5th Eastern European Conference of Mental Health “In and Out of Your Mind”
Conference Program
THURSDAY, September 30th, 2021 (CET)
10.00 - 10.15 Welcome and Introduction
10.15 - 10.45 Keynote lecture: Suicide in prisons and remand centers: risk factors and prevention
Marco Sarchiapone (Italy)
10.45 - 11.15 Croatian guidelines for the treatment of depression - what's new?
Alma Mihaljevic Peles (Croatia)
11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.15 Thematic Session: COVID-19 and mental health - General population
Chair: Mihail Cristian Pirlog (Romania)
11.30 - 11.55 The effect of COVID-19 infection on mental status and menstrual cycle in Jordanian women
Mohammed Alsbou (Jordan)
11.55 - 12.25 Well-being in the Italian general population during the pandemic: a national survey
Giovanni de Girolamo (Italy)
12.25 - 12.45 Impact of COVID-19 effects on the mental health of the general population in Albania
Fatime Elezi (Albania)
12.45 - 13.00 Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the levels of anxiety, aggression and auto-aggression in the Bulgarian population
Rumiana Dinolova (Bulgaria)
13.00 - 13.15 Anxiety in Covid-19 hospitalised patients in Tirana
Tedi Mana (Albania)
13.15 - 14.15 Lunch Break
14.15 - 16.30 Thematic Session: Child and adolescent mental health
Chair: Sonila Tomori (Albania)
14.15 - 14.30 A coordinated response to child abuse and neglect: barriers and possibilities
Vaska Stancheva-Popkostadinova (Bulgaria)
14.30 - 14.45 Imaginary friends - companions for kids with autism in isolation
Camelia Crismariu (Romania)
14.45 - 15.00 Clinical characteristics of children with epilepsy and Autism Speectrum Disorders comorbidity in Albania
Aferdita Tako (Albania)
15.00 - 15.15 Emotional distress in a girl with Goldberg-Maxwell-Morris syndrome and consequences in her family
Agim Gjikopuli (Albania)
15.15 - 15.30 Emotional issues in children under palliative care – case of Albania
Donjeta Bali (Albania)
15.30 - 15.45 Neurodevelopmental disorders in children with Celiac disease in Albania
Ermira Devishi (Albania)
15.45 - 16.00 Strength and Difficulty Questionnaire as an assessment tool in pediatric setting – Albanian experience
Sonila Tomori (Albania)
16.00 - 16.15 Psychological stress in pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Virtut Velmishi (Albania)
16.15 - 16.30 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in adolescence. Symptom of the family system.
Psychotherapeutic intervention and clinical support
Svetlana Dimitrova (Bulgaria)
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00 - 18.00 Keynote lecture: Can brief video interventions reduce stigma?
Lisa Dixon (USA)
18.00 - 19.00 Keynote lecture: The risks and care of individuals with Psychotic Disorders during COVID-19
Donald Goff (USA)