Congress Abstracts
The 15th Biannual National Congress of the South African Society of Psychiatrists, 10-14 August 2008, Fancourt, George, W Cape
Submitted: 15 September 2008 | Published: 01 August 2008
About the author(s)
Eugene Allers, Psychiatrist in private practiceU A Botha, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, Stikland & Tygerberg Hospitals
O A Betancourt, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, E Cap
B Chiliza, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg
Helen Clark, Child, Adolescent and Family Unit; Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital; Soweto; Johannesburg
J Dill, Chaplain Services Division, South African National Defence Force
Robin Emsley, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, W Cape
Mike Ewart Smith, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
Alan J Flisher, University of Cape Town; Lancet Global Mental Health Group
Christoffel Grobler, Principal psychiatrist: Polokwane/Mankweng Hospital Complex, Polokwane; Regional Psychiatrist: Waterberg Area, Limpopo Provinc
S M Hawkridge, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town; Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University; Western Cape Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Volker Hitzeroth, Psychiatrist in private practice
A B R Janse van Rensburg, Helen Joseph Hospital and Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesbur
F Y Jeenah, Division of Psychiatry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
S A Jeeva, Melrose Arch, Gauteng
G Jonsson, Neuropsychiatric Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (CHB), Soweto
John Joska, HIV/Neuropsychiatry Programme, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape Town
Andre Joubert, Lundbeck Institute, Copenhagen
Sean Kaliski, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Tow
Sharon Kleintjes, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Liezl Kramer, Psychiatrists in private practice
Ritsuko Kakuma, Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town
Carri Lewis, Weskoppies Hospital, Pretoria
Crick Lund, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
P Milligan, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
D L Mkize, Department of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
N M Moola, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria and Weskoppies Hospital
Margaret Nair, Department of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
R J Nichol, Department of Psychiatry, University of the Free State
J S Parker, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
Vikram Patel, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK) and Sangath (India)
Duncan Ian Rodseth, Psychiatrist in private practice, Johannesburg
P J Pretorius,
T Rangaka, 1 Military Hospital, South African Military Health Services; President of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP)
Solomon Rataemane, Department of Psychiatry, University of Limpopo, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Nathan P Rogerson, Clinical psychologist in private practice
Deleyn Rosema, Weskoppies Hospital, Pretoria
M S Salduker, Durban Pain Clinic
L Scribante, Weskoppies Hospital, University of Pretoria
Dinesh Singh, HIV Prevention Research Unit, Medical Research Council, South Africa
Ugash Subramaney, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
M Talatala, Department of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durba
H S Temmingh, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, W Cape
Rita Thom, Division of Psychiatry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Ronel van der Westhuizen, Weskoppies Hospital
Margaretha S van Heerden, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa
Werdie van Staden, University of Pretoria
Herman van Vuuren, Radiologist, Cape Town
Urvashi Vasant, Department of Psychiatry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
Bavanisha Vythilingum, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town; MRC Research Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch
Lize Weich, University of Stellenbosch and Stikland Hospital, W Cape
Denise White, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
Dora Wynchank,
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1. How can we maintain a sustainable private practice in the current political and economic climate?
Eugene Allers
2. SASOP Clinical guidelines, protocols and algorithms: Development of treatment guidelines for bipolar mood disorder and major depression
Eugene Allers, Margaret Nair, Gerhard Grobler
3. The revolving door phenomenon in psychiatry: Comparing low-frequency and high-frequency users of psychiatric inpatient services in a developing country
U A Botha, P Oosthuien, L Koen, J A Joska, J Parker, N Horn
4. Neurophysiology of emotion and senses - The interface between psyche and soma
Eugene Allers
5. Suicide prevention: From and beyond the psychiatrist's hands
O Alonso Betanourt, M Morales Herrera
6. Treatment of first-episod psychosis: Efficacy and toleabilty of a long-acting typical antipsychotic
B Chiliza, R Schoeman, R Emsey, P Oosthuizen, L KOen, D Niehaus, S Hawkridge
7. Treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the young child
Helen Clark
8. Holistic/ Alternative treatment in psychiatry: The value of indigenous knowledge systems in cllaboration with moral, ethical and religious approaches in the military services
J Dill
9. Treating Schizophrenia: Have we got it wrong?
Robin Emsley
10.Terminal questions in the elderly
Mike Ewart Smith
11. Mental Health Policy development and implementation in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia
Alan J Flisher, Crick Lund, Michelle Frank, Arvin Bhana, Victor Doku, Natalie Drew, Fred N Kigozi, Martin Knapp, Mayeh Omar, Inge Petersen, Andrew Green andthe MHaPP Research Programme Consortium
