European Conference Mental Health, Refugees & Migration 24th May 2018, Athens Greece
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Conference ENTER’s 2018 conference in Athens Greece, will focus on the plight of refugees and their mental health. The situations that people are fleeing from generate mental health problems: unemployment, hunger, religious persecution, no future, war...). The very act of fleeing can also create mental health problems; moving, arriving in a new setting, adapting to a different culture, being victims of racism. Parallels can also be drawn with people with mental health problems fleeing from their local communities. There will be sessions on the following topics: 1. Racism and mental health 2. Mental health epidemiology in migrant and refugee populations 3. Best practice of mental health promotion and treatment in migrant and refugee populations 4. Overview of tools for measuring and evaluating mental health issues in migrant and refugee populations.
5. Training for mental health professionals working with migrant and refugee populations.
Call for abstracts Participants are invited to submit abstracts on research and findings relevant to the above themes, including clinical practices. Abstracts for proposed oral or poster presentations should be submitted using the abstract form to be found on www.entermentalhealth.net and forwarded to the conference organisers at
[email protected]. Deadline for abstract submission is the 15th February 2018. After selection of oral and poster presentations, speakers and presenters will be informed by the 15th March 2018. The printed conference program will include abstracts of the accepted oral and poster presentations. For further information, contact
[email protected]
