Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services
Helen Mayo House
Annual Conference
26 – 27 November 2013
Troubled Perinatal Families:
Frameworks, Plans and Treatments
Invitation
The Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services, Women’s and Children’s Health Network
invites you to attend the annual Helen Mayo House Conference titled ‘Troubled Perinatal
Families: Frameworks, Plans and Treatments’ to be held at the University of SA Lecture Theatre
BH2-09, City West Campus,70 North Terrace, Adelaide on 27th November 2013. There is also
a full pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 26th November 2013.
Our conference day features for the first time a focus on fathers, with the work of Dr Richard
Fletcher from Newcastle University. He is very well known for his research on the mental health
of men, and both his plenary and workshop will focus on working with dads in perinatal families.
Our other invited speaker is Chris Burke, also from NSW, whose exciting puppet show provides
a new way of thinking about perinatal families afflicted by violence and abuse.
There is a rich choice of workshops given by staff of Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Services/
Women’s & Children’s Health Network staff with each presenting from their own particular area
of expertise. We would love to see you at one or both days.
The staff of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services (PIMHS) which includes Helen May
House at Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN) are thrilled to present the program
which has as its theme, working with very troubled families in perinatal times. We have been
able to bring together a very strong program with a mix of invited interstate speakers sharing the
teaching with the expertise that local staff develop in their day to day work in our teams. Our
focus as always is to attempt to provide you with ideas, assessment frameworks and new
knowledge and skills in working with these families.
There is a pre-conference workshop which focuses on working with the families of people who
have a borderline personality disorder (BPD) or related conditions. This workshop which can be
undertaken either by itself or as part of a package with the main conference day comes from the
work of the Project Air team at the University of Wollongong, NSW in partnership with NSW
Health. Annemaree Bickerton is a psychiatrist and Toni Garretty is a Clinical Coordinator with
the MH Family and Carer Program. They have developed a package for working with families
which is quite new in its approach as it aims to give knowledge and skills to family members so
that they can better help the person in their midst who has BPD. This in turn will greatly help
treating practitioners and has the potential to reduce emergency department presentations, and
contain distress for both the family and the patient. This workshop will be suitable for those
working with families with BPD whether or not there is a baby in the mix.
Who should attend
Nurses and midwives, psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians, obstetricians, GP’s, allied
health workers and child care workers.
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Speakers and Workshop Presenters
Dr Annemaree Bickerton is a consultant psychiatrist and well known presenter and educator.
She has a special interest in working with families and carers in mental health context across
the lifespan and was engaged to provide training and develop resources for mental health
clinicians across NSW. Dr Bickerton has also worked with high risk families and developed the
Safety First model.
Ms Toni Garretty is the clinical coordinator for the Family & Carer Mental Health Program with
two Local Health Districts within NSW. Toni has a long standing history of working with families
and carers who support someone with mental health issues. Toni is a qualified educator and
trainer and delivers a range of training initiatives for carers, consumers, clinicians and
community members.
Annemaree and Toni have worked together for many years and their trade mark in training is
engaging with the audience to both learn and enjoy the experience
Dr Richard Fletcher is a senior lecturer in the Family Action Centre, Faculty of Health, The
University of Newcastle. He is the convenor of the Australian Fatherhood Research Network.
His current research includes: Using video feedback with fathers; Father-child play and self
regulation; and, Father’s role in families with PND. His book ‘The Dad Factor: how father-baby
bonding helps a child for life’ has received wide acclaim and has been translated into Spanish,
German and Korean.
Chris Burke
Chris is a trained therapist who has counselled children and
families affected by violence and abuse over the last 30
years. She is also a skilled community educator and trainer
with a distinguished national and international profile.
Chris is the Creator, Creative Director and Master
Puppeteer of the Yarramundi Kids Puppets®, which are the
sequel to her national award winning Jannawi Kids. The
puppets have educated and entertained thousands of
children and adults at community forums, conferences and
schools in every Australian State and Territory.
