The meaning of illness- conference in November

The Meaning of Illness: psychological and social aspects of illness in children and young people

Physical illness and physical symptoms are common in children and young people. Up to 15% have long term physical conditions and approximately 10% experience physical symptoms which cannot be accounted for by physical illness. However there is significant overlap, many children with long term conditions experience symptoms (pain, tiredness etc) which cannot be fully explained by their condition.

Psychological and social understanding of the meaning of illness and physical symptoms is central to providing effective interventions for children and young people. The Meaning of Illness, is a collaboration between the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the European Association of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics. The international conference committee have brought together a distinguished group of clinicians and academics to explore: the meaning of illness, psychological and social aspects of long term conditions, medically unexplained symptoms and factititous induced illness. The headline plenary presentations on childhood long term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms will be followed by workshop presentations. We would encourage early registration for this important conference and seek expressions of interest from clinicians and researchers who are interested in presenting workshops.

Countdown to Highgate 2012…..

Our winter meeting is coming up in January 2012, as usual at Highgate House.

Click on our Highgate page for the latest details

Excellence in Child Mental Health- conference in Istanbul

Early bird registration for this exciting international conference is open- it does look rather splendid, and Istanbul’s amazing…….

http://www.excellence-in-child-mentalhealth.org/ for details

Effects of early trauma on development

Interesting conference on this subject in Brimingham- see flyer here

Sleep medicine training for paediatricians

There are two courses on sleep medicine coming up, run by the Southampton team.

One is a 2 day course for practitioners wanting more knowledge of sleep disorders; the five-day is for people planning their own sleep clinics

2 day child adolescent sleep disorders course outline

2 day paediatric sleep disorders registration form

Sleep practitioner 5 day course outline

Sleep Practitoner 5 day course registration form

NEW Resources website!

Dear members,

We have set up a repository for all of the brilliant documents that you produce to inform practice, as well as selected government/ college documents, and our committee documents.

Please click here for access.

If you want to submit anything, please email maxdavie@gmail.com

Annual report available

The BPMHG annual report can be accessed here:  Annual_Report_2_QS_LD_5[1]

Multidisciplinary conversations in child health: JFN

Please consider signing up to the joining forces network

This is a leaderless email group designed to exchange practice experience – including helping one another with clinical predicaments  –  introduce projects and research, debate policy and theoretical differences and inform others about, or propose, conferences that would be of interest to the membership.

JFN exists to promote collaborative work in child health, to ensure that mental health, psychological, educational, therapeutic, social and all other services are properly understood by each other and by paediatric medical and nursing colleagues and commissioners (all of whom may also be members of the group) and the public. From the point of view of children, adolescents and their families the differences between disciplines are less important than getting the right help when in paediatric care. Joining forces is not intended to be a substitute for any single discipline group you may already belong to. These are vital and necessary for professional development and identity. This is a ‘united nations’ or ‘meta’ group.

To sign up simply email Max Davie maxdavie@gmail.com Carol Hanson mbzz35@ukgateway.net Jacqui Stedmon j.stedmon@plymouth.ac.uk or Sebastian Kraemer kraemer@doctors.org.uk and you will get an invitation very soon.

excellence in child mental health

Cracking looking programme for this conference next month

http://www.excellence-in-child-mentalhealth.org/

Squiggle foundation lecture

We’ve had a flyer for a Squiggle foundation lecture, to be held on 16th October in North London.

Titled “There’s no such thing as a Fetus”, it’s likely to be fairly provocative. In a good way