organizational perspectives nationally and internationally.
Following two
successful conferences in 2008 and 2010 in Amsterdam, the 3rd
International Conference on Violence in the Health Sector, will
take place in Vancouver, Canada. In addition to raising awareness,
the 2012 conference will provide a platform to share international
developments, with a particular emphasis on best practice research
and initiatives to effectively respond to the problem.
Contact: More details can be
found on ther website.
Submit an abstract
November 2012
The 8th National Medicine for Old Age
Psychiatrists
Date: 5/6 November 2012
Venue: The Institute of
Physics,London
Aims of the conference:
- To revise the clinical symptoms and signs of
medical conditions.
- To provide an update on the latest
developments.
- To investigate the management of medical
conditions in the elderly.
- To improve the ‘working knowledge’ of
geriatric medicine.
Fee: £499. CPD Accreditied for 12
points. All the speakers are KOL's in their
field.
Contact: Book your place now
by the Credit Card Hotline on 0845 054 8422. Email: events.reg@expotel.com For
more information please visit the website
Body dysmorphic disorder. Recognition, assessment
& treatment, masterclass
Date: 6
November 2012
Venue: South West
London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
The masterclass delivers an overview
of the key issues relevant to the recognition, assessment and
treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).The Masterclass will be
facilitated by Anusha Govender, Principal Cognitive Behavioural
Psychotherapist, South West London and St George’s Mental Health
NHS Trust.
Contact: Please visit
the
website for more details. Tel: 020 3513 6305 or email
masterclass@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk
Living with Dissociation
Date: 10
November 2012
Venue: Huntingdon, Cambs (details upon
booking)
PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors) introductory
workshop on dissociative identity disorder (DID) led by Carolyn and
Rob Spring. Combining theory with lived experience, it looks at
what dissociative disorders are, how they develop, and how there is
real hope for healing and recovery with appropriate therapy.
Suitable for therapists and other professionals, survivors and
supporters.
Contact: For more information please visit the
website. Tel: 01480
878409 or email
WPA Thematic Conference-4th INA European Congress - 1st
Congress on Psychiatry and Related Sciences
Date: 29 November - 2
December 2012
Venue: Divani Caravel Hotel, Athens,
Greece
It is a special pleasure to invite psychiatrists, basic and
clinical neuroscientists, social and behavioural scientists as well
as any professional involved in mental health to a joint congress
event consisting of the 'World Psychiatric Association Thematic
Conference on Intersectional Collaboration: The Multidisciplinary
Facets of Psychiatry', the 'Fourth European Congress of the
International Neuropsychiaric Association: Overlap and Integration
in Neuropsychiatry' and the 'First Interdisciplinary Congress on
Psychiatry and Related Sciences'.
These congresses are organised jointly by the World Psychiatric
Association (WPA), the International Neuropsychiatric Association
(INA) and the Hellenic Society for the Advancement of Psychiatry
and Related Sciences (HSAPRS); moreover, they are being
co-sponsored by the World Federation of Societies of Biological
Psychiatry (WFSBP) and supported by the World Association for
Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR), the International
Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), the European Association for
Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (EABCT) and the European Family
Therapy Association (EFTA).
Having been honoured through the active engagement of so many
respectable international scientific organisations, our main aim is
to promote the interface and interaction among various disciplines
as they relate to Psychiatry. As ambitious as it might be, our
effort in planning the congress programme shall be to seek for any
convergence of these disciplines in quest of constructive
synthesis, which could eventually lead to the betterment of
research outcome and clinical care in Psychiatry.
Contact: For more information please visit the
website. Tel: +30 210
7414700 or email
December 2012
Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and
Dissociation
Date: 1
December 2012
Venue: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
(details upon booking)
PODS (Positive Outcomes for
Dissociative Survivors) follow-up workshop on the effects of trauma
on the brain and body led by Carolyn and Rob Spring. Combining
theory with lived experience, this workshop will look at the impact
of trauma and abuse on the body, the interplay of somatisation and
dissociation, what steps we can take to learn to co-operate with
our bodies, and the role this plays in recovery from trauma. It
will have a particular emphasis on dissociation but will have a
much wider relevance and applicability to the fields of PTSD (post
traumatic stress disorder) and childhood sexual abuse. Suitable for
therapists and other professionals, survivors and supporters.
Contact: For more information please visit the
website. Tel: 01480
878409 or email
4 day Mindfulness Retreat
Date: 11 - 15 December 2012
Venue: Trigonos,
North Wales
A 4 day residential retreat in North
Wales, offering space for nourishment, inspiration and learning
focusing on Mindfulness.
Retreats are offered in varying levels from the CMRP - please see
website for level for this course.
Tutors - Eluned Gold and Karunivra
Fee: see website
Contact: Please visit
the website for
more details. Contact Anne Douglas on 01248 382939
January 2013
February 2013
March 2013
April 2013
WPA Regional Congress: Facilitating Mental Health,
Primary Care & Public Health Integration for Southeast Europe
and Eurasia
Date: 10 - 13
April 2013
Venue: Bucharest,
Romania
This unprecedented Congress is a
sharply focused initiative of the World Psychiatric Association in
collaboration with the Romanian Association of Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy, the National Society of Family Medicine and the
Romanian Public Health and Health Management Association.
The Congress has several concrete goals & objectives, as
follows:
- identify national and regional mental health, primary care
& public health challenges
- define the benefits of primary care, mental health & public
health integration
- share evidence of best practices & lessons learned
- stimulate educational, research, services, and policy
collaborations at national and regional levels and across the life
cycle
The Congress will be organized in
plenary sessions, key note lectures, professorial lectures,
symposia, workshops, free paper presentations, posters and debates.
There will also be a designated countries' track, to
assist with mental health, primary care and public health
integration at the national level
Contact: Please visit
the website for
more details