28^th World Congress on Psychiatry, Psychological Syndromes and Therapeutics May 21-22, 2018 New York City, New York, USA

Biography:

Gregory P Brown is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Residency Training Director at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Las Vegas branch. He completed a BA in Psychology from Oberlin College followed by an MD degree from the University of Arkansas. He completed his Psychiatry Residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, and a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Rochester. He is Board Certified in both Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. His interests range from psychotherapy to hypnosis to medico-legal matters. He helped to found the Psychiatry Residency in Las Vegas and has been Program Director since its inception. He is the author of the Amazon best-selling book: “New Mind New Body: The Inner Makeover for a New You”.

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The long term medical and psychiatric effects of excess weight shorten life expectancy significantly, yet the typical medical model has been less than successful in providing solutions to what is typically considered a “lifestyle” problem. Much current research supports the notion that nearly 90% of weight loss attempts fail, but not only fail, actually cause harm due to weight gains that follow when the diet ends. However, longitudinal findings from large databases, such as The National Weight Control Registry, demonstrate that long term weight loss is possible in significant groups of people. That data set, which continues to grow, suggests that particular behaviors highly correlate with weight loss success long term. A brief mention at the end of most books on diet is the need to move mindset from a diet to a lifestyle, but none of those same books tend to describe how to accomplish this change in worldview and experience. The simple repetition of a new diet does not typically establish a diet into a lifestyle, because such common experiences as cravings rapidly degrade the newer healthy habits. As mental health professionals, we have a unique information set that can support this transition from diet to lifestyle for patients who have interest. By attending this talk, you will learn to assess and improve motivation for success, learn to directly deal with the feelings of deprivation, and help patients achieve internal congruence. This is the path of transforming a diet into a longstanding lifestyle.

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Omar Mirza is a board certified Consultation Liaison Psychiatrist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. He completed his Psychiatry Residency training at SUNY Downstate and a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. He has specific interest in liaison and works in such capacity with the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute. His career’s emphasis is on exploring ethics in psychiatry.

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Estimates place the prevalence of incapacity among inpatients to range from an astounding 26.7-40% of patients. A review of capacity determinations across clinicians found poor consistency within and across psychiatric specialties. This disturbing lack of consistency poses a significant risk for violation of the ethical principle of patient autonomy. As far back as Hippocrates, any potential risk to autonomy has traditionally been dismissed in paternalistic favor of beneficence. This balance between the perceived conflict of patient autonomy and beneficence is shifting as society demands more of its institutions to uphold democratic ideals of informed consent and individual liberty. Thus, it is imperative to revisit the approach to capacity determination, in which much has been written about the procedure, but little about appropriateness and outcomes. This presentation reviews evolving ethical, legal, and medical concepts to provide an integrated foundation for a novel approach to capacity. Introducing the concept of a “preservative deferral”, the clinician will consider deferral of the formal challenge on the basis of assessments of thoroughness of disclosure, appropriateness of alternatives, attempts at collaboration, and practicality of challenging decision-making capacity to achieving goals. Through implementing this prior to the capacity challenge, the clinician may assist the patient and medical team in a supportive decision-making model conserving autonomy rather than propagate the traditional adversarial model of beneficence vs. autonomy.

Biography:

Jerry Sparby served over 40 years as a Public School Teacher, Principal and University Professor in Minnesota. He is the Executive Director/Therapist for the ‘YES Network/Building a World of Love’ based in MN. He has done his graduate and undergraduate work at Universities in Minnesota and his Counseling degree in Adler Graduate School in Minneapolis, MN. He works directly with intense kids, depression and suicide, veterans/police (their families) diagnosed with PTSD and coaching their parents on strategies to be more successful in dealing trauma and stresses with their children. He has joined the staff at Optimal Wellness Clinic and Center for New Medicine in Los Angeles, CA in 2012.

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Children pass through certain developmental periods on their journey from being an infant to a young adult. During these stages, huge changes physically and neurologically occur within their brains. However, certain environmental circumstances and interaction with individuals in that environment have a deep influence on how each child benefits from each developmental event. This presentation will help professionals understand there are so many factors/experiences impacting our children’s emotional being, from car seats to day-care policies. How do parents/individuals address these developmental issues? Our nonprofit ‘Yes Network/Building a World of Love’ has been working and playing with kids in their neighborhoods for the past 4 years. We have also worked alongside parents and others in the neighborhoods to develop and reshape spaces to play. The staff has been determined to build a strong community and have kids playing outside during the days in their neighborhoods. We have learned that it is not just poverty but a number of contributing factors (chronic stress, inter-generational trauma, and patterns, etc.) causing kids to not be successful, have a bad attitude and not achieve academic success. Participants will learn about our experience, research, outcomes, and what we have learned about intergenerational trauma, chronic stress, and other strategies parents are using and its impact on child development. Kids’ IQ’s continue to rise, along with chatter in their heads, social anxiety, anger and other emotional issues. Research is saying 20% of kids are Hyper-sensitive/ another 20% Highly Sensitive. Presentation will review impact of car seats, classroom management, daycare procedures, Inter-generational Trauma and other societal impacts on mental illness.

