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MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMME

TRAINING OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ON THE RECOGNITION AND MANAGEMENT OF DEPRESSION

October 2002 – November 2002

Institution

Athens University, Psychiatric Department, Section of Mental Health Promotion

(Director, Department of Psychiatry: Professor G. Christodoulou)

Scientific Director: Dr Maria Vassiliadou

Trainees: 17

Physicians, Psychologists, Social Science Professionals

Courses venue: Lecture room, Section of Mental Health Promotion, Eginition Hospital Branch, 10 Dimitressa, 5^th floor)

Total hours: 28 (14 two-hour sessions)

CURRICULUM

1rst educational session: Wednesday, October 23, 2002

• Introduction

         G. Christodoulou

• Emotional Disorders

G. Christodoulou

2nd  educational session: Friday, October 25, 2002

• Depression: Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis

V. Mavreas

• Depression in Primary Health Care

V. Mavreas

3rd educational session: Wednesday, October 30, 2002

• Types of Psychotherapy

Ι. Papakostas

• Cognitive Psychotherapy

Ι. Papakostas

4th educational session: Friday, November 1, 2002

• Depression in Childhood

          D. Anagnostopoulos

• Pathogenesis of Emotional Disorders

G. Papadimitriou

5th educational session: Monday, November 4, 2002

• Suicide

Ι. Gemos

• Depressive Realism

Μ. Vassiliadou

6th educational session: Wednesday,  November  6, 2002

• Clinical Types of Depression

L. Lykouras

• Delusional melancholy

L. Lykouras  

7th educational session: Friday, November 8,  2002

• Biological therapeutic interventions

V. Alevizos

• Admission of depressed people and management of therapeutic interventions in Mental Health Centres

D. Ploumbidis

LIST OF TRAINERS (Alphabetical)

• Αlevizos V., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Αnagnostopoulos D., Lecturer, Child Psychiatry, Athens University

• Lykouras Ε., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Mavreas V., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Ioannina

• Papadimitriou G., Associate Professor, Athens University

• Papakostas Ι., Associate Professor, Athens University

• Ploumbidis D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Gemos Ι., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Athens University

• Christodoulou G., Professor, Director, Psychiatric Clinic,  Athens University

• Vassiliadou Μ., Director, Section of Mental Health Promotion, Department of Psychiatry, Athens University; Scientific Director, European Mental Health Promotion Educational Programmes