Mental Health Problems
in Environments of Severe Social Stress
Organized by the Albert Schweitzer Institute
for the Humanities in Collaboration with the
Open Society Institute- Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, July 14
9:00 Welcome
David Stubbs, Executive Director,
Open Society Institute, Azerbaijan
9:15 The Legacy of Albert Schweitzer
Don Croteau, Chair, Board of Directors,
Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities, USA
9:30 Psychiatric Reform: Participation of
Individuals and Communities in Mental Health Care
Nazim Agazade MD, DMSc, Professor of
Psychiatry, Khazar University
Zarifa Rustamova, MS in Psychology, Caspian
Mental Health Association; Senior Teacher in Psychology, Khazar University
Rena Dadasheva, MD, Executive Secretary,
Caspian Mental Health Association, Azerbaijan
10:15 Challenges of Deinstitutionalization
Robert L. Okin, MD, Professor, Clinical
Psychiatry; Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of California,
San Francisco, USA
11:00 Break
11:15 Human Rights and Mental Disability
Eric Rosenthal, JD, Executive Director,
Mental Disability Rights International, USA
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
1.30 Improvement of Treatment of Patients
with Psychosomatic Disorders under the Social Stress
Nadir Ismailov, MD, Head, Psychiatric
Association, Azerbaijan
2:00 Mental Health Services in Israel
Alan Apter, MD, Chair, Department of
Psychiatry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2:30 Discussion
3:00 Break
3:15 Workshops:
Mental Health Reform, Human Rights of
Users of Mental Services, Orientation Toward Equitable, Democratic and
Preventive Services
Facilitators: Eric Rosenthal, JD and
Robert L. Okin, MD
4:15 Workshop reports
July 15
9:00 Gender Related Psychosocial Problems
in Transition
Rena Ibrahimbeyova, PhD in Psychology,
Cabinet of Ministers, Azerbaijan
9:45 Theoretical Considerations on Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD): Our Experience in the Care of Former Political
Prisoners
Daniela Popa, MD, Psychiatrist, ICAR Foundation,
Bucharest, Romania
10:30 Break
10:45 Management of Psychosocial Problems
by Emergency Medical Services
Robert L. Okin, MD
11:30 Discussion
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Development of Community-Based Programs
for Women Victims of Violence in Post-Communist Countries
Nadejda Stefanova Stoytcheva, MD, Psychotherapist,
Director, Animus Association- Center for Rehabilitation of Women Victims
of Violence, Bulgaria
1:45 Children in Institutions: Clinical, Legal,
Ethical, and Human Rights Issues
Eric Rosenthal, JD
2:30 Workshops:
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1) Violence Against Women and Children
Facilitators: Daniela Popa, MD
and Nadejda Stefanova Stoytcheva, MD
3:30 Break
3:45 2) Children in Institutions
Facilitators: Robert L. Okin,
MD and Eric Rosenthal, JD
July 16
9:00 Suicidal Behavior in Adolescence
Alan Apter, MD
9:45 The Problem of Suicide in Azerbaijan
Nazim Agazade, MD
10:15 Break
10:30 Workshops
1) Prevention of Suicide
Facilitators: Nazim Agazade, MD
and Alan Apter, MD
2) Mental Health of IDPs (Internally Displaced
People) and refugees
Facilitators: Sevil Azadava, MD,
Child Psychiatrist, UMCOR NGO and Nazim Ahundov, MD, BUTA NGO; Associate
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Doctors’ Postgraduate Training Institute,
Azerbaijan
11.30 Workshop Reports
12.00 Closing Ceremony