Conference - Working with people who self injure
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A National conference in the West Midlands
Working with service users (mainly women)
in adult Mental Health services
who self-injure as a survival strategy
Come and join us on the 12th September 2006 at "The Learning Centre", St George's Hospital, South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to consider and debate the issues:
Does the prevalent 'prevention' model work?
Is a 'harm-reduction' approach a better option?
What do service users say they want and need?
How do we define the group who self-injure safely?
What are professional 'code of conduct' implications?
The Conference is for all those with an interest in/responsibility for the management of self-injury:
Senior managers
Practitioners
Service users
Royal Colleges
Legal profession
The Conference Programme will be chaired by Joe Nichols, Professional Advisor, Nursing and Midwifery Council, starting off with listening to the experiences of women service users followed by short presentations on how harm-reduction or harm-minimisation works in practice. with the rest of the day devoted to workshops to discuss the pros and cons of this approach: defining the client group - risk assessment - care planning - care pathways - support and therapeutic approaches - staff support / supervision underpinned by 'code of conduct' implications.
Conference Fee:
All professional delegates: £50-00 (including lunch) apart from representatives of host organisations
Service users: No charge
To book a place, please send your booking form and payment to:
Antoinette Wallace
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
The Elms
Corporation Street
Stafford
ST16 3AG
Cheques are to be made payable to:
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Any cancellations received before the 1st September will be refunded less a £20 administration fee, no refunds can be made after this date but substitutions will be made at any time.
The conference is being co-hosted by:
Department of Health and NIMHE
as part of the national exploratory exercise on these issues.
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
which is piloting a harm-reduction approach in it's acute service.
Sussex Partnership Trust
which uses a harm-reduction approach in its specialist women's services.
Staffordshire University
which is considering the training implications.
Royal College of Nursing
which has been conducting research into nurses' awareness.
Please note: Sussex Mad is only helping promote this conference, not actually involved with the running of it, so please send any questions to South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust not Sussex Mad, although feedback from people on what the conference was like would be very welcome!
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