SPEAKERS PRESENTATION European Parliament Brussels, Belgium - - PDF document

European Parliament Brussels, Belgium December 3 2015

SPEAKERS PRESENTATION

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Welcome address by Beatriz BECERRA (MEP) Having graduated in Industrial Psychology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Beatriz BECERRA completed her education with an MBA and several postgraduates in Marketing Management, Human Resources and Non Profjt Organisations. She de- veloped her professional career in the sphere of marketing and communication during more than twenty years as a CEO in multinationals such as CBS, Paramount-Universal, Disney and Sony, as well as Action against Hunger and as an independent consultant for Discovery Networks and The History Channel. Besides being a contributor for several professional media, she has participated as a lecturer in courses for CEOs and Marketing, Communication and Advertising MAs. She is also a novelist, having written and published three novels. Currently, she has had the honour of being part of UPyD’s candidacy to the European Par- liament and being elected Member of the European Parliament in May of 2014. She is a full member of the Development, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and Petitions Committees, and Vice-President of the Subcommittee on Human Rights. Introduction: The history and objectives of Adocare by Prof. Dr Vincent DUBOIS Vincent DUBOIS is psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). He worked as Head of the Psychiatry Department at the University Hospital of St-Luc in Brussels and since 2013, he is Medical Director at Epsylon, a psychiatric network in Brussels. He has written several international publications on emergency psychiatry, mental health ser- vice research and international public mental health. Action for Teens aisbl (International Non Profjt Association) is a network of psychiatrists and other professionals, all highly specialised in adolescence. It an open and innovating think tank which centralises experiences and expertise in order to cope better with the evolution of the adolescents’ needs. The goal of this European network is to develop adequate help taking the specifjc world of the adolescent into account. They encourage and support the creation of adolescent care structures in order to take care of youngsters with mental health problems: specialised, adapted, open, integrated, multidisciplinary, personalised, transversal, for each adolescent in psychological need. Action for Teens’ role is also to raise awareness, to gather experience and expertise and to promote prevention and de-stigmatisation. More information can be found on the website: http://www.actionforteens.eu/ The context of EU-activities on mental health care and well-being by Jürgen SCHEFTLEIN Jürgen SCHEFTLEIN is policy offjcer in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Consumers. He is a historian by academic qualifjcation. After his studies of history, German language and literature and political Science in Cologne, he worked for the Federal German Ministry of Development Cooperation. In 1997 he took up a position as a civil servant in the European Commission services. After several years in the Directorate-General for Enterprise, he changed in 2004 to the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety. Within the Unit «Programme Management and Diseases», his fjeld of responsibility is mental health and dementia. Guidelines toward good mental health care for adolescents in Europe by Prof Dr. Chantal Van AUDENHOVE and Dr Evelien COPPENS As director of LUCAS, the Center for Care Research and Consultancy of the KU Leuven, Chantal VAN AUDENHOVE is involved in practice and policy oriented research and consultancy in the fjeld of mental health care. She is a professor in Psychology and Applied Com- munication at the KU Leuven Department of Public Health, teaching courses for medical students and dentists. Since January 2007, she is the promoter coordinator of the Policy Research Center for Health, Social Welfare and Family of the Flemish

• Government. Her main research topics in mental health services research concern: the evaluation of the mental health reform, the

patient and family carer participation, shared decision making, short term interventions in primary care, prevention of suicide and depression, stigma and psycho-education.

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As Project leader at LUCAS (Centre for Health Research and Consultancy) of the KU Leuven, Evelien COPPENS is involved in research areas such as prevention of mental health disorders, promotion of mental health, depression and suicide and mental health care. In the past, she worked as senior researcher at LUCAS. Evelien Coppens holds a Postdoc at the Centre for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology (CLEP), where she also worked as research assistant looking at research areas such as the human amygdale, fear conditioning, evaluative conditioning and affective stimulus processing. Her latest publications deal with public atti- tudes towards depression and help-seeking strategies and also community facilitator trainings to tackle depression and suicidal behavior. The concept of Houses for Teens by Dr Jean-Paul MATOT Jean-Paul MATOT is the scientifjc director of the Adocare Contract. He studied medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and had his post-graduate training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Université Paris 6. He is member of the International Psychoanalytic

• Association. He was involved in the public sector till 2011, as head of the general psychiatry department of Saint Pierre University

Hospital, head of the Mental Health Service of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, head of the child and adolescent psychiatry department of the Child University Hospital Queen Fabiola, Brussels. Since 2011, he works in private practice and delivers training and supervision to clinical teams. He teaches in the cursus of the medical students (MED 5) in the Faculty of Medicine of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is director of the Revue Belge de Psychanalyse and co-director of the Journal Enfances, Adolescences. His publications deal with psychopathological issues, not only in the fjeld of adolescence, but also related to social changes. He directed two collective publications and published two books. He is actually Secretary of the board of AEPEA (European Association for Child and Adolescent Psychopathology) and was former President of the Belgian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Vice-President of ESCAP (European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry). The concept of « Houses for Teens » answers to the need to have - at regional level or at city level - a central structure for integrated care for adolescents that facilitates practical, multi-sectorial collaboration and networking, in order to achieve on optimal use of the existing facilities and defjne local priorities to promote adolescent mental health and development. The concept is based on fjve general principles, which will have different applications in each national and/or regional context:

