Remaining Critical about Mental Health Matters in Pandemic Crises

10 Nov 2020

A Two-Day Conference organised by the School of Applied Social Studies and the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, in association with the Critical Voices Network Ireland

SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY AND SCHOOL OF APPLIED SOCIAL STUDIES, 

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND, WITH CRITICAL VOICES NETWORK IRELAND

There has been no shortage of mental health advice and guidance from statutory services, voluntary organisations, and ‘mental health experts’ since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year. We have seen headlines such as ‘tsunami of mental illness’ and references to opportunities to move towards more digitalised mental health services.

The conference will critically consider the range of recent responses to mental health matters arising from the pandemic and will explore ways of developing networks of support and solidarity in these uncertain times.

Helping Psychiatry Wake Up to the Truth about Antidepressant Medication Withdrawal by Dr John Read, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of East London.

Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19 - a General Practitioner’s Perspective - Why do we do what we do, and how can it Change? Dr Bryan McElroy, GP

Drayton Park Women’s Crisis Service - A conversation with Andie and Shirley. Shirley McNicholas and Andie Rose, Drayton Park Women’s Crisis House, London. 

(Dis)connected? Creating Spaces to be Together in a Maddening World. Rachel Waddingham.

“Are we all in it together? Critical reflections on what mental health means during COVID-19”. Kerry Cuskelly, Rory Doody,  Deirdre Lillis, Thom Stewart.