Main Conference Theme

A 21st Century Approach to Mental Health can only be achieved if we cultivate partnerships incorporating science, policy and programmes along a long term trajectory of developing, evaluating, improving, disseminating and implementing programmes and generating the required advocacy, scientific knowledge, organisational structures and financial and manpower resources. To do this the Conference organisers welcome stakeholders from a wide range of disciplines including:

• policy makers and policy administrators in local/national government;
• professionals and clinicians in health and social care;
• service users;
• researchers and scientists;
• representatives of institutional settings, e.g. education, legal and judicial and labour.

Strategies and Topic Areas

The conference schedule is organized across two principal dimensions: strategies and topic areas, as shown in the matrix below. There are five sets of symposia across the three days of the Conference, based on the five strategic areas. Each set of symposia is directed at the different steps required to develop effective mental health and wellbeing. This approach produces the following matrix of conference sessions:

To help guide those who are submitting a paper to the conference there are several questions to consider for each of the Strategies listed above. The questions, accessed by clicking the links below, may be amended, edited, and reworded as needed.

research and evaluation ¦ advocacy and policy making ¦ program implementation and dissemination
developing partnerships ¦ capacity building