In the times of global challenges mental health becomes the most vulnerable part of our life experience. Feeling connected in such times is especially helpful to cope with traumatic circumstances. Participation is free, the number of online/offline places is limited.
• to attract attention of Public authorities, civil Institutions, professionals, researchers and policy-makers to urgent problems of mental health and psychosocial support in Ukraine
• to provide a platform for dissemination of ideas and development of network of Community Mental Health researchers, practitioners and policy-makers
• to elucidate multi-disciplinary, transdisciplinary and multicultural aspects and solutions related to Community-based MHPSS
Congress audience:
Representatives\members of Amalgamated Territorial Communities
Civil Society, State and Professional Institutions
Academicians, Researchers, Experts
Specialists of healthcare services\healthcare development
Content (program):
We aim to focus on building and improving professional skills of specialists in Community Mental Health:
• Sharing of good practices in the field of Community Mental Health
• Seminar, workshops
• oral and e-poster presentations of research studies
Keynote Speakers:
Oksana Zbitneva
Head of the Coordination Center for Mental Health of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukrainе and Head of NGO «Barrier-Free»
Expert on social transformations, strategic communications specialist. Has a degree in philology and political science. Studied state and public management and administration. Experience in communications and political consulting, creation and management of PR- and GR-units, media process organization, running of reputation management campaigns. Senior positions in the media, civil service, non-governmental organizations.
Jan Pfeiffer
Jan Pfeiffer, born 1957, is educated as psychiatrist, psychotherapist, supervisor. He is working in the mental health field more than 40 years. For all this time he is involved in the protection of the rights of people with mental health issues and transformation of the system from institutional to community based. He was and still is one of the reform leaders in his country . He was also very much in involved internationally especially in new member states, but in Eastern Europe as such. Especially in Albania, Serbia, Moldova, Slovakia, and Slovenia for a longer period of time. He was the founder of NGO Focus. Built this organization from the scratch. Focus is now the largest provider of community care in the Czech Republic. Worked in Children High Level Group later Lumos (founded by J.K. Rowling) facilitating mental health care system for children across Europe. Within the framework of the European Commission founded the European Expert Group on de-institutionalization in Brussels. Was a member of the Council of Europe CPT committee. Senior expert on deinstitutionalisation of Mental Health Europe. Consultant of Global initiative on Psychiatry, Board chair of Mental disability advocacy centre Currently still engaged in the process of mental health care reform in several countries, at the same time working in crisis team, Community mental health teams in CR. For his work in the field of human rights, he was awarded as a hero of the year by Time magazine in 2004.
Pětr Nawka, M.D.
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist and the expert of my own experience with mental health problems. I am the Chair of the Association for Mental Health Integra in Slovakia and I live and work in Slovakia and Germany. My main interest is in searching for and experiencing the generation/realization of our human mental health potential and a meaningful life through the tetralogue (relevant communication and partnership of four parts: first, people, who need to live a more integrated and less stigmatized life in their community; second, their families/friends/peers, third, professionals, and fourth, society from local community to the international level). The topic of my presentation is empowerment and recovery through peer-involvement in community mental health- network building
Dr. Joshua Kreimeyer PhD, LPC, LMFT, AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Dr. Joshua Kreimeyer is a Professor in the Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Colorado Christian University in Denver, Colorado. I'm also work at faculty at the Міжнародний Інститут Післядипломної Освіти in Kyiv. I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and served in the US Army as a Linguist and deployed to Kosovo (1999) and Iraq (2003). I have worked in community-based outpatient clinics, private practice, a residential drug and alcohol program within the US Bureau of Prisons, and several years as a Family Therapist within the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Also have been a part of advocacy efforts in the United States and Ukraine, for effective mental health services and access to care for military veterans and their families.
Thomas Weber
Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, head of the Institute for Neuropsychotherapy Vienna. Founder and international training director of Traumafokus® and Painfokus®, study director of pain therapy at the SysTelios Clinic in Germany (2016-2018), couples therapist, further training in pain psychotherapy at the German Society for Psychological Pain Therapy and Research (DGPSF), founding member of the German Society for Psychotraumatology and Violence Research (GPTG), founding member of the EAP (European Association for Psychotherapy), lecturer at various specialist institutions (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Ukraine) in the field of psychotraumatology and pain psychotherapy, member of the German Pain Society (DSG), lecturer of the German Society for Psychological Pain Therapy and Pain Research (DGPSF), book author of Traumafokus.
Dr. Alina Garbuz
PhD is Clinical Traumatologist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant, Amen Clinics Certified Brain Health Coach and Professional Life Coach who runs her private practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her co-therapist golden retriever Nala. Dr. Garbuz specializes in PTSD, Complex Trauma, Attachment and Relational Trauma, Suicide and Traumatic Bereavement, Disaster Trauma and International Trauma.
Kseniia Voznitsyna
Founder and director of the Center for Mental Health and Rehabilitation "Lisova Polyana" of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, neurologist Author of the organizational model for establishing mental health recovery centers for war victims in Ukraine. An expert in the study and treatment of post concussion syndrome ("contusion" - the autograph of war). Leader in the organization of mental health rehabilitation for veterans. Trainer, author of manuals and publications on working with war trauma and integration of society and veterans.
