The Inaugural Mobile Mental Health Lecture was held on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at the Medallion Hall Hotel. This event was aimed at building the capacity of children’s officers, psychologists and childcare practitioners in screening, assessing and treating children with behavioural issues. Emphasis was additionally placed on evidence-based therapeutic interventions and culturally appropriate solutions to meet the dynamic needs of our children.

Guest speaker, Dr. Megan Swaby, clinical psychologist and lecturer, Mico University College, presented on the session’s focus: Behaviour Intervention Techniques for Conduct & Oppositional Defiant Disorders.

Her presentation focused mainly on the C.A.R.E Behaviour Modification Model which has a Cognitive Behavioural underpinning, but can be used by therapists of different theoretical orientations.

The model purports:

C: Connect before you correct (a principle from Positive Parenting)

A: Affirm- helping the client to understand that his/her worth is different from his/her work.

R: Replace negative thoughts with positive thinking

E: Empathise – do unto others as we would like others to do unto us.

The  session culminated in laboratory and group presentations with officers working in groups to develop the best approaches to various case studies from actual cases.

Photos from Mobile health lecture