International Learning, Development and Training School
Transforming Mental Health Services and Practices
The Webinar Programme 2022 - 2023
The International School is being developed with IMHCN Partners from across the world.
Its purpose is to assist service providers and individual to learn from innovative models of care and effective practices based on the whole life needs of service users.
A major part of this School will be to provide webinars on important and contemporary subjects and themes in transforming mental health services.
A series of Learning,Training and Development Webinars provided by IMHCN for 2022 - 2023.
These Webinars are designed to assist the Transforming Mental Health programs in service provider organisations and increase people’s knowledge of innovative services and practices.
The webinars will have interrelated and complimentary themes based on real experiences that can guide the developments in other places.
The webinars can provide support and knowledge for “training the trainer” to enhance and disseminate what is learnt to a wider group of stakeholders.
They are intended to be an introduction to each Theme and can be followed by a more detailed and participative Learning Set Forums that we will be establishing.
There will be a sliding scale of costs to allow the opportunity for all participants to be involved.
We will use Zoom platforms that have multiple functions to enable full participation.
2. Second Term September - December 2022: Transforming Mental Health Services
(These webinars below will be available to book on OnlineEvents here when dates have been confirmed)
2.1 The Challenge and Opportunity for Society, Communities and Psychiatric Hospitals to improve Community Mental Health Services
Description:
This webinar will outline the importance of changing the culture inside the hospital and how to overcome the barriers to change through different thinking, practices and services.
This will include how to:
- Improve the fabric, environment, habitat, programs, therapies, rehabilitation programs, community partnerships and integration with other Mental Health services.
- The training and re-orientation of staff is essential, based on a recovery and discovery approach.
- The importance of the systemic protection of human rights for service users
- Preparing the management and staff to work on developing community supports and services for social re-integration of users in the hospital.
Example of successful implementation
Key points for a successful deinstitutionalisation strategy and real experiences from across the world will include the UK and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Who should attend?
This module is for organisations that understand the need to change the mental health system. It also includes organisations that have developed community mental health systems, moving away from a reliance on the psychiatric institutions and hospitals that have perpetuated institutional thinking and practice. Managers, professionals, service users, family members, Community Organisations
Duration 2 hours online Webinar via Zoom
Facilitators:
Roberto Mezzina, John Jenkins (IMHCN), Rosanna Sade, Clarissa Webster (Brazil)
2.2 Acute and Crisis Services: Alternatives to hospital
Description
This webinar will discuss the importance of establishing community based acute and crisis services as alternatives to In-patient Units. It will focus on the need to provide a more recovery based approach to people under going repeated readmissions to hospital. It is fundamental that an acute and crisis whole system is developed, comprising of essential service components that can create a new opportunity for service users to recover their lives. It will also explore the meaning of a “crisis” particular to peoples real whole life experiences and needs.
Example of successful implementation
Shared Lives and Crisis Support House, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Who should attend?
Managers, professionals, service users, family members, Community Organisations
Duration 2 hours online Webinar via Zoom
Facilitators: Benna Waites, Kathryn Walters (Wales), John Jenkins (IMHCN)
2.3 Consequences and Opportunities for Peoples’ Mental Health arising from the Covid Pandemic
Big issues identified by Covid-199: Requiring Fundamental Change in Mental Health, A Local and Global Action Plan
The Coronavirus Pandemic is a time of difficulty but also an opportunity for human ingenuity, endeavour and learning. This Webinar will describe IMHCN’s Action Plan developed with international and national partners. The Action Plan recognises the important key issues that effects people as a result of the pandemic. These lessons we have known about before, but the pandemic has shone a spotlight of the importance on service users, families and communities.
A Coalition of Partners
- International Mental Health Collaborating Network
- World Federation for Mental Health
- World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Mental Health Europe
- European Community based Mental Health Service Providers Network (EUCOMS) Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks (GAMIAN)
- Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI)
- Italian Society of Psychiatric Epidemiology (SIEP)
- Transforming Australia’s Mental Health Service System, Incorporated
Who should attend?
International and National Organisations, Mental Health Service Providers, Service users, Family members, Local Community Organisations
Duration 2 hours online Webinar via Zoom
Facilitators: John Jenkins and Roberto Mezzina (IMHCN), Ingrid Daniels (WFMH Past President)
2.4 Knowing the Person and Working Alongside the Person
Description
There is a need to build trusting relationships between services users, families and practitioners. This is important because knowing the person as a person, not just as someone with a mental illness is critical to improve the outcomes for service users.
This webinar will hear from the experience of providing a different approach from Lyngby Services in Denmark.
Understanding the importance of the whole life story of the person is the foundation of being able to provide a holistic approach.
This can be achieved through relationships, co-produced between service users and staff, also involving the private and social network and community.
This webinar will provide an example of changing the power structure in the professional-service user relationship. Letting the service user choose who to work with, is an example of this.
Working with low threshold and user/network involvement from the first contact of the person with the services is an important part of this way of working.
Example of successful implementation
Lyngby Municipality, Denmark
Duration 2 hours online Webinar via Zoom
Who should attend?
