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Health Day: Wednesday 8

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Health Day is being held on Wednesday 8 December between 11.30am and 4.30pm on LTU Beechworth campus in the International Hotel.

Convenors are Pauline Savy and Evan Willis.

Health Day Theme
The Beechworth campus of La Trobe University was formerly a psychiatric hospital. Opened in 1867, it grew to over 1000 beds and was variously known as the Beechworth Lunatic Asylum and Mayday Hills Hospital before its closure in 1995. The theme for Health Day is ‘Has deinstitutionalisation worked?’

Health Day CD
A series of Working Papers have been commissioned on the Health Day theme. A CD with these Working Papers will be posted to registered participants of Health Day.

Copies of this CD are available for sale at $20 (GST, postage and packaging inclusive) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, PO Box 821, Wodonga, Vic 3689, Australia and from the Registration Desk in the Conference Centre during the conference.

Registration for Health Day
Registration for Health Day is $55 payable via the Conference Online Registration Form or by cash or credit card on the day.

Registration includes morning tea on arrival, lunch, afternoon tea and a ‘Nurse Ratched’ tour of the former Mayday Hills Psychiatric Hospital (now LTU Beechworth campus) taken by Pauline Savy who did her psychiatric nurse training at this institution.

Health Day Program
A program will be emailed to Health Day registrants in late November. A draft of the Health Day program will be available soon - click here.

AGM of the Health Sociology Section
This will be held on Friday 10th over lunch at 1pm in the John Western Room at the International Hotel.

 

HEALTH DAY PROGRAM

11.15: Morning Tea
11.30: Welcome: Pauline Savy
11.35: Opening Remarks: Tom Keating, Regional Director, Department of Human Services, Hume Region of North Eastern Victoria
11.45:

Mike Hazelton, Mental Health Nursing, University of Newcastle
Mental Health Reform, Citizenship and Human Rights in Four Countries

12.05:

Julie Henderson, Sociology, Flinders University
Deinstitutionalisation and the Construction of Community Care in Australian Mental Health Policy

12.25: 'Nurse Ratched' Tour of former Mayday Hills by Pauline Savy
1.15: Lunch
2.00:

Shari Seigloff, Arts and Environment, La Trobe Bendigo
Moving the Isolation of Mental Illness from the Institution to the Community: The Caregivers Perspective
2.20:

Anne Marie Sawyer, Sociology, La Trobe Bundoora
Deinstitutionalisation and the Conceptualisation of Psychiatric 'Risk': The Perspective of a Crisis Team Clinician

2.40:

Janice Chesters, Monash University School of Rural Health.
Closing Asylums and Hospitals Not Deinstitutionalising People
3.00: Afternoon Tea
3.15:

Short papers
Daphne Habibis, Sociology, University of Tasmania
Living with Mental Illness: Narratives of Hope and Fear

3.35:

Suzanne McNeill, General Practice, University of Tasmania
Exploring the Dynamics of Power: Conflict and Control in Group Homes for People with Disabilities

3.55:

Summary Session
Discussant: Julie Mulvany, Social Sciences, Swinburne University

4.30 Finish