Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
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The Institute is a non-profit organization whose founders, associates and members collaborate to design and promote creative, appreciative, and relational processes in families, communities and organizations around the world.

• Promote a positive community attitude towards mental health
• Cooperate with other organisations involved in the sector
• Protect the interests of those suffering from disorders or disabilities and to foster their rehabilitation

• Promote the development of a vibrant e-health sector in Tasmania by facilitating connectivity between the Health and IT sectors
• Assist decision-making by government and industry in a manner that will be beneficial to the e-health sector and Tasmanian community
• Promote training and skills development initiatives that will assist the rapid development of the Tasmanian e-health sector
• >Provide information and reports to members to enable opportunities to be identified and to further promote the cohesiveness of the Tasmanian e-health sector

Problems of institution-building and organisational design and change are being tackled in all sectors—government, industry and commerce, health and welfare, education, etc., both nationally and internationally. Clients range from multinationals to small community groups. A growth area has been the use of a developmental approach in evaluating new and experimental programmes, particularly in health, education and community development. This has also produced new training events in addition to the regular programme of group relations conferences.

The Tavistock Clinic was established in 1920. It is a training institution for psychotherapists including adult psychoanalytic psychotherapists and child psychotherapists.

The Portman Clinic was founded in 1933 to study and treat delinquency, violence and sexual deviancy.

The Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists was established in 1995 as the professional association for the psychoanalytical psychotherapy training, the child psychotherapy training and family therapy trainings at the Tavistock Clinic (incorporating the Society of Psycho-analytical Psychotherapists, founded in 1983).

1. 6-th international Conference for Teachers of Infant Observation (September 3, 2011: London, Greater London, United Kingdom)
2. 3-rd European Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Educational Settings (September 15-17, 2011: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom)
3. Attachment and Psychopathology (October 19-21, 2011: London, Greater London, United Kingdom)

6-th international Conference for Teachers of Infant Observation

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Sponsored by: Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust

September 3, 2011
London, Greater London, United Kingdom

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3-rd European Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Educational Settings

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Sponsored by: Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust

September 15-17, 2011
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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Attachment and Psychopathology

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Event sponsor: Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust

October 19-21, 2011
London, Greater London, United Kingdom

This course will resume on November 14 and conclude on November 15, 2011.

The course weaves together theory, human development, assessment, case examples and treatment applications to reframe maladaptive behaviour in terms of strategies for self-protection. The course focuses on development from infancy to adulthood, emphasising the process of adaptation and developmental pathways that carry risk for psychopathology.

The model used is the Dynamic-Maturational Model [DMM] of attachment and adaptation. The DMM is relevant to individuals who are at-risk, have been exposed to danger, display disturbed or maladaptive behaviour, or are diagnosed as having a psychiatric disorder. A particular emphasis is cultural influences on attachment.

The course is structured developmentally and consists of lecture with slides, videotapes, role playing and interview transcripts to demonstrate the patterns and principles of development. A set of readings and exercises, tied to each day’s material, are offered.

The Attachment and Psychopathology course is a prerequisite to all assessment courses, such as the Adult Attachment Interview. Treatment strategies are described for each age period and include an integration of ideas from all the major theories of treatment as well as suggestions regarding risky practices that should be avoided.

Facutly: Patricia McKinsey Crittenden, PhD.

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