Targeted Audience:
This hands-on conference is directed to Mental Health practitioners, Social Workers, FMT, PC, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Physicians, Nurses, Human Services, Public Health professionals, Case Managers, Students, Clergy & Faith leaders, Counselors, School teachers, Educators, Medical and Legal Interpreters, Immigration Law professionals, Policy Makers, University Professors, Researchers, Ethnic associations, Nonprofit & Community leaders and Health care policy makers
About “Mental Health and Immigration under Extreme Circumstances”:
Migration in itself is often a traumatic experience, but when coupled with insurmountable border fences to climb, deadly desserts and vast oceans to cross, for millions of people migration has become a process loaded with intense levels of stress and emotions that surpasses human capacity, transforming their migratory journeys into authentic odysseys, in addition to breaking families apart, migrants are often exposed to structural social exclusion, defenselessness, vulnerability, persecution and much more.
Mental Health and emotional well-being is frequently stigmatized or considered a taboo in many societies including the American. As professionals we cannot close our eyes or consciously ignore the unbearable psychological suffering experienced by immigrants, moreover not taking notice of their silent request for help.
The most common clinical problems experienced by immigrant populations are related to war trauma, the trans-generational transmission of trauma, stress and grief, chronic extreme stress also known as the “Ulysses Syndrome”, cultural adaptation, and identity questions.
A renown and experience panel specialized in mental health immigration will address the most recent mental health research, treatment and care with cultural competency available for immigrant families, refugees and unaccompanied minors.
The Sarasota Conference will focus on:
“Recognizing the mental health risk factors: Assessment, diagnosis and effective interventions on immigrant populations”
What we will explore & learn?
We will be exploring the main risk factors: Migratory Mourning and Acculturative stress, identity issues, the Ulises Syndrome. We will learn to implement the “Mourning scale”, to assess immigrant children and teens’ mental health and their behaviors at school, community and home.
About our Guest Speakers:
International Guest Speakers:
Dr. Joseba Achotegui:
Dr Achotegui is a psychiatrist and a Faculty member at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Director of a Post-grade on Mental Health for Immigrants, minorities and social excluded. Currently, Dr Achotegui is the Secretary of the Transcultural Section of the World’s Psychiatrist Association. Bio
Dr. Dori Espeso:
Dr. Espeso is a children’s psychiatrist and a Faculty member at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Dr Espeso is a Professor of the Post-grade of Mental Health for Immigrants and a Member of the World’s Psychiatrist Association (WPA). Bio
Dr. Leila F. Roach
Leila Roach coordinates the marriage, couple and family counseling program. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a licensed mental health counselor, an approved supervisor for mental health counselors in the state of Florida and a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC).Bio.
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