CALENDAR OF EVENTS

A curated listing of international critical psychology conferences and events. Email us at [email protected] if you’d like to suggest an event.

Events in May 2020

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April 27, 2020
April 28, 2020(1 event)

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children 19+, U.S./Canada

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children 19+, U.S./Canada


April 28, 2020

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, U.S. Mountain Time

 

 

January 14, January 28, February 11, February 25, March 10, March 24, April 14, April 28, May 12, May 26, June 9, June 23, July 14

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children 19+, U.S./Canada

April 29, 2020
April 30, 2020(2 events)

ISPS-US Webinar: "What Hurts & What Helps in Treatment for Psychosis: Insider Perspectives"

ISPS-US Webinar: "What Hurts & What Helps in Treatment for Psychosis: Insider Perspectives"


April 30, 2020

While the experience of psychosis can be highly distressing, many who recover report that the treatment was often worse than the psychosis itself. What is it that goes so wrong with treatment, and what could we do to improve treatment approaches?

In this webinar, we will hear from two “experts by experience” who will reflect on their own experiences of treatment and on what eventually worked better. They will also discuss attempts to get professionals to be more open to learning from the experience of those who have undergone treatment.

ISPS-US Webinar: "What Hurts & What Helps in Treatment for Psychosis: Insider Perspectives"

May 1, 2020
May 2, 2020(1 event)
May 3, 2020(1 event)
May 4, 2020
May 5, 2020(1 event)
May 6, 2020(2 events)

Drop the Disorder - One poem at a time.

Drop the Disorder - One poem at a time.


May 6, 2020

This online gathering is brought to you by A Disorder 4 Everyone and supported by Onlinevents, and showcases spoken-word performances from AD4E presenters and allies. Their work will also feature in a forth coming PCCS BOOKS book, consisting of a collection of poems that have been performed at the ‘A Disorder for Everyone’ events challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis.

Poetry and spoken word have played a major part in the A Disorder for Everyone events since the first one in October 2016. This online gathering is a chance to see some of the very best AD4E poets speaking straight from their houses to yours. There will also be an opportunity to chat with other attendees. We hope evening will connect us in friendship and solidarity.

This is a fundraising event with a minimum fee of £1 to maximise accessibility. Please make a donation based on what you can afford. Funds will go towards AD4E's future events, enabling us to offer low cost or free places for people who can’t afford to pay.

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May 10, 2020
May 11, 2020
May 12, 2020(3 events)

Mental Health Cafe

Mental Health Cafe


May 12, 2020

Join us for weekly virtual mutual aid chats! For the Zoom access information and password, please message Inside Our Minds ([email protected]).

Mental Health Cafe is a monthly community conversation on mental health, mental illness, and madness over coffee or tea. The event will focus on informal discussions and friendly mutual aid in a welcoming space for all. People are invited to participate actively or passively, or just listen. Learn more about Mental Health Cafe at http://insideourminds.org/mental-health-cafe/.

Access and Accessibility Info

Communication on Zoom calls can be in the form of audio/video, audio alone, and/or text, with the option for closed captioning. There is no fee for joining the Zoom meetings. Please contact us if you have any accessibility needs. If you have any day-of questions, please private message our Facebook page or text the Inside Our Minds text line: (412) 438-3278.

Important Notes

Mental Health Cafe is a space for peers and allies to have open conversations that represent a wide variety of opinions and beliefs. As a community, we expect everyone to hold respectful conversations, and we have zero tolerance for hateful views and discrimination. Anyone who attacks, harasses, or discriminates against another community member will be asked to leave and will be potentially banned from future events. As a space, we prioritize and center the voices of people with lived experience (of madness, trauma, mental illness, substance use / addiction, or another similar experience) and those from marginalized communities. Others are welcome to participate in our spaces, as long as they are respectful and follow our Radical Mental Health community guidelines. You can read our full Intentional Space Clause at http://insideourminds.org/intentional-space-clause/.

Mental Health Cafe is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental health treatment, and we do not have mental health professionals present in this capacity. Unlike some traditional mental health support groups, Mental Health Cafe does not enforce treatment compliance or adhere to purely medical model views. Our events are a welcoming space for all conceptualizations of mental health.

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Inside Our Minds is a project of New Sun Rising.

