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The World Psychiatric Association International Congress 2007 will be held in Melbourne, Australia on the 28th of November to the 2nd of December. This year’s theme is Working Together for Mental Health: Partnerships for Policy and Practice.

THE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
The 2007 Congress will feature a high quality Scientific Program of global significance and regional relevance.

The Scientific Program will:
• Include papers on leading trends and research findings from a wide range of psychiatry and mental health perspectives
• Be cutting-edge, featuring the latest advances in treatment, service provision and mental health care
• Comprise an impressive line up of international speakers and opinion leaders from across the mental health arena

The Scientific Program will cover a range of topics and themes relevant to all involved in mental health.

The perspectives and experiences of practising clinicians, consumers, carers, indigenous community, Asia and Australasia, will be interwoven through the program.

The key streams under the theme Working Together for Mental Health: Partnerships for Policy and Practice are (in alphabetical order):

• Addiction Psychiatry
• Advances in the Management of Psychosis and Mood Disorders
• Biological Psychiatry/Psychopharmacology
• Community Linkages
• Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Nursing
• Old Age Psychiatry
• Policy Development
• Primary Care and Mental Health
• Psychiatry and Physical Illness
• Psychology
• Regional and Cross Cultural Collaboration
• Service Models: Evidence and Implementation
• Other: eg. Psychotherapy, Suicide, Anxiety Disorder

The Scientific Program offered at this Congress will be the highlight of 2007 for all those involved in mental health policy and clinical practice.

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For those who have applied or are applying for the assessment of their credentials with the Council of Occupational Therapists Registration Boards (COTRB) Inc., please take note of the five-year effectivity of your eligibility from the time your Assessment letter has been issued to you. The announcement from COTRB is as follows:

At the meeting of the Overseas Qualifications Assessment Committee held on 12 October 2007 it was determined that the COTRB Assessment shall be valid for a period of five (5) years from the date of issue of the Assessment Letter.

Therefore, any persons wishing to utilise the COTRB Assessment Letter for the purposes of migration, registration, association membership etc. would need to do so within five (5) years of the assessment being completed. After this time it will be necessary for persons to once again undertake the Stage I Desk Top Audit.

Laro, Lapis at Libro Center for Learners is pleased to invite you to a seminar-workshop entitled “Touch, Look, and Listen: Strategies for Teaching Differently-Abled Students in a Mainstream Setting.”

The seminar-workshop will feature Behavior Management Strategies for handling children as well as classes, Learning Styles, and tips and tricks to address Math, Writing, Spelling and Reading Comprehension Difficulties.

Speaker: Professor Rose A. Aligada

When & Where
17 November 2007, Saturday
8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines

Registration Fees
Pre-registered: P 500.00
On site: P 600.00

Registration fee is inclusive of the seminar kit, handouts, certificate and food (2 snacks and lunch).

We will be accommodating limited slots only. You may register in person, through our bank or through an authorized affiliate of the Center. This will be on a “first-come, first-served” basis. Deadline of pre-registration is on November 9, 2007.

For more information, please contact the organizers at:
Laro, Lapis at Libro Center for Learners
110 Amang Rodriguez Jr. Avenue
Dela Paz, Pasig City
Tel: 915 5265
Fax: 475 3119

Here is a journal article recently published at the Edizioni Minerva Medica site about the “Ergonomic and physiotherapeutic interventions for treating work-related complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder in adults. A Cochrane systematic review.”

The objective of the study was to “determine whether conservative interventions have a significant impact on outcomes for work-related complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder (CANS) in adults.”

The researchers concluded that…

There is limited evidence for the effectiveness of keyboards with an alternative force-displacement of the keys or an alternative geometry, and limited evidence for the effectiveness of exercises compared to massage, breaks during computer work compared to no breaks; massage as an add-on treatment to manual therapy, and manual therapy as an add-on treatment to exercises.

To view the full text of this article, click here.

If you are planning to migrate to the US, the following article may be of some use to you.

With homes in the nation’s cities becoming increasingly unaffordable, today the move to the suburbs is often as much about saving some cash as it is about settling beyond the white picket fence.

There are prominent suburbs most everyone knows–these include Greenwich, Conn., Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., or Alpine, N.J. — where entree is dependent on the size of one’s wallet.

And there are suburbs that welcome those whose bank accounts don’t end in seven figures.

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