Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability
Disability Psychotherapy – New Perspectives – On-line Conference
| Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability (IPD) Free Online Conference Friday 27th September 2024 Disability Psychotherapy – New Perspectives Audience: Psychotherapy professionals, staff working in LD, psychiatrists, Speech and language therapists, arts psychotherapists, psychologists, Occupational therapists, LD nurses ***Please pass this email on to friends / colleagues who may be interested*** |
| HOW TO REGISTERTo attend the conference please register your interest with admin@instpd.org.uk A link will be sent out 3 days before the event |
| ProgrammeSession 1 Chair of session 1: David O’ Driscoll 13.00 David O’ Driscoll, Psychotherapist in NHS, Chair of IPD, Opening remarks and welcome 13.05 Angelina Veiga, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Adult Psychotherapist, Disability Psychotherapist Angelina works in private practice and the NHS seeing children, young people and families. She also lectures at the Tavistock Centre. Trauma, Disability & Perversion & its expression in the body. 13.35 Respondent: Dr Valerie Sinason, Child psychotherapist and adult Psychoanalyst, IPD committee member 13.45 QUESTIONS 13.55 Roslyn Urquhart, Arts Psychotherapies lead for LD inpatients in the NHS and adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice.On the Threshold. Through Windows and Doors: Arts Therapy with people with Learning Disabilities who are in hospital. People with Learning Disabilities will very often have experiences of exclusion, relational trauma and limited choice over what happens in their lives, this can contribute to a presentation of psychic and even physical retreat. In this talk Roz will look at how Arts Psychotherapies can work in inpatient settings and can provide a creative direct and indirect experience of making contact. She will discuss how closed doors can represent the closed off and exclusive experience of individuals and a retreat from the outside world. Working through windows and doors and on the threshold, we meet people where they are and allow patients to have a safer experience of relationship where they can enter and retreat physically and psychically creating a translational space and room for connection and creativity. Roz initially trained as an Art Psychotherapist at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh qualifying in 2006 and subsequently as an adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with the Arbours Association in London qualifying in 2019. She has a special interest in working with people with Learning Disabilities and enabling expression and communication through verbal and non-verbal means.14.25 Respondent: Mizuho Koizumi, Art Psychotherapist in the Learning Disability and Autism Service in inpatients in the NHS and IPD committee member 14.35 QUESTIONS 14.45 BREAK |
| Session 2 Chair of session 2: Dr Georgina Parkes, Treasurer of IPD, Consultant Psychiatrist in Learning Disability in NHS 15.00 Sarah Lau Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Speech and language Therapist We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain; We need to paint with all the colours of the wind Sarah trained at WPF Therapy and practises in London and East Anglia. She works in private practice and has a special interest in working with adult clients who have an intellectual disability and/or communication needs. Clients with intellectual disabilities are often excluded from being “training cases” as part of a psychodynamic psychotherapy training. Sarah will present clinical work that ran alongside her training at WPF Therapy. She will reflect on the benefits that can be gained from opportunities to work with this client group as a trainee. 15.30 Respondent – Noelle Blackman, 15.40 QUESTIONS 15.50 Closing remarks – Georgina Parkes 16.00 End |
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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