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ENTER Mental Health Network is pleased to announce its annual 2026 conference, in collaboration with the Société Suisse de Psychiatrie Sociale (SOPSY), Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne University (UNIL), the WHO-CC Center on Innovation  in Prevention and Treatment of Disorders Due to Substance Use and Addictive Behaviours and the European Society of Social Psychiatry (ESSP).

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The meeting will take place at Lausanne University Hospital on 11 June 2026. This gathering will bring together researchers, clinicians, service users, policymakers, and digital-innovation partners to explore how today’s digital environments shape mental health - expanding possibilities for care while generating new forms of risk, inequity, and distress.

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The full programme is detailed below.  Here you can download printable copies of (1) the Conference Programme and (2) the Book of Abstracts.​

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​​Programme

8.15-9.00 Registration

Lobby near the Auditoire Müller

 

9.00-9.30 Opening session

Auditoire Müller and online

 

Prof. Yasser Khazaal (UNIL/CHUV), Dr Emmanuelle Jouet (Chair of Enter Mental Health Network/FOCCS), Prof. Alexander Baldacchino (USTAN, Chair, World Psychiatric Association, Addiction Psychiatry Section), Prof. Luigi Janiri (President of the European Society of Social Psychiatry), Prof. Rakesh Chadda (President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry), Dr Anja Busse (Unit Head, Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behaviours, World Health Organization).

 

9.30 10.20 - I Keynote session: Frameworks, Risks, and Ethical Responsibility

Auditoire Müller and online

 

Moderators: Romain Bach (GREA, Switzerland); Aurélie Laserre (Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, CHUV and Lausanne University) 

• Digitalisation and Mental Health: Risks and Opportunities 
  Professor Zsolt Demetrovics, Flinders University, Australia

• From Algorithms to Action: Responsible AI and Digital Innovation in Mental Health
  Professor Rhonda Wilson, RMIT University, Australia

 

10.20-10.40 Coffee Break

 

10.45-12.00 Parallel sessions

 

I Parallel session 

Location: Auditoire Müller

 

Moderators: Marja Kaunonen (University of Tampere, Finland); Lousiana Deligianni (Addiction Medicine, Department of psychiatry, CHUV and Lausanne University, Switzerland)

 

10.45-11.00 Andreas Balaskas, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland: YouthDMH: Digital Mental Health for Young People

11.00-11.15 Louise Brady, Ormer AI, Crisis Mental Health Service, Jersey, UK (Channel Islands): Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Care: Addressing Sectoral Underrepresentation and Supporting Clinical Risk Documentation

11.15-11.30 Dufour Magali, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada: Development and Evaluation of Virtu-A: A Manualized Intervention for Problematic Internet Use in Youth

11.30-11.45 Julia de Ternay, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France: Estimated Prevalence and Associated Factors of Problematic Social Media Use in a Representative Sample of the French Population

11.45-12.00 Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar; Ala Yankouskaya, Bournemouth University, UK : Perceived Addictiveness of Social Media Is Associated with Symptom Experience, Not Level of Engagement

 

II Parallel session

Location: Salle Les Combles (Bâtiment Les Cèdres 01B - 3ème étage)

 

Moderators: Laura Orsolini (Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Department of Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy) [online]; Mojca Urek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

 

10.45-11.00 Merve Aktaş Terzioğlu, Pamukkale University, Türkiye: Perceived Digital Wellbeing Among Turkish Adolescents Receiving Psychiatric Care: Relationships with Sociodemographic, Psychological, and Behavioral Variables

11.00-11.15 Sandra Tricas-Sauras, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium: From Digital Overuse to Digital Balance: A Health Promotion Approach to Mental Wellbeing

11.15-11.30 Germano Vera Cruz, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France: Identifying Central Dimensions of Perceived Digital Wellbeing: A Psychological Network Perspective

11.30-11.45 Yasser Khazaal,  University of Lausanne and Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland: mHealth Interventions for Digital Wellbeing: Addressing Problematic Smartphone and Social Media Use

11.45-12.00 Muriel Gaillard, OCCATIO, France: Ethological Insights into the Impacts of Digital Wellbeing on Mental Health

 

12.00-1.00 lunch break

 

1.00 -1.50 II Keynote session:  Understanding AI Usage: Perception, Engagement, and Methodology

Auditoire Müller and online

 

Moderators: Rania Mamdouh (Psychiatry department, School of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt. and International Society of Addiction Medicine, Egypt), Giovanni Martinotti (University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti–Pescara and Ospedale SS. Annunziata, ASL Chieti-Lanciano-Vasto, Italy)

  

• AI Dependency and the Future of Digital Wellbeing
  Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

• Opportunities and Risks for Mental Wellbeing in the Digital Era: From Creating a Digital App to Conducting a Comprehensive Literature Review
  Alice Vinçon Leite, Research psychiatrist INSERM, France
  Olivier Las Vergnas, Université Paris Nanterre and Université de Lille, CIREL (Trigone), France

 

1.50- 2.20 Round table: Designing Acceptable Digital Measures of Sexual Health: Human Factors, Equity, and Responsibility in Digital Wellbeing

Auditoire Müller

 

Moderators: Ingrid Zablith (Paris, France and Tripoli, Lebanon)

 

• Katarzyna Wac (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

• Yasser Khazaal (University of Lausanne and Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland)

• Mojca Urek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

 

 

2.30-3.00 Poster session

Auditoire Müller and online

 

