A practical and educational event on the challenges and differences of working with Deaf patients in Secure Care.

Introduction

Alpha Hospital Bury is passionate about supporting individuals through Secure Care and improving patients’ well being. Most professionals will encounter only a few Deaf patients in their careers. Deaf psychiatry is a specialist field, we believe strongly in sharing our knowledge at this platform with colleagues and those working with Deaf people.

We hope also to explain to commissioners and professionals who work in hearing services why Deaf specialist services are required in Secure Care.

Alpha Hospital Bury are delighted to announce guest speakers Sally Austen, Consultant Clinical Psychologist from Birmingham Mental Health Services and John Williams, Deputy Director of Deafway in Preston.

Delegates who attend will:

• Develop a deeper understanding of communication needs
• Have an opportunity to learn about Deaf people
• Experience a practical hands on view of therapy sessions through an interpreters eyes
• Gain an understanding from a deaf perspective

Professionals who work in Deaf and hearing services who would benefit from attending include:

• Court Diversion Teams
• Probation Officers
• Mental Disorder Offender Teams
• Barristers
• Commissioning Managers
• Community Psychiatric Nurses
• People who represent deaf service users
• Deaf services
• Consultant Psychiatrists

Alpha Hospital Bury

• Medium Secure Services for Deaf Men
• Medium Secure Services for Deaf Men with Learning Disabilities
• Low Secure Service for Deaf Men
• Medium Secure Service for Men (Assessment Service)
• Medium Secure Service for Men (Rehabilitation Service)
• Medium Secure Service for Men with a Personality Disorder
• Medium Secure Service for Deaf Women
• Medium Secure Service for Women
• Low Secure Service for Women

Alpha Hospital Sheffield

• Forensic Rehabilitation Service for Women
• Low Secure Forensic Service for Women

Alpha Hospital Woking

• Challenging Behaviour Service for Young People
• Psychiatric Intensive Care Service for Young People
• Low Secure Service for Men with Complex Needs

Conference Programme

09.00-09.30
Registration

09.30–09.45
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Patricia Hodgkinson (Chair)
Chief Executive Officer

09.45-10.15
"Pathways Through Secure Care"
Dr Jim Appleford
Clinical Director

10.15-10.45
"How to Achieve Effective Communication"
Craig Flynn, Patients Rights Facilitator
Dr Rob Turner, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

10.45-11.00
Break

11.00-11.40
"Causes of Challenging Behaviour in Deaf People"
Sally Austen
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Deaf Mental Health Services, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham

11.40–12.20
"Barriers within barriers - ways of overcoming obstacles to communication during therapeutic holding"
Nick Horne, Clinical Nurse Specialist
John Williams, Deputy Chief Executive, Deafway

12.20-13.20
Lunch

13.20–13.50
"Let me Show You" - Art Psychotherapy with Deaf people
Marilyn Hoggard
Art Psychotherapist, Bolton Salford & Trafford Mental Health Trust

13.50-14.20
Workshops

14.20-14.50
Workshops

14.50–15.10
Break

15.10–15.30
Panel Questions and Answers

15.30–15.45
Closing Remarks
Patricia Hodgkinson (Chair)
Chief Executive Officer

Workshops
(please choose two out of three workshops)

1. "Innovative Ways of working with patients using the Deaf centred Patient Satisfaction Survey"
Sarah Powell
Assistant Psychologist

2. "Piloting a Communication Skills Profiling Tool"
Lindsay Gagan
Communication & Language Therapist

3. "The Role of the Interpreter in a Therapeutic Session"
Clare Shard, Head of Interpreting
Ali Hetherington, Freelance Interpreter

Please download the booking form for this event - CLICK HERE.