
Mental Health, Refugees & Migration
ENTER Mental Health & EPAPSY, Athens Greece will be holding a one day conference on "Mental Health, Refugees and Migration" on the 24th May 2018.
The situations that people are fleeing from generate mental health problems: unemployment, hunger, religious persecution, no future, war...). The very act of fleeing can also create mental health problems; moving, arriving in a new setting, adapting to a different culture, being victims of racism. Parallels can also be drawn with people with mental health problems fleeing from their local communities.
Below you find the available presentations from our speakers at our conference on the 24th May 2018
Keynote Speakers:
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Tim Greacen (Maison Blanche Hospital, France): Welcoming address from the Chair of ENTER
1st Roundtable: The Mental Health of Refugees in Greece: Current Situation, Possible Futures
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Prof Elli Ioannidi (National School of Public Health, Greece): Training of Health Professionals and Law Enforcement Officers at the First Reception Centres. The Case of the EQUI Health Project of the International Organization for migration.
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Dr. Georgios Nikolaidis (Lanzarote Committee of the Council of Europe on the Protections of Children Against Sexual Exploiatation and Sexual Abuse, Greece): Children on the Move and their Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs in Greece: a Challenge to be Met.
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Dr. Declan Barry (Medical Coordinator for the OCB Mission in Greece, Médecins Sans Frontièrs): Mental Health on the Islands; the Experience of the Médecins Sans Frontièrs
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Michael Lavdas (EPAPSY, Greece): Mental Healthcare for Refugees in Greece: Piloting an Outreach Intervention
2nd Roundtable: The Situation in Europe
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Lidia Zablocka-Zytka (The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland): Mental Health as a Determinant of Ukranian Immigrant Families´Adaptation. A Theoretical and Practical Perspective.
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Mohamed Omar (Mental Health Foundation Scotland, UK): Using an Arts-based Community Development Approach to Improve the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Scotland.
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Helen Gleeson & Prof. Trisk Hafford-Letchfield (Middlesex University, UK): The Mental Health Challenges Faced by LGNTQI Migrants Living in the Global North in Relation to the Global LGBTQI Rights Agenda.
3rd Roundtable: Migration and Mental Health
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Bojan Sosic (Fenix, Bosnia & Herzegovina): Mental Health in Forced Migration: Development and Adaptation
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Mojca Urek (Faculty of Social Work, Slovenia): Mental Health in Transit: Social and Political Contexts of Refugees´Mental Health Care.
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Tim Greacen (Maison Blanche Hospital, France): Occidentalocentrism in the Legitmation of Mental Health Care Provision for Immigrant Populations in Europe.
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Eoja Paavilainen (University of Tampere, Finland): Clinical Testing of an Internationally Validated Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment Tool (BriefCAP) in Maternity and Child Health Care Settings in Finland.