28th & 29th September 2009, Mental Health & the Issues Facing Society : Rehabilitation, Social Involvement and Professionnal Integration - Luxembourg (Mersch). The call is open to all relevant fields of Social Psychiatry in the following context: What ways of promoting social inclusion (integration and participation) are available to people with mental illnesses? Why do we need them? How should they be implemented? What is effective? The symposium will focus on the current state of research, practices that prevent social exclusion, and the rehabilitation, reintegration and social participation of individuals suffering with a mental illness. The International Conference on Social Psychiatry in Luxembourg will bring together researchers, practitioners, political experts and people from various other disciplines (medicine, psychology, social work etc). In keeping with the interdisciplinary dialogue expected at the symposium we invite researchers from the fields of medicine, humanities and social sciences, and other disciplines, but also healthcare professionals and social workers, and representatives from industry. Terms of Submission: Proposals must be sent by electronic mail before the 30th March 2009 to: The proposals should be presented in an abstract of no more than 4000 letters, not including spaces, as a file attachment (entitled: proposition_colloque_mai2009) in a .doc format. Selection Process Abstracts and complete articles will be read and selected by the symposium’s scientific committee. Each author will receive a reply indicating the acceptance or rejection of their article according to the agreed criteria. Articles that are conditionally accepted should make amendments according to the notes made by the reader. Technical Requirements The final documents should take the shape of a .doc format file with between 25 000 and 30 000 letters, including spaces, containing the title, the abstract, the text and, where relevant, the illustrations numbered incrementally (figure 1, figure 2 etc). Illustrations should be in jpeg format (one file per illustration, saved with the name and number of the illustration) and should be sent in a zip file along with the text, with the same name as the article. Two files should therefore be sent, eg: mytext.doc and mytext.zip. Publication
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