Cadarn Skills Centre
Health and Wellbeing Public Lecture Series Two:
The Skills Centre is delighted to announce that they have secured funding for the Health and Wellbeing Lecture Series programme for 2011/12 from the National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare (NLIAH). Delivered in partnership with Coleg Llandrillo Cymru, the Skills Centre hopes to build on the success of Series One of the lectures (held between October 2010 and April 2011), which attracted over 400 delegates.
The lectures, which are open to the public and free of charge to attend have covered a range of topics from Stress Management to Nutrition and Healthy Ageing; attracting a range of delegates from healthcare professionals to college students and educators.
The second Series of Public Lectures:
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Session 6: Dementia
1st May 2012 6pm Venue Cymru
Dr. Mike Bird
Challenging behaviour associated with dementia: Problems with the prevailing model
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Session 6: Dementia
1st May 2012 6pm Venue Cymru
Professor Bob Woods
Dementia supportive communities: a vision for the future
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Session 5: Autistic Spectrum Disorder
20th March 2012 6pm Venue Cymru
Professor Richard Hastings
What is Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and how can ABA approaches benefit children with autism and children with a learning disability?
Bethan Mair Williams
The practicalities of implementing behavioural principles to address communication and educational needs within a public sector cost conscious setting.
Session 4: Fundamentals in Health Care
21 February 2012 6pm Venue Cymru
Professor Jean White
Improving the patient’s experience in hospital
Janet Davies
Improving Care, Delivering Quality - the 1000 Lives Plus Programme
Session 3: Managing Long-term Conditions
17 January 2012 6pm Venue Cymru
Dr Val Morrison – Living with chronic disease: psychosocial influences on the patient and family caregiver experience
Session 2: Cancer and Palliative Care
15 November 2011
Professor Nick Stuart – Caring for the cancer patient in the 21st century – Part I
Dr Andy Fowell - Caring for the cancer patient in the 21st century – Part II
Session 1: Mental Health
18 October 2011
Dr Richard Tranter – Through a glass, happily: What can antidepressants tell us about how we see the emotional world?
Dr Seren Roberts – Is ignorance bliss? What we need to know about depression research.
Health and Wellbeing Public Lecture Series One:
October 2010 – April 2011 Venue Cymru, Llandudno
Tuesday Evenings 6.00 - 8.30 p.m.
The first series of public lectures in Health and Wellbeing organised by the Skills Centre in partnership with Coleg Llandrillo Cymru
This initial series of monthly lectures is being held at Venue Cymru, Llandudno, and has been running from October 2010 and finishes in April 2011. The lectures have been designed to appeal to a wide audience, and have covered diverse aspects of Health and Wellbeing such as Stress Management, Nutrition in Children and Chronic Disease Management. The lectures are free of charge and are open to the public. Those attending come from a variety of backgrounds, from professionals working in health or social care, to carers, students and those who have a particular interest in the topic of the evening. The evenings are organised into two sessions, with an interval for refreshments and networking opportunities.
Feedback quotes from Health & Wellbeing Lecture Series
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‘Interactive lecture… containing useful techniques to use and able to take back into the workplace and apply’
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‘Lecturers were enthusiastic about their subject matter and also interacted well’
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‘Interesting lectures, great knowledge of speakers, well prepared, good answers to open floor questions’
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‘Interesting and useful topic to enhance my daily working practice’
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‘These lectures provided me with the inspiration to go back to work more hopefully and creatively with the people in my care’
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‘All the lectures have been thought provoking and encouraged me to want to learn more about each subject’
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'Being an educator myself the evenings were very informative and yet informal enough to allow the audience to feel able to participate'
Series one programme:
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Session 7: Healthy Ageing
Muscle loss in ageing and disease- Dr Andrew Lemmey
Nutrition and Healthy Ageing -Penny Cowley
Top Tips For Eating Healthily And Food Shopping on a Budget
Nutrition and Healthy Ageing- Penny Cowley
Session 6: Mindfulness
Living Mindfully - Sarah Silverton
Session 5: Dementia
What can we learn from people with Alzheimer’s disease? - Professor Bob Woods
Session 4: Chronic Disease Management
Illness Beliefs, Responses and Outcomes: Applied Health Psychology- Dr Val Morrison
Chronic Disease Management and Exercise- Victoria Hyland
Session 3: Nutrition in Children
The Food Dudes Healthy Eating Programme: Changing Children’s Eating Habits for Life- Dr Sally Pears
Session 2: Stress Management
Dealing with Stress: Some Lessons from Elite Sport -Professor Lew Hardy
Session 1: Children and Families/ Incredible years
Incredible Years: Evidenced based interventions for promoting social and emotional wellbeing in children and families- Dr Tracey Bywater
Needs of Looking After Children- Debbie Williams