Mental Health Today Online 2021
Day 3 – Thursday, 20 May
Best Practice and professional development are crucial not only to how organisations and policymakers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic but also for continuing the progress that has been made in recent years regarding elevating standards of care.
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Session Description
Session 5 – Thursday, 20 May 2021
Time: 1:30pm GMT
Title: The changing face of therapy
Description: The integration of technology into mental health care: what will the digital revolution mean for services?
Detailed Description: In line with the digital zeitgeist, the pandemic has necessitated that mental health services incorporate technology further into their practices and patient care plans. However, this move hasn’t been without complications, not only because of the impromptu swiftness of that change, but also because the transfer from in person to technology mediated care has been challenging for some patients due to the nature of their mental health condition or because of digital poverty.
Although despite the pandemic, healthcare is undoubtably going through a digital revolution, considering that our lives are increasingly digitalised, and services are merely playing catchup to this new reality.
In this session we will be discussing the role of technology in mental health care, examining recently published research from Mind exploring digitalisation during the pandemic as well as thinking through the wide-ranging benefits of digital mediated care and investigating the role of mental health professionals in the use of these technologies and in the safeguarding of its limitation.
Presenters:
Leila Reyburn
Leila is the policy and campaigns manager for Mind; focuses on improving access and quality of mental health services for all people who have mental health problems. Her educational background is in the social sciences, having received a BA in Politics and Human Rights at Essex University, and a MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS.
Previously she has worked in a non-clinical role in an NHS Mental Health Trust, before moving into a focus on health inequalities as a consultant, largely focused on public health. And she ran Stonewell’s Department of Health funded programme promoting the health of LGBTQI+ people.
Tim Barker, CEO of Kooth
Tim is CEO of Kooth plc, one of the UK’s largest digital mental health platforms. With over 30 years of experience in the tech industry, his experience spans start-up to scale-up, and leadership roles across product, marketing, and commercial.
Prior to Kooth, Tim was CEO of DataSift, privacy-by-design analytics, and AI platform, acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Previously, he led EMEA Marketing at Salesforce to help establish the cloud computing industry and scale them to become a billion-dollar business.
Edward Moody
Edward is a qualified as an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist in 2011 at the University of Leeds and started working in IAPT the same year. He has worked as a counsellor/psychotherapist in IAPT for the past 10 years. In 2014 he further completed training in NICE recommended treatment for depression Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) and qualified the same year.
In his current role he is part of the clinical management team at Turning Point Talking Therapies which includes being the team leader of the IAPT team and has a caseload of clients for Interpersonal Therapy (IPT).
Session 6 – Thursday, 20 May 2021
Time: 3:00pm GMT
Title: Working Effectively with Personality Disorder
Description: Working Effectively with Personality Disorder
Detailed Description: This session is about a contemporary approach to helping people who have the problems associated with a ‘personality disorder’ diagnosis. Jo and Sharon will examine how new and effective ways of working need to be more collaborative, system based and promoting of social action. They will explore some of the critical perspectives in their book Working Effectively with ‘Personality Disorder’ to suggest there are three key issues that are problematic with our current service provision. To conclude Jo and Sharon will talk about what they think are the fundamental shifts that should be made, and the way clinicians should think about the work which would orientate us to a new and better direction.
Presenters:
Dr Jo Ramsden
Jo is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead for the Yorkshire/Humberside Personality Disorder Partnership (YHPDP). YHPDP is part of Leeds Personality Disorder services and works in partnership with the national probation service as part of the national Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) strategy. Jo is interested in and committed to finding a way of working with people who are, typically, excluded from services and/or whose contact with services has been damaging. The importance of organisational anxiety is, she believes, paramount to helping us find a way of working restoratively with some of the more intractable difficulties and damaging practices. Services and providers can work better where they are able to examine themselves.
Sharon Prince
Sharon is a Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist and is the Clinical Lead for the Personality Disorder Services within Leeds and also the Strategic Lead for Psychological Professions within Leeds & York Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust. The award winning Personality Disorder Service has a national reputation for being psychologically informed and for continuous innovation. For over twenty years, her career has been spent working with service users who have been marginalised and excluded from services, and with whom services have often struggled to provide accessible and acceptable services. She is passionate about psychologically informed mental health care and how both psychological and social models can be employed to improve service user, carer and staff experiences.