Global Experts Meeting on
Psychiatry and Mental Health

Dr. Annet de Lange (1977) works as Professor Human Resource Management (Lector) at the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Arnhem and Nijmegen, and as Visiting Professor at the faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Stavanger in Norway. Moreover, she is director of a Dutch Knowledge Center focusing on Sustainable work abiltiy (NKDI; including representatives from the Dutch government, municipalities, Unions, large-scale and medium-sized companies, Healthy Ageing Northern Netherlands, temporary agencies, and researchers) which aims to develop evidence-based interventions to facilitate healthy ageing at work.

Occupational well-being, Psychological contracts, Age

Cristina Simoes, PhD, is a Professor in the Catholic University of Viseu and Researcher in the Research Centre on Special Education of the Faculty of Human Kinetics-University of Lisbon, and Special Education Teacher in the Tondela Candido de Figueiredo. Her research focuses on quality of life, supports, rights and self-determination of people with intellectual disability. She has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level of special education, transition to adulthood and early intervention. Cristina is author and co-authored numerous articles and books, has presented at numerous national and international conferences and is reviewer of some peer-reviewed journals. She was honored with three awards: Student & Early Career Professional SIG, in 2014; Jose Carlos Pinto Viana, about the right to self-determination of people with disabilities, funded by the Porto Association of Cerebral Palsy; and The Poster Session Winner of the 9th Congress of European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual Disability.

Quality of life, Intellectual Disability

Professor Nora Cavaco has two BSc’s degrees, one in Childhood Education and a second one in Educational Psychology and Rehabilitation. Professor Cavaco has also a Master in Educational Practices and in Educational Psychology in the Specialty of Special Educational Needs. All of these four degrees were awarded by the University of Algarve. Moreover, Prof. Nora Cavaco holds a post-graduation degree in Neuropsychology and Dementias by the University of Barcelona and a Second post-graduation degree in Neuroscience Applied to Education by FASP University, Faculty of Social Services in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Also, Professor Nora Cavaco received her PhD degree in Childhood and Family Education, Psychopedagogical Intervention and Development attributed by the University of Málaga. Currently, she is a member of SICA International Research Group at University of Huelva. Additionally, Prof Cavaco is also a post-doc student at the Faculty of Psychiatry in USP University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Furthermore, since 2006 Prof Nora has been University Professor in the field of Special Education. Her research focus is autism, health and psychology. In addition to these, she has also been Director of the Degree in Psychology and Director of two Master’s degrees: one of them in Special Education: cognitive and motor domains; and of another MSc’s in Educational Psychology. Prof Cavaco has several publications with great scientific relevance in her areas of study. She has also travelled throughout the country teaching Special Education. Also, she is a member of the scientific committees of the international magazine Cesuca in Rio Grande do Sul and of GREI Interdisciplinary Studies Group, where she also writes about numerous subjects related to psychological health, special and regular education. All in all, she is a national and international congresswoman and researcher.

Autism, cognitive and motor domains

Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders. His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers.
He spent the past 6 years developing a treatment modality for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Over the years, with volunteers, he found that it was effective with clients suffering from a major depressive episode as well
To know more please visit- http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/mediakit.html

Personality Disorder, Narcissism, Psychopaths

Abrar AlMajed is from Riyadh the capital of Saudi Arabia, she had a bachelor degree in psychology from King Saud University, and now she is pursuing her master degree in clinical psychology from college of medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University. Abrar works as assistant psychologist at King Fahad Medical City. She had studied abroad for three years in the United States where she studied English as a second language and then had a chance to be an intern at mental hospital for four months in Wisconsin state. she chooses clinical psychology as career because she believes that psychological suffering can be reduced and quality of life can be enhanced. Her area of interest in research are stigma and cross-cultural studies. In the near future, Abrar hopes to start her own podcast to advocate people of Saudi about mental health and increase awareness.

Mental Health, Mental Health Stigma