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Practical Handbooks for Mental Health – Development Workshop

Practical Handbooks for Mental Health – Development Workshop

St Catherine’s College, Oxford University

Thursday 30th January 2020. 10 am – 4 pm

Presenters will include:

Dr Roz Austin and Assistant Professor Mark Hopfenbeck. ‘Developing online resources from the Practical Handbooks for Mental Health’.

Assistant Professor Mark Hopfenbeck. ‘Dialogue, values and voices in the creation of the Practical Handbooks for Mental Health’.

Developing online resources:

Authors who wrote chapters for ‘The practical handbook of hearing voices (Volume One)’ will have the option to undertake short interviews, that will be recorded for St Catherine’s College’s ‘Values Based Practice’ website https://valuesbasedpractice.org/

We will have a workshop in the afternoon to discuss developing online resources from the ‘Practical Handbooks for Mental Health’.

A free college lunch will be provided.

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