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25th European Congress of Psychiatry
Symposia
Symposium: Promoting mental health in the
health and non-health sectors
S001
Conceptual aspects of mental health
in its intersection with human rights
and development
S. Galderisi
University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Department of Psychiatry,
Naples, Italy
Introduction Improving mental health of people is an impor-
tant goal of the present millennium. Community-based services
programs for prevention of mental disorders and promotion of
mental health have been implemented in several countries. How-
ever, the proportion of people suffering from mental disorders is
significantly and persistently high, and psychosocial distress due
to migration, natural disasters, and terrorism; in general, feeling of
insecurity is unlikely to improve current figures.
Aims To highlight the interrelatedness of mental health, devel-
opment and human rights, in particular in women and girls.
Methods The presentation will consider conceptual aspects of
mental health in its intersection with human rights and develop-
ment, with particular reference to women and girls.
Results Current definitions of mental health might be mislead-
ing and convey the false expectation that mental health coincides
with happiness and productivity. An alternative conceptual frame-
work will be presented, in which mental health is a dynamic state
of internal equilibrium that enables individuals to use their abili-
ties in harmony with universal values of society. Different factors
concur to the dynamic equilibrium, and will be discussed in their
intersection with human rights and development, with particular
reference to the most frequent violations of human rights (e.g. traf-
ficking, domestic abuse, sexual violence) that contribute to increase
the risk of mental disorders in women and girls.
Conclusion Mental health is rooted in personal development and
social context inwhich the person lives. Strategies aimed to address
mental health in women and girls will need to consider gender,
country and socio-cultural specificities.
Disclosure of interest Honoraria or Advisory board/consulting fees
from the following companies: Lundbeck, Janssen Pharmaceut-
icals, Hoffman-La Roche, Angelini-Acraf, Otsuka, Pierre Fabre and
Gedeon-Richter.
S002
Interventions in the health and
non-health sectors aimed at
promoting mental health
H. Herrman
Centre for Youth Mental Health, Orygen, The National Centre of
Excellence in Youth Mental Health, and The University of Melbourne,
Australia
Orygen, The National Institute of Excellence in Youth Mental Health,
Parkville, Australia
The impact of social determinants on women’s mental health
is becoming clearer worldwide. Poverty, violence and commu-
nal insecurity are among the main challenges to women’s mental
health and the health of their families. Depression is one of themost
common mental disorders experienced by women. It typically has
an early onset in life and is more frequently found in women made
vulnerable by trauma.
Improving mental health for women and girls requires early
intervention for depression and other mental disorders; with gen-
der sensitive clinical care and support for recovery in primary
health care, and mother, child and reproductive health sett-
ings. Early intervention in primary health care and collaboration
with patients and family carers encourage integration of mental
health with the health care system, in turn protective of human
rights.
In addition, gender equity and observance of human rights need to
be embedded in policy and practice in health and non-health sec-
tors to ensure that women’s mental health is promoted and mental
illnesses adequately prevented and treated. Effective promotion of
mental health and prevention of mental disorders is possible in
countries of all income levels.
Disclosure of interest The author has not supplied his declaration
of competing interest.
S003
The needs of women users of mental
health services and their families
M. Amering
Department of Psychiatry and Psychothera, Waehringer Guertel
18-20, 1090 Viena, Austria
Aim Understand the needs of women users of mental health ser-
vices and their families and discuss consequences.
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