THEMES for the PARALLEL SESSIONS of the
28TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON LAW AND MENTAL HEALTH

Links for speaker and abstract details to be posted on Sept. 4, 2003.
Note:  Various sessions remain under construction.  Refresh your page for the latest update ( 20/06/2005 ).

 

Wed.  Oct.  1, 2003

Thursday, Oct.  2, 2003

Friday, Oct.  3, 2003

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

8:30-10:00

10:30-12:30

13:30-15:30

16:00-17:30

8:30-10:00

10:30-12:30

13:30-15:30

16:00-17:45

8:30-10:00

10:30-12:30

13:30-15:30

16:00-17:30

Perth Room (3rd Floor)

Mental Illness at the Intersection of Health and Justice

Consumers, Families and Carers

Mental Illness and Intellectual Disability in the Criminal Justice System

The New South Wales Experience

International Perspectives

Managing Mentally Impaired Offenders in Australia

Approaches to Diversion & Court Assessment

Interactive Workshop:  “Who should be talking to whom?”

Roles, Perceptions and Expectations

Current Issues in Mental Health Care

Mental Health Promotion

Mental Illness

Intellectual Disability

PANEL

Sydney Room (3rd Floor)

The Patient-Therapist Relationship

Migration, Mental Health and Human Rights

Caring for the Mentally Ill

Psychiatry, Ethics and the Law

Accountability of Mental Health Professionals

Therapeutic Relationships

Workshop: Privacy and Electronic Mental Health Records

Migration and Human Rights

The Migrating Mind

Mandatory Detention

The Psychology of Terror

The New Zealand Experience

Legal, Ethical & Financial Issues in Community Psychiatry

Involuntary Treatment

Melbourne Room  (3rd Floor)

Guardianship and Mental Health Tribunals

Ageing and the Future of Elder Care

Current Issues in Corrections

Guardianship and Consent to Biomedical Research

Protection & Self-Help:  Complementary Approaches to Guardianship

Guardianship & Mental Health Tribunals:  Roles & Expectations

Decision-Making in Guardianship & Mental Health Tribunals

Who is Responsible for Care of the Frail Aged?

Intergenerational Rights and Responsibilities

Advance Care Directives and End of Life Decision Making

When is Old Age a Basis for Special Legal Provision?

Workshop:  Predicting Recidivism

Reintegration & Reducing Recidivism: Families, Prisoners and Communities

Treatment and Rehabilitation

Sex Offenders

Brisbane Room (3rd Floor)

Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Law Enforcement and Mental Illness

Culpability, Capacity and Expertise

Families, Mental Health and the Courts

Law Enforcement and the Mentally Ill

International Approaches to Crisis Intervention

Culpability, Responsibility & Mental Illness

Mental Capacity

Automatism

Children’s Rights

Responding to Child Abuse  

Mental Illness, Families and the Courts

Family Violence

James Cook Room (5th Floor)

 

Genetics, Health and Justice

Mental Health Law and Human Rights

Genetics and Public Policy

Genetic Research – Tissues, Consent and Testing

Genetics, Health and Information

Genetics and Social Values

Human Rights and Mental Health

Case Studies in Mental Health Law Reform

Legislating Human Rights in Mental Health

Human Rights, International Law and Mental Health

Boardroom 1 (Ground Floor)

Psychiatric Injury Litigation

Forensic Systems

Managing Risk and Mental Illness in Forensic Systems

Social Dimensions of Mental Health and Justice

The Netherlands

Ireland

Mental Health Nursing in the Forensic Setting

Managing Risk

Patterns of Comorbidity

Crime, Violence & Substance Abuse

Choosing Death: Euthanasia & Suicide

Anorexia Nervosa

Law, Equity and Mental Health

Boardroom 2 (Ground Floor)

Indigenous Justice and Mental Health

Work, Stress & Disability

Forensic Expertise

Young Offenders, Dangerousness & Violence

Globalisation and Health

 

 

Indigenous Justice and Mental Health

Mental Health and Indigenous Communities 

Work, Disability and Mental Health

Work and Stress

Young Offenders

Dangerousness & Risk Assessment

Patterns of Violence

Global Health – Public Health

Globalisation, Health and Human Rights

 

 

 

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