• bjectifjcation (indicators); implication (cross sectorial approach, involving professionals and end-users); interdisciplinarity; training;

prevention. Towards a new mental health policy for youngsters in Belgium by Bert PLESSERS From September 2002 until July 2015, Bert PLESSERS was a staff member of the Limburg consultation platform on mental health (SPIL). Since March 2013 he is on a part-time basis seconded to the FPS Health of Belgian government, where he is the federal coordinator of the new mental health policy for children and adolescents. Since August 1, 2015 he is also a part-time staff member at Asster, a psychiatric hospital in Sint -Truiden. During his career, he was regularly seconded for tasks in the context of network development. During his presentation Bert Plessers will look at the development of the new Belgian «Guide toward a new policy of mental health care for children and adolescents», signed by the eight Belgian ministers of mental health. He will also present the content of the guide, the fjrst steps of the operationalisation of the new policy, the phased implementation and the fundings. Benefjts of young people’s participation in mental health services by Dr Yvonne ANDERSON, Hannah SHARP and Leanne WALKER Yvonne ANDERSON has been involved in every national initiative in children’s and young people’s mental health since 2003, leading on many of them. After working in the University of Southampton she went to the NHS as a senior manager in young people’s mental health. From there she became national director for young people at a leading mental health charity and in 2008 established her own company, Cernis. Partnership and co-production are part of every project that she undertakes. Hannah SHARP has been a member of the GIFT team since March 2014 and is currently undergoing her secondary education at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls. She takes an active role participating with her local youth council and has co-founded an organisation called ‘The Mental Health Schools Network’ which aims to improve the mental health support schools offer their pupils. She hopes to go on to study politics and economics at university and to continue to be a part in infmuencing national policy. Leanne WALKER has lived experience of using Child and Adolescent Mental Health services; this has created a passion in sharing these experiences to improve young people’s mental health services. Starting at a local level Leanne worked with services to implement change, sitting on interview panels, developing tools and speaking at events. From this, she joined the

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National group GIFT where she has worked closely with NHS England. This work has included sitting on task and fjnish groups, speaking at National events about experiences, developing a tool to help young people own and share their personal informa- tion and speaking at conferences about outcomes measures, the power of participation and what feeling valued as a service user means to her. She has also helped to develop a young person’s guide to using outcomes measures and enjoys producing YouTube videos focused on raising awareness and tackling stigma. GIFT (Great Involvement Future Thinking) is the name of a partnership commissioned by NHS England to support children and young people’s participation in the CYP IAPT mental health service transformation programme. GIFT supports young people to be involved in many different ways at a national and local level: work in partnership with the government; attend national policy shaping groups; plan national events; participate in the shaping of local services via participation groups; raise aware- ness in schools and develop resource packages for schools on young people’s mental health. More information can be found on the website: www.cypiapt.org/participtation.php SEYLE (Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe) by Prof Danuta WASSERMAN and M.D. Ph.D Vladimir CARLI Professor in Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Danuta WASSERMAN is the Founding Head of the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at KI, Stockholm, Sweden since 1993. She is also the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Methods Development and Training in Suicide Prevention and expert advisor to the WHO Offjce in Copenhagen and Genève since 1995. She was President of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) 2013-2014 former President of the International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR) and is Honorary President of the Swedish-Estonian Institute of Suicidology. On a National and Nordic level, she has built up a National Centre for Suicide Research and the Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) and a strong Nordic research network on the prevention of mental disorders. In 1995, she was the fjrst in Europe to receive a Professorship in Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Institutet. Danuta Wasserman has received several signifjcant Research Awards. She was also funded by the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet, which awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, to organise the 2009 Nobel Conference in Stockholm, Sweden: on “The Role of Genetics in Promoting Suicide Prevention and the Mental Health of the Population”. She presently leads two EU FP7 funded projects: SEYLE (Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe), WE-STAY (Working in Europe to Stop Truancy Among Youth) and a Genetic Investigation of Suicide Attempt and Suicide (GISS). Vladimir CARLI works as Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institutet (KI). He is chair of the WPA Section of Suicidology and Secretary General of the EPA Section of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention. He is National Representative for Sweden of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP). Vladimir Carli is project leader of the project Suicide Prevention through Internet and Media-based Suicide Prevention (SUPREME), funded by the European Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC). He is also Project Manager of the 7th Framework Programme EU funded project Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) and Working in Europe to Stop Truancy Among Youth (WE-STAY). Vladimir Carli is Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Training and Methods Development in Suicide Prevention. He is a member of the WHO mhGAP Guidelines Development Group and recently collaborated in the development of the mhGAP intervention guide, by scrutinizing and reviewing the existing medical literature on suicide prevention and producing the suicide-related evidence-based recommen- dations that are part of the guide. The SEYLE project develops three culturally adapted intervention strategies to promote mental health and to prevent risk-taking, violent and suicidal behaviour among European adolescents. These strategies were developed and evaluated within a rando- mised control trial. The fjrst intervention strategy is a Youth Aware of Mental health programme (YAM) which is a universal intervention targeting all students. The programme aims to raise mental health awareness about risk and protective factors associated with suicide, including knowledge about depression and anxiety and to enhance the skills needed to deal with diffjcult life events, stress, confmict and crises. The second strategy is a gatekeeper programme to train teachers and other school staff to recognise suicidal behaviour in pupils and enhance their communication skills to motivate and help pupils at risk of suicide to seek professional help. The third strategy is a screening programme for professionals aiming to empower them in identifying students at risk and in referring at-risk pupils to the local health care system. More information can be found on the website: www.seyle.eu

