Day :
- Clinical Psychology | Forensic Psychology | Cognitive Behavioural Therapy | Mental Health | Positive Psychology | Psychological Disorders
Location: Amsterdam
Session Introduction
Cristina Baroncelli
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Title: Schema Therapy- Looking for the corrective emotional experience in the therapy room
Biography:
In my past, I have lived in different countries, including France, Italy, Libya, Argentina, and Monte Carlo. The different experiences and cultures have shaped me as an individual and have given me a broader perspective on life and on the challenges that everyone can face in his/ her life. I also learned the importance of “cultural context”. As a psychologist, I have an eclectic approach: I offer evidence-based psychological therapy and counseling, using different techniques or methodologies, always tailored to suit the individual and its needs. I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy (ST), Voice Dialogue (VD) and, in case of trauma treatment, Eye Movement Desensitization, and Reprocessing (EMDR). I speak fluently Dutch, English, Spanish and Italian, and work with expats as well as with locals.
Abstract:
After shortly introducing Schema Therapy, elucidating its origins and pillars, we will talk about Schema’s (what is a Schema and how does originate) and Modes (how an individual “copes” with an activated Schema and its consequences on patient’s behavior).
Further, we will look at a Clinical Case and will use it to elucidate how Schema Therapy principles have been applied to help the Patient solve its problems. This will be done by using a Case Conceptualization, illustrating how this can be seen as a key element for successful treatment. We will also look at how the therapist’s personal schema’s and modes can be activated during treatment, how to become aware of it and correct it for more effective collaboration.
We will describe Patient’s life problems, looking at early childhood origins, core unmet needs, specific schema’s and modes, trigger events with an example, observations and problems during therapy and how these have been challenged and solved.
Biography:
Michiel Hobbelt is a master social psychologist and a happiness expert. After his studies, he worked for a number of years for happiness professor Ruut Veenhoven at Erasmus University. He is the founder of the Gelukcentrale and he is committed to promoting the happiness of people now and in the future at companies, organizations, and municipalities.
Abstract:
We are living in one of the most prosperous countries in the world. But there is a problem: The ecological footprint of the Netherlands is about three and a half times what the earth can produce. Further growth in prosperity has less and less influence on our happiness (Veenhoven, 2018), while this growth has an ever increasing impact on our planet (Living Planet Report, 2018). Why then do we continue to focus on more prosperity and do we not consciously choose for more happiness? Can you live more sustainable and be happy? In order to become sustainable, we need a behavioral change in addition to technical progress. Research shows that people anticipate to sustainable technology, such that the environmental benefits are often largely negated (rebound effect). Various studies show that it is possible to live with a lower ecological footprint and be happy, both at the country level and at an individual level. A sustainable and happy life is a dynamic life with friends and family, personal development, contributing to society, living with attention and movement. Research shows that happy people are more co-operative, more open to change and more creative. These qualities that happy people have in common are of great importance for the transition to a sustainable society. It is therefore of great importance to focus on happiness in order to get a sustainable society.
Arooj Najmussaqib
National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan
Title: Study on anxiety, perceived parent child relationship and its impact on academic achievement among school adolescents
Biography:
Arooj Najmussaqib has completed her MS (Clinical Psychology) in 2011 from Government College University, Lahore. She has been practicing as a Clinical Psychologist since 2014 in Islamabad. Currently, she is serving as a regular faculty member at the Department of Applied Psychology teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate level since 2016. She is an author of a book and published and presented papers in National and International Conference
Abstract:
The phenomenon of study anxiety travels across geographic and cultural boundaries. Study anxiety is being affected by both emotional and cognitive factors. Though there has been an increasing amount of research conducted on study anxiety in adolescence, little is known about the relation of study anxiety, academic achievement and parent child relation among school children. The present study was aimed at exploring the relation between study anxiety, academic achievement and parent-child relation of school children. For this purpose, an indigenous tool Study Anxiety Scale, Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension Scales of GCU battery and Parent-Child Relationship Scale was administered on the sample of 419 school children; 201 boys; and 218 girls from 6 Government Schools of Lahore, Pakistan. The results suggest that perceived rejection and distant in parent-child relation cause higher study anxiety and lower academic achievement among school children. Results also depicted that the girls are higher in both study anxiety and academic achievement than boys and boys perceived more parental rejection than girls. Results are discussed in a cultural context proposing a model showing possible links between different environmental influences and study anxiety.
