EPA AND PREVENTION SECTION REPORT 2017

SECTION BOARD MEMBERS:

Chairperson: Prof. Marco SARCHIAPONE Co-chairperson: Prof. Jorge LOPEZ CASTROMAN Secretary: Dr. Carla GRAMAGLIA Councillor:

LAST SECTION BOARD ELECTIONS HELD:

Date: 2016-04-18 Venue: N.A.

ACTIVITIES OF THE SECTION IN 2017:

Meetings/events

EPA-SSSP Business Meeting

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EPA-SSSP Section Business Meeting

EPA Congress, Florence, , Firenze Fiera Congress Centre, Piazza Adua, 1, Room 15, Palazzina Lorenese, 1st Floor, Date: Friday, April 4th 2017, Time: 10-11.30 a.m.

After the Welcome from the chair, we had a brief update about EPA-SSSP members. Marco Sarchiapone said a few words concerning the Section, underscoring the large number of Members (this section is the biggest section of EPA) and the intensive work done. The Annual report 2016 was shared as well as information about the last meetings and activities of the section. Participants were informed about the EUDOR projects, which involved several Section members, who had had a Consensus meeting in Rome, March 29-30 2017. The recent experience of the 2nd Roman Forum on Suicide, 30-31 March 2017, Rome, Italy, was shared. Further activities of the Section were discussed: update about the homicide-suicide group and the suicide-homicide group; proposal of the flyers initiative. The possibility of turning EPA Educational Courses on Suicide into a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) was discussed. The Section Website was officially presented.

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Venue: EPA Congress, Florence, Italy, Firenze Fiera Congress Centre, Piazza Adua, 1, Room 15, Palazzina Lorenese, 1st Floor

Date: 04/04/2017

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EPA Plenary Symposium

Description:

EPA Plenary Symposium, April Tuesday, 4 (08:00-09:30) Title: Clinical Management and Treatment of Suicidal Patients Chair: Marco Sarchiapone Co-Chair: Benjamin Sadock Presenters: Philippe Courtet, Clinical use of biomarkers in suicidal behaviours; Vladimir Carli, The patient is suicidal: what should I do as a Clinician?; Judit Balazs, Diagnosing and treating suicidal adolescents; Benjamin Sadock, When your patient dies by suicide: aftermath and implication

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Venue: Florence, Italy, April, 1-4, 2017

Date: 04/04/2017

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EPA-SSSP Section Symposium

Description:

EPA Section Symposium, April Tuesday, 4 (13:15-14:45)

Title: Social science and biological findings informing research in suicidal behavior

Chair: Danuta Wasserman

Co-Chair: Pilar Saiz

Presenters: Marco Sarchiapone, Electrodermal reactivity and suicide; Philippe Courtet, Neural patterns in ecological momentary assessment of social stressors; Jorge Lopez Castroman, A review of advances in social sciences and their application for research in suicidal behavior; Yogesh Dwivedi, MicroRna profiling in postmortem brain and plasma exosomes: biomarkers perspective of suicidality.

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Venue: Annual Congress of the European Psychiatry Association, Florence, Italy, April, 1-4, 2017

Date: 04/04/2017

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EPA Intersection symposium - Section of Suicide and Suicide Prevention, Section of Old Age Psychiatry

Description:

EPA Intersection symposium - Section of Suicide and Suicide Prevention, Section of Old Age Psychiatry, April Sunday, 2 (8:00-9:30)

Title: : an issue for old age psychiatry?

Chair: Gabriela Stoppe,

Co-Chair: Patrizia Zeppegno

Presenters: Patrizia Zeppegno, Suicide and assisted suicide in the elderly: meaning, ethical issues and controversies; Max L. Stek, , Physician Assisted Suicide in The in Dementia and Late Life Psychiatric Illness; Gabriela Stoppe, Suicide and assisted suicide in : consequences for suicide prevention; Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart, Mental health and social care providers facing requests of assisted suicide from elderly in nursing homes in Switzerland.

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EPA Section of Old Age Psychiatry

Venue: Annual Congress of the European Psychiatry Association, Florence, Italy, April, 1-4, 2017

Date: 02/04/2017

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Publications

Presentations at non-section events

Other Section activities

Other Section activities

Desciption • The Section’s Website has been totally renewed and since its opening on February 2017 it has received almost 2000 visits. The new website gives access to a varied content, including for instance a list of interesting events (both past and upcoming), a list of members with some information about their interests and a photo, the publications of section Members’, research and educational programs, reading suggestions, suicide-related cultural topics, the results of an online survey about the interests of the members, access to guidelines in the scientific area, access to the photo contest (detailed below) and much more. Please have a look here: https://suicidologysection.org.