Biography:

Shahrokh Makvnd Hosseini is an expert Psychotherapist and university Associate Professor of Psychology with more than 15 years of experience in teaching and psychotherapy of patients. He has several published books and articles in the field of Mental Health and is Head of Psychological Disorders, Health Center in Semnan City. He is also Chief Editor of Journal of Clinical Psychology and his previous positions have been: Dean of Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Education and Higher Education Administration, Member of the Board of University and Head of University Counseling Center etc.

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Objective: Complementary therapies such as psycho-education have been much considered by therapy society of bipolar patients. This study aims to investigate the effects of complementary therapies of individual and family psychoeducation besides drug adherence of the bipolar I patients in improvement of two crucial biomarkers of Lithium and Bilirubin.Method: After checking the inclusion- exclusion criteria, a sample of 66 patients with bipolar disorder I were purposively selected and randomly divided into three groups: individual psycho- education, family psycho-education and control group (isolated medication therapy). Lithium and Bilirubin serum levels were then measured using the Pars Azmoon laboratory kits in pretest, posttest and follow-up stages.Findings: Data were extracted using the laboratory tests and analyzed by a GLM: Multivariate Analysis of Covariance. Results were shown a significant difference in the Lithium level for the research groups. Family psychoeducation subjects with drug adherence in the posttest and follow up stages were showed significantly higher average compared to control group in terms of Lithium serum level, whereas no significant effect was observed for individual psychoeducation. No significant effects were also found for bilirubin serum level.Conclusion: The family psychoeducation beside psychiatric treatment of bipolar I patients could effectively increase the Lithium serum level and is then recommended to clinicians in the treatment of these patients.

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Soumen Acharya is working as Consultant at National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development New Delhi, India. Previously, he worked as Supervising Officer at All India Institute of Medical Science for 21 years’ and also worked in New Zealand. He published so many papers in a leading journal. He is the Life Member of organizations like: Social Psychiatry in India and Fellow of Social Psychiatry of India.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore female adolescents' knowledge about osteoporosis risk factors and the role of dietary calcium and exercise in the prevention of osteoporosis. Female athlete triad is a serious health problem that involves disordered eating, low bone mass, and amenorrhea (cessation of the menstrual cycle) in female athletes. The condition is most common in sports that emphasize leanness, such as cross country running, gymnastics, and figure skating. In the past 25 years, much has been learned about symptoms, risk factors, causes, and treatment strategies for Female Athlete Triad. Studies involving different types of athletes have provided valuable information that has helped many physically active women avoid the health problems of this condition new model of Female Athlete Triad highlights is that many athletes may not present with the extreme ends of the continuum, but rather may display intermediate, or “subclinical,” presentations of one or more of the conditions, and, most importantly, that progression along the three continuums can occur at different rates. For example, an athlete may show signs of restrictive eating, but not meet the clinical criteria for an eating disorder. She may also display subtle menstrual disturbances, such as a change in menstrual cycle length, an ovulation, or luteal phase defects, but not yet have developed amenorrhea. Likewise, she may be losing bone, but may not yet have dropped below her age-matched normal range for bone density. While the conditions represented by each continuum can occur independent of the other two conditions, it is more likely that, because of the clear associations between the three conditions, it is likely that an athlete suffering from one element of Triad is also suffering from the others.Method: A descriptive survey design was used in this research.Sample: A convenience sample of 107 adolescent girls who attended anganwadi in New Delhi participated in this study.Results: Out of 17 questions related to knowledge of osteoporosis risk factors, only 3 of the factors that are most well-known to the public (being a woman, having low intake of dairy products, and a lack of adequate exercise) were correctly identified by a majority of the participants. Knowledge of dietary sources of calcium was primarily limited to dairy products. Participants knew that regular exercise was necessary to prevent osteoporosis, but few could identify the weight-bearing exercises most beneficial for promoting bone health.Conclusions: The knowledge of these adolescents, who are in a crucial period of their lives for accruing bone mineral, had limited knowledge of the risk factors for osteoporosis, calcium-rich foods and dietary calcium requirements, and the type of exercise needed to maximize their bone mineral density. Social worker can work with children, adolescents, their families, and other professionals in interventions to prevent osteoporosis in later years.

