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Course for professionals

Nordic symposium on Forensic Psychiatry

-Across the lifespan-

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borgemánnu
2024
  1. 21. borg 2024, 09:00 - 19:00

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  1. 21. borg 2024, 09:00 - 19:00

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Registration deadline: 21. borg 2024, 12:00
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Welcome to the 15th Nordic Symposium on Forensic Psychiatry

Radisson BLU Royal Hotel, Bergen 21.- 23. August 2024

The conference aims to provide an opportunity for the forensic psychiatry community to come together to discuss and share research opportunities, insights and findings with colleagues.

Together we will set a common goal to increase our understanding of emerging issues and research methodologies relating to the field of forensic psychiatry. We hope you will engage in discussions, share your ideas, and find new friends among our guests and conference delegates.

The Conference Program.

We send a PDF to every delegate. We also urge you to use the provided QR code to get to this landing page.

Wednesday August 21. – Afternoon
Challenges in Law, Risk Assessment and Human Rights

10:00 – 13:00 Registration
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:15 Opening

13:15 – 14:00 
Current challenges in law
Linda Gröning (SWE/NO)

14:20 – 15:05
Current challenges in risk assessment
Kevin S. Douglas (CAN/NO)

15:05 – 15:50
Current challenges in Human Rights
Guri Hestflått Gabrielsen (NO)

16:10 – 17:00
Panel discussion:
Challenges in Law, Risk Assessment and Human Rights

Closing remarks - End of day 1.

Thursday August 22. – Morning
Prevention and treatment across the lifespan

Opening day 2

9:00 – 9:45
Long-Term Prevention of Conduct Problems and Associated Outcomes: Findings from the Fast Track Project
Robert J. McMahon (CAN)

9:45 -10:30
The (Acclaimed) Usefulness of Callous-unemotional (CU) Traits or DSM-5
Defined Limited Prosocial Emotions (LPE) for Subtyping Antisocial and Conduct Disordered Children and Adolescents - A Constructive and Critical Reflection
Henrik Andershed (SWE) and Olivier F. Colins (BEL)

11:00 – 11:45
What do we know about the effective treatment of aggressive and antisocial behaviour among persons with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder?
Sheilagh Hodgins (CAN/GER)

11:45 – 12:30
Til death do us part: Long-stay in forensic settings
Birgit Völlm (GER)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

Thursday August 22. - Afternoon
Papers & symposiums – Parallel sessions

13:30 – 14:30 Sessions 1-3

Session 1 SYMPOSIUM
Needs, Functioning, and Flourishing in Forensic Psychiatric Care, part one.

Session 2 SYMPOSIUM
Applying novel methods to the study of violence in psychosis across the lifespan.

Session 3 PAPERS

3.1  Exploration and analysis of forensic assessments (CHILDCRIM).
3.2  Are symptoms assessed differently for schizophrenia and others psychosis in legal insanity evaluations of violent crimes?
3.3  Reliabilist Physicalist Perspective on Validating Unaccountability Tenets and Assumptions.

Break  14:30 - 14:50

14:50 – 15:50 Sessions 4-6

Session 4 SYMPOSIUM
Needs, Functioning, and Flourishing in Forensic Psychiatric Care, part two.

Session 5 SYMPOSIUM
Understanding and preventing violence in high risk individuals – a mixed methods approach (PreVio)

Session 6 PAPERS

6.1 Serial killers in Sweden, a book, a study, and the ones I’ve met.
6.2 Links between Psychopathic Traits, Type of Violence and Severe mental Disorders among Female Offenders of Lethal Violence in Sweden.
6.3 Psychopathy as the diagnostic endpoint for personality disorder and the Dynamic Model of Psychopathy Assessment and Treatment Frameworks as problem solver regardless of population and severity level.

Break  15:50 - 16:10

16:10 – 17:10 Sessions 7- 9

Session 7 PAPERS

7.1 The COMPFOR Research School: a Swedish national interdisciplinary research school in compulsory care and forensic psychiatry
7.2 What happens after forensic psychiatric care?

