Why do so many students with
mental health difficulties refuse to
declare their mental health status
when applying to university? Why
do some of them not seek help
from college support services or
do so only when they feel
desperate? Why do so many
students with mental health
problems bear their difficulties in
silence?
STUDENT PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
With the UCL Student
Psychological Services
Team, Dr Julian
Lousada and
Dr Peter Raven
In addressing these questions we have taken
into consideration the following points that
students with mental health issues have
repeatedly expressed to us over the years.
Some of the reasons they do not tell anyone of
their mental health problems, or seek the
support of college staff is because they are
afraid of being:
One Day Conference
refused a place at university
labelled as “mad”
perceived as “dangerous”
shunned by fellow students
discriminated against
awarded a lesser degree
Venue: Christopher Ingold XLG2
Auditorium , UCL
Fee: Qualified Practitioners/ Interested Parties
£90, UCL Staff £50 (lunch and refreshments
included)
To book e-mail Catherine McAteer at
[email protected]
Programme
9.30am: Coffee
9.45am: Welcome by Doula Nicolson, Conference
Co-ordinator
9.50am:Introduction by Catherine McAteer, Head of UCL
Student Psychological Services
10.00-10.45am: Student Mental Health Problems and Stigma,
by Dr David Sturgeon, Psychiatrist at UCL Student
Psychological Services
11.00-11.30am: Difficulties Students Face, by Dr Peter Raven,
UCL Medical School
11.30-11.50am: Coffee
12.00-1.00pm: De-stigmatising Student Mental Health by
Dr Julian Lousada, Psychoanalyst, Chair of British
Psychoanalytic Council
1.00-2.00pm: Lunch
2.00-3.30pm: Discussion groups to address some of the issues
raised in the morning talks, review case studies and identify
strategies that will help work more effectively with student
mental health problems.
3.30-3.45pm: Coffee
3.45-4.45pm: Plenary and Discussion
5.00pm: End of Conference
Biography of Conference Speakers
Dr Julian Lousada
Psychoanalyst , former Clinical Director of the Adult
Department at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Recent publication,
“Borderline Welfare: Feeling and the Fear of Feeling in
Contemporary Welfare", Karnak 2005. Originally a social worker
with a particular interest in group relations and organisational
dynamics.
Dr David Sturgeon
Currently one of two psychiatrists at UCL’s Student Psychological
Services. Previously he was Head of Psychiatric Liaison Services
at University College Hospital; Lead Consultant Psychiatrist in
South Camden; Visiting Psychiatrist at the Caversham Group
Practice. Prior to this, an Academic Psychia- trist at University
College Hospital Medical School, worked with the MRC Social
Psychiatry Unit into lowering Expressed Emotion in families
where one member had Schizophrenia.
Dr Peter Raven
Faculty Tutor (Medical Sciences), responsible for Year 4- Year 6
of UCL Medical School and for Medical Student Support and
Fitness to Practise. Previously Clinical Lecturer in Affective
Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry and Senior Lecturer at Royal Free
Medical School. As a Clinical Academic, works as a Consultant
Psychiatrist with a special interest in mood disorders and as a
GMC Associate supervising doctors with mental health problems.
Research interest in Student Support.
Group Facilitators from UCL Student Psychological Services
Team: Catherine McAteer- Head of Student Psychological
Services, Barry Keane- Deputy Head of Student Psychological
Services, Rachel Euba- Cognitive Behavioural Therapist,
Sonia Greenidge-Cognitive Behavioural Therapist,
Fotini Roberts- Psychoanalyst/Psycho-Dynamic Counsellor,
Dr. David Sturgeon- Consultant Psychiatrist,
Nina Tamas- Psycho-Analytic Psychotherapist