Healthy Deaf Minds in Europe – 8th European Congress on Mental Health and Deafness, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK, 2nd – 5th November 2010

Programme and abstracts:

http://www.bsmhd.org.uk/esmhdcongress2010/

Dementia and deafness: what you need to know: Kate Allan, Frankie McLean and Liz Scott Gibson (Deaf Action in partnership with the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) at the University of Stirling)

Information on issues faced by people who are both deaf/hard of hearing and have dementia (a group of conditions that includes Alzheimer’s Disease), to help find ways to support them and their families, and enable them to continue to live as full a life as possible.

Web page and PDF:

http://www.alzscot.org/pages/info/deafness.htm#Working

PDF:

http://www.deafaction.org/pdf/Dementia%20&%20Deafness.pdf

Abuse and deaf children: Some factors to consider, by Sharon M. Ridgeway, Research Psychologist, National Centre for Mental Health and Deafness (Child Abuse Review, Volume 2 Issue 3, Pages 166 – 173,Published Online: 13 Feb 2006)

Abstract. Full article by subscription.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112413281/abstract

Forensic referrals to the three specialist psychiatric units for deaf people in the UK, by Alys Young; Paul Howarth; Sharon Ridgeway; Brendan Monteiro (Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, Volume 12, Issue 1 April 2001 , pages 19 – 35)

Abstract – full article by subscription

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713604976

The Mental Health Needs of Deaf Black Minority Ethnic People – Research Report: Dr Steven David Emery, Heriot-Watt University, in collaboration with Deaf Connections, Glasgow, funded by Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board Mental Health Partnership (2008)

PDF

http://www.deafconnections.co.uk/images/pdfs/deaf%20bme%20mental%20health%20research.pdf

Sign Health website

Some BSL, text

http://www.signhealth.org.uk/

British Society for Mental Health and Deafness

Website

http://www.bsmhd.org.uk

British Society for Mental Health and Deafness BSL mini-site

BSL and text

www.bsltranslations.org.uk

Deaf Info – General Information about mental health and deafness

Website – Some BSL

http://www.deafinfo.org.uk

Mental Health in Deaf Adults: Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Among Hearing and Deaf Individuals: Marit H. Kvam and Mitchell Loeb (Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2007)

Full Text

http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/12/1/1