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16th National Congress of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP)
Submitted: 27 September 2010 | Published: 01 October 2010
About the author(s)
Christer Allgulander, Karolinska Institute, SwedenOrlando Alonso Betancourt, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa
David Blackbeard, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Helen Clark, Private Practice
Franco Colin, Private Practice
Sarah Cooper, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town; Department of Health, Northern Cape
Robin Emsley, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University W/Cape
Lennart Eriksson, G J Crooks Hospital and Private Practice, KwaZulu-Natal
Oye Gureje, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ibadan
Angelos Halaris, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine Chicago
Sue Hawkridge, Principal child and adolescent psychiatrist, Metro East, Western Cape Province; Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University
Elizabeth Howell, The Lundbeck Institute, Copenhagen Denmark
Bernard Janse van Rensburg, Division of Psychiatry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Yasmien Jeenah, Division of Psychiatry, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Gerhard Jordaan, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Andre F Joubert, The Lundbeck Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sean Kaliski, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Forensic Psychiatry, Valkenberg Hospital
E Kinyada, MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on Aids
N K Kirimi, West End Hospital, N Cape
Sharon Kleintjes, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
Liezl Kramer, Private Practice
Gian Lippi, University of Pretoria
Crick Lund, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
Dan Mkize, Head of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Povl Munk-Jorgensen, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Unit for Psychiatric Research, Aalborg, Denmark
Mo Nagdee, Fort England Hospital, Grahamstown, Cape Town
David M Ndetei, Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Africa Mental Health Foundation, Kenya
A Parkinson, Lead Pharmacist, Lnacashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Parkwood Lancashire
Charles Parry, Alcohol and drug abuse research unit, Medical Research Council and department of psychiatry, Stellenbosch University
Vikram Patel, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Sangath, Goa, India
Inge Petersen, School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Willie Pienaar, Stellenbosch University and associated psychiatric hospitals of the Western Cape
Janus Pretorius, Department of Psychiatry, University of the Free State
Suvira Ramlall, Departments of Psychiatry and TeleHealth, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Louw Roos, University of Pretoria
Shaquir Salduker,
Manfred Spitzer, University of ULM, Transfer Center for Neuroscience and learning, Germany
Christopher Szabo, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Thandi van Heyningen, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
Jacques J M van Hoof, Kapershof 17, Beuningen 6641 JR, The Netherlands
C W (Werdie) van Staden, Division of Philosophy and ethics of mental health, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist (Weskoppies Hospital); Editor: South African Journal of Psychiatry; Managing Editor: Philosophy, Ethics & Humanities in Medicine
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List of abstracts and authors:
1. Antipsychotics in anxiety disorders
Christer Allgulander
2. Anxiety in somatic disorders
Christer Allgulander
3. Community rehabilitation of the schizophrenic patient
Orlando Alonso Betancourt, Maricela Morales Herrera
4. Dual diagnosis: A theory-driven multidisciplinary approach for integrative care
David Blackbeard
5. The emotional language of the gut - when 'psyche' meets 'soma'
Helen Clark
6. The Psychotherapy of bipolar disorder
Franco Colin
7. The Psychotherapy of bipolar disorder
Franco Colin
8. Developing and adopting mental health policies and plans in Africa: Lessons from South Africa, Uganda and Zambia
Sara Cooper, Sharon Kleintjes, Cynthia Isaacs, Fred Kigozi, Sheila Ndyanabangi, Augustus Kapungwe, John Mayeya, Michelle Funk, Natalie Drew, Crick Lund
9. The importance of relapse prevention in schizophrenia
Robin Emsley
10. Mental Health care act: Fact or fiction?
Helmut Erlacher, M Nagdee
11. Does a dedicated 72-hour observation facility in a district hospital reduce the need for involuntary admissions to a psychiatric hospital?
