Regional Groups | Wessex

Paul Whitby
CMHT
2nd Floor
Bewley House
Marshfield Road
Chippenham
SN15 1JW

Tel: 01249 707987

Annual Report 2006

Wessex PSIGE covers Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight. Some parts of this area still do not have a clinical psychologist working with older people and we are a small group with a total membership of 17 paid up members. Attendance at meetings is usually 10 – 12, including trainees from the course based at Southampton University. Some of our members also have trainees on placement with them from the Bristol course.

We meet quarterly in Salisbury. The first half of the meeting is for business matters and in the second part there is a presentation.

Issues discussed at the business meetings over the last year include the changes in clinical psychology training - core competencies, reorganisation of teaching and placements (older adult placements have been moved from the second year to the first year in Southampton) and the Quality Assurance review which took place in Autumn 2005, financial difficulties in the local trusts and their effect on services and links with South West PSIGE.

Presentations:
Oct 2005 Feedback form PSIGE conference – Ros Butters-Moule, Penny Fooks and Sinclair Lough.
Dec 2005 Video diaries for people with dementia- Chris Allen
March 2006. The Mental Capacity Act – Romola Bucks and Alison Gold..
June 2006 Emotional Processing in Older People – Sam Dench

Workshops:
July 2005 Psychosocial approaches to challenging behaviour – Mike Bird.
(Held jointly with the University of Southampton Clinical Psychology Training Course).

Ann Marshall
Geographical convenor, Wessex Group.