Programme -subject to change-
09.00 - 09:25
Registration and Coffee
09:25 - 09:30
Chairman's opening address
Keir Harding, Clinical Lead Beam Consultancy Providing Illumination & Support
Beam Consultancy - Providing Illumination & Support
Keir is an Occupational Therapist and DBT therapist who has worked in mental health over the past 20 years. In the past 10 years he has worked in the field of 'personality disorder', working in and setting up a number of day therapeutic communities. Keir completed his MSc in Personality Disorder this year where his research focused on how teams were able to avoid the use of long term private hospitalisation. Keir set up Beam Consultancy in 2017 to help organisations work more effectively with this client group and cease the use of expensive OOA provision. Keir blogs at TheDiagnosisOfExclusion.wordpress.com and regularly contributes to the Mental Elf website.
09:30 - 10:00
The role of OT in “Personality Disorder”
Ian Merrick, Professional Lead for community occupational therapy, community recovery college and head of VRS, West London NHS Trust
Learning outcomes
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What occupational therapy can offer people with a diagnosis of personality disorder
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Why occupational therapy should be considered as a first rank intervention for people with a diagnosis of personality disorder
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Delivering occupational therapy as part of a multi disciplinary team
Professional Lead for community occupational therapy, community recovery college and head of VRS, West London NHS Trust
I qualified as an occupational therapist in 2000 and have worked in a variety of mental health settings including Broadmoor hospital. I have also lectured in OT at London South Bank University and Southampton University. I trained in DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) in 2003 and worked as part of a multi professional personality disorder service in the community in North Hampshire. The service worked with a specific group of 15 service users who were impacting significantly on mental health services. I have worked with arts therapists, psychologists and other professionals to support people with a diagnosis of personality disorder in their recovery.
10:00 - 10:30
Stigma and Fear: An environment we need to adapt?
Keir Harding,Clinical Lead, Beam Consultancy, Providing Illumination & Support
10:30 - 10:50
Morning Coffee Break and Networking
10:50 - 11:20
What influences occupational participation for people with a personality disorder diagnosis? – an overview of the evidence
Dr Catriona Connell,Senior Forensic Occupational Therapist Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Learning outcomes
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An overview of the evidence
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An overview of the evidence
Senior Forensic Occupational Therapist Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Catriona held an NIHR/HEE Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship, during which she conducted mixed methods research to design a complex intervention. This work focused on how best to increase prosocial occupational participation for people with an offending history and diagnosis/likely diagnosis of personality disorder. Catriona is a member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Research and Development Board, and is a co-founder of the Mental health Occupational Therapy Interventions and Outcomes Network (MOTION). Catriona’s clinical and research interests include personality disorder, occupational participation and the needs of people involved with the criminal justice system.
11:20 - 11:50
Therapeutic relationships and occupation: how do we engage men who are in the criminal justice system?
Becks Blain,Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Learning outcomes
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Looking at the therapeutic relationship and how this is developed with an emphasis on doing-together and with less emphasis on talking-together
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Thinking about how our therapeutic relationships can provide a foundation and framework for further interventions
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Exploring how occupations can be utilised to engage men effectively and how we do this in a forensic inpatient hospital
Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Becks currently works as a clinical specialist occupational therapist in a medium secure unit in Birmingham on a personality focussed recovery ward. She qualified in 2011 from York St John University. She has worked in the area of ‘personality disorder’ for the last 6 years with men transitioning out of prison into the community. Becks is also a dialectical behaviour therapist and has an interest in how occupation can be used to engage men who are in the criminal justice system.
11:50 - 12:20
The Things that Helped Me
Melanie Anne Ball,
Lived Experience Practitioner, Trustwide Peer Support Lead at CNWL, Lecturer at School of Nursing Canterbury CC Uni, Independent Academic Researcher
12:20 - 12:40
Question & Answers with Morning Panel
12:40 - 13:30
Lunch Break and Networking
Workshops
13.30 CONFERENCE CONTINUES AND SPLITS INTO WORKSHOPS, Delegates will attend 2 workshops from the choices below one at 13.30 and one at 14.50, You can state your choices on the booking form
13:30 - 14:30
Workshop A
Using the Model of Human Occupation in the occupational therapy process: Assessment, formulation and intervention planning
Dr. Catriona Connell,
Senior Forensic Occupational Therapist Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
13:30 - 14:30
Workshop B
Hopelessness: Being 'good enough' when your client wants to die
Keir Harding,Clinical Lead Beam Consultancy Providing Illumination & Support
14:30 - 14:50
Afternoon Coffee Break and Networking
14:50 - 15:50
Workshop C
"Taste of TC” Therapeutic Community Principles in Groupwork
Melanie Anne Ball,
Lived Experience Practitioner, Trustwide Peer Support Lead at CNWL, Lecturer at School of Nursing Canterbury CC Uni, Independent Academic Researcher
14:50 - 15:50
Workshop D
How do occupational therapists build on epistemic trust to develop the therapeutic relationship with men who are in the criminal justice system?
Becks BlainClinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, Laurel Ward, Birmingham
Learning outcomes
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Learning about what epistemic trust is and how occupational therapists could use this in their practice, using examples from community working and also a forensic inpatient hospital
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Developing an understanding about how occupational therapists use occupation and activity to develop the man's awareness about themselves and how they relate to others
15:50 - 16:30
Question & Answers with Afternoon Panel and Chair’s Closing Remarks and end of conference
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