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Monday 10th of September

0830   Registration

          Chair Mr Liam MacGabhann

0900   Opening Remarks - Welcome (Prof Anne Scott)

0915   Keynote Address – Assoc Prof Priscilla Ridgway

         Overturning Deadening Myths of Chronicity: Listening for Stories of Resilience

1000   Refreshment Break

1020   Performance - Chair Liz Hickey

Is There Anything We Can Do?
Written by Mary Moynihan and Paul Kennedy
Performed by Margaret Toomey
Taken from Testimonies
Presented by
Smashing Times Theatre Company Ltd. .
 

1115   Keynote Address – Prof Arthur Frank

         How Stories Make Experience Possible, and How They Make Life Dangerous

 

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1200

The Labyrinth - a Pathway to Healing and Growth

Mr Tony Christie

Ways of living in the moment

Ms Mary Maddock

Integrated approach to trauma and phobia

Mr Findlay Collins

Ordinary psychotherapy with extraordinary experience

Mr Richard Lakeman

1300 Lunch

 

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The Labyrinth as a Tool for Psychosocial Healing

Mr Tony Christie 

Irish Voices

Mr Brian Hartnett

Clubhouse: Recovery, Innovation & Change

Ms Carmel Doyle, Mr Patrick Fitzpatrick, Ms Anne O’Loughlin, & Ms Mary Kelly
 

The Divided Self and the Good Enough Psychiatric Nurse

Prof Tony Warne & Ms Sue McAndrew

1430

 

The Body in Process

Mr John Keane

Promoting and Supporting Recovery: The Scottish Experience

Ms Taryn Carlton

The Dish of Your Discourse: A Carer's Perspective on 'Treatment, Language and Empowerment

Dr Tess Maginess

1500    Refreshment Break

1525    Keynote Address – Prof Phil Barker

           What's the point?: The death of vocation in the age of celebrity

1610    Panel Discussion (Chair – Paddy McGowan)

1715    Close

1730    Drinks at Matt Weldon’s Bar

 

Tuesday 11th of September

0845    Registration

           Chair - Mr Martin Rogan

0915    Keynote Address – Prof Thomas Szasz

          Psychopathology: Mendacity and Metaphor

1000    Keynote Address – Prof Paul Verhaeghe

          “Chronicle of a death foretold”: The end of psychotherapy

1045    Refreshment Break

1110    Panel Discussion (Chair Prof John Cutcliff)

 

 

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1200

Partnership and Participation in the Mental Health Services: Facilitating Service User Involvement

Shari McDaid, Liz Brosnan & Louie Maguire

Escaping from Babel - Hosting Therapeutic Conversations With Children and Adolescents

Mr Andrew Duggan

The Role of Advocacy in Promoting Recovery in Mental Health

Mr Joe Keane

 

Music in mental health settings - a social language

Mr Kevin O'Shanahan

1300 Lunch

 

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1400

Disability and Power; locus of control for the selective use of prosthetics for people with limited mobility

Dr Kerry Greer

The 'Recovery Context Inventory': A personal recovery environment audit tool

Mr Tom O’Brien

Don't ask me how I cope, but don't tell them how I do: Humorous reflections of a palliative care bereavement counsellor

Mr Mark Gibney

Therapy in the 21st century: Wounded healers, suffering and the psychotherapeutic process

Ms Benig Mauger

1430

The impact of supported employment on quality of life and mental health of people with intellectual disabilities: What happens when the job breaks down?

Dr Pauline Banks

FRED- Rehabilitation: A New Zealand Perspective

Mrs Jennie Synnott

The dream catcher: Dying to escape the sado-masochistic fag machine

Ms Sue McAndrew

An analysis of the need for counselling and prison based addiction treatment in one Irish Prison

Mr Gerard Moore

1500

Innovations in Educational Evaluation

Dr Margaret Webb, Ms Eileen Courtney, Ms Therese Leufer and Mr Gerard Clinton

 

Supporting parents and carers of young people with deliberate self-harm

Ms Carole Boylan, Dr Sophia Morgan, Ms Sinead Byrne, Prof Carol Fitzpatrick, Dr Hilary Graham, Ms Julie Howley, Ms Sinead Crowley

