Thursday, December 10, 2020 |
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11:30-12:45 | INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 1: Impact of Covid-19 on mental health of forcibly displaced people, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers Chairs: Afzal Javed (UK), Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany) Speakers: Marianne C. Kastrup (Denmark): Review from the available literature on the occurrence of Covid-19 among vulnerable populations: Dates and facts Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany): Covid-19 and its impact on the mental health of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers Afzal Javed (UK): Recommendations to reduce the risk of developing mental health problems of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers Q&A’s |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2: Intercultural and Systemic Models of Psychological Trauma and Recovery Chairs : Les Spencer (Australia), Dihan Wijewickrama (Australia) Speakers: Les Spencer (Australia): Intercultural Keyline - First Person Intercultural Research Methodologies in Psychological Wellbeing Recovery Maria Baxevanou (Greece): Healing Trauma Through Arts & Ancient Greek Ceremonies Allen Myers (USA): Healing Trauma Through Community Sense-making and Visioning the Future Dihan Wijewickrama (Australia): Towards an evolutionary-developmental model of psychological trauma Q&A’s |
12:45-12:55 |
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12:55-14:15 |
OPENING SESSION Welcome Afzal Javed (UK), President WPA, President of the Congress Thomas G. Schulze (Germany / USA), Chair of the Scientific Committee Dimitrios Ploumpidis (Greece), President Hellenic Psychiatric Association, Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee Welcome Address Zoe Rapti (Greece), Greek Deputy Minister of Health, responsible for Mental Health Opening lectures WPA’s Action Plan and current pandemic Afzal Javed (UK), President of the World Psychiatric Association & Consultant Psychiatrist & Honorary Professor Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK & President of the Congress Key note address The impact of COVID-19 on mental health Devora Kestel (Switzerland), Director, Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland Thanks Danuta Wasserman (Sweden), President elect WPA |
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14:15-14:30 |
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14:30-15:45 |
STATE-OF-THE-ART SESSION 1: Creative Arts Therapies and Sport Therapy in times of major global crisis Chairs: Radwa S. Abdelazim (Egypt), Iris Bräuninger (Switzerland) Speakers: Radwa S. Abdelazim (Egypt): Dance Movement Therapy versus Dance Fitness Sport Therapy in counteracting Covid - to be confirmed Iris Bräuninger (Switzerland): Dancing though the experience when tested positive for Covid: The impression of a student Q&A’s |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 3: Challenges of psychotherapeutic work with seriously traumatized patients - An intersectional symposium of the WPA Psychotherapy Section and ECP Section Chairs: Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan (Iran), Kateřina Duchoňová (Czech Republic) Speakers: Fatma Swilem (Egypt): Mental disorders and psychotherapy with female victims of human trafficking Goran Mijaljica (Sweden): Mental health services for persons with war and torture related psychological trauma Andriy Haydabrus (Ukraine): The impact of war and captivity on human mental health Luca Giorgini (Italy): How is possible to overcome severe traumatization? Psychological resilience in victims of torture, war refugees and victims of natural disasters Q&A’s |
15:45-15:55 |
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15:55-16:55 |
PLENARY LECTURES 1 Chair: Afzal Javed (UK) George Christodoulou (Greece): Disasters as Traumatic events: Their psychological impact on a global scale Athanassios Fokas (UK): Psychological Trauma within the Continuum of Unconscious - Conscious Processes Q&A’s |
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16:55-17:05 |
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17:05-18:20 |
STATE-OF-THE-ART SESSION 2: COVID, pandemics and mental health- special aspects Chairs : Joost Jan den Otter (South Sudan), Aikaterini Zolota (Greece) Speakers: Ernst Leitgeb (Austria): Specific Aspects of Psychological health, Corona and Public health Siroos Mirzaei (Austria): COVID- Reaching the elderly, prisoners and other risk groups in the context of Public mental Health Thomas Wenzel (Austria): COVID- Reaching the elderly, prisoners and other risk groups in the context of Public mental Health Q&A’s |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 4: Promoting mental health and resilience in individual and collective trauma Chair: Michel Botbol (France) Speakers: Michel Botbol (France): How today's psychoanalysis can contribute to the treatment of psychotrauma Chrysi Giannoulaki (Greece): Art as a step that leads to restoration of the self. The search for the self: Theater Nikolaos Tzavaras (Greece): Can art really promote mental health Discussant: Nikos Christodoulou (Greece/ UK) Q&A’s |
