Central issues are:
-  The impact of having a parent with mental illness on the children, resilience and vulnerability.

-  Evidence based and best practice preventive interventions for children of mentally ill parents both individual and in the family context.

-  Issues concerning ethics when children of mentally ill are involved in effect studies.

-  Implementation and how to reach this large risk group. 

The conference includes plenary lectures and workshops where the participants will have the opportunity to discuss there experiences and challenges in working with children of mentally parents in research and practice. There will be also the possibility that the participants can send in posters. The poster session will be the end of conference.

Program

Costs: NOK 500 

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Time schedule: 13.00 – 18.00 

Invited speakers:
Sherryl H. Goodman
Dr. Goodman  is professor in the Department of Psychology at Emory University as well as the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. Additionally, she is Voluntary Faculty for Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department at Emory University. She co-author of the book: Children of depressed parents: Mechanism of risk and implications for treatment. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.  Goodman, S. H. & Gotlib, I. H. (2002) and author many other publications on children of depressed parents 

William Beardslee
William Beardslee received his MD degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed an internship at University of California Medical Center and a residency and fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston..Dr. Beardslee is the author of over 100 articles, chapters and two books: The Way Out Must Lead In: Life Histories in the Civil Rights Movement, which explores the mechanisms that allowed civil rights workers to endure; and Out of the Darkened Room: When a Parent Is Depressed: Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family, a book about how parents and caregivers can help families overcome depression. 

Tytti Solantaus
Tytti Solantaus is Development Manager in the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, (Stakes),  in the field of research and development in child and adolescent psychiatry. She has a longstanding interest in developmental psychopathology, especially in child development in adverse situations. The research topics include the impact of threat of was on children and adolescents and family well being and child development in economically hard times, i.e. the impact of economical recession on children and families. The third and present research interest involves child development in family adversity, especially in families with parental mental illness. 

Karin van Doesum
Karin van Doesum is already for 15 years involved prevention programs for children of mentally ill parents in Netherlands. She is working as a prevention psychologist in a community mental health centre RIAGG IJsselland and she is researcher at the Nijmegen University, department of clinical psychology. She introduced the family intervention of William Beardslee in the Netherlands and developed together with Carla Brok an early intervention for depressed mothers and their infant. She will finish her PhD this year, on the effectstudy of the early intervention for depressed mothers and their infants. In addition she initiated several effect studies interventions for children of mentally ill parents together with Prof. Clemens Hosman of the Nijmegen University and the Trimbos-instuut. She published 10 articles and chapters on the topic of children mentally ill parents, mainly in Dutch.

Martijn Bool
Researcher Trimbos-instituut, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction He is involved in the development and implementation of preventive interventions for the Dutch program for children of mentally ill parents for many years. He has together with Karin van Doesum introduced the family intervention of William Beardslee in the Netherlands and developed a community-based intervention for children mentally ill in the Netherland. He published 10 articles and chapters on the topic, mainly in Dutch.