01/07/2008: Royal College of Psychiatrists' Annual Meeting: Imperial College, London 1st - 4th July 2008
Tuesday, 01 Jul 2008 08:49
Psychiatry without frontiers: integrative mental health practice is the theme of the College's Annual Meeting. This year's is a conference with a difference. It has no sponsorship, and focuses on integrated practice and the role of psychiatry in a multicultural society.
The programme explores some of the key challenges facing the profession today - specific issues, such as NHS reforms and their impact on mental health services, training and legislation; and broader issues around discrimination and disability.
To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the NHS, the College will also launch at the conference its new 3 year-national campaign: a FAIR DEAL for mental health. Further details will be sent in due course.
Psychiatry today is multidisciplinary, with an emphasis on user and carer involvement, and the programme reflects this. The topics are wide-ranging, from developments in brain imaging to film and psychiatry; new approaches to eating disorders to sleep medicine. Examples of specific presentations are:
§ Sexuality, sexual health and ageing
§ Suicide, self-harm and culture
§ Autistic children grown up
§ The neuroscience of addictive disorders
§ Mothers' needs and child protection
§ After Iraq? The mental health of the UK Armed Forces
§ The genes that make cannabis bad for you
§ Tests for Alzheimer's - do we want them?
§ Learning disability and personality disorder
§ Street-smarts psychotherapy with the homeless
§ Clues to brain mechanisms underlying low mood
§ The Mental Health Act 2007: mental health doesn't need doctors any more
§ Terrorism and mental health
§ Mental health services in Iraq: five years later
§ Ethnicity, discrimination and mental health
§ Cyber security and the challenges for the online therapist
§ Victorian madhouses in fact and fiction
§ Neuroscience - a wake up call for British psychiatry?
§ Re-evaluating the action of psychiatric drugs
You are cordially invited to attend the meeting, at which there will be opportunities for the media to interview speakers. A Preliminary Programme is available. Please let Deborah Hart or Thomas Kennedy at the College know if you would like to join us (Tel: 020 7235 2351 ext. 127 or 154 or e-mail: dhart@rcpsych.ac.uk.
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