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Program

8-10 September 2022

September 8th

Time

Plenary hall

12.00-13.30
Museum main lobby & Lobby next to plenary hall

Registration & Welcome coffee/tea

13.30-14.30
Plenary hall

Opening of the conference
Minister of Health of Lithuania Dr. Arunas Dulkys (Lithuania)

Welcome speech. The mental health workforce of the future: qualities and tasks
Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)
Languages EN / RU / LT

Current Challenges in Mental Health
Chairperson: Robert van Voren (Lithuania / The Netherlands)

14.30-15.00
Plenary hall

Keynote 1. The power of integrating experts by experience in transforming mental health
Charlene Sunkel (South Africa)
EN / RU / LT

15.00-15.30
Plenary hall

Keynote 2. Covid and mental health: an update
Sir Graham Thornicroft (UK)
EN / RU / LT

15.30-16.00
Plenary hall lobby

Coffee & tea break

16.00-16.30
Plenary hall

Keynote 3
Human rights based mental health care: The World Psychiatric Association program supporting alternatives to coercion
Helen Herrman (Australia)
EN / RU / LT

16.30-17.00
Plenary hall

Keynote 4. Inequality and mental health
Richard Wilkinson (UK)
EN / RU / LT

17.00-18.30
Museum main lobby

Reception

18.30-20.00
Renaissance hall

Concert by Alexey Botvinov
Introduction by George Szmukler (UK) – Music and mental health
Arunas Germanavicius (Lithuania) – Remembering Saulius Peciulis
EN / RU

September 9th

Time

Plenary hall

Renaissance hall

8.00-9.00
Museum main lobby

Registration & Welcome coffee/tea

The Service User Perspective

9.00-10.00
Plenary hall

Symposium 1

Chairperson: Nicole Votruba (United Kingdom)

  • Personal experience as a turning point – Lion Gai Meir (Israel);
  • Service User movement  and Lived experience: Indonesia – Agus Sugianto (Indonesia)
  • No time for ineffective mental health care: Our lives are at stake – Dana Chrtkova (Czechia)

EN / RU / LT

Renaissance hall

Symposium 2

Chairperson: Rob Keukens (The Netherlands)

  • The importance of peer support environments – Martijn Kole (The Netherlands);
  • Surviving through successive crisis situations: challenges and opportunities – Joshua Abioseh Duncan (Sierra Leone);
  • The us-and-them divide? – Karina Stjernegaard (Denmark)
    EN / RU
10.00-10.15

Logistical break

10.15-10.45
Plenary hall

Chairperson: Rob Keukens (The Netherlands)
Keynote 5. Our value beyond our expertise
Claudia Sartor (South Africa)
EN / RU / LT

10.45-11.15
Plenary hall

Chairperson: Rob Keukens (The Netherlands)
Keynote 6. Silence is meaningless. My Bipolar Story
Marius Repšys (Lithuania)
EN / RU / LT

11.15-11.45
Plenary hall lobby

Coffee & tea break

11.45-12.45
Renaissance hall

Debate. Can people with Lived Experience be integrated in the mental health system?
Moderator: Claudia Sartor (South Africa)
Pro: Agus Sugianto (Indonesia)
Con: Lion Gai Meir (Israel)
EN / RU

12.45-14.30

Lunch break

Coercion and Compulsory Treatment

14.30-15.00
Plenary hall

Chairperson: Graham Thornicroft (United Kingdom)
Keynote 7.
 
Mind the Gap: Researching ‘Alternatives to Coercion’ in Mental Health Care
Piers Gooding (Australia)
EN / RU / LT

15.00-15.30
Plenary hall

Chairperson: Graham Thornicroft (United Kingdom)
Keynote 8.
Supported decision making: positive approaches to promoting rights and preventing coercion

Gavin Davidson (Northern Ireland)
EN / RU / LT

15.30-15.45

Logistical break

15.45-16.15
Plenary hall

Chairperson: George Szmukler (United Kingdom)
Keynote 9. 
We are not God
Myrrhe van Spronsen (The Netherlands)
EN / RU / LT

Renaissance hall

Chairperson: Nicole Votruba (United Kingdom)
Keynote 10. Rethinking Mental Health: Perspectives from the WHO African Region
Florence Baingana (Uganda)
EN / RU 

16.15-16.45
Plenary hall lobby

Coffee & tea break

16.45-18.00
Plenary hall

Film “Emma Wants to Live” (RU) 

Renaissance hall

Film “Emma Wants to Live” (EN

18.00-18.15

Logistical break

18.15-19.15
Plenary hall

Workshop 1. Empowering persons with Lived Experience
Charlene Sunkel (South Africa)
Vanessa Cameron (United Kingdom)
Lion Gal Meir & Shirit Pearl Levy (Israel)
EN / RU / LT