Lennart Eriksson
12. The incidence and risk factors for dementia in the Ibadan study of ageing
Oye Gureje, Lola Kola, Adesola Ogunniyi, Taiwo Abiona
13. Is depression a disease of inflammation?
Angelos Halaris
14. Paediatric bipolar disorder: More heat than light?
Sue Hawkridge
15. EBM: Anova Conundrum
Elizabeth L (Hoepie) Howell
16. Tracking the legal status of a cohort of inpatients on discharge from a 72-hour assessment unit
Bernard Janse van Rensburg
17. Dual diagnosis units in psychiatric facilities: Opportunities and challenges
Yasmien Jeenah
18. Alcohol-induced psychotic disorder: A comparative study on the clinical characteristics of patients with alcohol dependence and schizophrenia
Gerhard Jordaan, D G Nel, R Hewlett, R Emsley
19. Anxiety disorders: the first evidence for a role in preventive psychiatry
Andre F Joubert
20. The end of risk assessment and the beginning of start
Sean Kaliski
21. Psychiatric disorders abd psychosocial correlates of high HIV risk sexual behaviour in war-effected Eatern Uganda
E Kinyada, H A Weiss, M Mungherera, P Onyango Mangen, E Ngabirano, R Kajungu, J Kagugube, W Muhwezi, J Muron, V Patel
22. One year of Forensic Psychiatric assessment in the Northern Cape: A comparison with an established assessment service in the Eastern Cape
N K Kirimi, C Visser
23. Mental Health service user priorities for service delivery in South Africa
Sharon Kleintjes, Crick Lund, Leslie Swartz, Alan Flisher and MHaPP Research Programme Consortium
24. The nature and extent of over-the-counter and prescription drug abuse in cape town
Liezl Kramer
25. Physical health issues in long-term psychiatric inpatients: An audit of nursing statistics and clinical files at Weskoppies Hospital
Christa Kruger
26. Suicide risk in Schizophrenia - 20 Years later, a cohort study
Gian Lippi, Ean Smit, Joyce Jordaan, Louw Roos
27.Developing mental health information systems in South Africa: Lessons from pilot projects in Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal
Crick Lund, S Skeen, N Mapena, C Isaacs, T Mirozev and the Mental Health and Poverty Research Programme Consortium Institution
28. Mental health aspects of South African emigration
Maria Marchetti-Mercer
29. What services SADAG can offer your patients
Elizabeth Matare
30. Culture and language in psychiatry
Dan Mkize
31. Latest psychotic episode
Povl Munk-Jorgensen
32. The Forensic profile of female offenders
Mo Nagdee, Helmut Fletcher
33. The intra-personal emotional impact of practising psychiatry
Margaret Nair
34. Highly sensitive persons (HSPs) and implications for treatment
Margaret Nair
35. Task shifting in mental health - The Kenyan experience
David M Ndetei
36. Bridging the gap between traditional healers and mental health in todya's modern psychiatry
David M Ndetei
37. Integrating to achieve modern psychiatry
David M Ndetei
38. Non-medical prescribing: Outcomes from a pharmacist-led post-traumatic stress disorder clinic
A Parkinson
39. Is there a causal relationship between alcohol and HIV? Implications for policy, practice and future research
Charles Parry
40. Global mental health - A new global health discipline comes of age
Vikram Patel
41. Integrating mental health into primary health care: Lessons from pilot District demonstration sites in Uganda and South Africa
Inge Petersen, Arvin Bhana, K Baillie and MhaPP Research Programme Consortium
42. Personality disorders -The orphan child in axis I - Axis II Dichotomy
Willie Pienaar
43. Case Studies in Psychiatric Ethics
Willie Pienaar
44. Coronary artery disease and depression: Insights into pathogenesis and clinical implications
Janus Pretorius
45. Impact of the Mental Health Care Act No. 17 of 2002 on designated hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal: Triumphs and trials
Suvira Ramlall, Jennifer Chipps
46. Biological basis of addication
Solomon Rataemane
47. Genetics of Schizophrenia
Louw Roos
48. Management of delirium - Recent advances
Shaquir Salduker
49. Social neuroscience: Brain research on social issues
Manfred Spitzer
50. Experiments on the unconscious
Manfred Spitzer
51. The Psychology and neuroscience of music
Manfred Spitzer
52. Mental disorders in DSM-V
Dan Stein
53. Personality, trauma exposure, PTSD and depression in a cohort of SA Metro policemen: A longitudinal study
Ugashvaree Subramaney
54. Eating disorders: An African perspective
Christopher Szabo
55. An evaluation of the WHO African Regional strategy for mental health 2001-2010
Thandi van Heyningen, M Majavu, C Lund
56. A unitary model for the motor origin of bipolar mood disorders and schizophrenia
Jacques J M van Hoof
57. The origin of mentalisation and the treatment of personality disorders
Jacques J M Hoof
58. How to account practically for 'The Cause' in psychiatric diagnostic classification
C W (Werdie) van Staden
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
59. Problem drinking and physical and sexual abuse at WSU Faculty of Health Sciences, Mthatha, 2009
Orlando Alonso Betancourt, Maricela Morales Herrera, E, N Kwizera, J L Bernal Munoz