Mental Health Cafe

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children 19+, U.S./Canada

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children 19+, U.S./Canada


May 12, 2020

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, U.S. Mountain Time

 

 

January 14, January 28, February 11, February 25, March 10, March 24, April 14, April 28, May 12, May 26, June 9, June 23, July 14

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children 19+, U.S./Canada

May 13, 2020(1 event)
May 14, 2020(3 events)

Intro to Radical Mental Health

Intro to Radical Mental Health


May 14, 2020

Description: Free RSVP on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-radical-mental-health-registration-104452610570?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing

May is "Mental Health Awareness Month" - a month-long educational anti-stigma campaign that can be isolating for many people who identify with alternative mental health movements and / or don't feel represented in the predominant media surrounding the month. This May Inside Our Minds is happy to bring a virtual community workshop and discussion on radical mental health! What exactly does radical mental health mean? What makes it "radical"? Why doesn't everyone identify as living with a mental illness? Why do some people use terms like Mad, Crazy, Psychiatric Survivor, or other unfamiliar terms? In this virtual workshop, we will give a brief presentation on radical mental health from our organization's perspective and understanding. We will then leave time for questions and a community discussion on the topic. Access and

Accessibility Info
Communication on Zoom calls can be in the form of audio/video, audio alone, and/or text, with the option for live closed captioning. There is no fee for joining the Zoom meetings. Please contact us if you have any accessibility needs. If you have any day-of questions, please private message our Facebook page or text the Inside Our Minds text line: (412) 438-3278.

Intro to Radical Mental Health

May 15, 2020(2 events)

Deadline for Paper Proposals: XXXVIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health

Deadline for Paper Proposals: XXXVIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health

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May 15, 2020

We invite submissions of abstracts for consideration that include author's affiliation, academic rank, contact information, and brief 100-word biography by email to:

Heidi Rimke, University of Winnipeg, Dept. of Sociology, [email protected]

Daniel Nehring, East China University of Science and Technology, International School of Social Work, [email protected]

Dylan Kerrigan, University of Leicester, School of Criminology, [email protected]

Session Overview:

This call seeks presentations that critically examine how mental health issues and the increasing psychologisation of society have influenced developments in the law, reorganized public policy, and reshaped processes of social governance.

In recent years, academic debates have drawn attention to the growing diffusion of "psy" knowledges into public discourse and practices across a range of non-specialist institutional domains.

Presentations will explore how the growth of "psy" discourses intersects with legal, moral, and ethical matters. We are interested in presentations that examine the ways in which psychocentrism does or does not operate within broader moral, legal, and ethical frameworks focusing on mental health.

For example, psychocentrism has led to the development of therapeutic jurisprudence. Instances of this include procedural justice and mindfulness as a treatment for prisoners in the UK, neither of which has been shown to eradicate the social structural sources of mental health challenges.

In this panel, we address this subject matter through interdisciplinary perspectives from across the social sciences, and beyond. We seek contributions from disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, law, criminology and criminal justice, geography and urban studies, history, philosophy, political science, and psychology that analyze the relationship between the law, mental health, and the constitution of social problems.

Papers in this session will focus on the legal parameters and implications of mental health issues as they relate to social problems of crime and deviance in contemporary society. In particular, we encourage contributions that focus on the Global South, as well as on the transnational dimensions of our subject matter.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

· mental disorder and incapacitation defenses (NCRMD)
· toxic workplaces and occupational health and safety legislation
· legal discourses of mental disease and/or addiction
· the criminal justice system and mental health
· pharmaceutical regulation
· bioethics and biopolitics
· professional ethics and civic morals
· public health and citizen safety
· the regulation of psychotherapeutic agents and cultures
· malpractice and iatrogenesis
· institutional responsibilities and duties
· mental health law and jurisprudence
· informed consent
· human rights and globalization
· research ethics and academic freedom
· biotechnology and mental health
· prisons and the mental health crisis
· human rights legislation and case law
· mental health first aid in workplaces and schools
· self-harm and social harm
· infanticide, suicide, homicide, genocide
· mental health disability rights
· public health law, security and emergency legislation
· cybercrimes, cyberharassment, and cyberstalking
· medicalization/criminalization/pathologization/deviantalization

Deadline for Paper Proposals: XXXVIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health

May 16, 2020(1 event)
May 17, 2020(1 event)
May 18, 2020
May 19, 2020(2 events)

Free Webinar: The Importance of Cultural Diversity, Equity, and Intersectionality in Peer Work

Free Webinar: The Importance of Cultural Diversity, Equity, and Intersectionality in Peer Work


May 19, 2020

n this webinar we will be discussing the importance of cultural diversity, equity, and intersectionality in doing peer work, specifically within peer-run organizations. When we fail to include diverse voices and recognize that mental health can look quite different depending on where you come from and your unique experiences, the quality of peer work is severely diminished. On the flip side, when we look through the lens of inclusion, there is so much to be learned about our collective and individual mental health from the wide range of experience and culture that makes up humanity . Having this awareness enhances peer work because then we are able to go beyond our own experience and what has worked for us and our own culture, and support others to find their own paths. In the webinar, we will go over the meaning of all of these concepts in more detail and take a look at where we have been and where we hope to go.

Click here to register for this webinar.

