Deaf People and Mental Health online conference

This online conference takes place 4th - 6th of December.

Register now for this event at:
http://www.online-conference.net/mh2006/introduction.htm

Sessions confirmed are:

Keynote presentation: Dr. Brendan Monteiro

Keynote presentation: Dr. Robert Pollard (The impact of experience
on clinicians' judgments regarding psychosis symptoms in Deaf
patients)

- Brian Berlinski on Best practices in treatment for children who
were exposed to domestic violence

- Dr. Sara Rhys Jones, Ged Davies and Dr. Sophie Roberts on Using
videoconferencing in mental health services for deaf children

- Lara Denman on Providing culturally responsive mental health care
to deaf indigenous and CALD people

- Dr. Erez Miller and Dr. Amazia Weisel on Social and emotional
challenges of deaf students in special education in Israel

- Ben Karlin on Bending the Rules - interpreting in mental health
settings

- Naomi Sharples Deaf people's access to nursing education
(provisional title)

- Dr. Cathy Chovaz McKinnon and Laurel Putnam on The development of
the Mental Health Services for the Deaf* (MHSD) clinic, Ontario
(provisional title)

Abstracts, presenter bios programme and information on how it all
works can be seen at the above web site. Cost for the conference is
UK £60 (approximately US$110, depending on the current exchange
rate).

Up to 2.0 CEUs are available for this event.

Judith Mole
Direct Learn Services Ltd.
http://www.online-conference.net : online conferencing
http://www.directlearn.co.uk/ : general information