Keynote Speakers

Possibilities of information technology in mental health nursing

Maritta Välimäki

Maritta Välimäki is a Professor at the Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Finland. Her current main research interest focuses on information technology related to mental health problems. Her research studies includes innovative methods to support self-management among patients with serious mental disorders and participatory research (Internet based methods, mobile interventions, e-learning). Professor Välimäki has published more than 130 original scientific publications and several book chapters. Her special interest is evidence-based health care. A key element of her projects is collaboration between staff members in clinical practice, users and academics. She is a psychiatric nurse by her background and she has worked over 20 years at academic level.

Delivering Psychological Interventions using the Telephone
 

Karina Lovell

Karina is a Professor of Mental health in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester.  Her main research field is in developing complex psychological interventions for anxiety and depression and physical health problems. Her programme of research has focussed on alternative, accessible and innovative low intensity interventions for common mental health problems and long term conditions particularly the use of the telephone in delivering psychological interventions. She was a guideline member for the OCD/BDD NICE guidelines and a guideline member for the updated Generalised Anxiety Disorder NICE guidelines. She is the university nominated non executive director for Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. She is Patron and volunteer CBT therapist for a national user organisation (Anxiety UK). 

Karina is a mental health nurse by background and is a trained Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, and currently delivers both high and low intensity interventions in primary and secondary care and the voluntary sector. She is past president of the BABCP (British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy).
 

Mental health and mental health nursing: An ellaborate fiction

Richard Lakeman

Richard Lakeman trained as a comprehensive nurse in New Zealand and has worked in education, research and most areas of mental health practice in New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. He is presently a senior lecturer at Southern Cross University, in Northern New South Wales (Australia).

His main areas of practice and consultancy have been with people with highly complex needs in community settings. He has worked in assertive community treatment teams as a nurse consultant and managed an outreach team for homeless people in Australia. In Dublin he was involved in developing and delivering courses for homeless sector workers.

Recent research projects have included leading a grounded theory study exploring how homeless sector workers deal with sudden death, and collaborating in a national survey of discrimination in relation to mental health problems in Ireland. His research interests have been wide and have included the use of computer mediated communication by nurses, ethical problems associated with suicide research, coping with voice hearing, and family participation in mental health care.

He has written over 40 peer reviewed articles, 6 book chapters and has contributed at many more conferences including keynotes at the NPNR conference in Oxford, in Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. He has written and shared critical commentary on mental health care systems, epistemic injustice, uncertainty, clinical supervision, mental health recovery, health care ethics, and has been an outspoken critic of the influence of the pharmaceutical industry in mental health care. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses and a founding member of the Irish Institute of Mental Health Nurses.

He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing and the British Journal of Wellbeing and has reviewed for a dozen journals. He has also developed web sites for nursing organisations, and for research purposes.
 

Possibilities of philosophical counseling in mental health nursing practice

Anders Lindseth

Anders Lindseth (born 1946 in Bodø, northern Norway) is in Norway Professor for practical philosophy at the Centre for Practical Knowledge, University of Nordland – and in Sweden he is professor for practical know¬ledge at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, Gothen¬burg University. 1989-2001 he was professor at the Department for Nursing and Health Care Research, Faculty of Medicine, Tromsø University, Northern Norway.

Since 1997 he has been participating at the annual network meetings of the Nordic (i.e. Scandinavian, Finnish, Russian, Baltic, German) Network for the Treatment of Psychoses. 1989 he opened a Philosophical Practice in Tromsø, since 2002 in Bodø, where he is talking with persons in search for life guidance. He is a member of the board of the International Society for Philosophical Practice (ISPP)/Internationale Gesellschaft für Philosophische Praxis (IGPP). Since 1971 he is a meditation teacher of the Norwegian Acem-School of Meditation.

Address: Centre for Practical Knowledge, University of Nordland, N-8049 Bodø, anders.lindseth@uin.no