SPEAKERS PRESENTATION European Parliament Brussels, Belgium - PDF document

SPEAKERS PRESENTATION European Parliament Brussels, Belgium December 3 2015

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. 2

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: objectifjcation (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 3