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ENTER Mental Health & Nordland Hospital held a one day conference on "Working together for new pathways in mental health"

 

Over 50 delegates participated in this 20th conference in Bodø, Norway. The conference was opened by the head of the psychiatry department at Nordland Hospital, Hedda Soløy Nilsen and a welcome address by the chair of ENTER Marja Kaunonen.

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There was 4 keynote speakers on the current trends in norwegian mental health, 16 presentations in the parallel sessions and 6 poster presentations.

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Below you find the available presentations from our speakers at our conference on the 13th June 2019.

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Keynote Speakers

• Jan Magne Tordenhjerte Sørensen (Leader of Hvite Ørn [user organisation]): The patient's or professional's health services? A critical viwe of current trends.

• Arve Paulsen (Norwegian Directorate of Health): National Clincial Pathways in Mental Health.

• Hanne Kristin Clausen (Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Concurrent Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders): Experiences with Assertive Community Treatment for People with Severe Mental Illness in Norway.

• Erling Kvig (Clinical Psychologist at Nordland Hospital): The Road not Taken - on the differences between standardized care patheways and the actual pathways to care in early psychosis.

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Parallel session on "Making your own pathway in the mental health system: from standardization to partnership"

• Bryan McCormick (USA) & Bojan Sosic (Fenix Day Center, Bosnia Herzegovina): Important matters and learning orientation of mental health users' associations in Bosnia Herzegovina.

• Marja Kaunonen (University of Tampere, Finalnd): Supervisors assessment of the children's mental health service network in one hospital district in Finland.

• Tim Greacen (Maison Balnche Hospital, France): DURESS Drug Use Recovery, Enviroment and Social Subjectivity.

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Parallel session on "Peer support and relevant user-led initiatives in different settings

• Lisbeth Hybholt (Psychiatric Research Unit Zealand, Denmark): A co-operatively inquiry with and about older adults bereaved by suicide.

• Jolie Goodman (Mental Health Foundation, UK): Exploring a decade of peer support initiatives in the UK Charity Mental Health Foundation.

• Joanna Wojda-Kornacka (Maria Grzegorzewska, Poland): Mental health promotion for children in Poland based on own research.

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Parallel session on "Guidelines in mental health care"

• Prof. Rhonda Wilson (University of Canberra, Australia): Human computer interaction (HCI) implications and the safe use of digidtal therapies for people with depression and/or anxiety.

• Arunas Germanavicius (Vilnius Hospital, Lithuania) & Vaiva Gerasimaiciute (Ministry of Health, Lithuania): Guidelines for reduction of long-term use and misuse of benzodiazepines.

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Parallel session on "Advantages and disadvantages concerning pathway guidelines in mental health"

• Ann-Kristin Strømme (OBS team, Norway): Does a FACT model enhance a new pathway in mental health: Experiences from implementing a FACT model in Norway.

• Tarald Sæstad (Nordland Hospital, Norway): National pathways: the story so far.

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Parallel session on "Mental health care in isolated or closed communities"

• Trish Hafford-Letchford (middelsex University, UK): Practitioner perspectives on service users experiences of targeted violence and hostility in mental health and adult safegaurding.

• Michalis Lavdas (EPAPSY, Greece): Developing pathwyas and culturally sensitive mental health care in Greece: Good practices and first evidence from the field.

• Ian Dawson (Nordland Hospital, Norway): Implementing a FACT model of treatment in a rural setting.

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Parallel session on "Active citizenship and empowerment (adicasy, shared-decision making, advance dirctives etc"

• Tim Greacen (Maison Blanche Hospital, FRance): Advance directives in psychiatry: a randomized controlled trial in France.

• Mojca Urek (Faculaty of Social Work, Slovenia): What we really mean when we say "users' paricipation": vignettes from Slovenia.

• Emmanuelle Jouet (Maison Blanche Hospital, France): PARADISO: Prosess of collaboration among European countries on a participatory approach for raising awarenes and fighting discrimination concerning sexual and gender orientation in the healthcare sector.

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For a copy of all the submitted abstracts click here for the conference booklet.

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