Tuesday, 16th September 2014
Pre-congress events:
- Forensic issues in Mental Health and Deafness (opens in new window)
- Deaf Organisations and Professionals Session
- Adults With Acquired Hearing Loss: Early Intervention – Prevention And Management Of Mental Health Issues
- Nurses Forum for people working in the field of Mental Health and Deafness
- Social Work Forum
- Interpreters Day
For further information See: wcmhd2014.org/pre-congress-events
18:00 Opening Ceremony at Belfast City Hall
Wednesday, 17th September 2014
8:30 |
Registration & Announcements |
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Conference room 1 & 2 |
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9:30 |
Key factors towards quality of life through the lens of human rights Dr. Liisa Kauppinnen Chair: Dr. Ines Sleeboom-van Raaij |
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10:30 |
Coffee-break |
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11:00 |
New Mental Capacity Legislation in Northern Ireland -a pathway to rights for all citizens with mental health needs Prof. Dr. Roy McClelland Chair: Dr. Ines Sleeboom-van Raaij |
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12:00 |
POSTERS (Lecture Room 1) |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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Conference Room 1 & 2 |
Raked Lecture Theatre |
Lecture Room 3 |
Deaf people as patients and Professionals (1) Chair: Martin Creed |
Mental Health of Deaf People with Disabilities (2) Chair: Ana García García |
Deaf Children´s Interventions (3) Chair: Dr Maria Gascón-Ramos |
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13:30 |
Deaf People, Childhood experiences and Adult health: An Opportunity to connect public health and mental health. Barnett, Sutter & Pollard. (a) |
Research on factors influencing (challenging) behaviour of persons with hearing impairments (HI) and intellectual disabilities (ID). M. Buskermolen (a) |
Turning Rights into Realities – Young Deaf People & Children, building resilience. C. Doherty (a) |
14:00 |
How are you? Communication between GPs and their Deaf and Hard of Hearing patients in the Netherlands. Smeijers et al. (b) |
Right to access fire setting treatment-Adapting a programme to make it accessible to a Deaf service user with cognitive deficits. N. Horne (b) |
The challenge of socializing a socially and linguistically deprivated youngster of unclear origin. C. Leitner (b) |
14:30 |
How we became Deaf Professionals in the Mental health Arena. Lord & Wan (c) |
Some psychological challenges facing deafblindness. M. Volden (c) |
Emotional Regulation in Deaf Children –A model for intervention. Roberts & Hughes (c) |
15:00 |
Coffee-break |
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Conference Room 1 & 2 |
Raked Lecture Theatre |
Lecture Room 3 |
Prevention and service provision (4) Chair: Katarina Mattsson |
Services & Forensic issues in Mental Health and Deafness (5) Chair: Frank de Greef |
Deaf Adolescent Services (6) Chair: Dr. Cathy Chovaz |
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15:30 |
One Step at a Time – building positive mental health and physical wellbeing for deaf people in Northern Ireland. Mulvenna & Campbell (a) |
Adapting Dialectical Behavioural Therapy to meet the language and sociocultural needs of deaf forensic female clients. S. Jones (a) |
Deaf and hard-of-hearing adolescents in CAHMS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services) in Norway – a pilot study. C.M. Aanondsen (a) |
16:00 |
Cooperation between Danish Counsellors of the Deaf and Nationwide and Regional Psychiatry. Pedersen & Winther (b) |
'The Long and Winding Road' – Mental Health Service Provision for Deaf People in the UK |
Mental Health in deaf and hard of hearing adolescents in Norway. K. Wagner (b) |
16:30 |
A Clinicians Guide to creating a Telemental Health Programme for Deaf and Hard of hearing Individuals. Crowe et al. (c) |
WHAT RIGHTS? To understand – to be understood. Developing a Deaf Language Assessment Tool in a forensic setting. S. Farthing (c) |
Translation of the SDQ into BSL. J. Smith (c) |
17:00 |
POSTERS (Lecture Room 1) |
Thursday 18th September 2014
8:30 |
