7^th World Congress on Mental Health, Psychiatry and Wellbeing March 27-28, 2020 Barcelona, Spain

Biography:

Professor Marcelo Pombo Novaes Fernandes is a Psychoanalyst, Bachelor of Arts, Master in Religion, TEFL Teacher in London, travelled all over the Globe teaching in countries like England, Brazil, Bolívia and China and giving lectures/being invited to talk about human sexuality and religion at Oxford University and several other educational instituitions in Brazil, England, Thailand, Turkey, Poland and Portugal. He also worked as a newspaper columnist where he used to talk about human sexuality and other subjects related to ethics, religion or sociology. He now lives in Portugal where he is doing his second Master, this turn in Anthropology, and is also the vice-president of OGA – Obra Gay Associação (Opus Diversidades), a NGO that works among LGBT community

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The figures on suicide among young people have been increasing in most countries around the world, especially among LGBTI people. Some researches show that a gay man has five to 11 times more possibility to commit suicide than a heterosexual of the same gender and age. The study we are working on tries to understand why it has been increasing and the influence of social media on that. The subject bellow is what author working on right now. It will be finished by March. For my previous research I interviewed 1516 people and presented the results in more than 10 Congresses all over the Globe (from Oxford University to Istambul, from Brazil to Poland) – if you accept my paper, that will be my international 'debut' on the subject (I have already spoke about the subject in an International Congress in Prague, but without the final figures ).

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Silvia da Costa has expertise in Social Psychology and Behavioral Science. Specifically it is dedicate to creativity and innovation in open complex social systems such as organizations. Her lines of research are creativity and innovation in organizations, including the role of positive emotional climate, wellbeing, emotional intelligence, self and hetero emotional regulation, as well as beliefs, values and emotions of self-transcendence, like spirituality elevation at work. High positive affect and emotions, like gratitude, are related to creativity that is an antecedent of reappraisal or positive cognitive restructuring. Creativity is also a facet of individual and communal adaptive coping and resilience that helps to build individual and social wellbeing. Finally, she is also interested on cultural determinant of both creativity and wellbeing, having examined the role of macro-cultural dimensions like collectivism, power distance and uncertainty avoidance on societal creativity and innovation.

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This study analyzed the association between public religiosity, private religiosity, and life satisfaction in a representative sample of the Chilean population. Religiosity was associated with low income and low socioeconomic status and with being older and female. These variables were negatively associated with satisfaction with life. However, attendance at collective religious rituals was associated with life satisfaction, while private religiosity was unrelated. These results support the view that it is the social aspect of religion that benefits well-being. Controlling for gender, age, and socioeconomic variables, public religiosity predicts life satisfaction. Participation in religious rituals was associated with high social support and affect balance (low negative and high positive affect). Mediational analyses that included all variables related to public religiosity (main predictor) and to life satisfaction (dependent variable) showed that attendance to religious rituals had a direct effect on well-being, and a significant indirect effect on well-being through high social support and low negative affect. These results are congruent with previous studies that found that participation in religious public rituals was the most important predictor of well-being, above praying and being religious. Attendance at services could provide more social support and had more important emotional impact than praying, which could be done individually. Collective rituals provide opportunity to higher optimal experience and positive affect, as well as to higher social support, in comparison with similar individual activities. Participation in public religious rituals was associated with low negative and high positive affect. Private religiosity or praying was unrelated to satisfaction with life and associated with illness and unsatisfactory perceived health, but also to positive affect, supporting the idea that people use rituals to generate positive emotions to cope with stress. Results support the hypothesis that in a collectivistic culture religiosity is associated with well-being through the social component of religious ritual.

Biography:

Marcelo Pombo Novaes Fernandes is a Psychoanalyst, and has completed Bachelor of Arts, Master in Religion, is a TEFL Teacher in London. He travelled all over the Globe teaching in countries like England, Brazil, Bolívia and China and giving lectures/being invited to talk about human sexuality and religion at Oxford University and several other educational institutions in Brazil, England, Thailand, Turkey, Poland and Portugal. He also worked as a Newspaper Columnist where he used to talk about human sexuality and other subjects related to ethics, religion or sociology. He now lives in Portugal where he is doing his second Master, this turn in Anthropology, and is also the Vice-President of OGA–Obra Gay Associação (Opus Diversidades), a NGO that works among LGBT community.

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The trilogy of money, sex, and power has always been real. Only a naïve or demagogic vision would be able to deny the influence of them inside the churches. Sex and corruption scandals and false prophets with messianic and dictatorial postures are spread among us, grossly opposing the Gospel. A Christianity that does not have Jesus Christ in its core will demand a clear and common enemy to gather all the flock and, through fear and hatred, keep it together in the practice of tithing and, nowadays, serving as a political support to the ones appointed by their religious leaders. In a confused Christianity so typical of Brazil, the elected enemy once was the Catholic, later the Freemasons, the Spiritualist, the Communist and, in the last 10 years, the homosexuals and the LGBT movement which are blamed for cases of pedophilia by Christian leaders in this country. Our goal here is not to prove the coherence or not of such gospel “jihad” though the analysis of the canonical books searching for answers, instead will try to understand who and how many of such people there are there, the connection between pedophilia and homosexuality, to be aware of what they have been through in their pursuit of correcting their sexual drive, their religious dilemma when facing the Christian intolerance, and their subsequent apostasy (1,516 people were intertwined during a period of two years in order to bring credibility to the research).

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Maimoona Asad is a General Practitioner and a Consulting Philologist. She has expertise in counselling the patients of different back ground, different cultures, different age groups and different problems; this research is based on years of experience and evaluation in hospital, personally with direct in contact with people, educational institutions in different seminars. Her research will surely be helpful and benefit for people of any age group or any problems.