Dr Rebecca Hill is a consultant psychiatrist with Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services,
Women’s and Children’s Network and is based at Helen Mayo House. She has been working in
the field of perinatal psychiatry for 10 years, beginning during her psychiatry training at the
University of Arizona, USA. Prior to commencing with Helen Mayo House, Rebecca worked at
the Werribee Mercy Mother Baby Unit in Melbourne for 5 years, and completed the Graduate
Diploma of Infant and Parent Mental Health at the University of Melbourne in 2012.
Dr Ros Powrie is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and head of the Perinatal and Infant
Mental Health Services, Women’s and Children’s Health Network, SA. She is based at The
Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Her special interests are transculture, perinatal and infant
psychiatry and trauma.
Dr Anne Sved-Williams is Director, Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services, Women’s and
Children’s Network, SA and is based at Helen Mayo House. She is also a Clinical Senior
Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Adelaide.
Sue Ellershaw is the Clinical Services Coordinator, Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Services, Women’s and Children’s Network, SA and is based at Helen Mayo House with many
years’ experience in perinatal mental health in the areas of clinical work, management and
education.
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Mary Farrington is a clinical practice consultant who has completed her Grad Dip in Infant
Mental Health. She has worked in the area of Perinatal Mental Health since 1986, initially in
Helen Mayo House and then as part of the Perinatal Mental Health Consultation Liaison Team,
Women’s and Children’s Health Network, SA. She is currently working as a Perinatal & Infant
Mental Health GP Shared Care worker in the community.
Sharron’s Hollamby has approximately 20 years’ experience as a social worker in South
Australia. She has worked across statutory child protection, child and adolescent mental health,
domestic violence and adult mental health. She provides training for FamiliesSA, DisabilitySA
and HousingSA in the impact of domestic violence on children and worked for 2 years as the
domestic violence consultant to the Strong Families, Safe Babies Team as a part of FamiliesSA
High Risk Infant strategy. Sharron is currently the senior social worker for Perinatal and Infant
Mental Health Services, Women’s and Children’s Network, SA and is based at Helen Mayo
House with an interest in working when children and infants have experienced trauma and or
abuse.
Lynly Mader is an occupational therapist who is working as an infant mental health therapist
within Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services, Women’s and Children’s Health Network, SA
and is based at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She has over 20 years’ experience in
working with families facing complex issues including mental illness, substance abuse, domestic
violence and the intergenerational experience of trauma and abuse. This has involved the
assessment of parental capacity and the provision of infant-parent therapy within the context of
perinatal mental illness. At present her focus is in addressing disruptions to mother and infantco-regulatory experiences within the first years of life, due to preterm birth or diagnosis of ill
health within the infant.
Prue McEvoy is a child and adolescent psychiatrist for children in care, for South Australia. Her
particular interest is providing intervention for mothers and their infants involved in the child
protection system. She works with the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Team, Women’s and
Children’s Health Network, SA and is based at The Women’s & Children’s Hospital.
Patricia O’Rourke is a child psychotherapist/psychodramatist and has wide experience working
with individuals and groups in both public and private sectors in Australia and New Zealand.
She has a special interest in child protection and preventative work with infants, toddlers and
their families. She currently works in the Department of Psychological Medicine and Perinatal
and Infant Mental Health Services, Women’s and Children’s Health Network, SA and is based at
The Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She also works as a consultant, supervisor and trainer in
private practice.
Meg Prior is a psychologist who is working as the Senior Perinatal Mental Health Clinician
within the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Service, Women’s and Children’s Health Network,
SA and is based at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Meg has 15 years’ experience in
working with families with high and complex needs. Previously Meg has worked in the adult
mental health, child protection and infant mental health fields. Her current interests include
working with mentally unwell women in pregnancy to reduce anxiety and depression and to
enhance reflective functioning. Meg works in both individual and group settings.
Chris Yelland is a senior clinical psychologist working with Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Services, Women’s and Children’s Health Network, SA and is based at Helen Mayo House,
Facilitating group work, infant development assessments and individual therapy. Chris has
worked in a variety of positions within CAMHS since 1996.
