THIRTEENTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Death and Dying and Mental Health Services
Friday 2nd October 2015
Bryn Howel Hotel, Trevor, Llangollen, Denbighshire, LL20 7UW 01978 860331
The NHS has been described as an anti-death service and mental health services in particular are preoccupied by "unnatural" death such as suicide.Death is often viewed as a risk to be managed rather than a loss to be grieved leaving in its wake reviews of risk assessments and the fear of service reviews of untoward incidents.
We try to engender optimism with the rhetoric about recovery and well being but can struggle to talk about ultimate events like dying. On the other hand there appears to be increasing interest in dying as a voluntary act as interest in the assisted dying bill grows and a desire to find new forums for conversation about death and dying. This conference looks at some of these tensions and will offer participants the chance to join in the developing discussion.
Programme
9:00 – 9:30am Registration and Coffee
9:30 – 9:45am Welcome and introduction Roger Banks Psychiatrist in Intellectual Disability Senior Clinical Advisor NHS England
Reading of a poem for the conference
9:45 – 10:45amDeath and dying and mental health services Dr David Crossley Consultant Medical Psychotherapist Chair AWPN
10:45 – 11:15am Coffee
11:15 – 12:15 Something about… soul - death grief and the peripheral seeing in the mental health era. Mary SmailPsychotherapist/Dramatherapist and a Senior trainer in the Jungian based Sesame method. She co-published Dramatherapy with Myths and Fairytales, Pearson, Smail, Watts, 2013, and founded and runs Psyche and Soma – Soul through Sesame, a part-time training (Wales and London)
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 Concurrent Workshops
1.Embracing Death as Part of Life: Exploring experiences of dying, death and bereavement. How have these experiences shaped our adult attitudes? Josefine Speyer, psychotherapist, death educator, Death Cafe host and co-founder of the Natural Death Centre charity.
2.Death a loud! A chance to come together in a group to share experience and reflect on conference themes Linda-Mary Edwards, Group analyst, Tania Bugelli ,Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist
3.Do human beings live in a 'House of Mirrors or a House with Windows?' What can the narratives of terminally ill people show us about the world we inhabit and what does listening deeply teach us about sensitive end of life care?Rachel Stanworth PhD (Pastoral Theology) researcher into how terminally ill people express spiritual needs if they do not use religious language
4.Death disbelief and the fate of the natural world Kate Dufton Consultant Medical Psychotherapist
2:45 – 3:15 Tea
3:15 – 4:30 Concurrent Workshops
5.Your stories of death and dying with the Golden Thread Playback Theatre – a dramatherapy workshop with Gillian Downie, Richard Stephens ,Rose Thorn, Melanie Beer, Robin Wiltshire
6.Suicide mitigation – Dr Alys Cole-King, Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry ,Royal College of Psychiatrists spokesperson on suicide and self harm
7.Older people and the euthanasia and assisted suicide debate: A Foucauldian exploration of their discoursesDr Carolien Lamers Clinical Lecturer Clinical Psychology Bangor University
8.Walking group – an opportunity to be mindfully outdoors with conference contributors
4:30 – 5:00pm Plenary and Closing Ceremony Remarks
Cost £75, students and unwaged £55 - Includes coffee, lunch and tea
THIRTEENTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Death and dying and Mental Health Services
BOOKING FORM
Please return booking slip to:
Dr David Crossley,
Consultant Medical Psychotherapist,
Psychological Therapies Department,
Ty Derbyn
Wrexham Maelor Hospital
Croesnewydd Road
Wrexham
LL13 7TD
Tel: 01978 726754
Please make cheques payable to: “AWPN”
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