Call for papers
A major international conference on adolescence is scheduled for 18-19th April 2002 at the Business Design Centre, London.
The conference will address a range of research and social policy issues surrounding adolescence, and follows the successful Parent-Child 2000 event which focused on Early Years. A number of key speakers have already confirmed their attendance.
The organisers are now inviting offers of papers from researchers, teachers, practitioners, youth workers, policy analysts and voluntary organisations. Papers from all points of view and perspectives are welcome.
Papers may present the results of research, describe work in progress or raise questions for social policy debate on issues affecting adolescents for example:
• The changing social, economic and cultural context of adolescence.
• What research says about surviving the years between childhood and adolescence, from both the parents’ and children’s perspective.
• The kind of parenting that produces resilient teenagers.
• Is adolescence now more challenging than in the past?
• How parenting can affect offending behaviour.
• Adolescence and social policy.
• Taking risks without harming others.
• New challenges for adolescents.
The conference is aimed at health professionals, practitioners, clinicians, policy makers, researchers, academics, teachers, psychologists, educationalists, representatives of voluntary organisations and all who work with young people and their families.
Submitting papers
People wishing to offer a paper should send the title, an abstract of no more than 200 words, and a short biography of the main contributor to: Profile Productions (PC 2002), Northumberland House, 11 The Pavement, Popes Lane, London W5 4NG.
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8832 7311, Fax: +44 (0)20 8832 7301, e-mail: pc2002@profileproductions.co.uk
MS conference
The MS Research Trust’s 5th Annual Conference will take place between 11th-13th November, 2001.
This neurological disability conference will discuss national nursing issues and NHS policy as well as quality of life issues. There will also be concurrent workshop/seminar sessions covering aspects of MS to include:
• Spasticity management.
• Immunology.
• Cognition.
• Health needs of women who have MS.
• Disease modifying drugs.
• NICE: MS Guidelines development.
The conference will take place at The Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
For further information and a more detailed programme, please call Kelly Blaney on 020 8772 1551.
Mole conferences
Mole Conferences have announced a series of Mental Health Conferences and Seminars:
Personality Disorders:
9th October 2001. Presenter: Professor Conor Duggan, an afternoon seminar at Britannia Street Conference Centre, London.
Mental Health Services Research:
Conference: 11th October 2001. Putting Evidence into Practice. Conference Director: Professor Graham Thornicroft. A one day conference and an additional day of specialist conferences, administered by Mole Conferences for the Institute of Psychiatry, London. The conference will be held at Regent’s College, London.
Topics include treatments of common mental disorders in primary care, outcomes of home treatments teams for people with severe mental health problems, treatment for dual diagnosis, innovations in the care of people with learning disabilities, assessments needs in developing countries, user led research, ethnicity and suicide, evaluating services for older adults, the outcomes of CBT in psychosis, implementing research in nursing practice.
Plus: Specialist Conferences: 12th October 2001 –
1. Social Care & Mental Health:
Topics include evidence based social care, housing and residential care, social exclusion and social capital, assessment of quality of life, neighbourhood regeneration, flexible welfare benefit arrangements and innovative employment schemes to promote.
2. Economics of Mental Health:
Topics include mental health policy and resource allocation; cost-effectiveness in mental health care interventions; the design of economic evaluations; analysis of economic data in mental health trials; measurement of outcomes appropriate for economic evaluation and methods for the measurement of unit costs.
Coaching Course:
Autumn 2001-Spring 2002.
Coaching: working with specific learning disabilities & developmental disorders: AD/HD, Dyslexia, Aspergers, Dyspraxia. Trainer: Dianne Zaccheo. A 12-day training course in central London.
• The highly acclaimed techniques of Coaching, are currently believed to be the most effective way to help people who suffer with the life-long effects of AD/HD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Aspergers and chronic low performance. The reason is simple: it is very effective, inexpensive and successful very quickly. It is not a replacement for psychotherapy, it is a different skill.
• This 12-day course will lead to a certificate based upon attendance, completion of all course work and competence to practice.
CBT Autumn 2001-Spring 2002:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Trainer: Gladeana McMahon. Four two-day training courses in London, Exeter, Newcastle and Birmingham.
• This series of two day courses, co-hosted by CPC will focus on CBT with an orientation towards those working in primary care.
• This course leads to a certificate which can be used for CPD purposes and as a ‘top-up’ training for those needing to add CBT to their skills range.
Social Exclusion:
Autumn 2001. Professor John Macnicol.
An afternoon seminar at Britannia Street Conference Centre, London.
Psychosis:
16th October 2001. Psychotic transference and counter transference: how to work with our hidden madnesses. Trainer: Heward Wilkinson. A one-day Practitioner Masterclass in central London. This workshop will familiarise practitioners with potentially psychotic clients, or the psychotic layers in non-psychotic clients, introduce ways of working with them (especially in relation to manic depressive/bipolar disorder and schizophrenic disorder), and be in touch with, and to have a sense of how to work from, our own psychotic layers without fear.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder:
18th October 2001. Presenter: Dr. David Veale. An afternoon seminar at Britannia Street Conference Centre, London.
ADHD:
9th November 2001. ADHD in Adult Life: Do they really grow out of it? Convened by Andrea Bilbow, co-ordinator: ADDISS. A one-day conference at Kensington Town Hall. International keynote speaker: Dr. Robert Doyle.
• This conference will look at case studies, research, adult outcomes, the transition from child to adult services via adolescence, assessment, treatment options ranging from medications and psycho-pharmacology, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and other therapies, coaching and the implications of untreated ADHD such as severe depression, antisocial behaviour (for example substance misuse, alcoholism, addiction), and suicide.