Moderator: Joseph Studer (Addiction Medicine, Department of psychiatry, CHUV and Lausanne University, Switzerland) , Lene Berring (Psychiatric Research Unit, Region Zealand Psychiatry, Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark),   

1. Marja Kaunonen, Tampere University, Finland
   Virtual reality in maternal mental health to relive labor pain and mother’s coping 

2. Evanthia Sakellari,  University of West Attica, Greece
   The eMAMA Educational App for Enhancing Maternal Mental Health Education and Care in Sub-Saharan Africa

3. Chloe Hampshire, University of Bath, UK
   How Can We Prepare Digital Interventions for Use After a Trial? Lessons from the STOP Process Evaluation

4. Priseena Radha, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare), Australia
   AI-Enabled Biometric Monitoring for Early Detection of Clinical Deterioration in Community Mental Health Nursing

5. Sarah Bekaert, Oxford Brookes University, UK
   Restorative Reflective Supervision for Nursing Students: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Evaluation

6. Christophe Daudet, Mirabeau Clinique, Anglet, France
   Using an Iceberg Model in Routine Clinical Care

7. Maxime Huot-Lavoie, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
   Lived Experience of Gaming Disorder Among People with Psychotic Disorders: Implications for Tailored Interventions and Clinical Management

8. Tamara Bisan, Mental Health Department, ULSS 5 Polesana, Italy
   Digital and Immersive Technologies in Clinical Psychotherapy: Practical and Clinical Implications from a Bibliographic Analysis with an Examination of the IDEGO Group’s Applications

9. Emmanuelle Jouet, Université Paris Nanterre and Fondation Œuvre de la Croix Saint-Simon, France
   Transposition of Emergency First Aid and Care Training Certificate Training into an E-Learning System for Knowledge Retention: An Evidence-Based Pedagogical Innovation

 

3.00-3.15 Coffee Break

 

3.15 - 4.40 Parallel sessions 

 

III Parallel session

Auditoire Müller  

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Moderators: Ruta Karaliuniene (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany); Lidia Zabłocka-Żytka (Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland)

 

3.15-3.30 Eglė Šumskienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania: Cumulative Harm or Inclusive Futures? Rethinking AI, Disability, and Social Work in the Digital Welfare State

3.30-3.45 Ruta Karaliuniene, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany: Digital Wellbeing in Disasters and Emergencies: Psychiatrists' Role

3.45-4.00 Mateja Vončina, Sara Fras, Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia: Digital Wellbeing and Professional Judgement in Social and Long-Term Care: A Critical Perspective from Slovenia

4.00-4.15 Nora Ambord, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Chantal Kuske, restful, Switzerland: Peer-to-Peer Support for Clients of Community Mental Health Nursing Services and Their Relatives in Switzerland: A Participatory Development Process

4.15-4.30. Lidia Zabłocka-Żytka, Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland: ENTER MH Network Online Training Programs: Examples of Mental Health Promotion through International Project Materials

4.30-4.45 Lisbeth Hybholt, Mental Health Services East, Central and West Zealand Hospital and University of Southern Denmark, Denmark: Relational Communication About Suicidal Ideation in Inpatient Mental Health Care: A Co-Operative Inquiry Study

 

 

IV Parallel session

Location: Salle Les Combles (Bâtiment Les Cèdres 01B - 3ème étage)

 

Moderators: Giacomo Grassi (Brain Center Firenze, Italy); Joe Schofield (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

 

3.15-3.30 Paula Tallón Fuentes, Universidad de Deusto, Spain: Daily Activity and Subjective Energy Reactivity in Major Depressive Disorder: Incremental Value of Brain Structural Features in Machine Learning Models

3.30-3.45 Luigi Janiri, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and LUMSA University, Italy: Online Dynamic Psychotherapy: Methodological Issues

3.45-4.00. Sonia Ziemba Domańska, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Poland: Digital Mental Health Interventions: Ethical Development of Therapeutic Methods

4.00-4.15 Joe Schofield, University of St Andrews, Scotland: Global Perspectives on Telemedicine for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder: Practices, Priorities, and Barriers

4.15-4.30  Giovanni Martinotti, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti–Pescara and Ospedale SS. Annunziata, ASL Chieti-Lanciano-Vasto, Italy: Brain Stimulation in Gambling Disorder: Neurobiological Rationale and Emerging Clinical Evidence

 

 

4.45 - 5.50 III Keynote session New Frontiers in Intervention and Care Ecosystems

Auditoire Müller and online

 

Moderator: Ueli Kramer (Department of Psychiatry - CHUV, University Institute of Psychotherapy, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland); Rhonda Wilson (RMIT University, Australia)

 

• The Loop and the Leap: Bridging AI-Driven Innovation and Practice
  Cristina Crocamo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

• From Online to Offline Gaming: A Novel Psychological Intervention Using Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs) in Persons with Gaming Disorder and Social Anxiety
  Joël Billieux,UNIL, Switzerland

• Lost in Translation: Why Addiction Care Needs an Innovation Ecosystem Approach
  Gosia Mitka, University of St Andrews, Scotland

  

5.50- 6.00: Best Poster Award

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6.00 - 6.15 Closing

Hamad Al Ghafri, President of the International Society of Addiction Medicine,  (ISAM)

Yasser Khazaal (UNIL & CHUV)
Umberto Volpe (Università Politecnica delle Marche & European Psychiatry)

Emmanuelle Jouet (Chair of Enter Mental Health Network & FOCCS)

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