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The 2012 Self-Injury Conference is now confirmed, details as follows: Everybody Hurts Sometimes... One Day Conference on Self-Injury Date: Friday 2nd March 10:00 – 5:00 Venue: 3074 Arts Building Trinity College Dublin
Cost: €55 (including healthy lunch and morning refreshments) Rationale Research shows that one in five people may experience self-injury during their life time (UNICEF Ireland, 2011; Gollust et.al., 2008) and that it spans the entire population: young and old, male and female, socially disadvantaged and privileged alike. This conference explores self-injury across the spectrum of contexts and the range of interventions that have been found to be useful. Presentations Include · Opening Address · Key Note Presentation: Helping the Self, Not Fixating on the Harm: A Mother and Son’s Experience of Self-Harm by Dara and Eoghan · Reaching Out - or Not: Why the Statutory Approach to DSH isn't Working, by Chiara Seery, Research Assistant, Student Counselling Services Trinity College Dublin · Self-Injury: Challenges to Therapists - Clinical and Personal, by Karl Tooher, Therapist · Strong and Silent: Men, Masculinity and Self-Injury, by Kay Inckle School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin · The Impact of Alcohol Use on Self-Harm, by Conor McCafferty, Zest, Derry · Adolescents Speak Out: Needing Someone to Talk to, Someone to Listen 24/7, by Eilis Hayes, School of Nursing and Midwifary, Trinity College Dublin · “It’s a Safe Space”: The Unique Role of Self-Injury Peer-Led Groups, by Melanie Boyce, Research Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University UK To register for the conference please contact Ailish Kennedy Tel: 01 896 3885; Email: AKENNED@tcd.ie or download the form here: http://www.kreativeinterventions.com/EverybodyHurtsSometimes2012Self-InjuryConference.pdf A very big THANK YOU to everyone that came to the conference and made the day such a success. There was a lot of media coverage (not all of it very accurate – I have never used the term ‘deliberate self-harm’) I have pasted links below (the newspapers are placed in order to roughly reflect the accuracy of the reflection of the content of the day). The conference also made it onto page 1 of the Irish Daily Mirror and page 2 of the Sun, but no links are available. RTE TV News http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0302/health.html RTE Radio 1 News (at 2 hours 21mins) Medical Independent Irish Times.com http://news.ie.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=156331304 Irish Examiner.com Evening Echo http://www.eecho.ie/news/ireland/self-harm-conference-to-focus-on-new-treatments-495627.html Irish Times.com http://m.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0303/1224291213453.html?via=news
Safe with Self-Injury: A Conference for User-Led Research & Practice
Wednesday March 2nd 2011 School of Social Work & Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin
Venue: Room 3074 Arts Building Cost: €40 per person (includes
Rationale Self-injury is widespread in Ireland with in excess of 60,000 cases of self-injury estimated to occur every year (NSRF, 2008). However, self-injury remains a misunderstood and stigmatised experience and there is currently no policy or best-practice protocol in Ireland. This conference explores research and practice from user-led approaches to self-injury; it focuses on the supports and interventions which are experienced as safe and meaningful by service-users and which promote individual safety and self care around self-injury. The conference includes contemporary research and practice from Ireland North and South.
Schedule 10:00-10:35 Introduction and opening address Kay Inckle (School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin) Martin Rogan (Assistant National Director of Mental Health (HSE) and member of the Mental Health Expert Advisory Group).
10:35-1:30 Safe with Self-Injury: Evidence from Contemporary Research 10:35-11:15 Introductory session and discussion Hidden Pain: A DVD About People with Intellectual Disabilities who Hurt Themselves produced by The Bristol Crisis Service for Women and the Nora Fry Research Centre at Bristol University and based on research in the UK and Northern Ireland.
*** 11:15-11:45 Morning Coffee & Refreshments (provided) ***
11:45-1:30 Ø Eilis Hayes (School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin): Service Barriers to Including Young People in Self-Injury Research Ø Jim Walsh (School of Nursing & Midwifery, Dublin City University): Service Users Experiences of Responses to Distress. Ø Kay Inckle (School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin): Safe with Self-Injury: Holistic and Harm-Reduction Interventions
*** 1:30-2:30 Healthy and vegetarian lunch (provided) ***
2:30- 4:15 Safe with Self-Injury: Practitioner Perspectives Ø Noella McConnellogue and Conor McCafferty (Zest, Derry/Londonderry) Understanding the Person Behind the Behaviour: A User-Led Approach to Self-Harm Ø Cindy O’Conor (Clinical Director, Pieta House, Dublin) Pieta House: A Safe Haven of Support Ø Karl Tooher (Therapist, Dublin) Supporting Clients who Self-Injure: A Therapeutic Approach
4:15-4:30 comfort break
4:30- 5:00 Closing Session Ø 4:30-4:55 Open discussion with all presenters and delegates. Ø 4:55-5:00 Conference close Date: Tuesday March 2nd 12:30–17:00 Location: Trinity College Dublin (Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building) Theme The theme of this year’s Self-injury Awareness Day, “There is No Shame in Self-Injury”, ties in with Minister John Moloney’s, (Minister for Equality, Disability and Mental Health) 2010 campaign to avert stigma in mental health/illness—the Minister will launch the day.
The forum is free of charge and open to service providers and members of the public. It aims to be an informative, interactive and positive forum (however, individual support is not available at this event). Outline · Lunch Time Session 12:30-13:30 12:30 Opening remarks Dr Kay Inckle 12:45 Launch of “There’s No Shame in Self-Injury”, the 2010 Self-Injury Awareness Day, with Minister for Equality, Disability and Mental Health Mr John Moloney. 13:15 Launch of Self-Injury Ireland website with comments by Mr Karl Tooher. *** 13:30-14:00 brief interval *** · Afternoon Session 14:00-17:00 14:00 -14:15 Welcome and introductions 14:15 - 4:50 Understanding and Responding to Self-Injury, screening of Visible Memories: A Film About Self-Harm and discussion facilitated by Dr Kay Inckle 14:55-5:30 Self-Injury: A Natural Response, Mr Karl Tooher *** 15:30-15:45 short break *** 15:45-16:20 Pieta House: Creating a Non-Stigmatising Service, Ms Joan Freeman. 16:25-16:50 Panel Discussion 16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks
For further information contact Dr Kay Inckle, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin 2; Tel: 01 8962991; Email: kinckle@tcd.ie National Self-Injury Awareness Day 2009 On March 2nd 2009, in collaboration with Karl Tooher and supported by the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Kay organised Ireland’s first ever National Self-Injury Awareness Day which was held in Trinity College Dublin. The event included Irish and international experts in the area of self-injury and was attended by a broad range of professionals and service providers with an interest in this area and attracted extensive media coverage. (see: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0303/1224242151334.html) |
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