ArtSIG Conference 2024 | Arts Therapies and Psychiatry – joining up the dots

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19Jul

In-person conference

Timings 09.30AM - 4.30PM
Location The Royal College Of Psychiatrists, London, United Kingdom, London
CPD Up to six hours subject to peer approval
Non-member£100
Consultant£100
SAS Doctor£90
Higher Trainee£90
Core Trainee£80
Student/Foundation Doctor£50
Patient/Carer£50
Retired/subsidised£50
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ArtSIG Conference 2024 | Arts Therapies and Psychiatry – joining up the dots

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Arts Therapies and Psychiatry – joining up the dots

Discussing how greater understanding between Arts Therapies and Psychiatry within NHS Mental Health Services can enhance our provision of care.

This conference will offer an insight into Arts Therapies through presentations from and discussion between Arts Therapists and Psychiatrists in the form of panel discussion and participatory workshops. 

Examples of Arts Therapies interventions will be given by the Arts Therapies Service from Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust including lectures and workshops on Music and Art therapy which have developed many approaches, and work across a wide variety of clinical populations and settings; a participatory Art workshop facilitated by an Art Therapist and a Psychiatrist, Music Therapy workshops and Music Therapy presentations looking at the effectiveness of Music Therapy with different age groups, including a Music Therapy Dementia research study, and case study of Music Therapy in Paediatrics. Participatory workshops will feature art, singing, drumming and music giving an experiential innovative opportunity for those attending. 

Speakers include Kimberley Iyemere who pioneered a  Recovery Focussed Arts Therapies Service and was awarded a top local NHS award and runs an extremely successful Arts Therapies service, she has published and lectured internationally. Kimberley has collaborated Dr Trudi Seneviratne OBE – RCPsych Registrar, Consultant Adult and Perinatal Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust looking at the connection between Psychiatry and the Arts and Arts Therapies for many years now. Dr Seneviratne has inspired this conference and both Kimberley and Trudi are champions for the Arts and Mental Health. Art Therapist Michael Whitaker will encourage thought about what happens when patients are given a space within mental health services, to express and think about themselves creatively, in addition to the framework that psychiatry gives them to express and think about themselves. He will suggest that it allows for a more complete sense of the individual to be witnessed. This will be illustrated by his highly innovative handmade wooden art trolley packed with art materials and inspirational quotes which is a wonderfully creative response to the dilemma of providing creativity across different mental health wards. 

Workshop facilitators include Sreeraj Kollarukandy, a talented new Music Therapist who has won two recent awards - the ‘Highly commended alumni’ award at the Anglia Ruskin University’s Vice Chancellors outstanding awards 2024 in the ‘Rising Star’ category, he has also won the AHP integration award for integration, based on feedback from other professionals on wards. Sreeraj's role as a Music Therapist is highly valued by those who benefit from the service, as well as a range of professionals who observe weekly the positive impact of his fantastic work’….. ‘There is often standing room only in his group and even the staff are keen to join in’

Other Music Therapists including Emily Corke who will be running a Choir workshop, Valentini Toumpari presenting her work in Paediatrics, and Naomi Thompson Research Assistant, Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research will be presenting research into standardising the use of Music Therapy to reduce distress on inpatient Mental Health Dementia Wards.

Event image courtesy of Marzia Falcioni

TimingsSessionTheme Speaker/Facilitator
09:30 - 09:45AM Arrival - registration tea, coffee   
09:45AM - 10:10AM Lecture 1 Music therapy Valentini Toumpari
10:10AM - 10:35AM Lecture 2 Art therapy Michael Whitacker
10.35AM - 10.50AM Tea Break   
10.50AM - 11.40AM Workshop 1 Music therapySreeraj Kollarukandy , Aimee Yates and Emily Corke
11.40AM - 12.30PM Workshop 2 Art therapy Kimberley Iyemere and Robert Dudas
12.30PM - 1.30PM Lunch (and meet the artist) Mood States Exhibition, currently on display at the CollegeAnnabel Merrett
1.30PM - 1.55PM Lecture 3 Art therapy (Eating disorders/Perinatal) Kimberley Iyemere
1.55PM - 2.45PM Workshop 3 Choir workshop Emily Corke
2.45PM - 3.00PM Tea Break   
3.00PM - 3.30PM Plenary  Music Therapy Dementia research study Naomi Thompson
3.30PM - 4.15PM Discussion   Adam Hines-Green, Alan Baban, Kimberly Iyemere (Chair), Aimee Yates, Sreeraj Kollarukandy , Emily Corke, Naomi Thompson, Valentini Toumpari, Robert Dudas
4.15PM - 4.30PM Discussion and reflection of the day   
4.30PM End of conference   

This event is in-person only and unfortunately it won't be recorded, nor will it be possible to view it online.

If you have any accessibility or dietary requirements (including allergies), please inform us at sigs@rcpsych.ac.uk as soon as possible.

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For further information, please contact:

Email: sigs@rcpsych.ac.uk

Contact Name: Catriona Grant

Event Location

Location: The Royal College Of Psychiatrists, London, London