This international conference can be attended from your desktop!

The conference takes place 4th - 6th of December. Venue: Internet

Pre-conference reading week starts November 27th. Up to 2.0 CEUs are
available for this conference.

Following on from our highly successful Supporting Deaf People
online conferences, we are pleased to announce the Deaf People and
Mental Health conference. This three day online conference will be
useful to all those who are involved in, or interested in, mental
health and deafness.

Sessions confirmed are:

Keynote presentations by Dr. Robert Pollard (Director - Deaf
Wellness Center, University of Rochester School of Medicine) and Dr.
Brendan Monteiro (Medical Director at St George Healthcare Group).

Workshop sessions:

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

- Brian Berlinski on Best practices in treatment for deaf 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 indigenous and ethnic deaf people

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

- Naomi Sharples on Empowering deaf individuals and empowering
communities by accessing education in health related professions

- Lynne Hawcroft and Elaine Welch on Making positive connections -
suicide and deaf communities in Glasgow

- Oliver Turner and Joanna Wootten on Suicide in the Deaf - a
literature review


Abstracts, presenter bios, programme and information on how it all
works can be seen at the conference web site (see below). Cost for
the conference is UK £60 (approximately $113, depending on the
current exchange rate).

Online conferences can be attended flexibly as there are no real-
time sessions. You have access to the conference for a period of six
weeks, including a reading week before the conference starts.

More information on how it all works:
http://www.online-conference.net/mh2006/introduction.htm