Opportunity to Focus on Rural/Frontier
Mental Health
The American Public Health Association (APHA) will hold its
2003 annual meeting in San Francisco next November. The Mental
Health Section of APHA knows many rural practitioners lack
venues to describe their field-based experience and innovations
to their professional colleagues. The 2003 meeting of the
APHA Mental Health Section thus is an excellent opportunity
for professionals in public mental health in the frontier
areas to submit proposals for panel presentations, posters,
or roundtables based on their field-based experience and innovations.
Since APHA's annual meeting is held in the West only once
every four or five years, it is a great opportunity for rural
and frontier mental health providers, consumers, and researchers
in the West to take full advantage of the nearby location
(and the relatively low travel costs) to present information
to their colleagues. The deadline for presentation proposal
submissions is February 4, 2003. The final draft call for
papers for the MH Section will be publicly available at www.apha.org
by December 20, 2002. Please note topics include delivery
of mental health services in rural/frontier areas as well
as maintaining services in a period of reduced budgets.
The Mental Health Section welcomes paper, poster, and panel
proposals on topics related to the epidemiology and prevention
of mental health conditions, and the publicly-financed care
and support of individuals and families affected by mental
health problems. Possible topics include:
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Behavioral Healthcare for Homeless Persons
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Bruno Lima Symposium on Mental Health Issues Among Minority
Populations
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Coping With and Responding To Reduced Mental Health
Budgets
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Delivery of Mental Health Services in Rural/Frontier
Areas
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Disorders Among Children: Early Identification/Intervention
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Disorders Among Children: Epidemiology and Prevention
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Involving Consumers/Family in Treatment Decisions
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Mental Health Care in the Criminal/Juvenile Justice Systems
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Mental Health Intervention in Disease Management and
Prevention
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Roles for the Community Psychiatrist in the 21st Century
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Violence as a Mental Health Issue: Etiology and Prevention
The rated review process considers relevance to public sector
policy and practice, methodology, and overall quality. Abstracts
for all papers, including special submissions below, should
be submitted through APHA¹s normal web solicitation process
NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 8. Abstracts and presentations should
avoid describing people as "the mentally ill"; use
alternatives such as "individuals with mental or emotional
illness" or "consumers of mental healthcare services."
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