Psychopathology meetings & conferences

14th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research

Sunday 21 through Thursday 25 April 2013 Orlando, Florida. Satellite Meetings will be held Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April 2013.

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

3rd International Congress on Dual Disorders

Addictions and Other Mental Disorders

October 23-26, 2013

The 3rd International Congress on Dual Disorders will be the best opportunity for psychiatrists specialized in Dual Pathology to meet, share and find the latest advances in the field.

Brain Matters 3: Values at the Crossroads of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Psychology

October 24-25, 2012 Cleveland, Ohio

Abstracts are now being accepted for Brain Matters 3: Values at the Crossroads of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychology on October 24th-25th, 2012, a conference hosted by the Cleveland Clinic NeuroEthics Program.

Symposium Organizers: Paul J Ford, PhD & Imad Najm, MD, PhD

Brain Matters 3 follows in the tradition of the two previous Brain Matters conferences in fostering further development in the field of NeuroEthics.

Conference Plenary Topics:

-- Patients’ Perspectives on Medically Unexplained Symptoms
-- Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Biological and Cultural
-- Non-Epileptic Seizures, Communication, and Ethics
--Are we assuming the results in biological causation of involuntary movements? (TMS/PET/MRI)
--Ethical Challenges in PTSD and TBI in the military context
--Cross-Cultural Understandings of Seizures

Please contact Paul Ford, PhD at fordp@ccf.org for more information

8th International Summer Conference: Research in Forensic Psychiatry

5th to 6th July 2012, in Regensburg, Germany

The annual Summer Conference in Regensburg (Germany) is an international conference on topics of the Forensic Psychiatry. The following topics are addressed: prediction of dangerousness and recidivism, offender treatment, crime scene analysis and investigative psychology, risk assessment and risk management, forensic child and juvenile psychiatry, psychopathy: concepts and research, and forensic neurobiology and neuroimaging.

For further information visit the conference website or contact Ms Simone Schwabenbauer at simone.schwabenbauer@medbo.de

7th International Conference on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

The conference will be running from 16th to 18th July 2012 (Monday - Wednesday) at University of Roehampton's Whitelands College in the United Kingdom.

The goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art information on various aspects of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

The conference will be of interest to those who are doing research with young people and to those working within child and adolescent mental health, education, social work and youth justice systems.

Conference themes:

Assessment, prevention, and treatment of child and adolescent psychopathology
General issues (risk and protective factors, use of mental health services, different approaches to mental health services delivery)
Cross cultural issues in child and adolescent psychopathology

Contact us

Professor Cecilia A. Essau
Department of Psychology
University of Roehampton
Whitelands College
Holybourne Avenue
London
SW15 4JD, UK

Email: C.Essau@roehampton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8392 3647
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8392 3527

XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies

June 7 - 9, 2012 Minneapolis, Minnesota

On behalf of the International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS), we cordially invite your participation in the XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. This conference provides a venue for the dissemination of premiere developmental science, focusing on human and non-human infancy research, and the exchange of ideas among researchers from all corners of the world.

The Society organizes a scientific conference every two years. The conference serves as a venue for the latest research findings on applied and basic aspects of infant development. Some of the substantive areas of research represented at each conference include the development of sensation, perception, cognition, emotion, language, and social behavior. The conference includes invited and investigator-initiated symposia, lectures, and poster presentations.

First Meeting on Patient Reported Outcomes in Mental Health

Patient Reported Outcomes and Person Centered Care in Mental Health

Washington D.C., September 28-30, 2012

The Meeting addresses research in PRO assessment and measurement in mental and addictive disorders in the context of person centered and recovery oriented policies. A special track in the meeting will consider severe mental disorders and schizophrenia. The research domains include:

(i) New theoretical, methodological and empirical research on disorder-specific and general PRO instruments and measures regarding items content and psychometrics

(ii) PRO assessment in clinical and general populations. Collection, storage and retrieval of PRO assessment data information over time and the role of IT technology

(iii) Individual vs society perspectives and preferences about health status and interventions, and the role of PRO information in efficacy, effectiveness, comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness research

(iv) Co-shared PRO information for co-shared decision making regarding interventions for prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and person centered care.

