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ENTER Mental Health & EPAPSY, Athens Greece will be holding a one day conference on "Mental Health, Refugees and Migration" on the 24th May 2018.

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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.

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Below you find the available presentations from our speakers at our conference on the 24th May 2018

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Keynote Speakers:

• Tim Greacen (Maison Blanche Hospital, France): Welcoming address from the Chair of ENTER

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1st Roundtable: The Mental Health of Refugees in Greece: Current Situation, Possible Futures

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• Michael Lavdas (EPAPSY, Greece): Mental Healthcare for Refugees in Greece: Piloting an Outreach Intervention

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2nd Roundtable: The Situation in Europe

• Lidia Zablocka-Zytka (The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland): Mental Health as a Determinant of Ukranian Immigrant Families´Adaptation. A Theoretical and Practical Perspective.

• 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.

• 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.

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3rd Roundtable: Migration and Mental Health

• Bojan Sosic (Fenix, Bosnia & Herzegovina): Mental Health in Forced Migration: Development and Adaptation

• Mojca Urek (Faculty of Social Work, Slovenia): Mental Health in Transit: Social and Political Contexts of Refugees´Mental Health Care.

• Tim Greacen (Maison Blanche Hospital, France): Occidentalocentrism in the Legitmation of Mental Health Care Provision for Immigrant Populations in Europe.

• 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.