Registration & Announcements |
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Conference Room 1 & 2 |
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9:00 |
Memorial lecture in Honour of Dr Nick Kitson - Former president ESMHD Chair: Dr. Ines Sleeboom-van Raaij |
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9:30 |
The Professional and the Personal: Some Reflections on Mental Health Care for Deaf People Dr. Michael Schwartz Chair: Dr. Margaret duFeu |
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10:30 |
Coffee-break |
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11:00 |
The right to language and implications for mental health Prof. Dr. Cathy Chovaz Chair: Dr. Margaret duFeu |
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12:00 |
Addressing rights and equality issues for Deaf people in Northern Ireland Chair: Jeff McWhinney Les Allamby, Chief Commissioner, NI Human Rights Commission |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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Conference Room 1 & 2 |
Raked Lecture Theatre |
Lecture Room 3 |
Social work, Training and Communication (7) Chair: Kevin Doherty |
Psychosis & Deafness (8) Chair: Diana Cody |
Deaf Children´s Family (9) Chair: Dr. Tiejo van Gent |
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13:30 |
Social Work Practice with people who are experiencing Mental Ill health; lessons from Inquiry reports that go beyond "Awareness". Taylor & McPherson (a) |
Challenges faced when deaf patients are admitted to psychiatric general acute wards. H. Saltnes (a) |
International Consensus on Best Practice in Family-Centered Early Intervention: Family mental health from the very beginning. D. Holzinger.(a) |
14:00 |
The advanced certificate in mental health and Deafness: lessons learnt from delivering training. Bowl, Waterhouse & Klein (b) |
Language in Deaf schizophrenia: implications on case management and assessment. G. Chatzidamianos (b) |
Focus: Family health |
14:30 |
Professionalising Communication Professionals who work with the Deaf. J. Edwards(c) |
To recognize potentially bizarre content and unusual linguistic features in the signing of hallucinated persons. R. P. Halvorsen (c) |
Post-traumatic stress, coping and depressiveness in mothers after their child's deafness diagnosis in the long-term perspective. J. Kobosko (c) |
15:00 |
Coffee- break |
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Conference Room 1 & 2 |
Raked Lecture Theatre |
Lecture Room 3 |
Vulnerable groups (10) Chair: Robert Pollard |
Personality Disorders and Psychotherapy (11) Chair: Otilia Rodrigues |
Assessment & Services for Deaf Children (12) Chair: Alan Sheeran |
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15:30 |
Gender Violence and human rights in Deaf women in Mexico. B. Estrada (a) |
Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders: A criteria or Level of Personality Functioning. Use in deaf patients. Olazabal et al. (a) |
The Dimensions of a Deaf Child and Family Mental Health Service. Hayes & Richardson (a) |
16:00 |
Deaf elderly and their special need in a social medical context. Schatzlmayr & Breiteneder (b) |
Hear me! Using Schema Therapy in the treatment of Deaf Service users with Personality Disorder. R. Worthington (b) |
False belief understanding of deaf and hard of hearing children in Greece. Antonopoulou et al. (b) |
16:30 |
Meeting divergent rights: UNCRPD's article 19. Linzner & Fellinger (c) |
Assessment of issues of deaf people's identity in respect of psychological distress; implications for human rights. Lodge & Weinreich (c) |
"Lost In Translation" the cognitive assessment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children using ISL. P. Bond (c) |
17:00 |
POSTERS (Lecture Room 1) |
Friday, 19th September 2014
8:30 |
Registration & Announcements |
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Conference Room 1 & 2 |
Lecture Room 2 |
Raked Lecture Theatre |
Family issues (13) Chair: Manjit Gahir |
Psychotherapy, psychological issues & Deafened people (14) Chair: Niall Keane |
Deaf children´s Therapies (15) Chair: Dr Joanna Kobosco |
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9:00 |