Managers, professionals, service users, family members, Community Organisations
Facilitators: Bodil Oster (Lyngby, Copenhagen, Denmark) and Paul Baker (IMHCN)
3. Third Term: January - April 2023 Transforming Mental Health Practices
3.1 The Hearing Voices Approach
Description
The Hearing Voices Approach supports people who are overwhelmed by their voices to change their understanding of and relationship with their voices. It has proven particularly effective in assisting people to live better with their voices. We will focus on finding more successful ways to support clients who hear voices (or with other extreme experiences) and who are not responding well to current care and treatment plans. Research shows that this way of working reduces anxiety and isolation, reduces hospital admissions & remissions and most significantly enables voice hearers to move on with their lives.
Example of successful implementation
Voice Collective, Camden Mind, London
Intervoice Brazil
Who should attend?
This module is aimed at people and organisations that wish to understand the approach and to set up an individual and group dynamic. It is a vehicle for self-care but also for a more direct approach to challenge mental health care and services.
Duration 2 hours online Webinar via Zoom
Facilitators to be agreed
3.2 Innovative and intentional Peer Support
Description
How do we bring individuals and groups with expertise of experience together to support each other, amplify and strengthen user-led activity, and build shared capacity? Intentional Peer Support is a way of thinking about and inviting transformative relationships. Practitioners learn to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other in trying new things. IPS relationships are viewed as partnerships that invite and inspire both parties to learn and grow, rather than as one person needing to ‘help’ another.
Example of successful implementation
Recovery College, Lister Foundation, Netherlands
Manchester Mind, UK
Who should attend?
This module is aimed at people and organisations that wish to understand the approach and to set up an individual and group dynamic. It is a vehicle for self-care but also for a more direct approach to challenge mental health care and services.
Duration 2 hours online Webinar via Zoom
Facilitators: To be agreed
3.3 Working with Families
Description
How do we work with families and social networks, as much as possible in their own homes? Open Dialogue teams for instance work to help those involved in a crisis situation to be together and to engage in dialogue. It has been their experience that if the family/team can bear the extreme emotion in a crisis situation, and tolerate the uncertainty, in time shared meaning usually emerges and healing/recovery is possible.
Who should attend?
Managers, professionals, service users, family members, Community Organisations
Duration 2 hours online Webinar via Zoom
Facilitators:To be agreed
3.4 Reframing the Staff Structure, thinking and practice of Community Mental Health and Hospital Teams
Description
There is a staffing shortage and staffing role crisis which impacts on mental health teams in the community and in hospitals. In addition there is a fundamental need for teams to address the importance of meeting the whole life needs of people. This is necessary to address the importance of the social determinants of mental health.
This requires a move away from the predominance of a clinical staffing structure. The purpose of a reformed team is to deliver a whole person, whole life, whole system and this requires people with different skills and knowledge to deliver.
This can be achieved by building trusting co-production relationships with community NGO’s, providing opportunities for housing, work, social connectedness, education, arts and culture, sport and leisure.
Example of successful implementation
Lyngby Municipality, Denmark
Who should attend?
Managers, professionals, service users, family members, Community Organisations
Duration 2 hours online Webinar via Zoom
Facilitators: John Jenkins (UK)
4. Other possibilities could include the following:
We welcome other suggestions
Developing a comprehensive Whole System for Older People
Description: To be added
Children and Young People: Best practice services and practices
Description: To be added
Provisional: Alan Rosen (Australia), Daniela Vidoni (Italy), Hertfordshire MH Trust
The challenge of reform within different Countries economic and financing systems:
Description: To be added
Provisional: Jan Pfeiffer, Jan Berndsen (The Netherlands), Giorgio Simon (Italy)
Medication: The proper, safe and effective use
Description: To be added
Provisional: Roberto Mezzina, Barbara D’Avanzo, Angelo Barbato? (Italy), Tim Kendall? (UK)
Human Rights Underpinning Transformation
Description: To be added
Provisional: Nathalie Drew Bold (WHO), Benedetto Saraceno (Italy), Alan Rosen (Australia)
The Importance of Work and Integration into the mental health system
Description: To be added
Provisional: Roberto Mezzina, Stefania Grimaldi (Italy), Angelo Fioritti (Italy), Peter Huxley? (UK), Guido Valentini (Clubhouse Europe)
Reducing Coercion and Bad Practices
Description: To be added
Provisional: SP Sashidharan, Roberto Mezzina, Gabriele Rocca (Italy), Abdul Abu Bakar ? Thomas Emmenegger ? (Switzerland)
Discovery Partners and Discovery Communities
Description: To be added
Provisional: Vandana Gopikumar (India)
Recovery: from research outcomes to service practice (in collaboration with WAPR)
Description: To be added
Provisional: Alain Topor (Sweden), Marit Borg (Norway), Barbara D’Avanzo (Italy), Larry Davidson ? (USA)
Recovery oriented services: personal planning and budgets
Description: To be added
Provisional: Pina Ridente (Italy), Nathalie Drew Bold (WHO), Fabrizio Starace (Italy), Larry Davidson ? (USA)
Community development and engagement
Description: To be added
Provisional: Fabrizio Starace, Steve Wright (UK), John Jenkins (UK), Roberto Mezzina (Italy), Vandana Gopikumar (India)