Prague Conference presentations - 2008

Rehabilitation within the family of psychosis services

• Forensic rehabilitation, coercion and recovery: Dr Shawn Mitchell – St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton, UK
• The acceptability of Assertive Outreach: Dr Helen Killaspy
• Early Intervention in Psychosis: Professor Tom Craig – Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
• Rehabilitation and the Family of Psychosis Services: Dr Frank Holloway

Humane institutions

• Psychiatric care in the Czech Republic – human rights, coercion and institutions: Professor Jiri Raboch – Charles University, Prague
• Mental Disability and the European Convention on Human Rights: Peter Bartlett – University of Nottingham, UK
• Coercion in mental health services: Professor Thomas Kallert – University of Dresden, Germany

Human rights and mental health care

• The “ITHACA” project: Institutional Treatment, Human Rights and Care Assessment: Dr Jennifer Randall Institute of Psychiatry
• The Oxford study of informal coercion in community mental health care: Dr Andrew Molodynski - University of Oxford
• Two year evaluation of Community Treatment Orders in Scotland: Dr Donald Lyons – Mental Welfare Commission, Scotland

Supporting social inclusion

• The EQOLISE project - Professor Durk Wiersma – Rob Giel Research Centre, University Medical Centre, Groningen,  Netherlands
• Individual place and support in practice - a pan European initiative - Heather Penn – West Kent Mental Health Trust, UK
• Supported housing and residential services - Dr Rob McPherson, Gloucester, UK

Development of a European Measure of Best Practice in Institutional Care for people with longer term mental health problems – the “DEMoBinc” study

An overview of the study was presented, which emphasized the strength of the team's methodology, and results from phase 1 were discussed in detail. The international team have identified a variety of domains, using a three-pronged approach, that will help recovery in institutional settings. They analysed care standards in different countries, completed a systematic literature review, and completed an international Delphi exercise involving professionals, carers and service users. The results can't be shared on this website as they haven't been published yet. That is one of the reasons why coming to our conferences is so good for you.  However, there is a website for the DEMOBinc, which has all the latest publicly available information. 

• Dr Helen Killaspy – University College London (UCL)
• Ms Tatiana Taylor – UCL
• Dr Penelope Turton – St George’s University London 
• Dr Lucie Kalisova - Charles University, Prague

Workshops

Measuring the therapeutic environment of wards:

• Presentation on measuring therapeutic environments
• Good Milieu Index and ward atmosphere audt measure - 5 item measure
• Paper introducing EssenCES, a shot questionnaire to measure the social climate on forensic wards
• Copy of EssenCES

Dr Steffan Davies – Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust, UK and Dr Norbert Schalast – University of Essen, Germany

Mental Capacity

1. Download Mental Capacity Act Overview. 
2. Download Ireland Mental Capacity Act Presentation

Dr Frank Holloway - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK and Dr Ena Lavelle – St Ita’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

The Trieste model

Dr Roberto Mezzina and Dr Pina Ridente – Centre for Mental Health, Trieste, Italy

Service user involvement in service development

Dr Paul Wolfson - Oxleas Mental Health NHS Trust, UK and Mr Maurice Arbuthnott, London

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