Family dynamics and genetic counseling in patients with deafness in development countries. D. Estrella (a) |
Courses in coping management for hard of hearing struggling with stress related problems. Based on CBT. J. Hansen (a) |
Beardslee Family Intervention a method the put the child in focus, aswell as to strengthen the parents in their role of parenting. L. Strandberg (a) |
9:30 |
But we don't see many Deaf mothers, do we? Improving maternity care for Deaf parents on their journey to parenthood. P. Sporek (b) |
Maintaining and Enhancing Psychological Resilience in Partially Hearing and Deafened People. Mitchell & Miller (b) |
From sensory isolation to welcome the world: play therapy treatment in a child with deafness. Pousa et al. (b) |
10:00 |
The Rights of Deaf Parents: Problems and Progress in Family Proceedings. O'Rourke, Cornes & Anderson (c) |
Mind the Gap. S. Harvest (c) |
Language Therapy Intervention in BSL – working with carers. Hoskin & Cader (c) |
10:30 |
Coffee-break |
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Conference Room 1&2 |
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11:00 |
Addressing the mental health problems in Primary Health Care. Access to adequate Health Care - a basic right of Deaf People Prof. Dr. Goldberg & Dr. Fellinger Chair: Brian Symington |
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12:00 |
LUNCH |
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Conference Room 1 & 2 |
Lecture Room 2 |
Raked Lecture Theatre |
Treatment + Recovery + Empowerment of Deaf Patients (16) Chair: Meindert Buskermolen |
Development of Psychodynamic Concepts and The Narrative (17) Chair: Dr Joanna Dougherty |
Deaf People and Dementia Symposium: Culturally appropriate care and support from the perspective of Deaf people with dementia and their families. (18) Chair: Kevin McCoy |
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13:00 |
Empowerment of Deaf Patients to be fully involved in their recovery process. Halder & van Os (a) |
Self-directedness and environment-directedness – Potential mental effects of rehabilitation and integration processes. A. Eichengreen (a) |
Perspective of a Deaf carer and address the need for a user and carer movement amongst Deaf people touched by dementia. Young et al. (a) |
13:30 |
Supporting Isolated Deaf Adults. S. Moore (b) |
The narrative/narrated self and wellbeing. McDonald, Russell & Young (b) |
Dementia Friendly Communities: Reaching Deaf Community. Heather Lundy & Johnston (b) |
14:00 |
The assessment of side-effects of antipsychotic medication in Deaf people. S. Carney (c) |
The challenge of identifying dementia in deaf people: A new cognitive screening test using British Sign Language. Joanna Atkinson et al. (c) |
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Conference Room 1&2 |
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14:30 |
I want to break free. Early Deafblindness and the Ingenuity of the Human Brain Can the Brain Find an Answer when Bereft from the Input of Sight and Hearing? Hinderinces to Overcome in Order to Safeguard the Rights of Deaf Blind Children to Develop Communication with the Outside World. Prof. Dr. Jan van Dijk Chair: Brian Symington |
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15:30 |
Coffee-break |
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16:00 |
Grand Finale - Pathways to Rights. Discussion Dr. van Gent & Prof. Dr. van Dijk |
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16:45 |
Belfast Declaration |
POSTERS
At the appointed time, at least one of the authors should be available to answer questions and discuss their work with congress participants.
The size of the poster should be no more than 90cm x 60cm. The top line(s) should give the title of your abstract. The next line(s) should indicate the author(s) and their affiliations. Continue with the introduction, methods, results and discussion as appropriate. The poster should end with your conclusions.
Velcro will be provided for mounting the presentation. Hand-outs, citations and contact details for distribution to interested delegates are always appreciated.
Please note that we are unable to return posters to presenters if they are left behind at the end of the meeting.
