Behavioral Therapy meetings & conferences

1st International Conference on Cultural Psychiatry in Mediterranean Countries

November 5-7, 2012 Tel Aviv, Israel

The 1st International Conference on Cultural Psychiatry in Mediterranean Countries is a highly anticipated and ambitious event that seeks to deal with novel issues appearing in a world of open frontiers, new opportunities and international upheaval and conflicts, particularly relevant in light of recent events in the region.

Identity is an evolving concept, where group boundaries have become blurred. Mental health professionals will be given the opportunity to participate in stimulating and fruitful discussions on a great variety of issues such as clinical aspects of acculturative stress, neuropsychopharmacology and integrative treatment methods.

The conference, to be held 5-7 November 2012, is aimed at leading psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, social anthropologists, students and anyone with a specialized interest in the rapidly evolving area of transcultural psychiatry.

Preliminary List of Topics

Mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders related to migration
Cultural neuropsychopharmacology
Suicide and cultural transition
Trauma and migration
Religiosity and spirituality
Stigma and Culture
Cultural transition

Kenes International
Kenes Group Building
2 Hayarden St.
Airport City, Lod 70151
Israel
Tel: +972 3 9727405
Fax: + 972 72 2447271
E-mail: wpa-tps@kenes-events.com

Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism

21-22 Sept 2012 Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, 183 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom

Half day Friday, all day Saturday

Discounted advance ticket prices (until 1 May) £80 / £55 students and unwaged; full cost ticket prices (after 1 May) £95 /£65 students and unwaged

This two-day conference, supported by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism (Birkbeck, University of London), Birkbeck College, University of London and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies of the University of Essex, will bring together historians, social theorists and psychoanalysts to explore the impact of the Second World War and totalitarianism on psychoanalysis, and of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the war and totalitarian systems.

Topics include:

the role of psychoanalysis in the war effort, military intelligence and in postwar reconstruction
the crisis of psychoanalysis in Central Europe
the work of Hannah Arendt and other theorists of totalitarianism
cultural anthropology, fascism and the Cold War
visions of the child and the creation of the War Nurseries
the psychoanalytic sociology of the Frankfurt School
war and the origins of group therapy
neo-Freudianism
the psychoanalytic theorization of anti-Semitism
mourning, memory and trans-generational trauma
Winnicott and the social democratic vision.

Presentations will be 20-minutes arranged in panels, followed by discussion, all in a plenary format.
Ticket prices: £95 / £65 (students and unwaged)

For all enquiries please contact Marjory Goodall (marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk).

International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Symposium 2013

What’s New Under the Sun? Innovative Approaches to Treatment

March 21-24, 2013 Henderson, Nevada

12th World Congress on Stress, Trauma & Coping

February 19-24, 2013 Baltimore, Maryland

The 12th World Congress on Stress, Trauma and Coping is the premier forum for multidisciplinary exchange of ideas and information among those who provide crisis and disaster mental health services.

Sessions during the 12th World Congress have been designed to provoke critical thinking challenge current convention offer innovative ideas and insights & fully explore the many applications of critical incident response in various industries, settings and situations.

World Congress participants will identify the tools needed to solve current problems and explore the future direction of the crisis intervention field. The 6 day World Congress will include a variety of presentation formats ideally suited to exploring concepts, practical applications and results in sessions designed for professionals in all practice settings and experience levels.

World Congress Major Content Themes
Over 125 presenters will cover the spectrum of crisis intervention in these and other areas:

Research / Innovations Military Disaster Response Healthcare Settings Faith Based Applications Emergency Services, Public Safety Corporate / Industry / EAP Specialty Populations Team Development and Care Schools, Children

Who Should Attend

The ICISF 12th World Congress is a “must attend” experience for anyone working in the fields of crisis intervention, traumatic stress, emergency services & disaster mental health, including:

Disaster response personnel Psychiatrists Humanitarian aid workers Counselors Law-enforcement officers Social workers Firefighters Faith-based providers EMTs / Paramedics Employee representative organizations & Unions Military personnel First response support agencies Homeland security personnel Media correspondents / journalists Emergency service administrators Grief counselors Emergency operations administrators & managers Employee assistance professionals Corrections officials Commercial & industrial organization employees Healthcare professionals & administrators Airline & other transportation industry personnel Educators, school employees Communication officers & dispatch personnel Crisis workers Security professionals Suicidologists Victim's advocates Psychologists Risk managers

Why Attend?
The Crisis Intervention field continues to grow, building on excellent proven programs and strategies while incorporating innovations that meet the needs and challenges of the diverse populations we serve. As crisis interventionists we must learn from one another to continually improve the services provided to the level of best practices.

At the 12th World Congress, you'll have an incomparable opportunity to interact with experts in the field and hundreds of your peers from around the U.S. and world who, like you, are committed to providing assistance to those affected by critical incident stress. Choose from over 70 presentations that will explore how the practice of crisis intervention is evolving and adapting to meet the needs and challenges of the future.

Please address any questions to:

Shelley Cohen
World Congress Program Manager
scohen@icisf.org
(410) 750-9600

2012 National Refugee and Immigrant Conference: Issues and Innovations

Thursday, October 18, 2012-Friday, October 19, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

The aim of this national conference is to identify issues, emphasize best practices, and highlight innovations by providing those who work with refugees and immigrants an opportunity to learn from and to network with one another.