Sylvia Raywe Sijenyi
University of Nairobi School of Medicine, Kenya
Title: Comorbid depressive & anxiety disorders among HIV infected mothers and implications on children’s socio-emotional development in Kibra slums
Biography:
I have just completed my Masters in Clinical Psychology at the age of 36 yrs at the University of Nairobi and I am presenting my Ph.D. proposal concept this month. Hopefully, I shall be admitted for the same next month as I wait for graduation on the 21st of December. I intend to publish this study and another one that I did on the safety of mental patients at Kenyatta National Hospital. I have been working as a counselor and research consultant
Abstract:
Mental health and HIV/AIDS have been closely interlinked; this is with regards to the attribution of mental disorders to the increase in the prevalence of HIV infections and HIV infections being associated with the increase in the prevalence of mental disorders. Some of the neurological or mental disorders that are commonly linked to HIV/AIDS globally are depression and anxiety and their comorbidity. This comorbidity which is more prevalent among women can consequently impact the relationship between a mother and her child especially with regards to the social-emotional development of the child which is linked to general well being and adaptive adjustment in adulthood. Unfortunately, studies looking into the impact of this comorbidity, particularly, in HIV- infected mothers, on children’s socio-emotional development are scarce. Hence this study assessed the prevalence of comorbid depression and anxiety disorder in HIV- positive mothers and its implication on the child’s socio-emotional development.
The study design was cross-sectional. HIV positive mothers with children between the age of 24 and 36 months were the targeted study population. Systematic random sampling was used to get 185 respondents.
A researcher-designed socio-demographic questionnaire, the BDI, BAI were used to assess for depression and anxiety in mothers while and the Brief Infant and Toddler Social Emotional Assessment were used to identifying the children with emotional and social difficulties. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 23.
The study found that the prevalence of Comorbid depression and anxiety among HIV -positive mothers was 38.4%. The prevalence of socio-emotional development problems among children was also 38.9%. There was no association between comorbid depression and anxiety in mothers and child’s emotional development problems at a p=0.672. However, there was a negative linear relationship between the competence deficit component of socio-emotional development and BDI scores (depression) { r = -.154, p =. 0.037}. Meaning that as the severity of depression increased, the child was more likely to have competence delays or deficits.
Dosumu Andrew Tunade
Redeemer's University Ede, Nigeria
Title: Africans' perception of mental illness and stigmatization: Limitations for rehabilitation efforts
Biography:
DOSUMU Andrew Tunade is a PhD clinical psychology student of Redeemer's University Ede, Nigeria. He is the Director of PsychCare Humaniterex Foundation (Centre for Rehabilitation and Health Promotion) in Ile-ife, Nigeria. He is a member of Nigerian Psychological Association (NPA). He has written and presented papers in conferences with publications.
Abstract:
In Nigeria, there is no reliable data for persons with mental illness but an estimated figure of, 40 million Nigerians suffer from one mental illness to the other. The traditional, cultural and religious beliefs of Nigerians present stigma for persons with mental illness. This stigmatization, however, distorts efforts for the rehabilitation of persons with mental illness. The society attaches a serious stigma to mental illness and once a person is diagnosed with mental illness he is isolated. This isolation has made persons with mental illness roam the streets as vagrants, while the unlucky ones are killed by reckless drivers on the highways others are killed by ritualists. There is an attribution bias among Africans that once a person developed mental illness he never gets completely cured of it regardless of the treatment and rehabilitation efforts. Such stigmatization emphasizes spiritual factor as the cause of mental illness and this could be reasons that make Africans seek healing from religious and traditional outlets while conventional rehabilitation efforts suffer set back. This study sets out to assess African's perception of mental illness and how stigmatization poses threat to rehabilitation using the stigma scale and the mental illness perception scale.
Biography:
Sam Vaknin is the author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" and other books about personality disorders. His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers
He spent the past 6 years developing a treatment modality for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Over the years, with volunteers, it was found to be effective with clients suffering from a major depressive episode as well.
Abstract:
If mental illness is culture-dependent and mostly serves as an organizing social principle - what should we make of the insanity defense (NGRI- Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity)?
A person is held not responsible for his criminal actions if s/he cannot tell right from wrong ("lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality (wrongfulness) of his conduct" - diminished capacity), did not intend to act the way he did (absent "mens rea") and/or could not control his behavior ("irresistible impulse"). These handicaps are often associated with "mental disease or defect" or "mental retardation".
Mental health professionals prefer to talk about an impairment of a "person's perception or understanding of reality". They hold a "guilty but mentally ill" verdict to be contradiction in terms. All "mentally-ill" people operate within a (usually coherent) worldview, with consistent internal logic, and rules of right and wrong (ethics). Yet, these rarely conform to the way most people perceive the world. The mentally-ill, therefore, cannot be guilty because s/he has a tenuous grasp on reality.
Yet, experience teaches us that a criminal maybe mentally ill even as s/he maintains a perfect reality test and thus is held criminally responsible (Jeffrey Dahmer comes to mind). The "perception and understanding of reality", in other words, can and does co-exist even with the severest forms of mental illness.