Alexandr Moldavskyi
Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), partner site Mannheim Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Dr. med. (University of Heidelberg) M.Sc. in Biostatistics Member of Ukrainian Medical Society in Germany
Christopher Tupy
Nataliya Hnatyuk
Norbert Göller
Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry at the Centre for Global Mental Health and the Centre for Implementation Science, King’s College London. He is also a Consultant Psychiatrist at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, working in a community mental health team in Lambeth with people in a first episode of psychosis. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator Emeritus, and Honorary Fellow of King’s College London and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Graham has made significant contributions to the development of mental health policy in England. He is also active in global mental health, for example, he chaired the World Health Organisation Guideline Development Group for the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide . He chaired the External Reference Group for the WHO guidelines on the Management of Physical Health Conditions in Adults with Severe Mental Disorders. He has recently also chaired the Guideline Development Group for the WHO guidelines on Mental Health at Work. He Co-Chaired the 2022 Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health. He is a Board Trustee of United for Global Mental Health, and a Board Member for Mental Health and Human Rights (F-GIP). His areas of research expertise include: reduction of stigma and discrimination, evaluation of community mental health services, and global mental health.
Registration of particapants
Opening. The begining of information session (Oksana Zbitneva Head of the Mental Health Coordination Center of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Iryna Mykychak - delegate from the Mental Health Coordination Center at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Dr. Tsiyoshi Akiyama - President of the World Federation of Mental Health, Sabine Böhler-Kohler -President-elected of the World Federation of Mental Health, Kseniia Voznitsyna - Director of the Rehabilitation Center "Lisova Polyana" , Orest Suvalo - Executive Director of the Institute of Mental Health of UKU, Coordinator of the development of services in communities of the Ukrainian-Swiss project "Mental Health for Ukraine - MH4U"
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30
Information session (Jan Pfeiffer - key expert on deinstitutionalization, consultant at Mental Health Europe, Global Initiative on Mental Health, chairman of the board of the Center for the Protection of the Rights of People with Mental Disorders, Christopher Tupy - co-founder of IDEE Austria, a national advocacy organization for people with mental disorders, Ivona Kostina - chairman of the board of VeteranHub, Andrej Vršanský - Chairman of the Mental Health League in Slovakia, Joshua Kraimeyer - Professor at Colorado Christian University, Thomas Weber - Founder of the Institute for Neuropsychotherapy, Vienna, Petr Nawka - psychiatrist, psychotherapist, expert on mental health of people with personal experience of mental disorder, founder of the Tetralogue model, Robert van Voren - Executive Director of Human rights in Mental health FGIP)
Information session. (Iryna Ratske-Rybak - psychotherapist, supervisor, training analyst, group analyst, couples and family psychotherapist, Head of the Section of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Couples and Families of APPU, EFPP Delegate from Ukraine to the Section of Couples and Family Psychotherapy, full member of GASI, Oleksandr Moldavskyi - psychiatrist, psychotherapist, member of the Ukrainian Medical Society, Alina Garbuz - PhD, clinical trauma therapist, EMDR therapist and consultant, Norbert Gühler - journalist, director and co-founder of Irrsinnig Menschlich, Haustova O. О., Ph, Professor, Head of the Department of Medical Psychology, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Bogomolets National Medical University, Natalia Hnatiuk - founder of the Green Cross organization, President of SafeHaus, a crisis center for children, Graham Tonicroft - professor of public psychology at Global Mental Health. of Community Psychiatry at Global Mental Health and Center for Implementation Science at King's College London, Jana Javakhishlvili - PhD, Professor at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia).
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30
Parallel movie screenings:
"20 days in Mariupol" "Boss is the patient"
12:00 - 17:00
A trip to Medzhybizh. Open-air discussion platforms, moderated by Joshua Kraimeyer and Alina Garbuz.
Fields covered:
Health, Medicine, Social Science, Psychology, Education, Economic, Law, Counseling, Inter- and Multi-disciplinary studies
We accept:
• case-studies
• applied-research papers
• theoretical research papers
Attending Types:
* Regular Presenter,
* Virtual Presenter
* Poster Presentation
* Publication only
* Non-presenting participant
Dissemination and Publications:
We aim to promote wide geographical diversification of conference results dissemination
• ITALY Academic Journal “Mental Health: global challenges”, NLM ID: 101762518; E-ISSN 2612-2138; DOAJI, Publons, Crossref, ERIHPlus, BASE, … Fields covered: Health, Medicine, Social Science, Psychology, Education, Economic, Law, Inter- and Multi-disciplinary studies http://www.mhgcj.org/index.php/MHGCJ
The MHGC Journal is also available in National Library of Australia, Vancouver Public Library …
Style Guideline:
Extended Abstract (1000-3000 words) should include the following:
• Title
• Authors full names
• Information about authors: Institute affiliation, e-mail address
• Main text (Introduction; Purpose; Design/Methodology/Approach; Results; Limitations and strengths of the study; Practical/Social value; Originality/Conclusions)
• Key words
The author\s should to send:
1. Title page with author\s information - here
2. Paper without author\s information - here
Acceptance/Rejection (for publication)
All research papers will be evaluated by international recognized scholars (from Universities of Belgium, Canada, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal) in a double blind reviewing process and research papers will be selected according to the international research standard.
1. Participants are welcome to submit extended abstract for peer-review
2. We will send you an email notification of acceptance or rejection within one-two week after your submission
3. We are ready to evaluate your full paper
Looking forward to see and you within our wide academic and professional community
Let’s be mentally healthy
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Participation is free, the number of online/offline places is limited