Session 8 SYMPOSIUM
On the brink: a follow-back study of violent offenders with serious mental illness

Session 9 PAPERS

9.1 Preliminary Validation of the New Ambiguous Intention Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ) Mentalization Index.
9.2 The goals of forensic psychiatric treatment and research (ethics of forensic psychiatry).
9.3 Examining the Process of Change in Metacognitive Skills Training in the Context of Forensic Psychiatric Care – A Description of the Research Protocol

19:00 Conference dinner

 

Friday August 23. – Morning
Forensic psychiatric research in the Nordic countries – future directions

09:00 – 09:45
The Wattu IV Prison Population Study Finland
Mika Rautanen (FIN)

09:45 -10:30
FORevidence
Märta Wallinius (SWE)

10:30 - 11:00 Break 

11:00 – 12:00
Panel discussion:
Forensic psychiatric research in the Nordic countries – future directions

Closing remarks

12:00 Lunch

END OF CONFERENCE

 

REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE

Pricing:

Upto July 15th: 5000,- (NOK)

After July 15th: 5500,- (NOK)

Conference dinner: 1000,- (NOK)

 

Information:

  • Registration is open!
  • Early Bird fee until July 15th.
  • Abstract submission has ended
  • Information about acceptance to paralell sessions has been sent.
  • Cancellation policy:
    Full refund with vancellations uptil 25th of july
    50% refund with cancellations uptil 14th of august
    After 14th august there is no refund.

Call for abstracts!

The Nordic Symposium on Forensic Psychiatry invites you to present your findings and latest research.

On Thursday 22nd of august we will host parallell sessions where you can present your resarch findings and insights.  Each 60 min session will be divided in three individual presentations or in a symposium format where a group (min 3 individual authors) will present under a common title.

Oral presentations

As an individual presentation:

15 min for presentation + 5 minutes for questions. 

or:

As part of a symposium:

A total of 60 minutes including questions are at your disposal. A themed title for this session is to be included in the abstract submission. Submissions are to be sent in one e-mail with a symposium name. The symposium proposal must also include contact information for 

Poster presentations

There will be a poster session during day 2 of the conference. The posters will be displayed through day 2 of the conference.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Send us your abstract (up to 500 words) with the following details attached:

  • Format: Individual presentation/symposium or poster
  • Title of presentation, overall theme
  • Presenter - contact information
  • Author and co-author(-s) of paper/symposia members

Send by e-mail to: forensic@helse-bergen.no

All abstracts will be taken into consideration by the scientific advisory board and evaulated continously. Confirmation of acceptance will be mailed to you as soon as possible.

We hope this will be of interest to you.

Best regards

The scientific advisory board.

Getting to Bergen and the conference venue is easy.

En stor murbygning med gate og biler foran
Radisson BLU Royal Hotel, Bergen
By Bergen Airport (BGO)

Bergen Airport is one of the busiest airports in Norway. It sits at Flesland, 12 km southwest of Bergen city centre. It has 1 passenger terminal and 1 helicopter terminal. There is a free Wi-Fi service at the airport. There are several transfer options to reach central Bergen:

A taxi takes around 20-25 minutes. The taxi rank is right outside the terminal.

The Light Rail – known as Bybanen – is a convenient and economical mode of transport to get to downtown Bergen. It takes around 30 minutes. The station is outside the terminal building. (This service will take you to the Bergen city center. 10 minutes walk to the conference venue)

The Airport Express bus – also known as the Flybussen – takes around 30 minutes to reach the main bus terminal in Bergen. You can find the bus stop by turning left on leaving the terminal building. (This service stops at the conference venue.)

Car rental agencies can be found in the arrivals hall.

By train

Coming to Bergen by train from Oslo is a spectacular ride through Norways varied landscapes. It is a 7 hour long ride. When you get to Bergen you have a 1,2 km walk. There are taxi stands just outside the train station.

By car

We recomend using your preferred GPS navigation device to get to the venue:

Radisson BLU Royal Hotel, Bergen
Dreggsallmenningen 1
5003 Bergen

There are parking facilities available at the hotel. 

 

 

Enquiries about the conference:
forensic@helse-bergen.no