This makes it even more difficult to comprehend what is meant by "mental disease". If some mentally ill maintain a grasp on reality, know right from wrong, can anticipate the outcomes of their actions, are not subject to irresistible impulses (the official position of the American Psychiatric Association) - in what way do they differ from us, "normal" folks?
This is why the insanity defense often sits ill with mental health pathologies deemed socially "acceptable" and "normal" - such as religion or love.
MarÃa Auxiliadora Ortuño Soria
Universidade de Porto, Portugal
Title: Looking at the caretaker: Systematic review of the significant people of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Biography:
María Ortuño Soria is a Clinical Psychologist with a Minor in Sexology. At the moment is completing the Doctoral Program in Psychology at the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação of Universidade de Porto, Portugal; her specialized training in epidemiological research design skills, data linkage, analysis and writing is accompanied and supported by her participation in a research project at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine of the University of Monash, Victoria, Australia.
Abstract:
The increase of collective disasters, natural or provoked, in the last years, has remarked the impact and relevance of traumatic events in the personal, family, economic and labor areas; with it has been given the increase of the clinical diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The personal care required by the primary victim demands a direct contact with the signs and symptoms of this disorder, especially by the significant other, being the most vulnerable to develop a Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Secondary PostTraumatic Stress Disorder has progressively intensified its importance within health problems as political and social. Clinically it is characterized by presenting symptoms of PTSD emphasizing generalized stress, functional and somatic problems (Lahav, Stein, & Solomon, 2016). Emotionally it has been seen that conjugal relationships present a risk in their close, natural, intimate bond of love, confidentiality, and reproduction.
In the present review, the main objective was to identify articles on secondary stress disorder focusing on the second victim as the main figure. The results of this systematic review allow us to have a better understanding of the nature, prevalence, and research conducted on secondary stress in the significant person, however, It also allows us to see that there is little research on the subject, which is why a greater compilation of data is required in order to be able to give a significant support in the prevention, intervention and control schemes.
James L Greenstone
Nova Southeastern University, USA
Title: Crisis management: Responding effectively to traumatic crises
Biography:
Colonel James L. Greenstone, Ed.D, JD, DABECI, has been in practice for over fifty years and has worked for over forty years in law enforcement. He was a police hostage negotiator and trainer and served as Director of Psychological Services for the Fort Worth, Texas, Police Department. Additionally, he was the operational police behavioral health specialist for the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Team. At the Tarrant County Precinct Four Constable’s Office, Dr. Greenstone was a Deputy Constable and Director of Behavioral Health Services. Currently, he is a Deputy Sheriff for the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Police Emergency Response. He is a Diplomate of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology and a Professor in the College of Osteopathic Medicine at NOVA Southeastern University. He is a Life Fellow of the American Board for Certification of Clinical Education and Training. Greenstone’s other published works include The Elements of Police Hostage and Crisis Negotiations: Critical Incidents and How to Respond to Them, The Elements of Disaster Psychology: Managing Psychosocial Trauma, and Emotional First Aid: Field Guide to Crisis Intervention and Psychological Survival. His latest book, On Policing: From Swords into Plowshares was released recently
Abstract:
Crisis is in the eye of the beholder. Crisis involves stress; unusual stress that renders the sufferer unable to cope with their life as they usually would. A disaster exists when the resources available to address the emergency are less than those needed to address the needs of the victims and the overall situation. A disaster can be of any size. The issue is whether or not the needs of those affected by the disaster can be met with the resources available at that time. Overwhelmed resources usually equals disaster as differentiated from an emergency in which adequate resources can be utilized to resolve or to manage the needs of those affected. Here, we are about crisis and about the possibility of overwhelmed resources both personal and public. The greater and more personal the perceived threat, the greater the likelihood for crisis to occur.
Biography:
Dr. Warren is a pioneer of the behavioural threat management field in Australia. She was the Foundation Manager of the Problem Behaviour Program at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare) where she supported the development of treatment programs for violent offenders, sexual offenders, stalkers, threateners and vexatious complainants. She was the Foundation President of the Asia Pacific Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (APATAP) and a Senior Editor for the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. Her research has focused on clinical and risk evaluation of those who threaten to kill themselves and others.
Abstract:
Dr. Warren is a pioneer of the behavioural threat management field in Australia. She was the Foundation Manager of the Problem Behaviour Program at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare) where she supported the development of treatment programs for violent offenders, sexual offenders, stalkers, threateners, and vexatious complainants. She was the Foundation President of the Asia Pacific Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (APATAP) and a Senior Editor for the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. Her research has focused on clinical and risk evaluation of those who threaten to kill themselves and others.