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Meriden Family Programme

The Meriden Family Work Programme is a training and organisational development programme, which has been promoting the development of family-sensitive, evidence-based mental health services since 1998, with a particular emphasis on the implementation of family work. It is an NHS programme with extensive experience of working with organisations to ensure families remain at the heart of quality mental health service delivery.

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ISPS UK Day Conference - Good Enough Psychiatry

Good enough psychiatry:
What makes psychiatrists effective for people who experience psychosis?

Tuesday, July 2nd 2013
The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC24 3E

The conference is about how psychiatrists can have a positive impact through the way they relate to service users and families and through the way they talk back about psychosis.  The day will focus on these issues rather than on specific intervention such as medication and therapies.

Speakers & Chair: Kevin Healy, Jen Kilyon, David Kingdon, Rose McCabe, Brian Martindale, Carine Minne, John Read, Elisabeth Svanholmer.
 
The issues to be covered are very relevant not just to psychiatrists but to all professionals, and to people who use services and their families and friends.
 
Please see attached flyer and programme for further information.
 
 
For further information, please contact Ali Haddock on 0845 166 4168.
 
Please return completed form to:   Ali Haddock, ISPS UK, PO Box 7383, Bozeat, Wellingborough, Northants NN8 9FB or e-mail to admin@ispsuk.org

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Bipolar IAPT SMI Site

Date for your diary!
 
How can we improve services for people who live with Bipolar Disorder in our local areas?
 
Open day:  Thursday 11 July 2013
Location:  Central Birmingham
 
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and the Spectrum Central for Mental Health Research at Lancaster University are working in partnership  to facilitate the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Severe Mental Illness (SMI) Demonstration Site for Bipolar Disorder.
 
Please see attached flyer for further information and registration details:
 

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Caring for Yourself

If you have used the Caring for Yourself self-help manual we would be really grateful if you could take a few moments to complete a feedback sheet.  Your experience of using the manual will help us to review and develop the content.  You can access the feedback sheet by clicking on this link

Feedback Form - Final.pdf

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Caring for Yourself

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Rethink Mental Illness and the Meriden Family Programme have created a new resource called Caring for Yourself which has been developed to help carers, family and friends who support someone with a mental health problem.

Caring for Yourself is a self-help workbook in eight parts that can be used in an entirely flexible way. Launched in Carers Week in 2012, the workbook is now available as a very useful information and educational resource designed to help carers. It will also be helpful for professionals who work with carers so that they can refer carers to the resource where appropriate.

Each of the eight parts of the workbook cover a different topic:
 
1.      Introduction
2.      Being a carer
3.      Information
4.      Communication skills
5.      Problem solving and goal achievement
6.      Relapse management and staying well
7.      Recovery and hope
8.      Taking care of yourself
 
The self-contained workbook can be used at the carers own pace and in their own time. It can be used along with a training programme for carers such as Rethink Mental Illness Caring and Coping Programme or Meriden’s Caring for Carers Programme or it can be used independently.
 
The resource is available online and is free to download. However, Caring for Yourself cannot be completed online. Carers who are unable to download a copy and who would like further information should contact:
 
Sam Farooq on 0121 301 2896 or email sam.farooq@bsmhft.nhs.uk
 
1.      Introduction
2.      Being a carer
3.      Information
4.      Communication skills
5.      Problem solving and goal achievement
6.      Relapse management and staying well
7.      Recovery and hope
8.      Taking care of yourself

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