18:20-18:30 |
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18:30-19:45 |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 5: Adverse early life experiences and their impact on physical and mental health Chairs: Angelos Halaris (USA), Ute-Christiane Meier (UK/Germany) Speakers: Ute - Christiane Meier (UK/Germany): Maternal and neonatal vitamin D status as a potential risk factor for adverse infant health outcomes Mafalda Corvacho (Portugal): The Unbearable Heaviness of Transgenerational Trauma Madhura Samudra (India): To study association of childhood psychological trauma with eating disorders in medical students of India Paraskevi Bali (UK): ADHD-Childhood Maltreatment: Which comes first? Q&A’s |
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19:45-19:55 |
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19:55-20:55 |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 7: Women who survived serious human rights violations and the need for (forensic) evaluation & follow up Chairs : Lilla Hardi (Hungary), Joost Jan den Otter (South Sudan) Speakers: Thomas Wenzel (Austria): Serious human rights violations torture and the new Istanbul Protocol: A global perspective Birgit Völlm (Germany): Forensic psychiatry and documentation of serious human rights violations Q&A’s |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 8: Threatens to the Dignity of Older Adults with Mental Disorders during COVID-19 epidemic Chairs: Carlos Augusto De Mendonca Lima (Switzerland), Horacio António Jesus Firmino (Portugal) Speakers: Carlos Augusto De Mendonca Lima (Switzerland): Mental health in old age and COVID-19: Threatens to the older adults’ human rights in Switzerland Gonçalo Miguel Abreu Santos (Portugal): The COVID-19 impact on mental health of people living at the community with and without the infection Horacio António Jesus Firmino (Portugal): The COVID-19 influence on mental health and quality of life of a health care population Q&A’s |
Friday, December 11, 2020 |
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11:30-12:35 |
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION 1: Zooming in on gender and stigma aspects of mental health Chair: Tanay Maiti (India) Speakers: OP1.1 Natalia Semenova (Russia): Violence against women in Russia: Toward a greater understanding of the issue OP1.2 Supriya Davis (India): Knowledge and practices related to menstruation among tribal adolescent girls OP1.3 Pratishtha Singh (India): Postpartum Depression, anxiety, acute stress and post traumatic stress symptoms in mothers of neonates admitted in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit OP1.4 Aravind Vaithiyam (India): Stigma of drug treatment in internet addiction with depression OP1.5 Roxanna Ruiz Cabarrus (Guatemala): Prevalence of Burnout syndrome in students of the faculties of psychology, economics, nutrition, architecture and dentistry of the Francisco Marroquín University Q&A’s |
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION 2: Cultural and ethical aspects of mental health Chair: Aikaterini Zolota (Greece) Speakers: OP2.1 Fahimeh Saeed (Iran): Strategies to reduce disease-related stigma during covid-19 outbreak in Iran OP2.2 Cokorda-Bagus-Jaya Lesmana (Indonesia): Behavioral effects on post-traumatic stress disorder clinical symptoms using spiritual hypnosis assisted therapy OP2.3 Tarun Yadav (India): Correlates of stress, psychiatric comorbidity and future suicidal risk in attempted suicide cases of a semi- urban population in Northern India OP2.4 Mafalda Corvacho (Portugal): Compulsory treatment among foreigners and its underlying ethical dilemmas Q&A’s |
12:35-13:05 |
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13:05-14:20 |
STATE-OF-THE-ART SESSION 3: Psychological trauma: Mechanism and Consequences Chair: George Christodoulou (Greece) Speakers: George Chrousos (Greece): Chronic Stress and Inflammation Syndrome: Psychologic and Physical Manifestations Agorastos Agorastos (Greece): Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: State-of-the-Art and Beyond Discussants: Thomas Wenzel (Austria), Nikos Christodoulou (Greece/ UK) Q&A’s |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 9: Overcoming early life trauma-Central and Eastern Europe experiences Chairs: Olga Kazakova (Belarus), Kateřina Duchoňová (Czech Republic) Speakers: Olga Kazakova (Belarus): Intersectional cooperation working with persons with early life trauma in Belarus Orest Suvalo (Ukraine): Early life trauma in Ukraine: History of traumatization and actual war Nikita Bezborodovs (Latvia): Reforming the child and adolescent mental healthcare system in Latvia Kateřina Duchoňová (Czech Republic): Early life trauma as a risk factor for psychosis in the Czech Republic Discussant: Kavitha Kolappa (USA) Q&A’s |
