Programme Overview

 
Time Wednesday 27th August 2008 Thursday 28th August 2008 Friday 29th August 2008 Saturday 30th August 2008
  09.00 - 10.45   Plenary Lectures Plenary Lectures Parallel Sessions  
  10.45 - 11.00 Coffee/Tea Coffee/Tea  
  11.00 - 11.15 Coffee/Tea  
  11.15 - 11.30 Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions  
  11.30 - 13.15 Plenary Lectures  
  13.15 - 13.35 Lunch Lunch Closing Address & prizes
Where next?
ESSSB13 & ESSSB14
 
  13.35 - 14.00    
   14.00 - 14.15 Registration  
  14.15 - 16.00 Plenary Lectures Plenary Lectures  
  16.00 - 16.20 Opening Address Coffee/Tea Coffee/Tea  
  16.20 - 16.40 Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions  
  16.40 - 17.55 Plenary Lectures  
  17.55 - 18.00    
  18.00 - 19.00      
  19.00 - 20.00 Civic Reception New Investigators' Social Event Symposium Dinner  
  20.00 -  late       
             
Provisional Programme
Wednesday 27th August 2008
   
16.00 – 18.00 SESSION 1
   
16.00 – 16.20 Welcome
Symposium Executive

Welcome
Shona Robison, Minister for Public Health, Scottish Government
   
16.20 – 16.40
Lessons from the specificities in suicide prevention around the world
Brian Mishara (Canada)
   
16.40 – 17.00 Socio-economic inequalities in suicide: evidence and challenges for prevention
Stephen Platt (Scotland)
   
17.00 – 17.20 Cognition, personality and suicidal risk
Rory O’Connor (Scotland)
   
17.20 – 17.45

Genes and childhood translated into the neurobiology of suicide
John Mann (USA)
   
17.45 – 18.00 Discussion
   
19.00 – 20.00 Civic Reception
City Chambers, Glasgow
   
   
Thursday 28th August 2008
   
09.00 – 10.45 SESSION 2
   
09.00 – 09.25 Deliberate self-harm: prediction and prevention of repetition
Ella Arensman (Ireland)
   
09.25 – 09.35 Discussion
   
09.35 – 10.00 The chain of care for suicide attempters
Lars Mehlum (Norway)
   
10.00 – 10.10

Discussion
   
10.10 – 10.35 Evidence-based clinical care for deliberate self-harm
Keith Hawton (England)
   
10.35 – 10.45 Discussion
   
10.45 – 11.15 TEA/COFFEE
   
11.15 – 13.15
SESSION 3 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
   
13.15 – 14.15 LUNCH
   
14.15 – 16.00 SESSION 4
   
14.15 – 14.40 Preventing teen suicide: a review of school-based strategies
Madelyn Gould (USA)
   
14.40 – 14.50 Discussion
   
14.50 – 15.15 Lost in translation : transferring suicide prevention from research to policy
Annette Beautrais (New Zealand)
   
15.15 – 15.25 Discussion
   
15.25 – 15.50 Interdisciplinary challenges in suicide prevention research
Jane Pearson (USA)
   
15.50 – 16.00 Discussion
   
16.00 – 16.20 TEA/COFFEE
   
16.20 – 18.00 SESSION 5 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
   
19.00 – 20.00 New Investigators’ Social Event
Thistle Hotel, Glasgow
   
Friday 29th August 2008
 
09.00 – 10.45 SESSION 6
   
09.00 – 09.25 Randomized clinical trial studies of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)
David Jobes (USA)
   
09.25 – 09.35 Discussion
   
09.35 – 10.00
Worrying as a proximal risk factor for suicidal behaviour: evidence and opportunities for prevention
Ad Kerkhof (Netherlands)
   
10.00 – 10.10 Discussion
   
10.10 – 10.35 Mindfulness and suicidal modes of mind
Mark Williams (England)
   
10.35 – 10.45 Discussion
   
10.45 – 11.15 TEA/COFFEE
   
11.15 – 13.15 SESSION 7 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
   
13.15 – 14.15 LUNCH
   
14.15 – 16.00 SESSION 8
   
14.15 – 14.40 Why people die by suicide: a new theory of suicidal behaviour
Thomas Joiner (USA)
   
14.40 – 14.50 Discussion
   
14.50 – 15.15 Suicidal Brains
Kees Van Heeringen (Belgium)
   
15.15 – 15.25 Discussion
   
15.25 – 16.00 Andrej Marusic: an appreciation (1965 - 2008)
   
16.00 – 16.20 TEA/COFFEE
   
16.20 – 18.00 SESSION 9 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
   
19.00 – late Symposium Dinner
Science Museum, Glasgow
   
Saturday 30th August 2008
   
09.00 – 11.00 SESSION 10 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
   
11.00 – 11.30 TEA/COFFEE
   
11.30 – 14.00 SESSION 11
   
11.30 - 11.55 What kind of research do we need in suicidology today?
Heidi Hjelmeland (Norway)
   
11.55 – 12.05 Discussion
   
12.05 – 12.30 Prediction and prevention of suicide in bipolar disorders
Zoltán Rihmer (Hungary)
   
12.30 – 12.40 Discussion
   
12.40 – 13.05 Religiosity and suicide acceptability: a cross-national analysis
Steven Stack (USA)
   
13.05 – 13.15 Discussion
   
13.15 – 14.00 Closing address & prizes

Where next? ESSSB13 and ESSSB14
   
14.00 Close of symposium
   
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