The Management of Mental Health Issues in Student Accommodation
A popular one day seminar examining how housing providers can respond to the needs of students experiencing mental health difficulties.
Agenda
9.30am - 9.45am
Registration and coffee
9.45am - 10.00am
Opening Remarks from Delegates. Victoria Loverseed, Development Manager, Unipol Student Homes
Policy, Symptoms and Impact
Led and guided by James Moore, Mental Health Advisor
10.00am - 10.30am
What's That Coming Over the Hill? The context of Student Mental Health in Higher and Further Educational Institutions in 2012
10.30am - 11.20am
Eyes, Ears and Gut Feelings. Awareness of the mental health conditions that commonly affect students and their symptoms
11.20am - 11.30am
Questions and discussion
11.30am - 11.45am
Break (tea and coffee available)
Five Case Studies to Discuss Student Support Issues and Apply Legal Principles in a Practical Manner
Led by Hilary Crook, Solicitor, Hatch Legal and James Moore, Mental Health Advisor
11.45am - 12.45pm
Case Study One: Joining the Dots - Delusional behaviour, harassment and knitting support services together
Case Study Two: Making a Clean Start - Disability discrimination, reasonable adjustments and parental involvement
12.45pm - 1.35pm
Lunch (provided)
1.35pm - 3.00pm
Case Study Three: Confidential to Whom? Data protection, confidentiality and applying this in practice.
Case Study Four: Who’s Duty of Care? Professional roles and responsibility, and boundaries for accommodation staff
Case Study Five: Testing the System - The role of discipline and uses of disability discrimination
3.00pm - 3.20pm
Break (tea and coffee available)
Positive Crisis Management
3.20pm - 4.00pm
The Management of Mental Health Crises in Student Accommodation. Strategies for the positive management of a mental health crisis in student accommodation
4.00pm - 4.30pm
Discussion, Final Questions and Remaining issues
4.30pm - 4.40pmConcluding remarks and end.