14:20-14:30 |
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14:30-15:30 |
PLENARY LECTURES 2 Chairs: Thomas G. Schulze (Germany/USA), Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany) Duarte Nuno Vieira (Portugal): Human rights; Prisons; Torture and ill-treatment Sherri Kraham Talabany (Iraq): Comprehensive mental health and psychosocial support services to survivors of violence in Iraq Q&A’s |
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15:30-15:40 |
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15:40-16:55 |
STATE-OF-THE-ART SESSION 4: Syria, factors in trauma and support- State-of-the Art of problems and interdisciplinary solutions Chair: Jihad Alabdullah (Germany/ Syria) Speakers: Thomas Wenzel (Austria): The WPA ESPRI project and the need for an interdisciplinary approach Mohammed Abou-Saleh (UK/ Syria): Mental Health in the Syrian conflict Q&A’s |
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16:55-17:05 |
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17:05-18:20 |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 10: Prostitution - Violation of human right to physical and mental integrity - what can we do? Chairs: Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany), Thomas Wenzel (Austria) Speakers: Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany): Introduction to the topic with available data and facts, the Prostitute Protection Act Stephan Alder (Germany): Impact of dissociation in context of prostitution Thomas Wenzel (Austria): Prostitution as a human rights violation - what impact can it have on mental health? Anna Schreiber (Germany): Rooms and psychological backgrounds of sex for sale: Experience of an affected psychological psychotherapist Q&A’s |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 11: Mental health stories of the COVID-19 pandemic Chairs: Olga Karpenko (Russia), Nikos Christodoulou (Greece/UK) Speakers: Olga Karpenko (Russia): The consequences of COVID-19 on mental health: review of conducted studies Eugenia Triantafillou (Greece): The Psychological impact of the Coronavirus disease (Covid19) outbreak and its effect on quality of life of the general population in Greece Konstantinos Fountoulakis (Greece): Self-reported changes in anxiety, depression, suicidality and conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 lockdown Q&A’s |
18:20-18:30 |
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18:30-20:00 |
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION 3: Creating healthcare environments in times of unseen and ever shifting needs Chair: Laura Orsolini (Italy) Speakers: OP3.1 Rita Facão (Portugal): Managing Mental Health in pandemic times OP3.2 Ioannis Morres (Greece): Daily-life physical activity, trait anxiety and obesity. An ongoing accelerometer study OP3.3 Natalia Semenova (Russia): On gender-sensitive recommendations for psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia OP3.4 Shipra Singh (India): Violence towards medical professionals in India: A growing concern and its aftermath OP3.5 Janaina Mauricio (Portugal): Life after loss: How psychosocial intervention can help the survivor Q&A’s |
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION 4: Psychological trauma across the lifespan Chair: Nikolaos Nikolaou (Greece) Speakers: OP4.1 Kalliopi Panagiotopoulou (Greece): The impact of the childhood psychological trauma experienced in a family with a member suffering from mental health disease. Preventive strategies OP4.2 Maliha Ansari (India): Correlates of internet gaming among violent and non-violent game users and comparison of their psychological well-being with non-gamers in a university student population Q&A’s |
Saturday, December 12, 2020 |
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11:30-12:30 |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 12: The role of Preventive Psychiatry in Disasters Chair: George Christodoulou (Greece) Speakers: Peykan Gokalp (Turkey): Violence against women as a global pandemic Helen Millar (UK): Managing a Psychiatric service during a Pandemic: An NHS Scotland experience Q&A’s |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 13: Human Rights, Migration and Mental Health Chairs: Michaela Amering (Austria) Speakers: Stelios Stylianidis (Greece): Refugees and Trauma: A holistic approach. The experience of EPAPSY's psychosocial interventions in Greece Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany): The rights and needs of children in the context of migration Michaela Amering (Austria): Empowering women and girls in humanitarian crises Q&A’s Discussant: Stelios Stylianidis (Greece) |