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ImROC by Miles RINALDI Miles RINALDI is the Head of Recovery and Social Inclusion at South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. He has established employment services using the individual Placement and Support approach to help people with mental health conditions gain and retain employment which have been recognised as models of good practice. He has also been working to implement a recovery focused approach across his organisation and established the fjrst Recovery College in

• England. Miles Rinaldi is also a consultant on the national Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change (ImROC)
• programme. He has also worked on mental health policy in the Social Exclusion Unit (Offjce of the Deputy Prime Minister), the

Department of Health, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (Cabinet Offjce) and in the Department for Work and Pensions. He has conducted service evaluations and research with over 25 peer reviewed journal publications and book chapters. The ImROC programme is a new approach to help people with mental health problems to recover: to fjnd ways to live mea- ningful lives, with or without the on-going symptoms of their condition. This overall goal is reached by changing the attitudes and behaviours of professional staff and teams working in health services so as to make them more supportive of recovery. For this, changing the “culture” of an organisation is important. Via on-site consultancy visits and/or workshops, ImROC helps

• rganisations to refocus their services around the principles of recovery. Afterwards, participating organisations are grouped in

learning set networks where sites can share knowledge and learn from one another on how to solve some of the practical problems of implementation. A simple method is used based on agreed goal-setting, implementation and review (i.e., Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles) which appeared to be an effective method for organisational change/innovation (Iles & Sutherland, 2001). More information can be found on the website: www.imroc.org The Headspace Project by Iben NORDENTOFT and Per FREDERIKSEN Iben NORDENTOFT is the General Manager of Headspace Denmark. She specialised in working with vulnerable groups in society in youth mental health and preventive services. Since February 2013 she has been involved in the establishment of Headspace Denmark – helping all the 9 Headspace centers in Denmark to work from a common platform. Headspace Denmark places itself not as a parallel system to the existing public health care system, but as a supplement to it – helping Young people to use it, optimising the support they can get in the system, and ensuring that every young person get access to good help on their own terms. Previously she worked for the Government of Greenland, the Social Services of the City Council of Copenhagen and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration. Headspace is an enhanced primary care model for youth mental health providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds. The centres are youth-friendly, highly accessible, and target young people’s basic needs by providing multidis- ciplinary care covering four key areas: mental health, physical health, work and study support, and alcohol and other drug

• services. The services provided are either free or have a low cost.

The centres are built and designed with input from young people so they don’t have the same look or feel as other clinical services. Also, most centres have a drop in service that youngsters can visit anytime during the visiting hours. There is also an online coun- selling service available called headspace providing confjdential online and telephone support seven days a week. More information can be found on the website: www.headspace.dk Area+ by Dr. Alexander BEINE Alexandre BEINE is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. After being trained in psychiatry in Belgium and Switzerland, he worked in a service for adolescents and young adults at the Fond’Roy clinic in Brussels. He has treated young people with psycho-traumas. Since July 2015, he is the doctor in charge of AREA + residential units in Brussels. He also works as a private psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, is member of the Freudian Association of Belgium and of the International Lacanian Association. He has written several articles on the adolescence process, on childhood psycho-trauma, on the consequences of adoption for teenagers and

• n the psychotherapeutic treatment of psychoses.

AREA+, a Belgian pilot project, is a House for Teens that opened its doors on July 1, 2015. AREA+ is a multiple psychiatric care structure providing different services for 52 adolescents aged between 12 and 20 years. It aims to respond to any adolescent type of crisis or problem: psychological distress, eating disorders, depression, family breakdown, school drop- out, etc.

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Its operation is based on a multidisciplinary, therapeutic, social, legal and educational approach, it combines therapeutic care, education, sports, art workshops, etc. More information can be found on the website: www.laramee.be/index.php/hospitalisations/area Conclusions: The next steps by Martine DE CLERCK Martine DE CLERCK was a lawyer at the Brussels Bar from 1988 till 1998. She was Chief Operating Offjcer of Child Focus (the European Centre for Missing and Sexually Exploited children), and ran the General Secretariat of Missing Children Europe from 1998 till 2005, when she started as Director General of asbl Mont des Arts the non for profjt organisation that regroups the cultural and scientifjc institutions on the Mont des Arts in Brussels. Since 2009 she is co-Director of the non for profjt

• rganisation aisbl Action for Teens (www.actionforteens.eu), the European Network of Houses for Teenagers and co-project

coordinator of ADOCARE (www.adocare.eu).

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