BSMHD 2006 Annual Conference

Mental Health Services for Deaf People: No longer an option?

Held at Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle
Thursday 25 May 2006
9.00am – 5.00pm

Conference Chair :

Emma Coleman

Director of North East, North West, Yorkshire and Humberside regions at the British Deaf Association.

Programme

Serving TEA in the North East. A medley of presentations from deaf organisations and healthcare organisations involved in a collaborative approach to developing mental health services for deaf people in the North-East, led by Joyce Pennington, Community Psychiatric Nurse, Newcastle, North Tyneside And Northumberland Mental Health NHS Trust.

Towards Equity and Access . To promote the implementation of the recommendations in the Towards Equity and Access Report the Department of Health have established the TEA Implementation Panel and commissioned a number of National Initiatives. A report on progress made by the TEA Panel and the projects:

• The TEA Implementation Panel and Officers – Herbert Klein
• Communication Tactics Training for Healthcare Staff – Roger Hewitt
• Prison Inreach – Sue O’Rourke
• SignHealth – Steve Powell
• Review of Commissioning – Nick Kitson
• Mental Health and Deafness Website – Tessa Padden

Other Presentations and Workshops Included:

The psychosocial influences affecting the length of hospital stay of Deaf mental health service users - Neil Patterson and Di Baines, Research Assistant, QEPH, Psychology Department, Birmingham.

Deafblindness and Mental Health: The mental health needs of adults with dual sensory impairment - Sarah Bodsworth, Isabel C.H. Clare, and Deafblind UK.

Art Therapy - Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq MA, Rachel Coppage PGDipAT, Ailsa McGilp PGDipAT

‘Work hard, improve, better, leave’? What happens when service users don’t change? - Diane Walsh, Head of Social Work, and Sue O’Rourke, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, St George Healthcare Group.

BME Deaf People’s Families & Communities: The Key - Penny Beschizza, Southwark College

Developing a Deaf Studies Curriculum for deaf children in United Kingdom - Robin Ash, Acting Deputy Head/Senior Deaf Educational Instructor, Frank Barnes School, London.

The BSMHD Annual General Meeting was held during the lunch-break.

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