Families of refugees and immigrants in the U.S. must do their best to manage transitions into new communities. Many of these families encounter financial hardship, difficulty in gaining employment, cultural adjustments, health and mental issues, intergenerational conflicts, and the stresses of unfamiliar school experiences.

Services for preschool and K-12 refugee and immigrant youth and their families may be compromised by differing perceptions and misunderstandings (by both the families and those who provide services) concerning the cultural adjustment process; health, health care, and nutrition; public education enrollment and assessment, academic roles and expectations, the provision of bilingual education services and special education services, when appropriate; and American education law requirements.

To address these and other refugee and immigrant issues, individuals and nonprofit organizations need access to resources on successful practices and processes as well as solutions for challenges in refugee and immigrant integration.

Efforts to help youth and families will have a better chance of succeeding if they are based on shared understandings and collaborative partnerships among families, schools, health and mental health providers. In particular, as delineated in federal Title III of No Child Left Behind legislation, linking educators and families together can provide positive academic experiences and successful integration of refugee and immigrant children into our society.

Organizations also need to build their capacity to assist families by gaining resources through grant writing, and assisting adults to become self-sufficient in this economy through employment services and innovative practices such as microenterprise.

2012 Refugee and Immigrant Conference Committee

The Center/Adult Learning Resource Center
Chicago Public Schools
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights
Heartland Health Outreach
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Illinois Department of Human Services
Illinois Department of Public Health
Illinois State Board of Education
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences 2012 Annual Conference: Therapeutic Issues of Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Thursday, Friday, Saturday October 18th to October 20th, 2012 Conference

Sunday, October 21st, 2012 Certificate Workshop

San Mateo, California

ACISTE provides education and certificate training for mental health professionals, pastoral counselors, spiritual directors and other professionals who wish to increase their competency and develop their expertise in working with clients who have had spiritually transformative experiences. The conference brings together researchers, experiencers and practicing professionals to present their expertise in this growing field of specialization and awareness.

Intended Audience:

Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Psychotherapists
Clinical Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Professional Counselors
Addiction Counselors
Pastoral Counselors
Spiritual Directors

Agenda Topics include:

Recognizing Spiritually Transformative Experiences in clinical practice
Spiritually Transformative Experiences vs. pathology
Changes, aftereffects and challenges following a spiritually transformative experience
Integration models of a Spiritually Transformative Experience
Spiritually Transformative Experiences throughout history
Diversity of content, cross-cultural and subpopulations of experiencers
Experiencer perspectives/needs assessments (case studies, study results)
Clinical approaches and issues

Contact Information

Email: info@aciste.org

Address:
ACISTE
PO Box 1472
Alpine, CA 91903-1472

Seventh World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders

October 17-19, 2012 Perth, Australia

Mental health promotion and wellbeing strategies are urgent public health concerns and the need for the promotion of mental health and wellbeing has now become a feature of government policy within many countries throughout the world. During the last decade we have seen rapid developments in the field and if we are to develop new and innovative policies and programmes for a 21st Century approach to Mental Health we need to

share information about on-going research and successful programmes, policies and organisational models;
collaborate on the development of new knowledge and the implementation of programmes and strategies;
make the most effective use of scarce resources.

This conference provides the opportunity for delegates to address these issues by engaging with international leaders and experts from a wide range of related disciplines:

to explore how effective partnership working can assist in disseminating and implementing effective promotion and prevention strategies,
to influence policy makers and administrators
to help mental health promotion and wellbeing take its rightful place on the health and social care, economic, cultural and political agendas.

Participants are therefore invited from:

policy makers and policy administrators in local/national government;
professionals and clinicians in health and social care;
service users and carers;
researchers and scientists;
representatives of institutional settings, e.g. political, education, legal and judicial and labour.

Shared Traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning

Summer Symposium, Brandbjerg, Denmark, July 27th – August 3rd 2012

ICare4Autism International Autism Conference

August 1-2, 2012

Autism: A Global Perspective at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem, Israel

Following the overwhelming success of the past conferences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC in 2011 and in Jerusalem, Israel in 2010, ICare4Autism is once again bringing together top leading medical and educational professionals and researchers working in autism.

The purpose of the ICare4Autism conferences are to share current groundbreaking research into the causes and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders, and to be a catalyst for powerful interdisciplinary collaborations to tackle the global autism crisis.

The conference will be in 3 tracks as follows:

Bio-Medical Research and Practice

Education-Behavioral Research and Practice

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Policy and Awareness

U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress (Psych Congress)

November 8-11, 2012 San Diego, California

The U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress (Psych Congress) is the nation's largest independent educational conference for psychiatrists, primary care physicians, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, and other health care professionals who seek to improve their care for patients with mental health disorders. Approaching its 25th year, the anticipated attendance at the 2012 conference will be 2,000 health care professionals.

CME LLC is proud of the longevity and continued quality of Psych Congress, which focuses on the practical application of advances in mental health care, enabling attendees to positively impact patient and community health.

Psych Congress promotes the ongoing endeavor of narrowing the knowledge and performance gaps that health care professionals encounter in treating patients with mental disorders. The ultimate goal of the conference is to aid clinicians in providing effective, long-term management of patients with mental disorders in order to maximize outcomes and improve quality of life. 2012 Psych Congress will provide knowledge and tools from which mental health care professionals may confidently diagnose disorders and develop effective treatment plans by applying evidence-based management into daily practice.