Deaf People and Mental Health conference
Date: December 2006
The Deaf People and Mental Health conference was the first conference
on this topic for Direct Learn Services. Working with organisations
like the British Society for Mental Health and Deafness, ADARA,
the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care and the European
Society for Mental Health and Deafness, we aimed to organise an
international conference which would allow many people who would
not normally be able to attend conferences abroad to participate.
It was attended by 127 delegates from 11 countries (AUS, AUT, CAN,
ESP, IRE, JPN, NL, NZL, SA, UK, USA).
Feedback for the conference included:
"Outstanding conference with high quality presentations. Stimulating
discussion. Highly recommend it to all interpreters." - Lynn
Nakamoto, Hawaii, USA
The papers are currently not available, but we are hoping to produce
an ebook of the proceedings of the conference in due course.
Presentations:
- Keynote presentation: The characteristics, assessment and treatment
of deaf sex offenders by Dr. Brendan Monteiro (UK)
- Keynote presentation: The impact of experience on clinicians
judgments regarding psychosis symptoms in Deaf patients by Dr. Robert
Pollard (USA)
- Bending the Rules - interpreting in mental health settings by
Ben Karlin (USA)
- Empowering individuals and empowering communities by accessing
education in health related professions by Naomi Sharples (UK)
- Making positive connections - suicide and deaf communities in
Glasgow by Lynne Hawcroft and Elaine Welch (UK)
- Suicide in the deaf community - a literature review by Oliver
Turner and Joanna Wootten (UK)
- Best practices in treatment for children who were exposed to domestic
violence by Brian Berlinski (USA)
- Using videoconferencing in mental health services for deaf children
by Dr. Sara Rhys Jones, Ged Davies and Dr. Sophie Roberts (UK)
- Providing culturally responsive mental health care to deaf indigenous
and CALD people by Lara Denman (AUS)
- Social and emotional challenges of deaf students in special education
in Israel by Dr. Erez Miller (ISR)
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