Biography:

Wojciech Lukasz Dragan has completed his PhD from the University of Warsaw. He is the current Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Behavioral Genetics Research and the former Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals. Currently, he serves as a Fulbright Fellow at Indiana University – Bloomington.

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Temperamental traits are considered as essential predictors of many mental health problems, including addictive behaviors. Our previous analyses revealed that metacognitive beliefs might play an essential role in mediating the temperament – mental health issues. The current study aimed to identify potential associations between temperamental traits, problematic online gaming, and metacognitive beliefs. The studied sample included 902 participants (289 women) aged 16-60 (M=25.6; SD=9.76). The survey was administered using the online version of the formal characteristics of behavior – temperament inventory, the problematic online gaming questionnaire and the metacognition questionnaire. The most significant relations between problematic online gaming and temperament were revealed for emotional reactivity (r=0.34) and endurance (-0.28). Additional analyses showed that metacognition is the significant mediator of the relation between temperament and problematic online gaming. Our results strengthen the previous findings showing the critical role of the metacognitive beliefs in shaping the risk for the development of mental health problems.

Biography:

Ron Chandler is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and a Research Mentor for College of Design Construction and Planning at University of Florida. He graduated from Stephen F Austin State University in 1979 with a BS in Aquatic Biology, Texas State University in 1984 with an MS in Limnology and Walden University in 2014 with a PhD in Educational Psychology. He is an Editor for Psychology and Psychological Research International Journal. He is also President of Conservation Initiative for the Asian Elephant an NGO/NFP working primarily in India to protect elephants and indigenous people since 2000.

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Students receiving a liberal arts education develop the prosocial outcomes of inclination to inquire and lifelong learning, well-being, leadership, intercultural effectiveness, postconventional moral reasoning, and reflective judgment more effectively than career track institution counterparts. Researchers in efficacy of the liberal arts as well as in sustainability education have expressed the need for descriptive theory to guide further research towards understanding of learners’ comprehension experience of these essential outcomes and for developing effective sustainability education. In an effort to describe characteristics most common to the successful sustainability student the presenter found that these characteristics were in essence identical to the prosocial outcomes of liberal arts students. The presenter will explain how through a constructivist grounded theory approach he sought to describe students comprehension experience of sustainability (i.e., prosocial) outcomes. Four central phenomena were synthesized from the data: nature as resolve, fear mastery, paradigm shift, and new normal. These phenomena were used to construct I am the paradigm shift theory which describes students’ comprehension experience of sustainability outcomes. The presenter will explain the importance of I am the paradigm shift theory in three areas. First, it provides additional understanding of perspectives on sustainability outcome comprehension hitherto quantitatively explored. Second, it describes the sequential and reciprocal experience of sustainability outcome comprehension. Third, the theory explains the influence of early efficacy and esteem affirmation, motivation and perseverance in outcome comprehension. The presenter will close with a brief discussion of limitations of the study that will include recommendations for further research.

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The Odyssey of a patient in the mental health system in Greece, is the case of a 24 year girl she met in Thessaloniki three years ago at OKANA( National organization against drugs) where she was working then as a counselor. The girl came in contact with mental health services due to addiction in drugs in the begging. Comorbidity with psychiatric illness was not diagnosed then even if she had escaped from a psychiatric clinic of Patra’s local hospital. Her father was a Greek man from Patra and her mother from Finland. In the past she had some help from social services, because her mother had some addiction with alcohol and after years when she gave birth to a girl , when she was 19. The father of the baby run away. The incident was managed driven exploitation of family possibilities and resources offered by the environment. The presentation includes a video. There is a conversation between me and a colleague. We are discussing about the girl’s odyssey from Peloponnese to North Greece, the difficulty of the system to act rapidly, the family relationships and the Greek reality of the economical regression. 22 mental health services are involved in this story. The first meeting in OKANA was the cause for this patient to meet her mother again after three years, after she took her two year old grand daughter in Finland, without her permission with the excuse to protect the baby, due to her drug use life style. A 25 years man, drug addicted and member of OKANA open access program, brought the girl to her for the first time. After this very first time meeting she was disappeared till a homeless man that came from Patra in Thessaloniki met the girl in the streets the summer of 2014. He helped her to find food and a bed at homeless center of municipality of Thessaloniki. He brought her to OKANA open access programme again. Now the girl is living in Finland in a open house for mental health patients with schizophrenia in Finland.