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TITLE |
AUTHORS |
General Topic Area: Interpreting |
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'The See-Saw Effect' |
Sarah Bishop & Vicci Ackroyd |
2 |
Intersectionality Theory in Mental Health Interpreting: Finding That Sweet Spot in Therapy. |
Dr. Cathy Chovaz, Judith Thomas, Angela Core |
3 |
Therapeutic Relationships & Collaborative Working: A Model for Clinicians and Interpreters Working Together |
Yvonne E Waddell, Stephen Scott |
General Topic Area: Clinical |
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Similarities and differences in the voice hallucinations of deaf and hearing people with schizophrenia: unlocking psychiatry's secrets through the study of deaf people. |
Joanna Atkinson |
5 |
"Mind the Gap", facilitating healthy lives. |
Mandy Egan, Mandy Dolan and Di Baines |
6 |
A comparison between deaf and hearing adults' perceptions of their emotional intelligence |
Kika Hadjikakou, Katerina Antonopoulou & Katerina Maridaki-Kassotaki |
7 |
Empowering Deaf patients |
Neel Halder, Nick Horne |
8 |
"Filling the silence" – performing a Psychiatric assessment from a deaf patient. |
Dr Chrishanthy Grace Jayarajah |
9 |
Increased Social Network and reduced challenging behaviour; Deaf People with multiple disabilities in a therapeutic community. |
Doris Linzner |
10 |
Mental Health Provision for Over 65 year old Adults with acquired hearing loss and/or tinnitus. A case-study: differentiating cognitive decline; musical hallucinations & musical tinnitus |
Dr Paul Miller & Mary Mitchell |
11 |
Expressing yourself - Deafblindness and mental health-inquiry concerning the status quo of psychosocial factors. |
Eva Sacherer, Angela Kickinger, Dr. Johannes Fellinger |
12 |
Empower the Deaf. Train the Deaf Trainer. |
Jan Tempelaar |
13 |
Roles of a Deaf Professional in a Multidisciplinary Therapeutic team. |
Sabine Windisch |
General Topic Area: Child & Family |
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14 |
Is Anyone Listening? Trying to Improve CAMHS services for Deaf children and Young People in Northern Ireland |
Rebecca Anderson, Dr Kate Latimer, Val Rowan |
15 |
Deaf CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health) - extra value or meeting the need? |
Mandy Barker |
16 |
Child Protection and Deaf Children |
Dr Audrey Cameron, Deborah Fry, Prof. Julie Taylor, Prof. Kirsten Stalker, Dr Anita Franklin, Dr Alasdair Stewart, Zain Kurdi |
17 |
An audit on DNA rates for first and follow-up appointments in the National Deaf Children and Adolescent mental health service |
Victoria Fernández de las Heras & Aishah Iqbal |
18 |
CBT for a deaf child with adjustment disorder |
Mina Geshi |
19 |
Child and adolescent psychiatrist AND psychologist |
Randi Grønås Snefjellå, Jannicke Krogh Landsnes |
20 |
Psychological support needs of hearing mothers with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing children in Japan |
Sarasa Kai |
21 |
Deaf Autism Project
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Herbert Klein, Barry Wright and Contanza Moreno |
22 |
Mental Health in Children and Adolescent: A Systematic Review
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Janet Olds, Christine Polihronis, Barbara A. Jones, Margaret Sampson, David R. Schramm |
23 |
Diagnostic Instruments for Autism in Deaf Children Study (DIADS) |
Helen Phillips |
24 |
CASE PRESENTATION - Deaf child in mainstream school -Rights for inclusion - Consequences for mental health |
Lene Randa Nielsen and Nils Ola Sande |
25 |
Hearing loss and rehabilitation following viral and bacterial meningitis in children attending Cork University Hospital, a 2 year prospective study |
Shamis A.S, O'sullivan, P. G. |
General Topic Area: Public Health |
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26 |
The Right to work. Training a highly vulnerable group of deaf people without employment, most of them migrants. |
Corinna Atzmüller, Martin Gebetsberger, Johannes Fellinger |
27 |
Social Inclusion- Mental Health and the Deaf Community-Equity and Access Northern Ireland Mental Health and Deafness Service |