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• Photo contest: The EPA-SSSP first photo contest has been launched and proposed to section members with the aim to stimulate the expression of participants’ thoughts and emotions through photographic images, either traditional or digital. Photographs will be evaluated by a commission that, at its sole discretion, will award three prizes to the best photos and reserve the opportunity to assign special prizes. • Since September 2016 we started collecting declarations of interest about a work group on homicide- suicide and suicide-homicide. A review on the topic of homicide-suicide is currently ongoing, and is involving several Section members, and hopefully it will be ready to be submitted next year. • Flyers: to cover up the need of more info about suicide in at-risk population, we have decided to create flyers with recommendations and orientations about suicide related topics. The flyers include a short summary outlining the state of the art for a particular topic related to suicidal behavior, and a list of practical highlights and useful links related to this topic, as well as illustrations and algorithms to summarize the main aspects. They are focused on the clinical management of the patients and as close as possible to real practice concerns. Currently, flyers on the following topics are available: Surviving cancer; Prevention of suicide among Migrants; LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender); Prevention of suicide among people with substance use disorders; Postvention. We are planning translation in local languages, and diffusion through NPAs. The flyers will be made available to the public in the next EPA congress and can be already downloaded from the EPA’s and the Section’s websites.

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Outcomes

CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES FOR FUTURE YEARS:

European Psychiatric Association (EPA) Congress, Nice March 3-6, 2018.

Section Symposium:

Battling suicidal behavior in Europe: successful initiatives for prevention. Chairs: Jean Pierre Soubrier, Vladimir Carli.

Presenters: Marco Sarchiapone, Christina Van der Feltz Cornelis, Jouko Lonnqvist, Guillaume Vaiva.

Intersection Symposia:

● with the Section of Cultural Psychiatry

Suicidal behavior in the vulnerable populations: focus on migrants.

Chairs: Marco Sachiapone, Meryam Schouler-Ocak.

Presenters: Carla Gramaglia, Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Boris Polozhy, Dinesh Bhugra.

● with the Section of Old Age Psychiatry, accepted as Workshop

Suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia in the elderly

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Chairs: Gabriela Stoppe, Patrizia Zeppegno.

Presenters: Patrizia Zeppegno, Gabriela Stoppe, Reinhard Lindner, Christina Van der Feltz Cornelis.

● with the Section of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Across Lifespan

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and suicide.

Chairs: Judit Balazs, Philip Asherson.

Presenters: Philip Asherson, Sandra Kooji, Gil Zalsman, Judit Balazs.

CME Course:

CME Course, directed by Marco Sarchiapone and Vladimir Carli.

1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “PROMOTING THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS”

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 71 al-Farabi Ave., Almaty, Kazakhstan,

19-20 January 2018

Plenary sessions by section members:

Jorge Lopez-Castroman, Co-Chair of the Section of Suicide and Suicide prevention of the European Psychiatric Association – ( / Spain) “To integrate Mental Health into Primary Health Care”

Philippe Courtet, Chairman of the “Suicide” Task Force of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (France). “Understanding Suicide”

Vladimir Carli, Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Training and Methods Development in Suicide Prevention (). “The State of Art in Prevention of Suicide among Adolescents” & “Mental Health of Adolescents in Conflict with the Law”

Prof. Judit Balázs, Head of the Department of Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology of Institute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, (Hungary). “The State of Art in Management of Suicidal Behaviours among Adolescents”

Marco Sarchiapone, Chair of the Section of Suicidiology of the European Psychiatric Association (Italy)

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“Adolescent Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention in Kazakhstan” & “Mental Health Needs of Adolescents in Conflict with the Law: Findings from Kazakhstan”

Parallel Sessions

Applying Innovative Technologies to Promote the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents. Key Speaker: Vladimir Carli

Suicide Among Adolescents: Sub-threshold of Depression and Anxiety Key Speaker: Judit Balázs

Investing in Research. Key Speaker: Marco Sarchiapone

To Integrate Mental Health into Primary Health Care. Jorge Lopez-Castroman and co-facilitator.

17th European Symposium on Suicide & Suicidal Behaviour in Ghent, Belgium on 5 – 8 September 2018. Submissions are in preparation.

FUNDING IN 2017

Income: n.a. Source(s) of funding: n.a. Expenditure: n.a. Balance: n.a. EPA Treasurer audit: No Confirmation that income / expenditure is via EPA: Yes