The IIMHN has issued a call to all members for agenda items for the Annual General Meeting, which will take place on Wednesday 11th October at 2pm. Venue: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 24 D’Olier Street Dublin 2, Room 1.29. Items for inclusion should be sent to secretary@iimhn.ie for 4th October 2017. New Members are welcome.
Dear Members
Please note that the IIMHN AGM 2017 has been rescheduled for Wednesday 11th October at 2pm. Venue: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 24 D’Olier Street Dublin 2, Room 1.29.
The IIMHN is pleased to announce and support the ‘CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AND BEYOND “CHANGE” IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES’ Conference 2017 in UCC, on the 15th AND 16th NOVEMBER 2017. The conference is organised by the School of Applied Social Studies and the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, in association with the Critical Voices Network Ireland. The conference, now in its 9th year is unique, as it is free for all participants and it involves people from diverse backgrounds (self-experience, survivors, professionals, academics, carers) presenting, discussing and debating critical and creative perspectives on and beyond the dominant bio-medical approach. The 2010 conference saw the launch of the Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI), a network of people interested in considering and developing responses to human distress, which are creative, enabling, respectful and firmly grounded in human rights. The conference aims to explore and debate critical perspectives on and beyond:
– What do we understand by ‘better’ mental health services?
– Do we need mental health services at all? If so, what should they look like? If not, what other ways are there?
– The politics of changing mental health services.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers (in alphabetical order):
Concurrent Sessions: there will be workshops and oral presentations, related to the conference theme.
Call for Oral Presentations/Workshops (45 minutes’ duration) extended to 29 September: Submit an abstract (in Word – 250 words max) related to the conference theme, outlining its aims and intentions and a brief bio (in Word – 150 words max). Email abstract and bio to l.sapouna@ucc.ie.
Full programme: Full details will be available in mid October on http://www.ucc.ie/en/nursingmidwifery/news/ and http://www.ucc.ie/en/appsoc/resconf/conf/. Check http://www.uccconferencing.ie/walking-distance/ for accommodation. To get to Brookfield (UCC) check http://www.ucc.ie/en/visitors/getting-here/ Parking facilities are limited around UCC. Try car park next to Kingsley Hotel, Victoria Cross (10 walk from venue via footbridge behind Western Gateway Building on Western Road). Coffees and lunches not included. There are restaurants and cafes in and around the conference venue.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Venue: Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, University College Cork, Ireland.
Booking: Email Harry Gijbels h.gijbels@ucc.ie and make sure you give your name, and indicate the day(s) you wish to attend (either Wednesday 15 November, Thursday 16 November, or both days). Booking will be confirmed by return email. Please bring the booking confirmation slip with you to the conference registration desk on the day(s) you are attending.
The Conference organisers are Lydia Sapouna, School of Applied Social Studies and Harry Gijbels (retired), Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Ireland.
The IIMHN workshops on the Maastricht Interview and working with paranoia and making sense of unusual beliefs to be delivered by Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt in DCU are now full and Bookings are closed.
The IIMHN is pleased to announce workshops on working with paranoid delivered by Peter Bullimore and Shaun Hunt.
The Maastricht Interview for Voice Hearing
A Two Day Workshop
Facilitators: Peter Bullimore & Shaun Hunt
28th & 29th August 2017
School of Nursing and Human Sciences
Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 11
Funded by the Nursing and Midwifery Planning Development Unit, Health Service Executive – North
Organised by the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing in association with Dublin City University
WORKING THROUGH PARANOIA AND MAKING SENSE OF UNUSUAL BELIEFS
Facilitator: Peter Bullimore & Shaun Hunt
30th August 2017
School of Nursing and Human Sciences
Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 11
Funded by the Nursing and Midwifery Planning Development Unit, Health Service Executive – North
Organised by the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing in association with Dublin City University
To arrange a place contact:
Dr Mary Farrelly
School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University
Phone: 7007913
Email: mary.farrelly@dcu.ie
The IIMHN have launched a position paper on Trauma Informed Practice at the IIMHN Annual Conference on 18th/19th May 2017 “Collaborative Relationships-Challenges/Opportunities for Mental Health Nursing”, which identifies core internationally accepted principles by which nurses can easily, within their scope of practice and organisational responsibilities engage in trauma informed practice:
‘In light of contemporary evidence we can expect that the majority of people using mental health services do so in part because of unresolved trauma. Therefore it is incumbent upon mental health nurses to take a ‘Trauma Informed Practice’ approach to their interactions with service users’.
Simon McCarthy-Jones has just had a new book published on hearing voices entitled “Cant you Hear Them”. It is fairly focused on the role of trauma, the alternative understandings and support provided by the HVM, and includes stories from people such as Pete Bullimore, which are important for the public hear. Amazon in its description of the book describes how the “…experience of ‘hearing voices’, once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild. Yet an alternative account, forged predominantly by people who hear voices themselves, argues that hearing voices is an understandable response to traumatic life-events. There is an urgent need to overcome the tensions between these two ways of understanding ‘voice hearing’.” The book considers neuroscience, genetics, religion, history, politics and the experiences of voice hearers themselves. It challenge established and seemingly contradictory understandings and tries to create a joined-up explanation of voice hearing based on evidence rather than ideology.
Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing Conference 2017 will take place on May 18th and 19th 2017 in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, UCD. The theme this year is “Collaborative Relationships-Challenges/Opportunities for Mental Health Nursing”.
Confirmed keynote speakers are Eithne Cusack, Rufus May, Elisabeth Svanholmer, Rory Doody, Francis Walsh, Margaret Duggan and Adrienne Adams. The conference will also feature the return of the Hypothetical Debate and the Launch of the IIMHN Position Paper on Trauma Informed Care.
Abstracts are invited from all groups on areas related to the conference theme. The closing date for abstract submission is 13th April 2017. Guidelines for abstracts for concurrent papers and posters are here and the requirements for poster presentations are here. Mental Health Nursing students are especially welcome and there will be a student competition category for posters on the day.
The conference is supported by Nursing & Midwifery Planning & Development, Quality & Clinical Care Directorate, Health Service Executive, Dublin North.
Conference registration is closed
| 18th May 2017 | Thursday |
| Morning session | |
| 08.30 – 09.30 | Registration and Coffee |
| 09.30 – 09.45 | Opening Address: Dr Mary Farrelly Chair IIMHN |
| 09.45 – 10.30 | Keynote: Elizabeth Svanholmer and Rufus May |
| 10.30 – 11.15 | Keynote: Eithne Cusack
Collaborative Relationships – The importance of Corporate Collaboration and influence for Mental Health Nursing |
| 11.15 – 11.45 | Coffee |
| 11.45-13.00 | Session Papers |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch and poster viewing |
| Afternoon session | |
| 14.00-15.00 | Keynote: Adrienne Adams |
| 15.00-16.00 | Collaborative Relations Workshop |
| 19th May 2017 | Friday |
| Morning session | |
| 08.30 – 09.30 | Registration and Coffee |
| 09.30 – 11.15 | Collaborative Relations: Hypothetical Debate |
| 11.15-11.45 | Coffee |
| 10.30 – 11.15 | Keynote: Francis Walsh |
| 11.45 – 12.30 | Keynote: Rory Doody and Margaret Duggan |
| 12.30 – 13.15 | Launch of IIMHN Position Paper on Trauma Informed Care |
| 13.15-14.00 | Poster prizes and close of conference |
The IIMHN would like to congratulate Professor Agnes Higgins on her appointment as Chairperson of Mental Health Reform. This is a hugely prestigious appointment in the field of mental care. Mental Health reform is the national coalition, providing a unified voice driving progressive reform of mental health supports in Ireland. With over 50 member organisations and 10,000 individual supporters, MHR provides a consensus voice to Government and its agencies on how to improve the mental health system. MHR’s vision is of an Ireland where people with mental health difficulties can recover their wellbeing and live a full life in the community. MHR conducts research, consults with stakeholders, develops good practice advice, informs policymakers and public agencies, and mobilises supporters to advocate for change.
Congratulations Agnes, it is fitting recognition and acknowledgment of the transformative work you have done in the field of mental health care. We in the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing wish you every success in your new role.
The IIMHN in conjunction with the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin are please to offer a Master Class on ‘Understanding “Recovery” in mental health and disability: Critical approaches to practice, research and professional education’, to be delivered by Kathryn Church and Danielle Landry, School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University. Places are limited booking is required, email: Jeni Ryan ryanjen@tcd.ie to book a place.
Monday 7th November 2016- 4pm-6pm
Room 0.54,
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, D’Olier Street.
Kathryn Church is Director and Associate Professor in the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University. A sociologist by training, Kathryn uses cultural forms –most recently public exhibits — to link social science inquiry to public education. She is co-curator of Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember an award-winning exhibit of activist disability history now in the permanent collection of the Canadian Human Rights Museum. Kathryn’s involvement as a Mad movement ally dates back 30 years to the first formations of “consumer participation” and the use of psychiatric survivor narratives in/against mental health policy formation. She is the author of Forbidden Narratives: Critical Autobiography as Social Science, and a dozen plain-text documents on psychiatric survivor-led economic development initiatives, and the documentary film Working Like Crazy. Co-researcher for the study Mental Health Recovery: Users and Refusers, she is currently engaged in the activist project of blending disability and Mad studies.
Danielle Landry teaches Mad People’s History in the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University. She is also a PhD student in sociology at York University in Toronto. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research aims to re-theorize how we understand accessibility for people with psychiatric disabilities in the workplace. This research will involve conducting a case study of social enterprises currently operating in Ontario that are run by psychiatric consumer/survivors. Danielle’s MA research used critical discourse analysis to investigate psychiatric survivor-led research in Canada and the UK. As an active member of Toronto’s mad community, Danielle was involved in the Psychiatric Disabilities Anti-Violence Coalition and she is currently secretary of the board of the Empowerment Council, an independent systemic advocacy group operating within Canada largest mental health and addictions hospital (CAMH).