International Mental Health Conference QLD August 2013

The 14th International Mental Health Conference will focus on complex mental health issues including Depression, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Dementia.  This is a fantastic opportunity for clinical practitioners, academics, and mental health experts to examine the challenges and solutions of “Opening Doors” to Mental Health. You are invited to submit an abstract which offers practical advice on planning and implementing research findings into practice. The conference streams will address Primary Interventions, Promoting Recovery, Preventing Relapse, and Policy Initiatives with a focus on Depression, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Dementia.  Submit your abstract here.  The program will also include keynote presentations from,

Professor Elizabeth Beattie - Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre (DCRC) - Carers and Consumers (based within the School of Nursing at QUT). Professor Michael Berk - Chair in Psychiatry at Deakin University. Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and the Mental Health Research Institute. Professor Philip Mitchell - Professor and Head of the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales Dr Philip LP Morris - President Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association Professor Cynthia Shannon Weickert - Macquarie Group Foundation Chair of Schizophrenia Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales

For more details about this important event and how you can become involved as a presenter or delegate please visit the conference website.