Mental Health

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The Mental Health Section welcomes paper, poster, roundtable, and session proposals for the 2007 APHA Annual Meeting, November 3-7, in Washington, DC. This year's conference theme is "Politics, Policy, & Public Health." We welcome submissions on topics related to (in alphabetical order): Bruno Lima Symposium on Mental Health Issues among Minority Populations Career Development in Public Mental Health Carl Taube Award Lecture Carol Mowbray Symposium on Maternal Mental Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Consumer and Family Involvement in Mental Health Treatment Decisions Hearing on APHA Policy Actions for Electronic Health Records and Personal Health Records Homelessness and Mental Health Mental Health Policy and Practice Mental Health Poster Session I Mental Health Poster Session II Mental Health Poster Session III Mental Health Poster Session IV Mental Health Poster Session V Mental Health Poster Session VI Mental Health Section Business Meeting I Mental Health Section Business Meeting II Mental Health Section Meeting Mental Health Section Officers Meeting I Mental Health Section Officers Meeting II Mental Health Services Research Mental Health Workforce and Needs Assessment Mental Health and Criminal Justice Mental Health and Medical Comorbidity Mental Health and Occupational Health: Improved Consumer, Community and Staff Safety Mental Health and Trauma Mentoring and Public Mental Health Organization and Financing of Mental Health Care Panel Discussion on the Mental Health Consequences of Disasters Psychiatric Epidemiology as Translational Research: From Which Bench To Whose Bedside? Rema Lapouse Award for Lifetime Contributions Roundtable on Topics in Mental Health Suicide Symposium on Mental Health and Jail Diversion The PTSD Crisis Among Returning Veterans The peer-review rating process considers the relevance to policy and practice, appropriateness of methodology, and overall quality of submission. All submitted work must be approved by the appropriate ethics review boards before presentation and must meet the standards for the ethical conduct of science. All abstracts must be submitted through APHA’s normal web solicitation process NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 6th, 2007 . Abstracts and presentations should avoid describing people as "the mentally ill" -- use 'person first' terminology such as "individuals with mental illness" or "consumers of mental health care services." BRUNO LIMA SYMPOSIUM ON MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN MINORITY POPULATIONS: Applicants wishing to be considered for this symposium should ensure that their abstract is submitted under this topic during the electronic submission process. Abstracts not selected for the Bruno Lima Symposium will be considered for inclusion in other sessions. KENNETH LUTTERMAN AWARD: The juried Kenneth Lutterman Award is given for the best student paper in the field of mental health. The winner will be invited to present his/her paper at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC and will be awarded the cost of APHA conference registration. Eligible students must be members of the APHA Mental Health Section and enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program as of February 6, 2006, the submission deadline. Students should submit an abstract through the normal submission procedure, indicating their wish to be considered for the award. Those students whose abstracts are accepted for conference presentation will then be asked to submit a copy of the full paper to the section program planner by April 1, for review by the Awards Committee. Submitted papers may be no longer than 10 double-spaced pages, plus references and a maximum of 5 tables/figures. Note: Student papers that do not receive the Lutterman Award may nevertheless be accepted for presentation at other APHA mental health sessions. For more information, contact the program planner. PANEL SESSIONS We also invite submissions for panel session proposals (90 minutes in length). BEFORE submitting a panel session, please contact the program planner. To submit a panel session, follow these directions: 1. Submit an overall session abstract, which includes a rationale for the session, the proposed paper titles, and authors. If applicable, also include names of moderator and/or discussant. 2. Title the overall session abstract as "SESSION ABSTRACT - 'your proposed session title'". The overall session abstract is not peer reviewed on its own merits; acceptance is dependent solely on the reviews of the abstracts for individual presentations within that session. 3. Put the contact information (phone and e-mail) for the session organizer directly on the overall session abstract, so we can contact you easily if necessary. 4. Indicate on the overall session abstract whether you would like to have the individual abstracts considered for presentation in other sessions, if your proposed session is not accepted in its entirety. In the "notes to the program planner" section, state either "YES, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ABSTRACTS CONSIDERED SEPARATELY" or "NO, I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE THESE ABSTRACTS CONSIDERED SEPARATELY." 5. Once the panel abstract is submitted, it will be assigned an abstract number. Next, submit a seperate abstract for each individual presentation in the panel. In the 'notes to program planner', please indicate that the abstract is being submitted for a panel and give the overall panel abstract number.
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Program Planner Contact Information: Joseph Goulet, PhD, MS Department of Internal Medicine Yale University 950 Campbell Avenue 11-ACSLG, Building 35-A West Haven, CT 06516 Phone: 2039325711 Joseph.Goulet@va.gov and Joanna Volpe-Vartanian, MS, LICSW Brandeis University 12 Stanton Rd. Brookline, MA 02445 Phone: 781-736-3909 vartanian@brandeis.edu