12^th Worldwide Forum on Mental Health & Psychiatry August 19-20, 2020 Rome, Italy

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Chandra Nanthakumar, a certified yoga instructor and therapist, received her Classical Yoga training at the Malaysian Association of Yoga Instructors. She specializes in anti-aging yoga, pregnancy yoga, pranayama (breathing techniques), and dhyana (meditation techniques). Her doctorate is in the field of Natural Health Sciences specializing in yoga therapy.  She has presented papers at international conferences; the most recent one was at the Integrative Medicine Meeting in Germany in 2016 where she presented a paper on the intervention of meditative movement in the treatment of breast cancer.  Being an advocate of natural healing methodology, she conducts Hatha Yoga classes and workshops not only at the university she is attached to, but also for various organizations to help teenagers and adults cope with stress, anxiety and weighty issues.  She strongly believes that absorption of knowledge takes place best when the mind and body are calm, clear and centred.   

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Chandra Nanthakumar, a certified yoga instructor and therapist, received her Classical Yoga training at the Malaysian Association of Yoga Instructors. She specializes in anti-aging yoga, pregnancy yoga, pranayama (breathing techniques), and dhyana (meditation techniques). Her doctorate is in the field of Natural Health Sciences specializing in yoga therapy.  She has presented papers at international conferences; the most recent one was at the Integrative Medicine Meeting in Germany in 2016 where she presented a paper on the intervention of meditative movement in the treatment of breast cancer.  Being an advocate of natural healing methodology, she conducts Hatha Yoga classes and workshops not only at the university she is attached to, but also for various organizations to help teenagers and adults cope with stress, anxiety and weighty issues.  She strongly believes that absorption of knowledge takes place best when the mind and body are calm, clear and centred.   

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Ivete Contieri Ferraz is a Medical Psychiatrist, with expertise in clinical practice, with passion to improve the health and well-being of her patients. Her model of care, with an important technical foundation but open and contextual basis, it is quite divergent from the biomedical model. Based on the absolute protagonism of the human being, her model of care is a source of encouragement to understand the influence of multidisciplinary factors in the response to the patient's treatment, converging to a model like the Holistic of Health. She sediment this model in her clinical practice after 15 years of experience in hospital institutions, being currently in research, builds its theoretical foundation, seeking increasingly to understand pluralism in Health and the purification of the physician-patient relationship and its therapeutic function.

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Breanna Lynn is completing her Doctorate in Clinical Forensic Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She currently holds a MA in Forensic Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and a BA in Psychology with a minor in Family Studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She began her career working at the state psychiatric hospital in Nevada. Her time in Nevada was also spent doing program development for Nevada Senior Center; a non-profit organization specializing in geriatric care. Currently she is certified by the California Sex Offender Management Board as an Apprentice Treatment Provider. She also works as a forensic report writer, completing reports in both the civil and criminal field of forensic psychology. She hopes to continue her work with the sex offender population.

Brittney Montgomery is going into her second year of the Clinical Forensic Psychology Doctoral Program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology – Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from California State University, Northridge. She is a member of the Psi Chi Honor Society and a member of the Chicago School Student Association. She is currently focusing on her education and will be working at the Lost Angeles Mission this fall. She hopes to work for the court system, correctional system, and/or law enforcement in the roles of assessment and recidivisms reduction.

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Dr Lyren Chiu is an educator, researcher, mental health clinician, and community advocate. Dr Chiu’s program of research focuses on immigrant health, traditional medicine, and integrative service, with its emphasis on cancer and mental health care. Dr Chiu has investigated concepts of spirituality, spiritual resources, spiritual choice, methodology (investigating spirituality), transcendence, the meaning of life, TCM practice in BC, use of CAM, an integrative healthcare service (ethnographic study), and others. As a consequence, she has published numerous articles in these areas. Dr Chiu has founded and actively participated in several not-for-profit organizations, community services, social enterprises, and political campaigns. Dr Chiu was recognized as both a “visionary” by Vancouver Women’s Magazine in 2009 and a “change agent” by the Diasporas Project led by SFU in 2012 for her work in educating Canadian society about the values and practices of integrated healing. Dr Chiu recently has involved in the psychology of murder investigations.

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Moira Laura Eva Dechef is working within a large multi-disciplinary team, composed of psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, and teachers, on a variety of different cases regarding evaluation, creation of treatment plans, carrying out of treatment plans, in addition to treatment plan modification. She is serving as a liaison between various elementary schools, school boards, and parents to ensure students/clients are attending an educational environment best suited to their needs, as well as suggesting/facilitating changes on a case-by-case basis. She is providing individualized instruction for students with diagnosed psychiatric disorders, behaviour disorders, and severe learning disabilities; application of behavioural and cognitive behaviour therapy techniques to modify student behaviours within the classroom setting; teaching and application of social skills, to strengthen student social interactions and; production of progress reports, discharge summaries, and IEPs included in hospital psychiatric chart.

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Margaret Reece is passionate about helping people with C-PTSD overcome their struggles. Through her life-time experiences of C-PTSD and courses with world trauma experts, she hopes to narrow the gap between therapist and client. A childhood, devoid of any stable adult attachment figure, plus cumulative trauma, led to both emotions and thought processes shutting down. She was hospitalised, aged 19, for four years, given 30-40 ECTs, insulin therapy and medication; no success. She divorced herself from professional help to avoid life-time institutionalisation. In her sixties, she sought professional help; she had been misdiagnosed, aged 19, with schizophrenia, and inappropriate treatment given. Two further misdiagnoses followed. The anti-psychotic medication she had taken for 56 years became unavailable, no warning; no substitute available. She set out to transform herself. Her book, Hope Restored: a guide to embracing the storms of C-PTSD is self-help, interspersed with memoir. It is being published this year.

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Lucy Kaluvu has completed her Bachelor’s degree in Dental Surgery from the University of Nairobi and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Public Health at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has a keen interest in clinical research, epidemiology and community health. She has participated in various health conferences and has published case reports with the International Dental Journal and The Institute of Knowledge Management (TIKM).

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Joanne Zanetos has her expertise in nursing education, specifically pharmacology in a patient-centered approach. She has utilized interactive teaching strategies concentrating on the six core competencies of quality and safety education in nursing (QSEN) in the clinical and didactic settings. She is a graduate from Duquesne University earning her DNP in Nursing Education, Master’s degree in Nursing Education from Capital University and her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Capital University in Columbus, OH.

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