Theme: "Self Management and Access to Treatment"

New Dolmen Hotel, Malta November 5– 8, 2009	Delegates	82
	Organisations	40
	Countries	25

Read here the report written by Paola Pivano
Photo report

Thursday, 5^th November

 16.30 – 17.00    Registration for Conference by the Delegates at the Oracle Conference Centre, Dolmen Resort Hotel

 Welcome by the President, Dolores Gauci
Speech by Mr Mario Galea, Parliamentary Secretary for the Elderly and Community Care

 

Friday, 6^th November

09.05 - 09.20     Opening Speech by the Prime Minister of Malta, Dr. Lawrence Gonzi

 

09.20 - 10.55     Opening Session PSYCHOEDUCATION: IT’S ROLE AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES

 09.20 - 09.35     Keynote Presentation:  Self Management: Its Main Component Parts, Mark O’Callaghan, Malta

 09.35 - 09.50     Psychoeducation Its Role and Expected Outcome, Prof. Vladimir Rotstein, Russia

 09.50 - 10.00     Psychoeducation From a User’s Perspective, Torsten Kindström, Sweden

10.00 - 10.10     From Depression to Empowerment in the First Person, Gideon Galon, Israel

10.10 - 10.20     Psychoeducation As a Base for Partnership, Marianna Bogdan, Russia

10.20 - 10.35     General Discussion. Questions, Short Remarks, Discussion on if it’s Reasonable to Formulate Standards on Psychoeducation in Europe, Moderator Dolores Gauci   

 10.35 -11.05      Coffee Break

 

11.05 - 13.00    Plenary Session PHYSICAL WELLBEING

 

11.05 - 11.20     Keynote Presentation: What can we do to improve morbidity and mortality rate? Prof. Köksal Alptekin Turkey

 11.20 - 11.30    Healthy Lifestyle in Treatment Plan for Mental Disorder, Prof. Sladana Ivezič

11.30 - 11.40     Diabetes and Depression: Way of Living, Diet, Exercise etc., Yoram Cohen, Israel.

11.40 - 11.50     Gender Considerations for Mental Health Policy, Erick Savoye, Belgium

11.50 - 12.00     Taking Control of Your Physical Health, Dolores Gauci, Malta

12.00 - 12.10     The Running Tribe, Flavio Prata, Italy

12.10 - 13.00     General Discussion: Questions, Short Remarks, Moderator Prof. Köksal Alptekin

 

13.00 - 14.30     Lunch

 

14.30 -16.20    Plenary Session SOCIAL RECOVERY

 

14.30 -14.45     The WHO-European Commission Partnership Project on User Empowerment in Mental Health, Dr. Anja Esther Baumann, Technical Officer for Mental Health Promotion and Disorder Prevention – WHO Regional Office for Europe

14.45 - 14.55     “E” in Recovery, Stelmart Khalil, Malta

14.55 - 15.05     The Role of Self-Help Groups in the Process of Social Recovery, Tatiana Belyaeva, Russia

15.05 - 15.15     Social Support and Stigma in Croatia; Examples of Good Practice. Ema Gruber

15.15 – 15.30    Recovery Based Treatment in the Practice of Awakenings Foundation; Dr. A. Bodrogi, Dr. J. Harangozo, Hungary

15.30 – 15.55    Results of the Stigma Survey in Different Countries (Belgium, Croatia, Malta, Russia)

15.55 – 16.20    General Discussion, Moderator Ema Gruber

Saturday 7^th November

9.00 - 10.30      Plenary Session PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS: FUNDING, STRUCTURE, ADVOCACY

 09.00 - 09.20     Keynote Presentation: The Politician’s Perspective, Dr. John Bowis

09.20 - 09.35     Reform and Good Practices in the Romanian Psychiatric Care Structures, Dr. Violeta Manasi, Romania.
Presented by Loredana Tascau.

09.35 - 09.50     Developing Human Resources in the Mental Health field, Presiana Adiri,  Israel

09.50 - 10.20     Realising the Goals of a Social Profit Organisation:  Efficiency in Policy Making, Paul Arteel, Belgium

10.20 - 10.30     General Discussion. Questions and Short Remarks, Moderator Dr. John Bowis

10.30 -11.00      Coffee Break

11.00 - 13.00    Plenary Session ACCESS TO TREATMENT

.11.00 - 11.15 Keynote presentation: Threats and Opportunities in Europe, Dr. Mary Baker, MBE

Because of the illness Dr.Mary Baker was not able to come, but she has sent her presentation.

11.15 - 11.45     Access to Treatment in Different Countries: 5 minutes presentations

Andrey Lukacher, Russia cv           Hilkka Kärkkäinen, Finland   cv

  Paola Pivano, Italy   cv                 Monica Nemanyte, Lithuania cv

Elise Torosian, Cyprus  cv

11.45 - 12.30     Examples of Good Practice

 11.45 - 12.00     ITAREPS: Information Technology Program Aided Relapse Prevention program in Schizophrenia, Dr. Lucie Motlova, Czech Republic

 12.00 - 12.15     What is Most Important for Successful Treatment from the Patient’s Point of View, A Personal Experience, Rebecca Müller, Belgium

 

 12.30 - 13.00     General Discussion, Questions, Short Comments, Moderator Ema Gruber

13.00 - 14.30     Lunch

14.30 - 15.30        Workshops

·         The First Group: Psychoeducation (Moderator  Prof Slađana Ivezič)

·         The Second Group: Social support (returning to social life: capacity building, recovering from self-stigma, low self-esteem: learning to be assertive etc.(Moderator Susan Marvel)

 ·         The Third Group: Access to treatment (Moderator Erick Savoye)

 15.30 - 16.00     Representatives From Each Group Summarize the Main Ideas From Their Discussions and Report Results.

 

16.15 - 17.30     General Assembly

 

Closing of Convention