(v) Patient’s right of appropriate information and assessment about his/her own PRO and their inclusion in decision making regarding treatment

(vi) Financing of PRO assessment services and use in research and clinical practice

(vii) Role of PRO information in recovery oriented decision making regarding the organization and financing of services and health technologies for mental and addictive disorders.

PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES (PRO) – MEDICAL DISEASES AND CONDITIONS

A PRO instrument can be used in medical diseases and conditions to measure the impact of an intervention on one or more aspects of patients’ health status ranging from the purely symptomatic (response of a disturbing experience like pain), to more complex concepts (e.g. ability to carry out abilities of daily living), to extremely complex concepts such as multidimensional quality of life, including physical, psychological, and social components.

Subject areas (not exhaustive):

PRO Measurement

Disorder and condition specific PRO (i.e., Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, Alcohol Addiction, Drug Addiction)
Overall and General Health Status PRO measures
Content analysis of PRO measures and items
Psychometric analysis of PRO measures
Passively Received Experiences of the disorder and immediate subjective disturbance
Impact of the disorder on subjectively meaningful own school/work, social and recreational activities and on subjectively meaningful life planning
Treatment side-effects, immediate disturbance, impact on subjectively meaningful own school/work, social and recreational activities, and on subjectively meaningful life planning
Subjectively meaningful “Remission” and “Recovery”
Quality of life
Co-morbidities
Psychological impact of psychiatric and medical disorders
Intermediate PRO
Satisfaction with treatment and interventions
Individual and social preferences about condition specific states, general health states, and interventions side-effects

PRO Co-shared Information

Passively received experiences of the disorder and subjective disturbance
PRO symptoms, symptoms trajectory and complications
General Health PRO
Quality of Life PRO
Subjectively meaningful treatment targets and drug treatment side-effects
PRO Co-shared information as co-shared decision-making aid in choices about clinical treatment initiation, refinement and continuation
PRO Co-shared information as co-shared decision-making aid in social interventions

Use of PRO Co-shared Information in Decision Making about Interventions

Clinical and Support Interventions

Preventive services
Outpatient services
Inpatient services
Psychotropic medications
Psychotherapy and Psychological Treatments
Psychosocial treatments
Peer Support
Self-help
Individual, group and social preferences

Social Interventions

Housing
Work
Social Inclusion
Social Security Income and Disability Pensions
Individual, group and social preferences

Right of Access to Information and PRO

Patient’s access to information
Information about disorder-specific and general PROs
Information about efficacy, effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of treatments and interventions on PROs
Patient’s PRO information use in co-shared decision-making
PRO assessment, information, use, storage and retrieval in decision-making and co-shared decision-making about treatment initiation, refinement and continuation.
Right of access to information about PROs and civil rights
Simple and complex levels of own PROs determination and report.
Duties and obligations in person centered PRO information in research and practice
Omission of information about PROs and Negligence
Involuntary treatment commitment policies and practices
Subjective stigma related to disorder, treatment and treatment side-effects
Intentional denial and malingering about PROs
Individual vs society perspectives

Health Economics

Burden of illness
PRO in comparative effectiveness research
PRO in cost-effectiveness and cost-utility research
PRO information, subjective usefulness of interventions and economic behavior
PRO, pricing for pharmaceuticals and value to patients
Financing the right of access to knowledge about PRO information and its use in decision-making
Agency and financing
Self-directed financing of services

Health Policy

Patient’s perspective in mental health policy formulation
Patient’s perspective in the financing and access of interventions for mental and addictive disorders
Person centered and recovery oriented models

INFORMATION

Massimo Moscarelli, MD
International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics (ICMPE)
Via Daniele Crespi 7
20123 Milano, Italy
E-mail: moscarelli@icmpe.org

FAX +39-02-5810 6901
Website: www.icmpe.org