The Section is supporting and co-organizing the 1st Global Meeting on Spirituality and Mental Health – 5-6 Nov 2015 – Florianopolis, Brazil.
This event will take place inside the program of the 2015 Brazilian Congress of Psychiatry. The 33rd Brazilian Congress of Psychiatry is one the largest psychiatric conventions in the world, gathering more than 6,000 attendees and will count with more than 20 international speakers. The main goal of this Global Meeting is to present the state of the art in the field of spirituality and mental health, by putting together international leaders in the subject, and to foster exchanges and enable networking between clinicians, researchers and educators interested in spirituality and mental health.
Florianopolis is a beautiful touristic beach city in the South of Brazil, providing a pleasant environment for attendees.
The event is organized by the Committee of Studies and Research on Spirituality and Mental Health of the Brazilian Association of Psychiatry, and supported by the WPA Section on Spirituality and Psychiatry . There will be conferences, round tables, symposia and a course on the theme given by Brazilian and international specialists. Some highlights:
Conferences:
Spiritual and Religious Coping: Implications to Mental Health
Kenneth Pargament
Spirituality and Mental Health: What Research Says
Alexander Moreira-Almeida
How do I integrate Spirituality in Psychotherapy?
Kenneth Pargament
Course:
Spirituality in Clinical Practice
John R. Peteet; Kenneth Pargament & Lionel Corbett
Symposia:
Spirituality in Clinical Practice
Depression: John R. Peteet
Anxiety: Bernard van Rensburg
Person Centered Medicine: John Cox
Spirituality and Psychotherapy
Kenneth Pargament
Lionel Corbett
Anahy Fonseca
Research
Religiosity and Resilience: Bruno Mosqueiro
Religiosity and Suicide: Andre Caribe
Personality and Spirituality: Letícia Alminhana
Spirituality and Psychiatry 1:
Promoting collaborations between mental health professionals and faith leaders – Alan Fung
Religion and spirituality in prospective studies: a review – Arjan Braam
Spirituality and Psychiatry 2:
Spirituality and Violence – Homero Vallada
Psychiatry Residence – Quirino Cordeiro
Substance Abuse – Alexandre Rezende
Developing a Career and Creating a Study Group in Spirituality and Health
Alessandra L. G. Lucchetti
Alexander Moreira-Almeida
Giancarlo Lucchetti
Sections in Spirituality and Psychiatry around the Globe:
John R. Peteet: APA’s Caucus on Spirituality, Religion and Psychiatry
John Cox: Royal College of Psychiatrists – Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group
Bernard Janse van Rensburg: South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP) Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group (S&P SIG)
Alexander Moreira-Almeida: WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry
Quirino Cordeiro: Brazilian Psychiatric Association
Confirmed speakers from the Americas, Europe, and Africa:
Arjan W. Braam, M.D., Ph.D. head of the Psychiatric Residency Training, Altrecht Mental Health Care in Utrecht, endowed chair Religion and Psychiatry at the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht – Netherlands.
Lionel Corbett, MD – Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Founder of The Psyche and the Sacred Program – USA.
John L. Cox BM BCh , DM (Oxon), FRCPsych – Past president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, past Secretary General of the World Psychiatric Association. Visiting Professor of Mental Health at the University of Gloucestershire and the Institute of Psychiatry, London – UK.
Quirino Cordeiro MD, PhD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo (FCMSCSP). Committee member of the Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the Brazilian Psychiatric Association (ABP) – Brazil
Anahy Fonseca MD – NUPE – APRS. Committee member of the Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the Brazilian Psychiatric Association (ABP) – Brazil
W.L. Alan Fung, MD, ScD, FRCPC – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. Secretary/Treasurer of the Caucus on Spirituality, Religion and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) – Canada.
Alessandra Lucchetti MD, MSc – Assistant Professor of Geriatrics, School of Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) – Brazil
Giancarlo Lucchetti MD, PhD–Associate Professor of Geriatrics, School of Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) – Brazil
Alexander Moreira-Almeida MD, PhD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Chair of the Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and of the Brazilian Psychiatric Association (ABP) – Brazil
Kenneth Pargament, PhD – Professor of clinical psychology at Bowling Green State University, editor-in-chief of the two-volume APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality – USA
John Peteet, MD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Chair of the Caucus on Spirituality, Religion and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) – USA.
Bernard Janse van Rensburg MD, PhD– President-elect of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP), founder and director of SASOP’s Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group (S&P SIG). Secretary of the WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry – South Africa.
Homero Vallada MD, PhD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry – Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Committee member of the Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the Brazilian Psychiatric Association (ABP) – Brazil
Registration: http://www.cbpabp.org.br/english/?page_id=2491
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