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The quality of your thinking determines your quality of life. Whatever we are today is because of our thoughts. In this study author addressing to issues pertaining to how positive psychology can be used to improve the life of an individual of any age groups; this study explores various positive conditions such as happiness and wellbeing and addresses to prosocial human reactions such as empathy, altruism, gratitude, love, motivation and success and failures. Author has done a study on different age groups, different back grounds, and different professions. Author has tried to explain you through diagrams and examples. This study shows how positive thinking can achieve emotional wellbeing and success in your personal and professional life. You will have a blue print to free you from the tyranny of thoughts that limit your achievement. You enjoy greater self - confidence, you can bring your own personal transformation. This study gives you the keys to open up positive thinking and release stress out of your life. This study shows how positive thinking helps in fighting your failures and overcome any diseases. This study shows how you can control your thoughts, and create a wonderful life for yourself, as thoughts decide our destiny. This study shows how positive thinking decides our present and future. In conclusion you will find how it is easier to avoid worry and negative thinking and be a positive thinker, and a positive thinker can achieve anything impossible in life. Most of all we will end up with inner peace. All you have to do is you have to say to yourself you can do it.

Biography:

Charos Dimitrios, MA, studied Midwifery at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and then furthered his studies in Psychology at the University of Crete. At first, he worked as a male midwife and then as a psychologist in the sector of drug addiction and later at "Agios Savvas" Oncology Hospital.  At the same time, he teaches at the Department of Midwifery at the University of Western Attica and has published articles in journals and presented most of them at medical conferences. Since 2018 he is a PhD student at the University of Western Attica. Finally, he is well trained and specialized in various fields of psychology and psychotherapy.

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Statement of the Problem: Women, since breast cancer has first been diagnosed, show several negative psychological and emotional responses. Women with breast cancer need psychological support, especially when they are in their reproductive period.

Purpose:The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of psychological and emotional support for women of the reproductive period who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Methodology&TheoreticalOrientation:The methodology and the material include searching and reviewing research studies through electronic databases in recent years.

Findings: Women suffering from breast cancer need psychological, psychosocial and emotional support to manage critical issues related to their illness. Psychosocial support is allegedly of great importance to the particular group of women in order to respond to the difficult conditions created by the disease itself, the treatment, the surgery that most often implies the mutilation of all or part of the breast. Psychosocial support aims to increase the quality of life of women, management of emotions, anxiety, treatment complications, etc.

Conclusion & Significance: The psychosocial support of women increases their quality of life, reduces their burden, enhance and strengthen their family role.

Biography:

Charos Dimitrios, MA, studied Midwifery at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and then furthered his studies in Psychology at the University of Crete. At first, he worked as a male midwife and then as a psychologist in the sector of drug addiction and later at "Agios Savvas" Oncology Hospital.  At the same time, he teaches at the Department of Midwifery at the University of Western Attica and has published articles in journals and presented most of them at medical conferences. Since 2018 he is a PhD student at the University of Western Attica. Finally, he is well trained and specialized in various fields of psychology and psychotherapy.

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Statement of the Problem: The mastectomy of women with breast neoplasm, especially in the reproductive period, is a traumatic experience that contributes to changing behavior, emotions, psychological status and changing relationships with her family and important persons.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of the contribution of the family and important persons to the support of women with breast cancer who have undergone mastectomy.

Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: The methodology and the material include searching and reviewing research studies through electronic databases in recent years.

Findings: In recent years, several studies highlight the importance of the family's role in supporting women suffering from breast cancer and have undergone mastectomy. The relationship between women and their family environment has a significant effect on psychological support, decision-making on treatment and their quality of life.

The family's role is vital in accepting and helping the woman to adapt to illness and mastectomy, maintaining the image of her body and her femininity, the best treatment of her illness, her compliance with surgery and therapy, the acquisition of meaning of life, better quality of life, management of side effects from treatment, etc. It is the family itself that gives the appropriate feedback to support and encourage the woman while at the same time accepting the disease from the family marks the strengthening of the dynamic role of the family.

Conclusion & Significance: Family is a key factor in the psychological support of mastectomy women. The family context is what greatly shapes the proper care and support of women. Clearly, health and mental health professionals can boost family support.

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Eating disorder (ED) pathology is an important cause of psychosocial and physical morbidity across multiple age groups, and is becoming increasingly prevalent^1,2. This paper provides an up-to-date assessment of current knowledge about EDs, addressing the roles of potential causes (aetiology) as well as symptoms. How well this information is reflected by current diagnostic and treatment strategies is considered, with a view to proposing novel ways in which the clinical management of EDs may be optimised to align with the latest research findings about which factors may truly be driving these diseases. The retrieval of data for this project was based on a comprehensive literature search: this method was used to access data pertaining to: (a) current knowledge about ED aetiology, and symptoms; (b) ED classification and management strategies. Once the data were collected and their credibility established, they were used to generate an up-to-date, evidence-based response to the research question. The findings support that aetiological risk factors, including neurobiological, developmental and sociocultural processes, generate psychopathological features that are key to the establishment and maintenance of EDs. There is evidence that these factors are more important for diagnosis and treatment than current classification and management strategies suggest. On the basis of these results, this paper proposes a new model for ED classification, where the diagnosis is based not on specific presenting symptoms, but on the existence of characteristic psychopathological traits, many of which are conserved across ED presentations. The principal implication of this model is that the focus of ED treatment should shift from symptom management to correcting the underlying psychopathology, and its causes. Long-term psychological intervention is likely to be key to achieving this goal, and the particular therapeutic strategies that could be used are considered.