Description
Mental Health Today Wales 2019 (or MHT Wales 2019) is a CPD-certified event for professionals and service users from different mental health sectors. The event’s aim is to help and encourage progress in mental health services. We will do so by provoking discussions, improving knowledge and, above all, championing the voices of those who aren’t often heard.
You will spend the day with key thought-leaders in mental health, as they address today’s most competitive challenges. Most importantly, you’ll go home with new insights and strategies that will help improve crisis care, better understand equality and diversity, and recognise mental health conditions.
This vibrant and inspiring event will consist of 3 main streams:
- Policy and Practice – Room 1.
- Children and Young People – Room 2.
- Mental Health Disorders – Room 3.
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Programme
22 May 2019
Room 1: Policy and Practice.
09.55 – 10.00 Chair’s welcome
10.00 – 10.30 Keynote Address: Future of Mental Health Care in Wales – 10 Year Plan Update and the New MHA.
MHA Review – Andy Bell, Deputy Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health
10.45 – 11.30
11.45 – 12.30
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch and Exhibition
Room 2: Children and Young People.
10.00 – 10.30
10.45 – 11.30
11.45 – 12.30
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch and Exhibition
14.30 – 15.15
15.30 – 16.15 Trauma-Informed Approaches, Siobhan Parry, Sarah Wills and Candice Ringer, Gofal
Room 3: Mental Health Disorders.
10.45 – 11.30
11.45 – 12.30 Talking Therapists: What Makes a Match, Matrics Cymru, Andrea Gray, Mental Health Development Lead for Wales, Public Health Wales
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch and Exhibition
14.30 – 15.15 The Power Threat Meaning Framework – 18 Months on, Dr Lucy Johnstone, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
15.30 – 16.15 Living Life on the Borderline, Bethan Rees, Marketing and Communications Manager for City Hospice, Cardiff
Speakers
Andy Bell has been with the Centre for Mental Health since 2002. Previously working for the King’s Fund, he began as Director of Communications, becoming Deputy Chief Executive in 2009. He is a member of the Mental Health Policy Group and was chair of the Mental Health Alliance between 2006 and 2008. Andy has carried out research on the implementation of national mental health policies and on local mental health needs assessments. He writes a regular blog on mental health policy for the Huffington Post.
Dr Lucy Johnstone is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and the author of ‘Users and Abusers of Psychiatry‘. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate and was the lead author of ‘Good practice guidelines on the use of psychological formulation’. Lucy has worked in Adult Mental Health settings for many years, most recently in service in South Wales. Furthermore, Lucy was the project lead for the ‘Power Threat Meaning Framework’. Finally, Lucy Johnstone is an experienced conference speaker and lecturer. She currently works as an independent trainer.
Andrea Gray is the Mental Health Development Lead for Wales within the 1000 Lives Improvement team in Public Health Wales. Her role is to provide professional and policy advice to the Welsh Government and to support policy implementation and service development and improvement within the health service, local authorities and partner agencies. Previously she worked in Welsh Government as the Mental Health Legislation Manager, with responsibilities which included the ‘Duty to Review’ the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 and revising the Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice for Wales. Andrea qualified as a probation officer and social worker in 1988 and has worked in London and south Wales. She qualified as a systemic and family therapist in 2001 and this theoretical framework continues to influence her thinking and practice. Her particular interests include how we create accessible and appropriate mental health services as well as developing the centrality of the therapeutic relationship. Anfrea is committed to using data to inform and drive service improvement and how what matters to service users, their families and carers must be at the heart of both the design and implementation of mental health and learning disability services.
Bethan Rees is the Marketing and Communications Manager for City Hospice in Cardiff. She was officially diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in October 2017 after suffering from a breakdown. Bethan has struggled all her life with her mental health but now speaks openly about her experiences as a Time to Change Wales Champion and a Mind Cymru Media Volunteer. She has written for websites such as Time To Change, Mind, WalesOnline, The Independent, The Huffington Post and BBC Wales. She also has her own blog, My Anxiety Matters.
Audience
Who will attend Mental Health Today Wales 2019?
- Frontline professionals and practitioners
- Commissioners, service managers, mental health leads
- Academics, researchers and trainers
- People who use mental health services and their unwaged family carers
- Psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrics
- Counsellors and therapists
- Mental health nurses, care workers, support workers
- Occupational therapists, social workers
- Advocacy workers
- Undergraduate and postgraduate students
Venue
Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
Mary Ann St
Cardiff
CF10 2EQ
Event Details
Date: May 22, 2019
Start time: 10:00 a.m.
End time: 16:15 p.m.
Venue: Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Mary Ann St, Cardiff, CF10 2EQ
Phone: +44 (0)1273 434 943
Email: info@pavpub.com
