User Participation in Mental Health
Chair: Patt Franciosi, Immediate Past President, World Federation for Mental Health
Kate Monro, Community Engagement Manager, NHS, Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Scotland - "Making User Involvement in Mental Health Meaningful"
Bjørg Njaa, Former Chair of the Norwegian Organisation for Relatives of the Mentally Ill - "Carer Involvement in Treatment and Recovery"
Karin Källsmyr, Program Manager, Adults for Children (Voksne for Barn) - "How Young People can Participate and Contribute in the Development of Mental health Services"
Unmet Needs in the Developing World
Chair: Judi Clements, Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand
Shona Sturgeon – Mental Health Practitioners in Developing Countries: Maximizing Their Impact on Prevention and Promotion in Mental Health, South Africa
Shridhar Sharma: Powerty, Health and Development, India
Joseph Prewitt Diaz: The absence of community based pasychosocial support and the consequences in the Millennium Development Goals: The South Asia Experience
Gary S. Belkin - Ordering Chaos:Framing a Mental Health and Social Development Agenda, and the Case of the Millenium Villages Project
Human Rights
Chair: Michael Murray, The Clifford beers Foundation
Brian Robertson: Global Action for HIV AIDS - is Mental Health Lagging Behind? South Africa
Mirjam van Dongen: A nation-wide approach for the fight against elderly abuse in the Netherlands.
George Christodoulou: The Ethics of Mental Health Reform, Greece
Special Sector Interests
Chair: Irene Verins, VicHealth, Australia
Louise Rowling: Child mental health promotion and prevention capacity mapping in diverse countries, Australia
Deborah Wan: Promotion and Publicity of the Work Abilities of People with Psychiatric Disabilities Through Social Enterprise (China)
Eileen Wilson: Health in Later Life Regional Interest Groups – a programme which aims to promote mental health and well-being in later life.
Wei-Tsuen Soong: An Intervention Model for Toddlers with Autism: Focus on Joint Attention Deficits, Taiwan
Economics – Depression
Chair: Clemens M. H. Hosman, Global Consortium for the Advancement of Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health (GCAPP)
Odd Steffen Dalgard: A randomized controlled trial of a psycho-educational group program for unipolar depression in adults – an extension of the ODIN study; Norway
Erik Nord: Cost-value analysis of health programs - Economic evaluation of a course in coping with depression, Norway
F. Smit: Cost-Effectiveness of Depression Prevention: The Evidence, Netherland
Clemens M. H. Hosman & Annemarie H. M. van Santen: A Tool for Assessing and Improving the Quality of Prevention Programmes: The case of written self-help courses to prevent depression and anxiety.
National Programming
Chair: Billy Kubly, Kubly Family Foundation, USA
Tarja Heiskanen: Building up mental health programmes in Finland
Allyson McCollam: Evaluation of the first phase of Choose Life, the national strategy and action plan to prevent suicide in Scotland
Pia Solin: The qualitative analysis of suicide prevention programmes of Finland, Sweden and England
Marit Bergum Hansen: National Strategy for Children at Risk - 0-4 years
Emerging Programs in Countries
Chair: Willy Tore Mørch, Norwegian Regional Center for Children's Mental Health
Y. Cijsouw: Exercise and cognitive training; Gezond aan de Slag! (Healthy at work!), Netherland
Carl Dutton: A school based group intervention for refugee children, UK
Aukjen Neiwijk: Eating disorders and the power of hands on experts, Netherlands
