PCMH Conference: Wellbeing is for life not just for covid; Supporting our teams in complex mental health NHS service settings

Registration

Registration is available online only.

All rates listed are inclusive of VAT at 20%.

Returning Customers (Members and non-members)

In order to register for the event, you will need to sign in using your BPS website log in details. We have implemented a new Membership Database (CRM) recently and if you haven't received your pre-registration email please contact [email protected] to request a re-send and follow the instructions received. Once pre-registered on the CRM use your USERNAME and PASSWORD to log in to register for the event.

Non-returning customers (Members and non-members)

If you are not a returning customer, you will need to create a free account. Once set up use your USERNAME and PASSWORD to log in to register for the event.

Joining instructions will be sent the one week and 24-hours prior to the event, these will be sent to your BPS registered email address.

Speakers

Dr Natalie Kemp

Experiencing the shame and stigma of having mental health difficulties as a regulated mental health professional, gave birth to the anti-stigma and empowerment work of in2gr8mentalhealth. I am the Founder CEO of in2gr8mentalhealth, a Clinical Psychologist and a Senior Clinical Tutor on a Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology. I have spent many years in intentional long-term psychoanalysis to understand the impact of life events on my mental health and to challenge the idea that any of it should have the right to stop me from flourishing.

The personal work has been transformative, hard won, has added capacity and depth to my practise in mental health with others and creativity and expansion to my life. Pain's teachings and workings have been key to the development of my personal wisdom and spirituality today.

in2gr8mentalhealth is powered by its peer community, all highly skilled mental health professionals and those in training, with experience of a full range of mental health difficulties and a full range of mental health services when in need themselves. They have felt what it is like to travel our current mental health scene, have experienced coming together to help shift internalised stigma from its social and structural roots out there, and know of a better way to do things. This is a home base and we are honoured to provide their platform.'

I have collaborated on British Psychological Society guidance: I am the co-lead author of the 'Statement on clinical psychologists with lived experience' (September 2020), lead author of "Supporting and valuing lived experience of mental health difficulties in clinical psychology training" (September 2020), and a contributing author to "Building a caring work culture – what good looks like" (April 2021).

Dr Claire Hepworth

Dr Claire Hepworth is a Clinical Psychologist working in private practice in West Sussex and a collaborating researcher in DBT and Emotion Regulation for Psychosis and trans-diagnostic populations. Dr Claire Hepworth has worked in and alongside DBT Services for nearly twenty years.

Her journey with DBT started as an Assistant Psychologist in DBT trained community teams, with her PhD research in a specialist DBT Service, and as an ESRC funded Research Associate at the University of Maryland in the Emotion and Personality Lab.

Following her Clinical Psychology Doctoral training at KCL, she then worked for 5 years in the Maudsley National Specialist DBT Service for adolescents service as Clinical Psychologist and Research Lead and then as Lambeth DBT Lead for adults, where she set up a rapid access service and trained and supported many services across South London and Maudsley in adapting elements of DBT for their client groups.

Claire has worked in private practice since 2015 and collaborates, supervises, consults and trains on adapting DBT for emotion regulation in SMI with colleagues in South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust. She continues to use elements of DBT in a formulation based way with clients and when supervising and supporting staff in her private practice. 

Programme

Workshops

Dr Natalie Kemp, Founder and CEO in2gr8mentalhealth CIC, Clinical Psychologist

Breakdown as Systemic Intervention: valuing lived experience of mental health difficulties in regulated mental health providers as key to improving staff mental health support, systems and culture.

Mental health professionals, like all people, have always experienced mental health difficulties, they are now and they will do in the future, this is about accepting the humanity of the workforce. We are not immune because we train and read books, if this were the case, we would just train the world! Many social injustices and terrible life events would need to be eliminated first before we saw a significant decline in mental health difficulties. We engage in peer work and interrupt and remediate denigrating signals in whole-systems work with clinical academia, regulators, professional bodies and workplaces.  

DBT Informed Practice: Taking Care of the Therapist by Claire Hepworth

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is designed with two primary functions in mind, supporting clients to stay alive whilst building life worth living, and supporting therapists to take care of themselves whilst working with clients with complex needs. In this brief workshop we will identify some of the elements of DBT process, structure and content that we can draw from to support the therapist who works with complexity, when not working in a full DBT model approach. 

This will include practical examples and exercises for you to try out and take away: 

• Therapist limits
• Consultation to the therapist 
• Some of the key DBT skills for therapists 
• Chain analysis for therapists