12. What indicators should be used to monitor progress in scaling uo services for people with mental disorders?
Lancet Global Mental Health Group (Alan J Flisher, Dan Chisholm, Crick Lund, Vikram Patel, Shokhar Saxena, Graham Thornicroft, Mark Tomlinson)
13. Does unipolar mania merit research in South Africa? A look at the literature
Christoffel Grobler
14. Revisiting the Cartesian duality of mind and body
Oye Gureje
15. Child and adolescent psychopharmacology: Current trends and complexities
S M Hawkridge
16. Integrating mental illness, suicide and religion
Volker Hitzeroth
17. Cost of acute inpatient mental health care in a 72-hour assessment uniy
A B R Janse van Rensburg, W Jassat
18. Management of Schizophrenia according to South African standard treatment guidelines
A B R Janse van Rensburg
19. Structural brain imaging in the clinical management of psychiatric illness
F Y Jeenah
20. ADHD: Change in symptoms from child to adulthood
S A Jeeva, A Turgay
21. HIV-Positive psychiatric patients in antiretrovirals
G Jonsson, F Y Jeenah, M Y H Moosa
22. A one year review of patients admitted to tertiary HIV/Neuropsychiatry beds in the Western Cape
John Joska, Paul Carey, Ian Lewis, Paul Magni, Don Wilson, Dan J Stein
23. Star'd - Critical review and treatment implications
Andre Joubert
24. Options for treatment-resistent depression: Lessons from Star'd; an interactive session
Andre Joubert
25. My brain made me do it: How Neuroscience may change the insanity defence
Sean Kaliski
26. Child andadolescent mental health services in four African countries
Sharon Kleintjies, Alan Flisher, Victoruia Campbell-Hall, Arvin Bhana, Phillippa Bird, Victor Doku, Natalie, Drew, Michelle Funk, Andrew Green, Fred Kigozi, Crick Lund, Angela Ofori-Atta, Mayeh Omar, Inge Petersen, Mental Health and Poverty Research Programme Consortium
27. Individualistic theories of risk behaviour
Liezl Kramer, Volker Hitzeroth
28. Development and implementation of mental health poliy and law in South Africa: What is the impact of stigma?
Ritsuko Kakuma, Sharon Kleintjes, Crick Lund, Alan J Flisher, Paula Goering, MHaPP Research Programme Consortium
29. Factors contributing to community reintegration of long-term mental health crae users of Weskoppies Hospital
Carri Lewis, Christa Kruger
30. Mental health and poverty: A systematic review of the research in low- and middle-income countries
Crick Lund, Allison Breen, Allan J Flisher, Ritsuko Kakuma, Leslie Swartz, John Joska, Joanne Corrigall, Vikram Patel, MHaPP Research Programe Consortium
31. The cost of scaling up mental health care in low- and middle-income countries
Crick Lund, Dan Chishlom, Shekhar Saxena
32. 'Tikking'Clock: The impact of a methamphetamine epidemic at a psychiatric hospital in the Western Cape
P Milligan, J S Parker
33. Durban youth healh-sk behaviour: Prevalence f Violence-related behaviour
D L Mkize
34. Profile of morality of patients amitted Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital in Sout frican over a 5-Year period (2001-2005)
N M Moola, N Khamker, J L Roos, P Rheeder
35. One flew over Psychiatry nest
Leverne Mountany
36. The ethical relationship betwe psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical indutry
Margaret G Nair
37. Developing the frameor of a postgraduate da programme in mental health
R J Nichol, B de Klerk, M M Nel, G van Zyl, J Hay
38. An unfolding story: The experience with HIV-ve patients at a Psychiatric Hospital
J S Parker, P Milligan
39. Task shifting: A practical strategy for scalingup mental health care in developing countries
Vikram Patel
40. Ethics: Informed consent and competency in the elderly
Willie Pienaar
41. Confronting ommonmoral dilemmas. Celebrating uncertainty, while in search patient good
Willie Pienaar
42. Moral dilemmas in the treatment and repatriation of patients with psychtorders while visiting our country
Duncan Ian Rodseth
43. Geriatrics workshop (Psegal symposium): Medico-legal issuess in geriatric psyhiatry
Felix Potocnik
44. Brain stimulation techniques - update on recent research
P J Pretorius
45. Holistic/Alternative treatments in psychiatry
T Rangaka, J Dill
46. Cognitive behaviour therapy and other brief interventions for management of substances
Solomon Rataemane
47. A Transtheoretical view of change
Nathan P Rogerson
48. Profile of security breaches in longerm mental health care users at Weskoppies Hospital over a 6-month period
Deleyn Rema, Lindiwe Mthethwa, Christa Kruger
49. Management of psychogenic and chronic pain - A novel approach
M S Salduker
50. Childhood ADHD and bipolar mood disorders: Differences and similarities
L Scribante
51. The choice of antipsychotic in HIV-infected patients and psychopharmacocal responses to antipsychotic medication
Dinesh Singh, Karl Goodkin
52. Pearls in clinical neuroscience: A teaching column in CNS Spectrums
Dan J Stein
53. Urinary Cortisol secretion and traumatics in a cohort of SA Metro policemen A longitudinal study
Ugash Subramaney
54. Canabis use in Psychiatric inpatients
M Talatala, G M Nair, D L Mkize
55. Pathways to care and treatmt in first and multi-episodepsychosis: Findings fm a developing country
H S Teh, P P Oosthuizen
56. Mental disorders in HIV-infected indivat various HIV Treatment sites in South Africa
Rita Thom
57. Attendanc ile of long-term mental health care users at ocupational therapy group sessions at Weskoppies Hospital
Ronel van der Westhuizen, Christa Kruger
58. Epidemiological patterns of extra-medical drug use in South Africa: Results from the South African stress and health study
Margaretha S van Heerden, Anna Grimsrud, David Williams, Dan Stein
59. Persocentred diagnosis: Where d ps and mental disorders fit in the International classificaton of diseases (ICD)?
Werdie van Staden
60. What every psychiatrist needs to know about scans
Herman van Vuuren
61. Psychiatric morbidity in health care workers withle drug-resistant erulosis (MDR-TB) A case series
Urvashi Vasant, Dinesh Singh
62. Association between uetrine artery pulsatility index and antenatal maternal psychological stress
Bavanisha Vythilingum, Lut Geerts, Annerine Roos, Sheila Faure, Dan J Stein
63. Approaching the dual diagnosis dilemma
Lize Weich
64. Women's mental health: Onset of mood disturbance in midlife - Fact or fiction
Denise White
65. Failing or faking: Isses in the fiagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD
Dora Wynchank
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