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Nordic Conference

New perspectives – Best mental health practices 7. - 8.5.2009

May 7 – 8, 2009

Akureyri, Iceland

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Program

Wednesday the 6 may

Location: Hotel Kea

17-19   Registration

20.00 -21.30  Reception
The reception is an invitation from Akureyri City 

Thursday the 7 may Moderator of the day: Gudjon Magnusson, Iceland
Location: Auditorium, Church

8-9  Registration

9.00-9.30   Welcome
The Ministry of Social Affairs, Iceland

Professor Gudjon Magnusson, Reykjavik University, Iceland


9.30 – 12.00 New perspectives

9.30-10  What is best practice – is evidence based practice the answer?
Professor of Psychology Tor-Johan Ekeland, Volda University    College, Norway (english)

10-10.30   Coffee Break

10.30-11.00  Promotion and prevention in mental health: Case Finland
Research Professor Kristian Wahlbeck, THL-National Institute for   Health and Welfare, Finland (english)

11.00-11.30  Promotion of Mental Health in Young people: two perspectives
Associate Professor Sven Bremberg, Swedish National Institute of Public Health, Sweden (english)

11.30-11.45  Short information of the workshops in the afternoon 1-5
Maarit Aalto, projectleader, Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues, Sweden
  
12.00-13.30  Lunch at KEA Hotel


13.30 -15.00 Workshops
Location: Rosenborg

Workshop 1    Evidence based practise in daily life
Introduction: Associate Professor. Alain Topor, Stockholms Universitet Moderator Lars Fredén (Scandinavian language)
                   
Workshop 2  Inter sectorial collaboration – obstacles and possibilities in    organizing Mental Health.
Director Roberto Mezzina, WHO Collaborating Centre, Trieste,   Italy Moderator Maarit Aalto (english)
 
Workshop 3  How can participation promote mental health among elderly?
Professor Karin Ringsberg NHV, senior lecturer Evastina Björk NHV and Associate Professor Stefan Thorpenberg NHV, Sweden Moderator Marianne Smedegaard (Scandinavian Language)
   
Workshop 4  Family and relatives – What can the family/relatives do?
Introduktion Research Professor Tytti Solantaus, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland (english)
Moderator Sigursteinn Másson

Workshop 5 Best psychiatric practices in suicide prevetion; suicides of Young adults reported under the Act on Professional Activity in Health and Medical Services, Lex Maria

Introduction MD, PhD Jussi Jokinen, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Moderator Lillian Zöllner (english)

16.30   Start with busses at hotel KEA to Sightseeing and Dinner at Mývatn Lagoon
         

Friday 8 may Moderator, Sigursteinn Másson Gedhjalp, Iceland
Location: Auditorium, Church

9-10.15  Society and Inclusion 
  
9-9.45  The person in the Community: a paradigm for recovery and social inclusion after deinstitutionalization in Trieste, Italy
Director of CMHC Roberto Mezzina, WHO Collaborating Centre, Trieste, Italy (english)

9.45-10.15  Recovery for a better life
Associate professor Alain Topor, Stockholm University, Sweden (english)  

10.15 – 10.30  Coffee

10.30 -12.00  Best practice in the Nordic countries
All the national organisations of service users in the Nordic  countries are choosing best practicing municipalities. They will be  presented for ex. by showing short documentary films made and  seen through the eyes of the users of mental health services in  each municipality.      

12.00 -13.30  Lunch Kea Hotel

13.30 – 14.30 Workshops
Location: Rosenborg

Workshop 6  Psycho-social rehabilitation, Århus City, Denmark
Recoverysecretary Lisa Jul Pedersen, Århus 
Hanne Wiingard, Herlufmagle, LAP
Moderator Marianne Smedegaard (English)
  
Workshop 7  We just do it together, Akureyri. Iceland
Director for Social Services Krístín Sigursveinsdóttir, Akureyri, Iceland, Manager Sveinn Magnusson, Gedhjalp
Moderator Sigursteinn Másson (english)

Workshop 8  Experiences of the early interventions- working with families,   Nurmijärvi, Finland
Coordinator of Preventive work Olli Laiho, Nurmijärvi, Finland
Rehabilitation coordinator Outi Ståhlberg MTKL
Rehabiltation coordinator Olli Rauhala MTKL
Moderator Maarit Aalto (english)

Workshop 9 Tool box for user participation
Associate Professor Ole Petter Askheim, Norway
Course leader Björg kaspersen, Mental Health, Norway
Moderator Elin Ebba Asmundsdóttir (Scandinavian language)

14.30 – 15.00  Coffee break

15-16.00  Panel discussion Moderator: Lars Fredén. Associate professor, Nordic Research Academy in Mental Health, Sweden
                       
The future is now. Which new perspectives can we introduce? How could we implement good solutions in mental health? 
  
The Panel

Kristian Wahlbeck, Research Professor, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

Lara Björnsdottir, director Ministry of Social Aiffairs, Iceland

Tor-Johan Ekeland, professor, Volda University College, Norway

Tytti Solantaus, Research Professor, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
  
Sven Bremberg, Associate professor, Swedish National Institute of Public Health, Sweden

 

16.00 End of conference

  
 

   

 

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