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Preconference Workshop
Tuesday 26 November 2013
Staying Connected when Emotions Run High
Staying Connected when Emotions Run High is a workshop to improve knowledge, confidence
and skills related to professionals, families and carers who support someone with personality
disorder or related conditions.
Time:
Registration and arrival tea and coffee from 8:30a.m.
8:50a.m. Welcome and Introduction
9:00a.m. – 4:00p.m. Workshop
Morning tea will be provided 10:30a.m.-10:50a.m. and lunch 1:00p.m.-2:00p.m.
Venue:
Lecture Theatre BH2-09, University of South Australia, City West Campus,
70 North Terrace, Adelaide
Speakers: Dr Annemaree Bickerton and MsToni Garretty from NSW Health in partnership with
Project Air Strategy, University of Wollongong, NSW.
Cost:
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Who should attend: Clinicians to assist families and carers who support someone with a
personality disorder or related conditions
Training Plan
Relationships are at the core of our mental health, particularly for a person with personality
disorder. People with personality disorder are very sensitive in relationships, and tend to react
with very strong emotions to changes in relationships and perceived criticism or abandonment.
This causes difficulty both for the person with personality disorder and those close to them.
Carers often describe being in constant fear of triggering distress in the person with personality
disorder. Due to this, it is essential for clinicians to involve families and carers when working
with someone with a personality disorder.
Staying Connected when Emotions Run High is a program that has been developed around a
new resource which uses film of a mother-daughter dyadto illustrate typical relational sequences
which commonly occur (The 4 carer dances). The film then highlights 5 Carer (relational)
strategies for remaining most helpful in the context of high levels of reactivity and distress. The
latter part of the film puts these strategies into place (through the “Good Enough Carer” dance)
when safety is at risk (e.g.in context of anger & rage, non suicidal self injury and suicide
attempt).
The professionals version provides opportunities both to “walk in the shoes” of carers in this
situation as well as to consider challenges in working clinically with this group of people.
Workbooks will be provided for interactive exercises and include a range of helpful fact sheets
for future work.
Thank you for the Support of the Mental Health Unit of the Department for Health and Ageing,
South Australia
Special Dietary Requirements – Refer to Page 8
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Conference Program
Wednesday 27 November 2013
8.30a.m.
Registration and arrival tea and coffee
Plenary 1 - Chairperson: Dr Anne Sved Williams
8:45a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Sue Ellershaw
8:55a.m.
Troubled Families: Beginning a Focus Antenatally
Dr Ros Powrie
9:15a.m.
Working at the Sharp End – Fathers in Vulnerable
Families
Dr Richard Fletcher
10:10a.m.
Troubled Families: Perspectives on the use of
medication and other biological treatments
Dr Rebecca Hill
10:35a.m.
Morning Tea
11:00a.m.
Workshops:
12:45p.m.
Seeing Fathers’ Parenting Strengths in Vulnerable
Families
Richard Fletcher
Mothers and Babies in the Child Protection System:
Double Vulnerability!
Dr Prue McEvoy and
Patricia O’Rourke
Feeding Difficulties – Working from an Attachment
Theory Focus
Lynly Mader
Working with Vulnerable Pregnant Women: The Nitty
Gritty of Mindfulness Groups
Dr Ros Powrie
Individual and Group Based Approaches to Working
with Depression and Anxiety in Pregnant Women
Meg Prior
The Neurodevelopmental Impacts of Trauma and
Abuse on Infants
Sharron Hollamby
Lunch
Plenary 2 - Chairperson: Dr Georgie Swift
1:30p.m.
That’s Another Story
Chris Burke and the
Yarramundi Kids
2:15p.m.
Vulnerable Families: When Mum has a Borderline
Personality Diagnosis
Dr Anne Sved Williams
2:40p.m.
Afternoon tea
3:00p.m.
Workshops:
4:45p.m.