Renaissance hall

Debate. Compulsory treatment of eating disorders is unnecessary
Based on film “Emma Wants to Live”
Moderator: Gerard J. Butcher (Ireland)
Pro and con: Representative of Vilnius Eating Disorder Center

EN / RU

September 10th

Time

Plenary hall

Renaissance hall

8.00-9.00
Museum main lobby

Registration & Welcome coffee/tea

The Social Impacts of Mental Health

9.00-10.00
Plenary hall

Symposium 3
Chairperson: Nicole Votruba (United Kingdom)

  • Effects of the global ecological crisis on the mental health of children and adolescents: an international perspective – Ruta Karaliuniene (Germany)
  • Lost and found: human rights based approach for deinstitutionalization in Lithuania – Karile Levickaite (Lithuania);
  • Patients’ experience of psychiatric hospital treatment- as quality of care monitoring tool – Arunas Germanavicius (Lithuania)
    EN / RU / LT
Renaissance hall

Symposium 4
Chairperson: George Szmukler (United Kingdom)

  • Multifamily intervention for patients with schizophrenic disorders and their relatives – an effective intervention to prevent relapse and to strengthen self-healing power – Hartmut Berger (Germany);
  • Social accessibility of mental health care: a human rights based perspective – Marianne Schulze (Austria)
  • Better care involves respecting evidence as much as values – Peter Tyrer (United Kingdom)
    EN / RU
10.00-10.15

Logistical break

10.15-10.45

Plenary hall

Chairperson: Nicole Votruba (United Kingdom)
Keynote 11.
Towards rights based mental health care – Where are we now?
Dainius Puras (Lithuania)
EN / RU / LT

10.45-11.15
Plenary hall

Chairperson: Nicole Votruba (United Kingdom)
Keynote 12.
Psychosocial stress and mental health: What can be done?
Peter Falkai (Germany)
EN / RU / LT

11.15-11.45
Plenary hall lobby

Coffee & tea break

11.45-12.45
Plenary hall

Chairperson: Mireille ‘s Gravesande (The Netherlands)
Keynote 13. Advance care planning in mental healthcare
Matthe Scholten (The Netherlands / Germany)
EN / RU / LT

Chairperson: Mireille ‘s Gravesande (The Netherlands)
Keynote 14.
Mental Health Centers – how the mental health care system is changing in Poland
Katarzyna Szczerbowska & Anna Monczka (Poland)
EN / RU / LT

Renaissance hall

Symposium 5
Chairperson: Robert van Voren (Lithuania / The Netherlands)

  • How a person with lived experience becomes a member of a mental health team. My experience from Poland – Ivan Sitsko (Poland);
  • E-learning as instrument in Mental Health Education. An example from the Netherlands – Rob Keukens (The Netherlands);
  • The samopomich/samopomoch psychological aid program – Robert van Voren (Lithuania / The Netherlands)
    EN / RU 
12.45-14.30

Lunch break

New and Alternative Methods of Care
Chairperson: Helen Herrman (Australia)

14.30-15.00
Plenary hall

Keynote 15. Public health as the corner stone for an ecosystem for mental health
Philippe Delespaul (Belgium)
EN / RU / LT

15.00-15.30
Plenary hall

Keynote 16. An introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: an alternative to diagnostic practice
Lucy Johnstone (United Kingdom)
EN / RU / LT

15.30-16.00
Plenary hall

Keynote 17. A rights based approach to mental health care: a personal journey
Vikram Patel (India/United States)
EN / RU / LT

16.00-16.30
Plenary hall lobby

Coffee & tea break

16.30-17.30
Plenary hall

Workshop 2. The Power Threat Meaning Framework in practice: changing the culture on psychiatric wards
Faye Nikopaschos and Lucy Johnstone (United Kingdom)
EN / RU / LT

Renaissance hall

Symposium 6. New and alternative methods of care
Chairperson: Rob Keukens (The Netherlands)

  • Lake Hurdal Recovery Center Norway; 7 years experience – Ole Andreas Underland (Norway);
  • From fiction to science – using neuroimaging to target treatment in anxiety and depression – Carmen Andreescu (USA);
  • Strengthening population mental well-being via a mental health literacy website – Petr Winkler (Czechia)
    EN / RU
17.30-18.30
Plenary hall

Workshop 2 continues
Lucy Johnstone (United Kingdom)
EN / RU / LT

Renaissance hall

Workshop 3. Implementing CRPD in mental health practice
Dovile Juodkaite (Lithuania)
Valentina Hristakeva (Bulgaria)

EN / RU

18.30-18.45
Plenary hall

Logistical break

18.45-19.00
Plenary hall

Closing of the conference
EN / RU / LT

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