HUG Talks

Below is a list of talks given by HUG members to various Highland and Scottish conferences and training events.

Improving Mental Health Services From a User's Perspective - SHAS Conference, October 1997

Getting Back to Work
- Pavillion Conference on Employment, January 1998

Living with a Mental Illness
- Police Awareness Training, January 1998

Mental Health Services in 25 Years Time - My Vision
- SAMH 75th Anniversary Conference 1998

Attitudes to Mental Illness: A User's Perspective
- Joint National Schizophrenia Fellowship Scotland Conference with Maudsley Hospital Psychosis Unit, 1998

Turning Words into Action
- Modernising Community Care Conference, 1999

Developing the HUG Network
- Allies in Change, June 2000

The Stigma of Mental Illness
- Joint National Schizophrenia Fellowship Scotland Conference with Maudsley Hospital Psychosis Unit, September 2000

Good Practice in Mental Health
- Presentation to Highland Primary Care NHS Trust, December 2000

Coercion and Compliance of Voluntary Patients
- Mental Health Officer Awareness Training - 2000/2001

Employment and Mental Health
- Joint Committee on Action for Community Care Awareness Day, January 2001

Good Practice in User Involvement
- Scottish Community Care Forum Conference, April 2001

Challenging Stigma -
The Launch of the People Too campaign at the Scottish Parliament, 2001

The Democratic Deficit: A Patient's Perspective
- The Scottish NHS Confederation Conference, August 2001

Being a Parent with a Mental Illness
- Who Cares Conference, National Schizophrenia Fellowship, September 2001

Mind over Structure
- Designed to Involve Conference, October 2001

Beyond Survival: Understanding Suicide and Self Harm
- Fife, November 2001

Human Rights and People with Mental Health Problems
- Cross-Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, May 2002

Crisis Services
- Labour Party Fringe Meeting, February 11 2004

A Users View of the Mental Health Act
ADSW Conference & Mental Health Nursing Conference
February 2004

Royal College of Psychiatrists
Talk to Royal College of Psychiatrists July 06

Acute Care. Who Cares?
Talk 2007.

Narrative
Scottish Film and Mental Health Festival - October 2007

Employment 07 MOD
Talk by HUG directed at the Ministry of Defence; Anne

Vox (Voices of Experience) - Feb 2007
Voices of Experience Talk

Recovery Talk Feb 2007
Talk on recovery from a mental health problem

Recovery Talk May 2007
Further talks on recovery

Psychological Therapies (Labour Party(VOX)) - Mar 2008
Talk at the Labour Party Fringe Meeting

Hug Involvement - June 2008
Talk by one of our HUG members; Kaye

User Involvement - The Scottish Context
A personal view by Keir Hardie, CCPS Conference, Nov 2003

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