Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network – Events
Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network
Study Day no. 6
Thinking family: new models of practice
Friday 30 April 2010
9.30am – 4.00 pm
Birmingham CVS
Don’t miss this crucial event which will use keys to unlock the potential – treasure chest or minefield? – of ‘Thinking Family’. It will present findings from the latest DH evaluation of Family Nurse Partnerships; create a safe space for critical debate and reflection on family–focussed working; give examples of where local services are piloting different ways of working systemically with the diverse formations of adults and children that constitute families; and hear how recognising the resources of parents with mental health problems and their children can really make a difference.
Contributors include:
- Kate Billingham DH Programme Lead Family Nurse Partnerships
- John Burnham Head of Family and Systemic Psychotherapy and Director of Systemic Training CAMHS, BCH (Birmingham Children's Hospital)
- Suffolk ACCORD project
- SCIE think child, think parent, think family pilot sites
- Perspectives from the inside: passionate about parenting – speaker tbc
- International view from Afghanistan
Free places are available for service users and people who are unwaged. For all bookings received before 15th March 2010 an early bird rate of £95 will be invoiced. Any subsequent bookings will be charged at the full price of £125.
Network study day Think Family: new models of practice - Booking form
External Events
NCB conference – Childhood Bereavement: Telling the Story Theme: Wellbeing
Organised by the Childhood Bereavement Network in partnership with 11 Million, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England, this important conference will hear lessons from research about the stories bereaved children tell about their past, present and future, and how careful listening to these stories can improve the support available to them. It will include a focus on the specific needs of bereaved Gypsy and Traveller children, an often silenced group, and also explore the negative and positive aspects of families’ stories being told in the media
Birmingham: 24 and 25 February 2010
’Think Family’ for young carers – Developing the Vision: Next Steps for Adult Services, Children’s Services and their Partners
Parental mental illness, parental substance misuse and dual diagnosis where children are in a caring role The Assembly Rooms, Newcastle upon Tyne 10th March 2010. The aim of this conference is to ensure service managers, policy leads and senior practitioners involved in providing parental substance misuse and mental health services, are equipped with the latest 'Think Family' guidance and are able to identify and respond to wider family issues where children and young people are in a caring role.
More information and online booking
Tavistock Institute, CPD/SHORT Courses
Understanding Couples
26 February or 4 June 2010
An Introduction to Systemic Family Therapy: A course for nurses in mental health
29 – 31 March 2010
Relating to Self–harm and Suicide in Adolescents and Young Adults
27 April – 6 July 2010
Working with Couples: A short course for mental health professionals
30 April – 4 June 2010
Introduction to Psychodynamic Concepts: A workshop for counselling and clinical psychologists
19 – 23 July 2010