Keynote Speakers
Open dialogues at the present moment: increasing resources of the clients and staff members
Jaakko Seikkula
Ph.D., Professor in psychotherapy Department of psychology University of Jyväskylä Clinical psychologist, family therapist. |
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Metal health nursing research in Scandinavia: Where do we want to go?Páll Biering
RN, PhD, Professor, Iceland Páll Biering is an associate professor of mental health nursing at The University of Iceland; and director of research and development in psychiatric care at the Icelandic State and University Hospital. Páll is a R.N since 1989 and earned his Ph.D. in mental health nursing from The University of Texas at Austin in 2001. His fields of expertise are child and adolescent mental health; addiction; ethical issues in mental health services; patient satisfaction; and cultural and social aspects of mental and behavior disorders. Páll has responsible positions in several national and international development and policymaking projects concerning nursing education and health sciences. |
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Petra SvedbergRNT, Ph.D. School of Social and Health Sciences, Halmstad University, Sweden Senior lecturer and Psychiatric Specialist Nurse.
She performs studies investigating health promotion intervention in mental health services and has developed a questionnaire to measure patients’ subjective experiences of health promotion intervention in mental health services. She has previous been working as a psychiatric specialist nurse at a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit in Halmstad, Sweden. Now she is working as a lecturer at the University of Halmstad and she has also a postdoctoral assignment with a mandate to evaluate an implemented psychiatric rehabilitation model in Psychiatric Services in the county of Halland. Petra Svedberg is a member of the board in Swedish Society of Nursing. The society constitutes an arena for clinical, educational, scientific and ethical discussions and decisions. |
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The Myth of Mental Health Nursing
Phil Barker
is an artist, psychotherapist and Professor in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, University of Dundee.
1970: Trained as a nurse, 1976: Began training as a psychotherapist, 1986: Awarded PhD, 1990: Director of Studies in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Dundee, 1993: UK’s first Professor of Psychiatric Nursing Practice at the University of Newcastle, 1995: Elected Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, 2000: Awarded the Red Gate Award for Distinguished Professors at the University of Tokyo, 2001: Awarded an honorary Doctor of the University at Oxford Brookes University, 2002: Visiting Professor – Trinity College Dublin, 2003: Appointed Honorary Professor, University of Dundee, 2007: Received the Inaugural “Lifetime Achievement Award” from Blackwell Publishers for his contribution to mental health, 2008: Voted one of the “Top 20 Most Influential Nurses in the World” by a public vote organised by Nursing Times, 2008: Joint-winner with his wife and colleague, Poppy Buchanan-Barker of the Thomas Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Libertiesin New York.
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The Early Intervention Model to Promote Adolescents' Abstinence from Intoxicating Substance Use
Marjatta Pirskanen
RN, PHN, PhD |
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Merja NikkonenRN, PhD, Adjunct Professor in Nursing Science Department of Nursing Science University of Eastern Finland Master of Educational Sciences (1987). Advanced Studies and Master’s thesis in Sociology (1993) She has been administrator in Nursing in mental Hospital District, Planning officer and Senior Researcher in Finnish Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health. Lecturer and Assistant Professor in Nursing Science in University of Oulu and Professor in Nursing Science in University of Kuopio. Her research has concentrated in Mental Health Nursing viewed from social and cultural point of view. She has been interested of long -term psychiatric care, rehabilitation of long-term patients and the way of life of deinstitutionalized psychiatric patients. She has also been involved in many staff education projects concerning the assessment and measurement of the quality of mental health care and nursing in Psychiatric hospitals, Out-patient care and Nursing homes. She is a member and representative of Finland in ETNA (European Transcultural Nursing Association). At this moment her main interest is to develop Cultural Competent Mental Health Nursing. She is trying to support mental health professionals in managing diversity in mental health care. She also wants to raise awareness and discussion regarding situation and possibilities of mental health patients and especially immigrant mental health patients in Finnish society.
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