12:30-12:40 |
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12:40-13:55 |
STATE-OF-THE-ART SESSION 5: Genocidal environments and the mental health impact on minorities Chair: Joost Jan den Otter (South Sudan) Speakers: Thomas Wenzel (Austria): The Ismaili, Uighurs, and other persecuted groups, the concept of group factors and a complex genocidal environmental impact on mental health Reem Alksiri (Austria & Syria): The role of women and persecution Q&A’s |
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13:55-14:05 |
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14:05-15:20 |
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION 5: COVID-19: Psychological, emotional and physical well being Chair: Frances Adiukwu (Nigeria) Speakers: OP5.1 Sowmya Venkata Amudalapalli (India): Assessment of depression, anxiety, stress and alcohol dependence among Indian migrant workers during COVID-19 crisis OP5.2 Alkesh Patil (India): State of Mental Health of caregivers on the frontline during the pandemic COVID 19 in Medical College and Tertiary care centers of Maharashtra OP5.3 Ester di Giacomo (Italy): The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychiatric admissions and delusional symptoms OP5.4 Nishtha Gupta (India): Impact on mental health of healthcare workers during the covid-19 pandemic Q&A’s |
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION 6: Mental, somatic, and biological aspects of trauma Chair: Theodoros Koutsomitros (Greece) Speakers: OP6.1 Evangelos Karanikas (Greece): The Psychological Trauma-related Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory implications OP6.2 Yanhua Xu (Switzerland): Backtracing persistent biomarker shifts to the age of onset: A novel procedure applied to white blood cell counts in post-traumatic stress disorder OP6.3 Jibril I.M Handuleh (Ethiopia): Clinical presentation of Somali refugee patients at Psychiatry Services in Borama, Somaliland: Somatic and psychological manifestations of Somalis with lived conflict experiences OP6.4 Nikola Jovanović (Serbia): Connection of D personality type and the level of physical activity in patients with DM type 2 OP6.5 Richa Tripathi (India): Substance use and psychological trauma Q&A’s |
15:20-15:30 |
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15:30-16:30 |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 14: Bio-psycho-social correlates of Preventive Psychiatry Chair: Helen Millar (UK) Speakers: George Chrousos (USA/Greece): Biological Psychiatry Agorastos Agorastos (Greece): Early life stress and cumulative health risk Nikos Christodoulou (Greece/UK): Treatment of persistent physical symptoms in primary care Q&A’s |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 15: Digital health solutions during COVID19 Pandemic: Traditional Service with Modern Approach Chairs: Thomas G. Schulze (Germany/USA), Athanasios Douzenis (Greece), Lillian Markaki (Greece) Speakers: Davor Mucic (Denmark): Lessons from the COVID19 and its impacts on the future of (e)-mental health Nikolaos Gkouvas (Greece): Home digital health services During COVID19 Nikolaos Nikolaou (Greece): AI and other tech components that helped During COVID19 Q&A’s |
16:30-16:40 |
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16:40-17:30 |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 16: Cross-paths of preventive psychiatry, trauma and art Chair: George Christodoulou (Greece) Speakers: Stelios Krasanakis (Greece): The effect of the exhibition of the Prinzhorn collection in Greece Michel Botbol (France): Artistic creative mediations in the Preventive and Therapeutic processes with Border Line Adolescents Q&A’s |
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM 17: Multi-cultural perspectives on urbanization and domestic migration Chairs: Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany), Thomas Wenzel (Austria) Speakers: Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany): Domestic migration and mental health Mazda Adli (Germany): Stress and the City - the impact on mental health Tsuyoshi Akiyama (Japan): Cultural perspectives on change in domestic migration in Japan due to COVID-19 Q&A’s |
17:30 -17:40 |
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17:40-19:10 |
Special Panel “COVID-19: The biological disaster of our Century: Trauma caused, measures taken, lessons learned” Chairs: Afzal Javed (UK), Danuta Wasserman (Sweden) Panelists: Panelists: George Christodoulou (Greece), George Chrousos (Greece), Laura Orsolini (Italy), Frances Adiukwu (Nigeria), Konstantinos Fountoulakis (Greece), Madhura Samudra (India), Erik Van der Eycken (Belgium) Closing remarks: Thomas G. Schulze (Germany/USA), Edmond Pi (USA), Dimitrios Ploumpidis (Greece) |