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
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