Moderator of 4 Sessions
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Presentation of “Help for Helpers” Webinars
Executive Committee Meeting
Board Meeting
- Julian Beezhold (United Kingdom)
- Livia De Picker (Belgium)
- Geert Dom (Belgium)
- Peter Falkai (Germany)
- Andrea Fiorillo (Italy)
- Philip Gorwood (France)
- Cécile Hanon (France)
- Hilkka M. Kärkkäinen (Finland)
- Tamas Kurimay (Hungary)
- Lars Lien (Norway)
- Diego Palao Vidal (Spain)
- Ozge Kilic (Turkey)
- Martina Rojnic Kuzman (Croatia)
- Jerzy Samochowiec (Poland)
- Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Germany)
- Agata Szulc (Poland)
- Simavi Vahip (Turkey)
- Jan Wise (United Kingdom)
- André Decraene (Belgium)
Section Coordination Meeting
- Martina Rojnic Kuzman (Croatia)
- Geert Dom (Belgium)
- Judit Balazs (Hungary)
- Diogo Telles Correia (Portugal)
- Iris T. Graef-Calliess (Germany)
- Kris Goethals (Belgium)
- Gabriela Stoppe (Switzerland)
- Marcella Bellani (Italy)
- Andrea Raballo (Italy)
- István Bitter (Hungary)
- Greg M. Radu (United Kingdom)
- Merete Nordentoft (Denmark)
- Philippe Courtet (France)
- Umberto Volpe (Italy)
- Angelika Wieck (United Kingdom)
- Krzysztof Krysta (Poland)
- J.J. Sandra Kooij (Netherlands)
- Palmiero Monteleone (Italy)
- Arnstein Mykletun (Norway)
- Giovanni Stanghellini (Italy)
Academic Mentoring for Psychiatric Trainees During the Pandemic
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In most academic settings, mentoring students is a part of the activities of the academic staff. Usually, associate professors, assistant professors and professors are required to mentor graduate and postgraduate students, and in some academic settings postgraduate students are required to mentor junior students. In psychiatric clinical settings, mentoring also extends to the supervision and evaluation of clinical work of postgraduate psychiatric trainees, usually for different parts of the psychiatric training. Depending on the local organisation of academic and clinical work, numbers of mentees per one mentor as well as description of activities may vary greatly across regions. Nevertheless, "mentoring" is not systematically taught and evaluated in the majority of systems but is infrequently self-taught. The situation of COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the first wave, has created a new situation which needed quick adaptations in many of the fields of the academic work, mentoring included. In this presentation, these new situations and lessons learnt will be presented and discussed from the point of the academic centre in Croatia.
Flexible Assertive Community Mental Health Teams for the Treatment of Psychosis in Extraordinary Circumstances during Pandemics and Earthquakes 2020/2021: Are we Flexible Enough?
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During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, two regions in Croatia, Zagreb and Petrinja in the Sisak-Moslavina County experienced strong earthquakes, on the March 22nd 2020 and on the 29th of December 2020. Both earthquakes, but especially the later one resulted on severe damage of the regions and caused severe disruptions in (mental) health service delivery. In these circumstances, the RECOVER-E project (LaRge-scalE implementation of COmmunity based mental health care for people with seVere and Enduring mental ill health in EuRopE), which was ongoing in Croatia from 2018-2022 aimed to implement flexible assertive community treatment as the new health care service for persons with severe mental illness (SMI). Since the pandemic and earthquakes have significantly influenced the life circumstances of all RECOVER-E project participants with SMI, we wanted further to examine the impact of health care delivery on mental health and the response to stress caused by a pandemic and earthquake in the patients with SMI involved in the project, in the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemics. Additionally, using case series, we will demonstrate the community mental health teams’ contributions in managing SMI after a double disaster in providing feasible, comprehensive, and accessible mental health services.