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NACRO's 8th Annual Mental Health and Crime Conference

Region: West Midlands
Title: Improving Health: Supporting Justice, 8th Annual Mental Health and Crime Conference
Date: 3-4 September 2008
Location: University of Derby
Notes:  'Improving Health, Supporting Justice', strategy for offender health and social care, sets out a template to meet the mental health needs along the criminal justice pathway and includes both those offenders being resettled from prison, and those supervised in the community.  The challenge for commissioners, planners and providers is how to develop a range of services to meet the diverse range of needs and ensure access to primary, secondary and tertiary care, as well as health promotion and prevention.  For practitioners, services users, and carers, it is how to influence the challenge.
This conference, building on the successes of Nacro's seven previous conference on Mental Health and Crime, is an opportunity to contribute to, and influence, the debate.
For more information: For further information, to book a place at this conference, or to submit a workshop please download the conference flyer, and return to Cynthia Sutherland, Communications Assistant, Nacro, 169 Clapham Road, London, SW9 0PU, telephone 020 7840 6466 or email.

The annual Synergy workshop is organised to provide an opportunity for synergistic discussion within health psychology at an advanced level. The focus is on improving the standards by pooling expertise, instigating critical evaluations and discussions, and stimulating networking and collaborative research between researchers from all over Europe in an informal and supportive atmosphere. It focuses on a core topic on which all participants have some expertise and have conducted research.

Deadline for abstracts or proposals: 20/7/2007.

Event Contact:

Katja Rüdell
Department of Psychology
Keynes College, AG. 9
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NP
UK

01227 823 066
01227 827 030 fax

Asylum! Conference and Festival

Manchester 10-12 September 2008

Elizabeth Gaskell Campus MMU

Invited speakers include: Peter Beresford, Peter Bullimore, Ron Coleman, Jacqui Dillon, Sandra Escher, Rob Evans, Gillian Haddock, Paul Hammersley, Lois Holzman, Alec Jenner, Lucy Johnstone, Marius Romme, Dorothy Rowe, Phil Thomas, Phil Virden

Asylum! Conference and Festival Themes:

Celebrating Terence McLaughlin – Life, work and change

Professional and User Involvement – Radical practice

Resisting Big Pharma – Resisting Big Psy

Connecting Theory and Change – Academic knowledge and political activity

Transdisciplinary Experimental Applied Psychology – Critique and creativity

Disabling and enabling – In and against oppressive institutions

New Social Movements – Linking with social action

This is an Asylum conference co-organised by Asylum Associates, the Discourse Unit, Hearing Voices Network and Paranoia Network, with the participating sponsorship of Campaign Against the Schizophrenia Label, UCLAN Institute for Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health, PCCS Books, Intervoice and Working to Recovery. The conference will bring together organisations, activists, campaigners and academics working for radical challenge and change in mental health. It will showcase critical work on psychiatry and psychology (‘Big Psy’) and the pharmaceutical industry (‘Big Pharma’), and alternatives to diagnostic medical labels like ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘paranoia’. The conference will run alongside a festival of organisations working for a better world. There will be guest speakers, academic papers, panel discussions, bookstalls, film, art, music and workshops.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Send proposals of 100 words, and try to think about radical ways of working not only in the content (what it is you want to do) but in the form (in the way you want to do it). Think radical for Asylum! To submit an academic paper abstract, send by March 31^st to Ian Parker (I.A.Parker@mmu.ac.uk).

First round decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be made by the end of February. To submit plans for a workshop, discussion, music or other event, send details by March 31^st to
Peter Bullimore (peterbullimore@yahoo.co.uk)
or Jade Bullimore (j4d3_00@yahoo.co.uk).
Contact us now if you want your organisation to be a participating sponsor in the ‘Asylum! Conference and Festival’, included in future publicity. Academic registration is £350 full-cost for the three days (with a range of bursaries for low-waged and unwaged participants). Participation in the festival events by organisations, activists and campaigners will be at negotiated cost. Welcome!

Contact us for details.

Conference Details Update: www.discourseunit.com/asylum.doc

Asylum Website: www.asylumonline.net

Pre-conference seminars will be conducted on September 9, 2008.

Keynotes:

• John Briere, USA
• Kevin Creeden, USA
• (Geese Theatre Company), UK
• Elizabeth Letourneau, USA
• Bobbie Print, UK
• Tony Beech, UK

Deadline for abstracts or proposals: 3/3/2008.