60. Prevalence of alcohol drinking problems and other substances at WSU Faculty of Health Sciences, Mthatha, 2009
Orlando Alonso Betancourt, Maricela Morales Herrera, E, N Kwizera, J L Bernal Munoz
61. Lessons learnt from a modified assertive community-based treatment programme in a developing country
Ulla Botha, Liezl Koen, John Joska, Linda Hering, Piet Ooosthuizen
62. Perceptions of psychologists regarding the use of religion and spirituality in therapy
Ottilia Brown, Diane Elkonin
63. Resilience in families where a member is living with schizophreni
Ottilia Brown, Jason Haddad, Greg Howcroft
64. Fusion and grandiosity - The mastersonian approach to the narcissistic disorder of the self
William Griffiths, D Macklin, Loray Daws
65. Not being allowed to exist - The mastersonian approach to the Schizoid disorder of the self
William Griffiths, D Macklin, Loray Daws
66. Risky drug-injecting behaviours in Cape Town and the need for a needle exchange programme
Volker Hitzeroth
67. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome in adolescents in the Western Cape: A case series
Terri Henderson
68. Experience and view of local academic psychiatrists on the role of spirituality in South African specialist psychiatry, compared with a qualitative analysis of the medical literature
Bernard Janse van Rensburg
69. The role of defined spirituality in local specialist psychiatric practice and training: A model and operational guidelines for South African clinical care scenarios
Bernard Janse van Rensburg
70. Handedness in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder in an Afrikaner founder population
Marinda Joubert, J L Roos, J Jordaan
71. A role for structural equation modelling in subtyping schizophrenia in an African population
Liezl Koen, Dana Niehaus, Esme Jordaan, Robin Emsley
72. Caregivers of disabled elderly persons in Nigeria
Lola Kola, Oye Gureje, Adesola Ogunniyi, Dapo Olley
73. HIV Seropositivity in recently admitted and long-term psychiatric inpatients: Prevalence and diagnostic profile
Christina Kruger, M P Henning, L Fletcher
74. Syphilis seropisitivity in recently admitted longterm psychiatry inpatients: Prevalence and diagnostic profile
Christina Kruger, M P Henning, L Fletcher
75. 'The Great Suppression'
Sarah Lamont, Joel Shapiro, Thandi Groves, Lindsey Bowes
76. Not being allowed to grow up - The Mastersonian approach to the borderline personality
Daleen Macklin, W Griffiths
77. Exploring the internal confirguration of the cycloid personality: A Rorschach comprehensive system study
Daleen Macklin, Loray Daws, M Aronstam
78. A survey to determine the level of HIV related knowledge among adult psychiatric patients admitted to Weskoppies Hospital
T G Magagula, M M Mamabolo, C Kruger, L Fletcher
79. A survey of risk behaviour for contracting HIV among adult psychiatric patients admitted to Weskoppies Hospital
M M Mamabolo, T G Magagula, C Kruger, L Fletcher
80. A retrospective review of state sector outpatients (Tara Hospital) prescribed Olanzapine: Adherence to metabolic and cardiovascular screening and monitoring guidelines
Carina Marsay, C P Szabo
81. Reported rapes at a hospital rape centre: Demographic and clinical profiles
Lindi Martin, Kees Lammers, Donavan Andrews, Soraya Seedat
82. Exit examination in Final-Year medical students: Measurement validity of oral examinations in psychiatry
Mpogisheng Mashile, D J H Niehaus, L Koen, E Jordaan
83. Trends of suicide in the Transkei region of South Africa
Banwari Meel
84. Functional neuro-imaging in survivors of torture
Thriya Ramasar, U Subramaney, M D T H W Vangu, N S Perumal
85. Newly diagnosed HIV+ in South Africa: Do men and women enroll in care?
Dinesh Singh, S Hoffman, E A Kelvin, K Blanchard, N Lince, J E Mantell, G Ramjee, T M Exner
86. Diagnostic utitlity of the International HIC Dementia scale for Asymptomatic HIV-Associated neurocognitive impairment and HIV-Associated neurocognitive disorder in South Africa
Dinesh Singh, K Goodkin, D J Hardy, E Lopez, G Morales
87. The Psychological sequelae of first trimester termination of pregnancy (TOP): The impact of resilience
Ugashvaree Subramaney
88. Drugs and other therapies under investigation for PTSD: An international database
Sharain Suliman, Soraya Seedat
89. Frequency and correlates of HIV Testing in patients with severe mental illness
Hendrik Temmingh, Leanne Parasram, John Joska, Tania Timmermans, Pete Milligan, Helen van der Plas, Henk Temmingh
90. A proposed mental health service and personnel organogram for the Elizabeth Donkin psychiatric Hospital
Stephan van Wyk, Zukiswa Zingela
91. A brief report on the current state of mental health care services in the Eastern Cape
Stephan van Wyk, Zukiswa Zingela, Kiran Sukeri, Heloise Uys, Mo Nagdee, Maricela Morales, Helmut Erlacher, Orlando Alonso
92. An integrated mental health care service model for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro
Stephan van Wyk, Zukiswa Zingela, Kiran Sukeri
93. Traditional and alternative healers: Prevalence of use in psychiatric patients
Zukiswa Zingela, S van Wyk, W Esterhuysen, E Carr, L Gaauche
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