Conference themes

• Integration or comparison of models, treatment modalities, philosophies
• Recent developments in psychosocial treatments
• Service user initiatives
• Psychotherapies, drama, arts, and music therapies
• The interaction with genetics, epigenetics, and neurology
• Subjective and lived experience of service users and families
• Phenomenology and culture
• Social/cultural factors
• Recovery-definitions, experience, research
• The history of psychosis and psychosocial treatments
• The role of trauma
• Integration of medication and psychosocial treatments
• Education/training of students, staff, or peer workers