Supporting Mental Health Services and Staff to Provide Accessible Care and Support for Deaf People
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Bluewater I - In-Person
| Friday, November 8, 2024 |
| 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM |
| Bluewater I |
Overview
Rebecca Reedman and A/Prof Frances Dark, Metro South Addiction & Mental Health Services
Speaker
A/Prof Frances Dark
Clinic Director and Clinical Psychiatrist
Q Health, Metro South Addiction and Mental Health
Supporting Mental Health Services and Staff to Provide Accessible Care and Support for Deaf People
Abstract
Approximately 4 million people in Australia experience hearing loss. Australia still has the worst ear disease rates in the world, especially in our First Nations population. Hearing loss regardless of the severity, can have long lasting and permanent effects on communication, language acquisition, education, vocation, health, and wellbeing. Access to timely and culturally sensitive support and services, is crucial in ensuring best outcomes for the Deaf or hard of hearing person, their family and community.
The Deafness and Mental Health Statewide Consultation and Liaison service is a Q Health government service with an aim to promote appropriate and accessible mental health care for Deaf and hard of hearing people. We offer education and training, to help ensure culturally sensitive and inclusive strategies for professionals providing services to people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. We also offer comprehensive consultation and liaison services, including joint assessment work.
The presentation will give you a glimpse of the factors that underpin complexity when working with Deaf and Hard of hearing people in our generic ‘hearing’ organisations and services. We will alert you to pitfalls and myths around deafness and provide much needed information to ensure you are providing access for the Deaf and hard of hearing people to your service and expertise. The production of all our resources and training has involved deaf consumers and examples of collaborative work will be show cased.
Three Key Learnings:
1. Deafness is a heterogeneous condition. It can have far reaching effects on social, emotional and cognitive development.
2. Up to 90% of deaf children are born into hearing families with little or no experience in the need to consider how their child will acquire language.
3. Auslan is not spoken English 'on the hands'. It is a language in its own right, and there is significant variation in language literacy (sign language and written English) in the deaf population.
The Deafness and Mental Health Statewide Consultation and Liaison service is a Q Health government service with an aim to promote appropriate and accessible mental health care for Deaf and hard of hearing people. We offer education and training, to help ensure culturally sensitive and inclusive strategies for professionals providing services to people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. We also offer comprehensive consultation and liaison services, including joint assessment work.
The presentation will give you a glimpse of the factors that underpin complexity when working with Deaf and Hard of hearing people in our generic ‘hearing’ organisations and services. We will alert you to pitfalls and myths around deafness and provide much needed information to ensure you are providing access for the Deaf and hard of hearing people to your service and expertise. The production of all our resources and training has involved deaf consumers and examples of collaborative work will be show cased.
Three Key Learnings:
1. Deafness is a heterogeneous condition. It can have far reaching effects on social, emotional and cognitive development.
2. Up to 90% of deaf children are born into hearing families with little or no experience in the need to consider how their child will acquire language.
3. Auslan is not spoken English 'on the hands'. It is a language in its own right, and there is significant variation in language literacy (sign language and written English) in the deaf population.
Biography
Dr Dark is a graduate of the University of Queensland. She became a psychiatrist in 1991 and has worked in the public mental health system as a consultant psychiatrist since 1991. Since 2004 she has been Director of the State-wide Deafness and Mental Health Service. She is an advocate of comprehensive care that includes access to evidence- based psychosocial interventions. Currently she is also Director of the Rehabilitation services in Metro South Health service, Brisbane and Clinical lead of the State Open Disclosure Program.
Rebecca Reedman
Clinical Specialist Deafness and Mental Health
Deafness and Mental Health Service, Health, Metro South Addiction & Mental Health Services
Supporting Mental Health Services and Staff to Provide Accessible Care and Support for Deaf People
Abstract
Approximately 4 million people in Australia experience hearing loss. Australia still has the worst ear disease rates in the world, especially in our First Nations population. Hearing loss regardless of the severity, can have long lasting and permanent effects on communication, language acquisition, education, vocation, health, and wellbeing. Access to timely and culturally sensitive support and services, is crucial in ensuring best outcomes for the Deaf or hard of hearing person, their family and community.
The Deafness and Mental Health Statewide Consultation and Liaison service is a Q Health government service with an aim to promote appropriate and accessible mental health care for Deaf and hard of hearing people. We offer education and training, to help ensure culturally sensitive and inclusive strategies for professionals providing services to people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. We also offer comprehensive consultation and liaison services, including joint assessment work.
The presentation will give you a glimpse of the factors that underpin complexity when working with Deaf and Hard of hearing people in our generic ‘hearing’ organisations and services. We will alert you to pitfalls and myths around deafness and provide much needed information to ensure you are providing access for the Deaf and hard of hearing people to your service and expertise. The production of all our resources and training has involved deaf consumers and examples of collaborative work will be show cased.
Three Key Learnings:
1. Deafness is a heterogeneous condition. It can have far reaching effects on social, emotional and cognitive development.
2. Up to 90% of deaf children are born into hearing families with little or no experience in the need to consider how their child will acquire language.
3. Auslan is not spoken English 'on the hands'. It is a language in its own right, and there is significant variation in language literacy (sign language and written English) in the deaf population.
The Deafness and Mental Health Statewide Consultation and Liaison service is a Q Health government service with an aim to promote appropriate and accessible mental health care for Deaf and hard of hearing people. We offer education and training, to help ensure culturally sensitive and inclusive strategies for professionals providing services to people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. We also offer comprehensive consultation and liaison services, including joint assessment work.
The presentation will give you a glimpse of the factors that underpin complexity when working with Deaf and Hard of hearing people in our generic ‘hearing’ organisations and services. We will alert you to pitfalls and myths around deafness and provide much needed information to ensure you are providing access for the Deaf and hard of hearing people to your service and expertise. The production of all our resources and training has involved deaf consumers and examples of collaborative work will be show cased.
Three Key Learnings:
1. Deafness is a heterogeneous condition. It can have far reaching effects on social, emotional and cognitive development.
2. Up to 90% of deaf children are born into hearing families with little or no experience in the need to consider how their child will acquire language.
3. Auslan is not spoken English 'on the hands'. It is a language in its own right, and there is significant variation in language literacy (sign language and written English) in the deaf population.
Biography
Rebecca Reedman currently works as a Clinical Nurse Consultant with the Queensland Health Statewide Deafness and Mental Health Consultation and Liaison service, based in Woolloongabba. Rebecca works as both a mental health nurse (with generalist training), as well as a psychotherapist having completed a Master of Counselling. She has a particular and passionate interest in working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. She enjoys networking with likeminded clinicians on both a national and international level. Currently her role includes supporting staff to provide culturally and linguistically, evidence-based services to deaf people.
