Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability
IPD Conference – Friday 9th December 2022
PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
Disability Psychotherapy: Reasonable Adjustments
9.30am – 4.35pm
at University College Dublin, Ireland
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
This conference invites all people who work in or who are interested in disability psychotherapy, focusing primarily on intellectual disability to come together for a day of reflection on the work to date and the future of disability psychotherapy.
ABOUT THE ORGANISERS
Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability (IPD, UK) formed in 2000, together with Disability Psychotherapy Ireland, Callan Institute, Saint John of God Community Services clg. and University College Dublin.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
EVERYONE with all kinds and levels of training and background interested in mental health of all citizens with a focus on psychotherapy with children and adults with an intellectual disability.
link to flyer
Down’s syndrome
On behalf of the IPD we would like to draw your attention to a press release welcoming the historic November 26th 2021 ruling that people with Down’s syndrome will be legally recognised as a minority after landmark backing in parliament.
It puts them on a footing with other minorities with councils and schools needing to meet their needs. Conservative cabinet minister Liam Fox brought this bill forward with the National Down Syndrome Policy Group. Care minister Gillian Kegan said the bill would make “a significant difference to ensuring health, education, social care and housing needs are met” .
IPD conference at RCP in 2022
IPD will be holding a conference will be at the Royal College of Psychiatrists on the 1st February 2022.
Details are forthcoming. Please make a note in your diary
In-memory-Covid-and-people-with-a-learning-disability
David O’Driscoll – Learning Disability Today, 24 May 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic affected people with a learning disability disproportionally from the rest of the general population. David O’Driscoll, a grief expert, asks whether we should mark the deaths in the community in some way so people know that these deaths matter.
https://www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/in-memory-covid-and-people-with-a-learning-disability
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