Mental Health 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

Pan Arab Psychiatric Conference (PAPC2012)

Novembe 29-December 1, 2012 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The theme selected for the Mental Health Changes in the Arab World (Violence, Trauma and Recovery) will address the involvement of the mental health professionals in providing services for people affected by the recent developments in the region. It is an opportunity to discuss and share development, trends, scientific research and treatments advancements in the impact of the violence on the mental health specifically and psychotrauma and Psychiatric disorders in general not forgetting Recovery.

Together with a carefully selected educational program and a group of highly renowned regional and international keynote speakers, we promise you a significant scientific enrichment for people involved hoping to benefit the region on the ground in the post period of the conference and initiate mental health programs the region needs.

Meeting Minds Experts
PAPC2012 Professional Conference Organisers

pco@papc2012.com

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

2013 World Congress for Psychiatric Nurses

Diversity: The People, The Places and The Practice

May 2nd - 4th, 2013 Winnipeg, Canada

We would like to welcome you to the 2013 World Congress for Psychiatric Nurses! We also would like to extend a warm welcome to the City of Winnipeg, the Province of Manitoba and for some of you, welcome to Canada!

The Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Canada (RPNC) is proud to sponsor this sixth World Congress for Psychiatric Nurses where knowledge, skills and information can be shared among those people dedicated to working in the mental health field. This biennial conference has grown into a huge success story and we hope you will be able to join us from May 2-4 of 2013.

Our theme for this World Congress is "Diversity: The People, The Places and The Practice". As Canada continues to grow and welcome new practitioners in the field of psychiatric nursing, it has become increasingly important to embrace and acknowledge the differences in how we practice as Registered Psychiatric Nurses. This theme celebrates the many diverse aspects of our profession and the uniqueness each of us bring to practice.

Contact Info:

College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Manitoba
1854 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3J 0G9
Tel: (204) 888-4841 • Fax: (204) 888-8638 • Email: crpnm@crpnm.mb.ca
Web: www.crpnm.mb.ca

World Health Summit

The World Health Summit is one of the world’s foremost gatherings of leaders from academia, politics, industry and civil society to develop joint strategies and take action to address key challenges in medical research, global health and health care delivery with the aim of shaping the political, academic and social agendas. This year´s World Health Summit “Research for Health and Sustainable Development” will be held in Berlin from October 21st to 24th, 2012.

The M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres and Medical Universities was officially founded in 2009, as a medical and scientific forum of excellence on the occasion of the 1st World Health Summit in Berlin. It is composed of a network of prestigious medical institutions dealing with scientific, political, and economic issues related to medicine and global health. The M8 Alliance acts as a permanent platform for framing future considerations of global medical development and health challenges. It is the M8’s vision to harness academic excellence to improve global health.

Summit’s main themes:

“Research for Health and Sustainable Development”

Educating Health Professionals
• Brain Drain in Medical Professions
• Educating Health Professionals for the 21st Century

Translating Research into Policy
• Integrating Research into Health Policies and Health Systems
• Minimizing Waste of Research
• Translating Genomic Research into Global Health Gains

Financing Health
• Economic Crisis and Health Impact
• Sustainable Health Systems Financing and Universal Coverage

Diseases of Modern Environments
• The Epidemic of Chronic Diseases
• The Future of Maternal and Reproductive Health
• Urban Development and Mental Health

Summit Organizer

K.I.T. Group GmbH
Association & Conference Management
Kurfürstendamm 71
10709 Berlin
Germany

Sophie Spangenberger
Organizing Manager
Tel.: +49 30 246 03 240
Fax: +49 30 246 03 200
sophie.spangenberger@worldhealthsummit.org

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

American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association 2013 Conference

May 29 – June 1, 2013 Bloomington, Minnesota

Goal of the Conference

The American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (ADARA) is pleased to announce the 2013 ADARA Conference, a national conference to be hosted in Minnesota. Our conference theme is “Blazing New Trails” which refers to “doing something different,” “doing early or pioneering work that others will follow up on,” and “doing something that no one has done before, especially something important for other people.”

This conference seeks to provide training and networking opportunities for mental health professionals, vocational rehabilitation counselors, independent living service providers, educators, interpreters, transition specialists, community-based rehabilitation providers, and any support staff in the helping professions.

Possible Areas and Topics

• Interfacing education and mental health
• Working with trilingual families
• Testing demonstrations
• Olmstead, recovery, peer support
• Supporting community living options
• Drug/alcohol abuse treatment strategies
• Trauma informed care
• Working with low functioning/language dysfluent consumers
• Developing cultural competency
• Therapeutic techniques/theories & effective counseling techniques & strategies (e.g., EMDR, DBT)
• Mental health/chemical dependency interpreting

• Deaf/Hard of Hearing cross-cultural conflicts
• Professional management
• Public policy
• Using technology in therapeutic settings
• Navigating the new health care environment
• Client-centered approaches/ Early interventions
• Career assessments
• Residential programming
• Levels of care: residential, outpatient, intensive, group homes
• Job coaching/Job placement
• Transition
• Autism
• Vocational evaluations
• Work adjustment

Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival

November 9-17, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rendezvous with Madness (RWM) is the world’s first and longest running film festival showcasing films that address issues of mental health and/or addiction. The festival provides a unique opportunity for filmmakers to screen their work and has grown into a filmmaker favourite over the past eighteen years.

The objectives of the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival are:

− To explore the facts and mythologies of mental illness and/or addiction, as presented by Canadian and international filmmakers.
− To facilitate discussions amongst filmmakers and audiences with respect to these cinematic representations.
− To provide filmmakers an opportunity to screen their films that may otherwise not be seen.
− To increase awareness, and advocacy for mental health and addiction issues and concerns.

RWM brings independent Canadian and International film and video to the public. RWM features strong programs that address the facts and mythologies of mental illness and addiction.

Each of the various programs focuses on different themes and includes panel discussions involving the filmmakers, artists and people with professional and personal experience with mental illness and addiction.

Learning Disabilities Association of America 50th Annual International Conference

February 13-16, 2013, San Antonio, Texas

LDA’s mission is to create opportunities for success for all individuals affected by learning disabilities and to reduce the incidence of learning disabilities in future generations. LDA believes everyone can succeed at school, at work, in relationships, and in the community--given the right opportunities and supports as needed. Please bring your family, friends and co-workers to the 2013 LDA Conference in San Antonio for a time of learning and discovering how we can advocate and work together to create new opportunities for children and adults with learning disabilities.

Who Should Attend this Conference?

• Adults with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Parents of children with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Teachers of special education and general education
• Principals and Administrators
• Counselors, Social Workers
• Researchers, Medical and Mental Health Professionals
• Education Policy Advocates
• College Student Support Personnel.