Psychology and Mental health

Stephanos P. Vassilopoulos, Ph.D., is a Professor of Counselling in the Department of Primary Education, University of Patras, Greece. He is also director of the Relational Dynamic Laboratory of Education and Counselling.

In oncology, the announcement of cancer to a patient is protocolized by a series of examinations. Sometimes this moment is well apprehended, sometimes it is not. In both cases, whether the announcement is well made or not, we cannot anticipate or predict patients' reactions. A real coup de éclat in their material and psychic lives, the announcement is always a particularly sensitive moment. We will begin by talking about this period of the announcement of the illness and its psychic repercussions, then the question of the acceptance of the illness and finally we will go to the evolution of psychic movements. First of all, what is still very difficult today is to separate the idea of cancer from that of death. Although cancer is cured, it will be very difficult to talk about a cure from the outset. This is a point that seems to me to be quite central, that is to say that both at the psychological and medical level, we cannot anticipate or predict one hundred percent of the patient's reactions, whether a particular patient will react more or less well to the treatment or whether the announcement of the disease will be more or less well taken by the patient. The first challenge is to prepare the patient. But what does that really mean? Psychologically, there is an ethical issue at stake. As soon as we know the type of cancer, its progression, the possible treatments and the clinical condition of the patient, a certain pattern of management emerges. On a psychological level, we meet the patient in these conditions and we only have a photo image, the capture of the patient's reaction at that moment.

Joanna Ławicka completed her PhD in 2012 at the University of Opole in social sciences. She also completed a master's degree in special education at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She is a consultant in Transcultural Positive Psychotherapy during a master's course. She is the author of three books on the autism spectrum and therapeutic and educational violence and the role of empathy in raising autistic children. She has been publishing in educational and psychological journals since 2004. As the first in Poland, she began to implement solutions based on the concept of neurodiversity. She has been on the board of the Prodeste Foundation since 2008 and has been its president since 2013. She is an academic lecturer and gives lectures at important Polish universities. In addition, she runs her own courses and trainings also for business on creating a work environment that supports neurodiversity. Joanna Ławicka presented her work twice at the International Autism Congress in Edinburgh and Nice and also led lectures and workshops twice at the International Autscape Conference in the United Kingdom. She has been honored with the title of UN Ambassador of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Emilie Pété has completed his PhD in sport psychology from Nantes Université, France. She is now temporary teaching and research fellow at Université de Bourgogne. Her research focus essentially on collective stress management (i.e., communal coping) in team sports to improve team performance and mental health of athletes.
 

Yoav Fischer is an expert clinical psychologist and supervisor in psychotherapy and psychodiagnosis. Graduated with a BA in psychology from Bar Ilan University and holds a Master in clinical child psychology from Tel Aviv University. Yoav has been a therapist for children, teenagers and adults for over 20 years in private practice, employing play therapy, dynamic verbal psychotherapy, in addition to color psychotherapy. Yoav is also a supervising psychologist for teams of therapists in the public sector. Yoav teaches the foundations of color psychotherapy to professional groups, including psychologists, social workers and art therapists. Yoav has recently published a book entitled “Color Psychotherapy & Slime: A voyage through the substances of existence” (2023).

Mitha Al Balushi is a research associate in the Public Health Research Center-New York University Abu Dhabi. She is a PHD candidate in public health-the institute of public Health of the UAE University. She Had post graduate Diploma in Diabetes from Sweden and her degree in nursing sciences from Griffith Australian University. Her experience is over 15 years in public health and clinical nursing care and research. Some of her research was published in peer reviewed high IF international journals. She presented her research in nation and international conferences. She is an active member of the Emirates Public Health Association.

Afra Mahmood holds degree of Master of Philosophy in Applied Psychology from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. She served as Psychologist at Social welfare & Baitul Maal Department Punjab, Pakistan (2017-2020). She currently provides telehealth services as Clinical Therapist in Chicago.

Patricia A. Broderick has completed her PhD from St John’s University, Queens, NY, USA and her postdoctoral studies from The Albert Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA and Cornell University Medical School, White Plains, NY, USA. Patricia serves as Tenured and Full Medical Professor in the Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences at the City University of New York School of Medicine and as Director of the Neurobiology Course at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CUNY School of Medicine, CCNY. A highly recognized expert and prominent editor, author, inventor and lecturer, Patricia has published more than 500 papers in reputed journals and sought after books and she serves as an editorial board member of repute worldwide. Dr. Broderick holds several patents and trademarks and is the Founder and CEO of Eazysense Nanotechnologies Inc.and the Broderick Brain Foundation

Bernard Mayer has many years of expertise in the treatment of simple and complex psychotrauma and dissociative states in his psychotherapy practice in Paris. President and founder of the IETSP: www.ietsp.com and co-founder of the AFPJ :www.pierrejanet. org , he is the creator of the Integrative Body-Mind Psychotherapy / TICE, certified practitioner in EMDR for more than 30 years, in Somatic Experiencing and Hypnosis. Member of the ESH, ESTD, he speaks at various conferences and symposiums in France and abroad on request. - It is a new psychotherapy which allows to reach the somatic and emotional unconscious memories (subcortical zones) which contain "the frozen memory of the trauma", the words are not enough, nor even the analysis... Moreover, amnesia is a central symptom of psychotrauma. It is a non-verbal and non-cognitive therapy that acts directly on the neurophysiological level and frees the blocked memories of the trauma It is a Psychotherapy and a Neuro-therapy

Hamreet graduated from McMaster University with a BSc in Life Science and a background in psychology, neuroscience, and behaviour. She is now in her second year of medical school at St George’s University of London and has been involved in studies related to mental health in medical professionals and students

University Professor at the Jorge Basadre Grohmann National University of Tacna, specialist in Health Services Management, Bachelor of Nursing, Master of Educational Technology, PhD in Psychology, Dr. in Nursing. With 30 years of experience, undergraduate teacher, postgraduate teacher at: UNJBG. Undergraduate and postgraduate thesis advisor, with publications in Latindex, Scielo and Scopus magazines. Semillero Mentor Currently Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences

To be clear, I am not a researcher. I undertook this project after interviews with colleagues at the outset of COVID for clinial purposes. However, the discussion invariably redirected to their concerns for their careers, their fears about being infected, the effect on their family and their levels agitation, angst and depression. By chance this turned into the pursuit of a PhD in this area. In spite of literally no research background outside clinical dentistry, the effort is going remarkably well.

Graduation in Medicine in 1998, Santo Amaro Medical School (Santo Amaro University - “UNISA”) - São Paulo - Brazil. Following academic training in Psychiatry at Santa Casa Medical School (2001) with Certification from Brazilian Psychiatric Association (2003). Has clinical experience in Preceptorship with residents and was Assistant Psychiatrist and Professor of “Medical Psychology” at Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo Medical School until 2011. Current Professor of Psychiatry at Santo Amaro Medical School; Chief Psychiatrist of Bipolar Disorder and Personality Disorder Programs: Santo Amaro Medical School. Has Clinical Experience in Private Practice since 2001.