Dr Carol Carton, Catherine Turkington, Martin Creed , Deborah Boyle |
28 |
Associations between intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Preventative Health Care Seeking Comparing Deaf and Hearing Samples. |
Catherine Cerulli, Vincent Samar, Robert Pollard |
29 |
Neurofiromatosis Type 2-An Audit of Patient Care in Northern Ireland. |
Donnelly, L Jeffers, PJ Morrison, S Hampton, N Baillie, S Cooke |
30 |
World Federation of the Deaf -Health Resources Initiative. |
Johannes Fellinger & Alexandra Meyer-Wienreich |
31 |
SensAge Project: ageing and sensory disabilities |
Ana García García |
32 |
Domestic violence and deafness: cases review |
García, A., Hernández, E. |
33 |
Assessing and Changing medical students' attitudes to and knowledge of Deafness. |
Michelle Gilmore, J Woodside, Dr K Mc Glade |
34 |
Interagency working to promote equality and access of services for a service user wishing to return home to Northern Ireland. |
Andrew Gowdy |
35 |
Testing of deaf people with California verbal learning test-II |
Knut-Petter Sætre Langlo, Ragna Erdal-Aase |
36 |
Mental health and postlingually deaf adults cochlear implant users |
Joanna Kobosko, Edyta Piłka, W. Wiktor Jędrzejczak, Agnieszka Pankowska, Henryk Skarżyński |
37 |
Providing services to deaf people with tinnitus |
Christine Martin |
38 |
Deaf People in working life |
Katarina Mattsson |
39 |
Cognitive assessment of Deaf immigrants |
Cathrine Olaussen, Henning Skran |
40 |
Improving Access to Justice: the Development of a Toolkit for Lawyers |
Dr Sue O'Rourke |
41 |
Results of the American Consensus-Planning Conference on Research Priorities in the Deaf Mental Health Field |
Robert Pollard |
42 |
Results of a 3-year, interview-based study of intimate partner violence perpetration affecting deaf persons |
Robert Pollard, Catherine Cerulli, Denise Thew, Nancy Chin, Jeanna Mastrocinque, & the IPV Research Team |
43 |
The Availability of Specialist Forensic Provisions for Deaf People: An International Study |
Leanne Race & Todd Hogue |
44 |
Physical Health & VTE Audit |
Hamid Rahmanian |
45 |
Evaluating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of BSL (British Sign Language) IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) |
Rogers, Katherine D., Young, Alys. (Chief Investigator), Pilling, Mark, Lovell, Karina., Davies, Linda & Pilling, Steve |
46 |
Reliability of the BSL and English version of CORE-OM with d/Deaf populations |
Rogers, Katherine.D., Evans, Chris, Campbell, Malcolm, Young, Alys, & Lovell, Karina |
47 |
Employment of deaf people with mental health disorders. Job Assistance makes a difference |
Christian Steinlechner |
ALL AUTHORS
Please note that proceedings may be recorded and published; photographers may also be present throughout the Congress. Any enquires please contact Renata Sarmento, WCMHD Manager info@wcmhd2014.org
WCMHD AWARDS
Nick Kitson Memorial Poster Prize 2014
This Prize will be awarded to the Presenter of the best Poster at the 2014 World Congress in memory of Dr Nick Kitson and his academic legacy.
John Denmark Life Achievement Award
The above will be awarded in honour of Dr John Denmark in recognition of his time, significant contribution to development of mental health services for Deaf people and for support to Deaf people with mental health issues.
In relation to Dr Denmark, he was a founder member of ESMHD:
- Established first Psychiatric Service for Deaf people in the UK
- He oversaw initial research into the needs of Deaf people with mental health issues in NI;
- He played a major role in initiating the development of services for Deaf people in NI
- The Denmark family are associated with the development of services for Deaf people in NI – Jordanstown school for Deaf and Visually Impaired Children
CPD POINTS
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has confirmed that this Congress is eligible for CPD points, subject to peer group approval
The College of Psychiatry of Ireland has allocated the following CPD points:
- 17 September – 6 credits
- 18 September – 5 credits
- 19 September – 6 credits

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