Conference Themes
1. Developing Prevention and Promotion Research Worldwide
How can we enhance prevention science across regions and countries, building upon shared and unique aspects of cultures, social classes, and genders? How can we collaborate in order to learn about differences in risk and protection across cultures, social classes, and genders? How should we proceed in developing new knowledge?
- Developing prevention science, research policy, and research capacity
- Strategies to identify community needs, monitoring systems, and social indicators
- Innovative evaluation designs (e.g., community intervention trials, policy evaluation, innovative controlled designs, meta-analysis)
- Building mutually supportive relations between research and practice
- National and international networks for research and program development
2. Evidence-Based Prevention and Mental Health Promotion
What do we know about the effectiveness of approaches and programs within and across cultures, social classes and genders? What can we learn by collaboration about cultural and subculture effect moderators?
- Need and advocacy for evidence-based mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders
- Developmental processes, risk and protective factors
- Evidence-based principles of developing and implementing effective programs
- Evidence-based, effective model programs
3. Knowledge Exchange, Adaptation, and Implementation
How can we share what we know and how can we use what we know most effectively, recognizing differences in cultures, social classes, and genders? What do we know about evidence-based model programs across cultures, social classes, and genders?
- Setting criteria for model programs to go to scale
- Developing infrastructures and tools for disseminating knowledge and model programs
- Models of enhancing adoption, re-invention, and successful implementation
- Cultural factors and cultural adaptations in implementing principles or model programs
- International Registry of Preventive Trials
4. Advocacy, Policy Making, and Organization
How can we influence international, national, and local government and private organizations to recognize and include promotion and prevention policies that reflect the health problems caused by mental and behavioral disorders?
- Successes and pitfalls in convincing governments, politicians, and stakeholders
- Developing national and local allies and coalitions
- Models of local and national policies for mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders
- Organizational models for local and national mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders
- Consumer involvement and community participation
- International collaboration in advocacy and policy making
5. Training and Personnel Development
How should we establish and maintain the skills necessary for promotion and prevention programming?
- Training professionals and developing expertise in mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders
- Training and use of non-professionals and community leaders
- International collaboration in training and consultation
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