Kids, Families and Domestic Violence
Chris Burke
Working with Families when the Mother has
Borderline Personality Disorder
Dr Anne Sved Williams
Stressed Families
Chris Yelland
The wounded mother: Working with families
with maternal mental illness
Dr Rebecca Hill
Nursing interventions for troubled perinatal families
Sue Ellershaw and Mary
Farrington
Close
Dr Anne Sved Williams
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Registration
Women’s & Children’s Hospital Network
72 King William Road, North Adelaide SA 5006
ABN: 64 021 748 126
Workshop:
8:45a.m.– 4:00p.m. Tuesday 26 November 2013 Registrations open at 8:30a.m.
Conference: 8:45a.m.– 4:45p.m. Wednesday 27 November 2013 Registrations open at
8:30a.m.
Venue:
Lecture Theatre BH2-09, University of South Australia, City West Campus,
70 North Terrace, Adelaide
Cost
: $150.00 for preconference day
: $200.00 for conference day
: $300.00 for both days
50% discount full-time students with valid student ID card
15% discount for group bookings of 5 or more for full fee paying registrations
Registrations to:
Tina Bull
Administration Assistant, Helen Mayo House
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, WCHN
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
(08) 708 71047
(08) 708 71060
tina.bull@health.sa.gov.au
Registration Policy:
> Cost of registration is GST inclusive
> Payments will be processed by: Women’s and Children’s Health Network, SA Health
> Cancellations received before Tuesday, 1st November 2013 will be refunded less an
administration fee of $30.00.
> Cancellations made after that date will not be eligible for a refund, although registrations are
transferable. Cancellations must be made in writing to Tina Bull at Helen Mayo House.
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Registration Form
Registrant’s details - Please register me for:
Preconference day Tuesday 26 November 2013 Conference Day Wednesday 27 November 2013
Both days – Tuesday & Wednesday 26 – 27
November 2013
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Dietary Requirements
For catering purposes please indicate if you have any special dietary requirements i.e.
Gluten free
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Journaling
Please be advised due to limitations with the Oracle System at the present time, we would prefer SA
Health Regional Managers to request registrants to self-fund the conference and seek reimbursement
through their line manager. As indicated on the Registration Form payment is accepted via cash, cheque,
money order, Visa or MasterCard.
SA Health employees are required to follow this process in the event that if the overall total dollar value
for registrants attending from WCHN or other SA Health Regions does not amount to $1,000 or greater,
the Women’s & Children’s Health Network is unable to process payment via Intercompany and NonIntercompany Journals. Failing to follow this process is a risk for Helen Mayo House, due to the costs
incurred in organising the conference.
However, if your department has agreed to fund multiple employees and the value is greater than $1,000
please complete the details below:
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General Information
Lifts as well as stairs are available at the City West Campus. The Campus has wheelchair access. The
Campus will be well signposted for directions to the Conference Venue, otherwise a Campus map is
available on www.unisa.edu.au
Car Parking
There is no car parking on the UniSA Campus grounds for the public.
Public car parks available in the surrounding areas:
Adelaide Convention Centre Car Park
Early bird $12.00/day (Enter between 5:30–9:30am; exit between 2:30-6:30pm) casual parking $4.00 per hr
Light Centre Car Park, 53 Light Square
Early bird $12.00/day (Enter between 5:30–9:30am; exit between 2:00-7:00pm) casual parking $6.00 per hr
Wilson Parking, City West Car Park - 189-207 Hindley Street
Early bird $13.00/day (Enter between 5:30–9:30am; exit between 3:00-7:00pm) casual parking $4.00 per1/2 hr or
part therof)
Alternatively on non-event days, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre operates a Park ‘n’ Ride facility from
6am to 6.30pm, enabling city commuters to park in the Centre’s car park for just $4 per day and take
advantage of the excellent free tram service, train (not free) and bus (not free) services to and from the
Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Pay and display vending machines are located around the car park. The
Entertainment Centre is located on the Corner Port Road and Adam Street, Hindmarsh.
Note that on Adelaide Entertainment Centre event days, the Park ‘n’ Ride Facility is closed and exclusively available
to ticket holders. The Adelaide Entertainment Centre endeavours to provide three days notice of impending closures.
Closure advice can be monitored from Adelaide Metro’s website.
The Adelaide Metro’s website. will also provide useful information on tram/train/bus routes.
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