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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008


Research Committee on
Mental Health and Illness RC49

Main theme
New challenges in mental health: Promotion and mental health care


Programme Coordinators
Reinhold Kilian , University of Ulm, Germany, reinhold.kilian@bkh‑guenzburg.de
Bronwen Lichtenstein, University of Alabama, USA,  blichten@bama.ua.edu

Main target of the program is to reflect the contribution of social sciences in facing the mental health problems of the globalizing world and the challenges for mental health promotion, mental disorder prevention and the treatment, the care and the rehabilitation of persons with mental illness, resulting from these problems.

Venue of RC49 sessions:

Faculty of Philology
University of Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
08007 Barcelona, map

Programme

Session 1: HIV gender and mental health

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chairs: Bronwen Lichtenstein, University of Alabama, USA,  blichten@bama.ua.edu and J. Gary Linn, Tennessee State University, USA,  jlinn87844@aol.com

Session 2: New research on gender and mental disorder

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chairs: Ramona Lucas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain,  Ramona.Lucas@uab.es and Silvia Krumm, University of Ulm, Germany, Silvia.krumm@bkh-guenzburg.de

Session 3:   Upcoming challenges and new approaches in mental disorder prevention and health promotion

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chairs: Judith Boardman, Health & Education Services, Inc., USA, Jboardman@hes-inc.org and Reinhold Kilian, University of Ulm, Germany,  reinhold.kilian@bkh-guenzburg.de

Session 4: Recent studies on the social epidemiology of mental illness

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Chairs: Hans-Joachim Salize, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, Hans-Joachim.Salize@zi-mannheim.de and Kwabena Poku, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana,  kapoku@ug.edu.gh

Session 5: New outcome concepts in the treatment of mental illness

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chairs: Kjeld Høgsbro,  Danish Institute of Governmental Research, Denmark  keh@akf.dk and Dirk Richter,  Berne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
dirk.richter@wkp-lwl.org

Session 6: The social representation of mental health and illness

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chairs: Herbert Matschinger, University of Leipzig, Germany,  Herbert.Matschinger@medizin.uni-leipzig.de and J. Gary Linn, Tennessee State University, USA,  jlinn87844@aol.com