Surviving being suicidal: What money can't buy and statistics can't tell us

Mr Richard Lakeman

A grounded theory study of recovering from recurrent mental health problems

Ms Yulia Kartalova-O'Doherty

1530     Break

 

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1600

Discovering intra cultural meanings and mutual understandings in a hostile place

Mr Liam Mac Gabhann

Applying a mindfulness-based approach to understanding obesity and enabling positive behaviour change

Mr Michael Daly and Professor Malcolm MacLachlan (supervisor)

Another Way

Mrs Joan Hamilton

International Festival: A Means of Promoting Inter-culturalism & Parental Involvement in the Primary School

Ms Marie Reidy

1630

   

Relationship of Social Comparison Processes to Physical and Mental Adjustment and Levels of  Depression Among Stroke Support Group Attendees

Ms Claire Tobin 

I had a dream (but I got committee membership): authority, representativeness, collusion and protest in the service user movement

Mr Jim Walsh, Richard Lakeman and Paddy McGowan

1700    Close

1900    Conference Dinner – Jameson’s Distillery

 

Wednesday 12th of September

0900    Registration -

           Chair Prof John Cutcliff

0930    Keynote Address – Prof Dawn Freshwater

           Culture, understanding and narrative: Embodying psycho-social symbols of health

1015    Keynote Address – Dr Siobhán Barry

            'Advances in Psychiatric Care & Treatment'

1100    Refreshment Break

 

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Research for the Community: Science Shop

Ms Nora Shovelin

It’s good go talk: Distress disclosure and psychological wellbeing

Mr Mark Ward

Re-defining Empowerment in Mental Health: The  connection to ‘Power to’

Ms Shari McDaid

Grieving for myself: A phenomenological hermeneutical study of women’s lived experience of postnatal depression

Ms Denise Lawler

1200

"If I am not me who am I" Working with a person after a brain injury

Mr Keith Oulton

Partners in Words or Deeds? Evidence of Strategic and Therapeutic Partnerships in Mental Health

Ms Liz Brosnan

Foucauldian interpretations of risk, power and gender in mental health nurses’ descriptions of managing aggression and violence in their practice

Dr Anne Matthews, Angela Cocoman, Prof Maritta Välimäki & Prof Anne Scott

Embodiment, illness and medical treatment: A phenomenological study

Ms Grainne Ni Mhaille

1230

Forum Theatre Presentation Schizophrenia Ireland, Women Together Network

Ms Marie McNamara

 

A relational-recovery oriented perspective of the psychotic experience: tuning into and making meaning out of "madness": A virtual reality workshop

Dr David Cameron and Paddy McGowan

Colouring in the landscape of emotionality: Painting clinical reflection

Prof Tony Warne & Ms Sue McAndrew

 

An investigation of the potential psychosocial implications of genetic testing for breast ovarian cancer outside the customary clinical setting

Ms Ann Buckmaster

1300

Facilitating expressions of the self: Being a children’s nurse

Dr Imelda Coyne & Ms Emer Ward

Accounting for MRSA: Organisational change and hospital-acquired infections in the Irish health care system

Siobhan MacDermott, Colleen O’Neil, Mary Clynes, Nora Kilkullen, Stephanie Lawrence, Sara Raftery, & Sabina Stan

1330    Closing Remarks

1345    Lunch and finish

 

Poster Presentations
 
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HRB National Psycholoigcal Wellbeing and Distress Survey - Dr Donna Doherty

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Irish Internet users searching for health information online: An analysis of key demographic and self-reported mental health characteristics - Ms Silvia Gallagher

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NPIRSCOMCAR – A database to capture both inpatient and community care mental health services activity in Ireland - Mr Derek Beattie

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Re-admissions to Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals 2001-2005 - Ms Antoinette Daly

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Risk factors that influence suicidal behaviour in men - Ms Elizabeth McAdam  & Ms Susan Hourican

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The concept of 'Hopelesness' in Mental Health - Ms Fiona Horgan

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The Psychological Consequences of Perceived Stigma in a Non-Clinical Sample - Ms Maeve Proctor & Mr Roger Woodward

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Facilitating the process of recovery and choice within a social housing mental health project in Ireland - Ms Teresa Tuohy

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Waiting for a kidney transplant: The experience of being a patient on haemodialysis therapy - Ms Aoife Moran , Prof Anne Scott & Prof Philip Darbyshire