Free Webinar: The Importance of Cultural Diversity, Equity, and Intersectionality in Peer Work

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children of All Ages, U.S./Canada

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children of All Ages, U.S./Canada


May 19, 2020

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, U.S. Mountain Time

 

 

January 21, February 4, February 18, March 3, March 17, April 7, April 21, May 5, May 19, June 2, June 16, July 7

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children of All Ages, U.S./Canada

May 20, 2020(1 event)

Free Webinar: Peer Respites - Research and Practice

Free Webinar: Peer Respites - Research and Practice


May 20, 2020

Peer respites are short-term, voluntary crisis programs staffed by people with lived experience of emotional distress and mental health challenges, where individuals in crisis can receive care in a home-like, compassionate environment. Peer respite centers can be utilized as a diversion from psychiatric hospitalization or as a supplemental support in addition to traditional mental health services. In this webinar, presenter Morgan Pelot will discuss the research on the effectiveness of peer respites and the evidence supporting them. Presenter Sae Kim will discuss a practical application of this literature at the Monarch House, a peer respite in Wisconsin. Sae will also cover how peer respites are responding to COVID-19 and how these crisis services are valuable during this time of quarantine.

Click here to register!

Free Webinar: Peer Respites - Research and Practice

May 21, 2020
May 22, 2020
May 23, 2020
May 24, 2020
May 25, 2020(1 event)
May 26, 2020(1 event)

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children 19+, U.S./Canada

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children 19+, U.S./Canada


May 26, 2020

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, U.S. Mountain Time

 

 

January 14, January 28, February 11, February 25, March 10, March 24, April 14, April 28, May 12, May 26, June 9, June 23, July 14

MIA Online Parent Support Groups: Parents of Children 19+, U.S./Canada

May 27, 2020
May 28, 2020(2 events)

Ways that Peers and Supervisors use Principles of Recovery to Improve Engagement of Adults in Crisis

Ways that Peers and Supervisors use Principles of Recovery to Improve Engagement of Adults in Crisis


May 28, 2020

A SAMHSA sponsored free webinar developed under contract by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) and presented by the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR) will take place Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 2:00pm Eastern Time:

“Ways that Peers and Supervisors use Principles of Recovery to Improve Engagement of Adults in Crisis.”

In this webinar we will discuss the experience of peer workers and peer supervisors providing crisis services. We will cover the range of crisis services that peers are participating in from warmlines to crisis teams.

We will then explore ways peers are uniquely suited to engaging persons in acute distress because their lived experience enables them to empathize at a deep level and to reduce the stigma which typical clinical services often represent. The workers will share how they use their peer experience to promote recovery. They will also describe how they work with their supervisors to balance the values of recovery with the expectations of the clinical team.

 

Mutuality, for instance, is a value of peer support, whereas in crisis situations the team often needs to take charge of the consumer’s decisions. Peers also find it important to focus on their self-care as crisis work at times triggers past traumas. We will discuss unique recruitment and training needs for peers planning to work in crisis services.

https://events-na3.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/986655080/en/events/event/shared/1700946820/event_landing.html?connect-session=na3breezkqfei5f7bicnizww&sco-id=2606880059&_charset_=utf-8

Ways that Peers and Supervisors use Principles of Recovery to Improve Engagement of Adults in Crisis

Mutual Aid and Mental Health in Times of COVID - Online Panel

Mutual Aid and Mental Health in Times of COVID - Online Panel


May 28, 2020

Our online panel explores how mental health survivors/service users have been responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

About this Event

We’ll hear about survivor-led mutual aid projects, and reflect on their links to a long history of survivor/service user activism.

And we’ll consider how current mutual aid efforts are rooted in the self-help movements developed by black working-class communities in the 1960s and 1970s.

Panellists include:

Bethan Mair Edwards (Mad Covid)

Akiko Hart (National Survivor User Network)

Sophia Siddiqui (Institute of Race Relations)

Helen Spandler (UCLan)

This event will take place via Zoom, details will be emailed to registrants.

Mutual Aid and Mental Health in Times of COVID - Online Panel

May 29, 2020
May 30, 2020
May 31, 2020(1 event)

Radical Mental Health Reading Group

Radical Mental Health Reading Group

N/A
May 31, 2020

Join us online for our next Radical Mental Health Reading Group! Send us a message for the Zoom connection information and password. [email protected]
The Radical Mental Health Reading Group is a monthly informal discussion on different texts in radical mental health. The group is for people of all educational and professional backgrounds (no experience in academia, professional mental health settings, or similar positions is required). The texts we read will always be made available at no cost to participants. The reading group aims to promote learning from one another, so anyone can ask questions about the text, ask others to explain concepts to them, or explain concepts to the group. Reading Information Coming Soon
Connecting and Accessibility Info
Communication on Zoom calls can be in the form of audio/video, audio alone, and/or text, with the option for closed captioning. There is no fee for joining the Zoom webinar. If you have any day-of questions, please private message our Facebook page or text the Inside Our Minds text line: (412) 438-3278.
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About Us: Inside Our Minds is an organization that works to elevate the voices of people with lived experience of mental illness and madness in Pittsburgh. Inside Our Minds is a project of New Sun Rising.

Radical Mental Health Reading Group