Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network – Events
Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network
Study Day no. 7
Keeping the whole picture in mind working with families affected by parental mental ill-health
Maudsley Hospital, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Monday 6 December 2010
9.30am – 4.15 pm
Aims of day:
- To consider critically government policy developments affecting family working
- To help participants learn how to consider children’s, parents’ and wider family members’ points of view within families, and understand how these contribute to family dynamics in different social and cultural contexts.
- To share experience and good practice through interactive workshops.
- To network in order to strengthen partnership work.
- To explore issues facing service users, family members, practitioners, researchers and policymakers.
Key themes:
- Recent policy and practice initiatives impacting on family-focussed thinking.
- Innovative service user-led, third sector and health and social care sector-led models of intervention and support.
- Critical perspectives on families: breaking down taboos and overcoming stigma and discrimination.
- To hear news from the Family Nurse Partnership programme team
- To hear the latest news from SCIE national team leading on Think Child, Think Parent, Think Family and local implementation sites
- Personal perspectives on living in a family where a parent has severe mental health problems.
Confirmed speakers:
- Tara Weeramanthri CAMHS psychiatrist, SLAM, to chair morning session
- John Burnham Head of Family and Systemic Psychotherapy and Director of Systemic Training CAMHS, BCH (Birmingham Children's Hospital)
- Hugh Constant Practice development manager, Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Mary Clarke , DH Family Nurse Partnership psychology lead.
Who is the day for?
The event is aimed at practitioners working with adults, children and young people and families across health and social care and the third sector, including Safeguarding Children’s leads; parents and carers with experience of using mental health services; commissioners of children and families and adult mental health services; ‘families with complex needs’ leads and team members; equality and diversity leads; transformation leads; mental health policy organisations; researchers and mental health campaigners.
We are keen to include perspectives from people with direct experience of using mental health and family services and will reserve 25% of places free of charge for service users who are unwaged.
CPD certificate available on completion of day.
Cost
Provisional full cost place £125. Early bird booking discount (£95) for places booked before Friday 11th November. And because we know that budgets are stretched, we are offering a 10% discount on 10 places or more. Please note that we are seeking additional funding for the event to allow us to reduce the fee. If you are interested in attending please register your interest and we will confirm the cost as soon as possible.