Event Contact:

Conference Administrator
PO BOX 28259
Edinburgh EH12 1DX
UK

0131 466 0139
0131 466 0139 fax
07813 195 166 mobile

Safe and Sound Conference

Venue: Pride Park Stadium, Derby

CAMEXPO - EARLS COURT LONDON 2008

Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 October 2008 

Now in its sixth year, camexpo has firmly established itself as the leading event for the CAM community. The 2008 event will be taking place at an all NEW West End venue – the prestigious Earls Court exhibition centre, London.

Dedicated to meeting the needs of the entire complementary healthcare industry – if you are a CAM exhibitor or retailer, a practitioner, therapist or student, camexpo is the single most important event of the year for you. camexpo provides a unique networking forum for the entire CAM community - where quality and innovation is encouraged at every level, and no other UK show can offer such an all-inclusive range of products, services and training.

2007 marked the 5th anniversary of camexpo and it was our best show yet – with even more top seminars, taster workshops, and demonstrations, plus over 150 leading exhibitors and representatives from all the major associations… And camexpo 2008 promises to be even bigger and even better!

For more information, please call

Zoe Campbell 

Tel: +44 (0)1273 645119

Email: zcampbell@divcom.co.uk.

APRIL

Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link Conference
When: Thursday 6th November 2008
Time: 9.00am-5.00pm
Where: The Friends Quaker House, Euston Road, opposite Euston Station

Speakers will include:

Professor Munir Pirmohammed
Chair of pharmacogenetics Liverpool. He did the Liverpool study that found one in sixteen admissions to A & E were due to adverse drug reactions (ADRs). (This excluded psychiatric ADRs.)

Charles Medawar

Professor Heather Ashton

Dr Andrew Herxheimer

Professor David Healy

6th National Conference

‘Public involvement in research: getting it right and making a difference'

November 11th and 12th 2008
East Midlands Conference Centre
Nottingham

INVOLVE’s national conference is an event for everyone who is interested in supporting and promoting public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research. This includes members of the public, service users, researchers, research commissioners and representatives of voluntary sector organisations.

This year the conference will take place over two days. We will start at lunchtime on Tuesday 11th November and finish around 4.30pm on Wednesday 12th November. There will be time to discuss, reflect, network and socialise.

Venue

The East Midlands Conference Centre is a modern and accessible venue near to Nottingham city centre and major road, rail, bus and air links. If you travel by car there are a large number of parking spaces including designated disabled parking bays available at the conference centre.

Call for presentations

The Call for Presentations is now closed. We would like to say 'Thank You' to all the people who have sent in so many interesting presentations. These will now be considered by the Conference Planning Group on Friday 23rd May 2008 and if you have submitted a presentation you will hear from us shortly after this.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the Conference, and please remember that even if you didn't send in a presentation, or are unsuccessful with your submission there are other ways you can tell us about your work. Perhaps you would consider writing an article for our Newsletter, or submit a project to our Research Project Database

 

Booking forms for attending the conference will be available at the end of July 2008.

De-Medicalising Misery II 

Tuesday, 16th December 2008. 

UCL  Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1

The University of East London’s School of Psychology, the Critical Psychiatry Network, the Hearing Voices Network (England) and University College London are delighted to present the second one-day conference in the De-Medicalising Misery series.

With increasing media attention being paid to the false promises of medicalised approaches to misery and madness, this conference focuses on a critique of the understandings of distress offered by mainstream psychiatry and psychology - and the ‘solutions’ they provide – and provides a platform for alternative ways of thinking about, and working with, distress.

Once again bringing together psychiatrists, service users and clinical psychologists at the forefront of thought and practice, the conference addresses important questions of contemporary public interest. How did the medical profession and pharmaceutical industry persuade us that ‘antidepressants’ and 'anti-psychotics' ‘worked’? Why did the medical profession take so long to recognise their ill effects? Does CBT really offer a cure for unhappiness? What, if anything, does “consumer choice” actually mean in mental health services? Can the psy-professions escape their legacy of racism?

Again combining academic integrity with accessibility and the opportunity for dialogue and debate, the conference will be of interest to practitioners and academics in psychiatry, psychology and related disciplines, as well as to people who use or have used mental health services.

Confirmed speakers: Mary Boyle; Jacqui Dillon; Duncan Double; Suman Fernando; Irving Kirsch; Craig Newnes; Ewen Speed.

Places: are limited.

For further information please contact Prof. Mark Rapley on 07951 908409 or via m.rapley@uel.ac.uk

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