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MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMME

  

MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND COMMUNICATION: PROGRAMME “EPICTETUS”

The development of communication skills and strategies in groups of adolescents

 

 

January 2007

 

 

Collaborating sectors

 

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

 

Section of Primary Care Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, University of London (Head: Professor A. Tylee)

 

Section of Mental Health Promotion, Psychiatric Clinic, Athens University, (Director of Psychiatric Clinic: Professor Κ. Soldatos)

 

Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University, Medical School, “Agia Sofia” Children’s Hospital, Athens (Director: Associate Professor V. Tomaras)

 

Scientific Director: Dr Maria Vassiliadou

 

Scientific Advisors:

V. Tomaras, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinic, Athens University

M. Malliori, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinic, Athens University

M. Kokkosi, Lecturer in Psychology, Psychiatric Clinic, Athens University

S. Diareme, Psychologist PhD, Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University

 

Trainees: 9

Health Professionals

 

Time and Place January 2007

Friday, 12 January 2007, 16.30 – 20.30 pm

Saturday, 13 January 2007, 11.30 – 19.30 pm

Sunday, 14 January 2007, 11.30 -20.00 pm

Lecture room, Capio Chelsea Hospital, London, U.K.

 

Total Hours: 20 (10 two-hour sessions)

 


 

CURRICULUM

 

 

PART - I -

 

1st educational  session: Friday, 12 January, 2007

 

  • Factors related to the decrease of efficacy in communication

            M. Vassiliadou

 

2nd educational  session: Friday, 12 January, 2007

 

  • Factors related to ineffective interchange of support           

            M. Vassiliadou

 

 

PART - II-

 

3rd educational  session: Saturday, 13 January, 2007

 

  • Positive communication skills and strategies

            M. Vassiliadou

 

4th educational  session: Saturday, 13 January, 2007

 

  • Strategies for the definition and achievement of common interest           

            M. Vassiliadou

 

 

PART - III -

 

5th educational  session: Saturday, 13 January, 2007

 

  • Strategies for the development of understanding

            M. Vassiliadou

 

6th educational  session: Saturday, 13 January, 2007

 

  • Strategies for the development of empathy

            M. Vassiliadou

 

 

PART - IV-

 

7th educational  session: Sunday, 14 January, 2007

 

  • Strategies for the creative management of conflicts

            M. Vassiliadou

 

8th educational  session: Sunday, 14 January, 2007

 

  • Strategies for the development of creative impulse control

            M. Vassiliadou

 

 

PART - V -

 

9th educational  session: Sunday, 14 January, 2007

 

  • Creative coping with difficulties arising at the communication process

            M. Vassiliadou

 

10th educational  session: Sunday, 14 January, 2007

 

  • Creative self-autonomy within the communication process

            M. Vassiliadou