Call for Papers or Winning Projects

We are inviting submission of papers or winning projects for APPRC. It is intended that this Conference will be broad in scope to cover all key aspects of mental healthcare. Authors are encouraged to send in papers or winning projects related to their work in mental health care. The list below may be used as a guide but your paper or winning projects will not be limited to the following topics.

 
APPRC topics for plenary sessions, symposiums and parallel sessions
 
8 Main Symposiums
1. Mental Health in the Community - community education and integration
2. Rehabilitation for Young Offenders
3. Advocacy and Stigma
4. Rehabilitation for Addiction problem
5. Rehabilitation for Elderly patients
6. Nursing Symposium in Holistic Rehabilitation
7. Rehabilitation in Mood Disorders
8. Promoting Wellness and Resilience
   
17 plenary
1. Mental Health in Singapore
2. Recovery and Rehabilitation: A paradigm for the New Millennium
3. Research in Mental Health
4. Patients’ journey
5. Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Singapore
6. East meets West – Recommendation for Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Asia
7. Advocacy in India
8. Cutting edge in Psychiatric Rehabilitation for people with Severe Mental illness
9. An effective Inpatient Rehabilitation Program
10. Advocacy
11. Community Psychiatry in Singapore
12. Caregivers in Singapore – needs and support
13. Cognitive rehabilitation - training and preparation for Employment
14. Workplace Emotional Health
15. Mindfulness and Spirituality
16. The Wisdom in Psychiatry
17. Management of Mental Healthcare
   
24 Parallel Sessions
1. Psychological component of Palliative care
2. Care in Depression and Mood disorders
3. Traditional Chinese Medicine and Mental illnesses
4. Important medico-legal Issues facing Mental Healthcare
5. Community court in Singapore
6. Medico-legal issues and Mental Health
7. General Practitioner’s role in Mental Healthcare
8. Peri-natal Mental Health
9. Women Mental Health
10. Arts therapy
11. Care for patients with Brain Injury
12. Care and Rehabilitation in Autism
13. Sexual Rehabilitation for Persons with mental illness
14. Managing services in Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
15. Psychological care for HIV patients
16. Maximizing community integration
17. Rehab and Recovery following Psychiatric trauma
18. Social Enterprise
19. Rehabilitation in prison
20. Advocacy from consumers’ perspective
21. Care of abused women/ broken families
22. Elderly palliative care
23. Intellectual disability care
24. Family Psycho-education
   
 

To assist in the selection of papers or winning projects, authors are requested to submit an outline of not more than 250 words online by 30th August 2008. Please download the abstract template here

 

Notification of acceptance will be sent by email to submitting authors, together with format requirements for oral or poster presentation.

 
 

Enquiries may be directed to the Secretariat at apprc@cma.sg

 
 
For Enquiries, please contact
APPRC 2008 Secretariat c/o CMA International Consultants Pte Ltd
(65) 6336 2328 (65) 6336 2583
           
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