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MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMME:

TRAINING OF GREEK POLICE HEALTH OFFICERS: Predicting aggressive and self destructive tendencies through psychometric methods and interview

November 2004 – April 2005

Collaborating sectors

Section of Mental Health Promotion, Psychiatric Clinic, Athens University

(Director of Psychiatric Clinic: Professor Κ. Soldatos)

Section of Primary Care Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, University of London

(Head: Professor A. Tylee)

Educational Trust for Health Improvement through Cognitive Strategies (E.T.H.I.C.S) London

Scientific Director: Dr Maria Vassiliadou

Scientific Advisors:

V. Tomaras, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinic, Athens University, M. Kokkosi, Lecturer in Psychology, Psychiatric Clinic, Athens University

Trainees: 6 (Police Health Officers)

Courses venue: Lecture room, Section of Mental Health Promotion, Eginition Hospital Branch, 10 Dimitressa, 5^th floor)

Total Hours:  72 (18 four hour sessions)

CURRICULUM

Part  -1-

1^st  educational session:  November 3, 2004

• Forensic Psychiatry: rights of patients, protection of third parties

         Α. Douzenis

2nd  educational session: November 10,  2004

• Principles of Psychopathology: Mental processes and their distortions

          Α. Politis

3rd educational session: November 24, 2004

• Principles of Psychopathology: Anxiety Disorders

           Ι. Papakostas

4th educational session: December 1, 2004

• Principles of Psychopathology: Emotional Disorders

           Ε. Lykouras

5th educational session: December 8, 2004

• Principles of Psychopathology: Psychotic disorders

           V. Τοmaras

6th  educational session: December 15, 2004

• Antisocial behaviour; Aggressive behaviour

           Α. Douzenis

7th educational session: December 22, 2004

• Self/Other-destructive behaviours

           V. Kontaxakis

8th educational session: January 12, 2005

• Substance use – Suicidal behaviour

            Ι. Liappas

9th educational session: January 19, 2005

• Forensic Psychiatry: defensive psychiatry, faulty interventions

           Α. Douzenis

Part  -II-

 10th educational session: February 23, 2005

• Personality Disorders: Categorization, co-morbidity with Axis Ι (DSM-IV) Disorders

           G. Vaslamatzis

11th educational session: March 2, 2005

• Personality Disorders: Diagnostic approaches

           Μ. Vassiliadou

12th educational session: March 9, 2005

• Psychometric methods: Types, validity

           Μ. Kokkosi

13th educational session: March 16, 2005

• Recording psychiatric history of patients; Psychiatric assessment

           E. Αngelopoulos – Ν. Stefanis

14th  educational session: March 23, 2005

• Standardized psychiatric interviews

           D. Dikaios

15th educational session: March 30, 2005

• Legal, moral and deontological issues in Psychiatry

           G. Αlevizopoulos

16th educational session: April 6, 2005

• Assessment of high-risk behaviours

           Α. Douzenis

17th  educational session: April 13, 2005

• Psychiatric interview: Case presentations by the trainees; Discussion

           V. Tomaras

18th educational session: April 20, 2005

• High-risk behaviour: Case presentations by the trainees; Discussion

           Α. Douzenis

List of Speakers (Alphabetical)

• Αgelopoulos E., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Αlevizopoulos G., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Vaslamatzis G., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Dikaios D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Douzenis Α., Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, Athens University

• Kokkosi Μ., Lecturer in Psychology, Athens University

• Kontaxakis V., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University  

• Liappas Ι., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Lykouras Ε., Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Papakostas Ι., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Politis Α., Lecturer in Psychiatry, Athens University

• Stefanis Ν., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Tomaras V., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Vassiliadou Μ., Director, Section of Mental Health Promotion, Department of Psychiatry, Athens University; Scientific Director, European Mental Health Promotion Educational Programmes