International Conference on Psychiatry at King Saud University
The activities of the Second World Conference on Psychiatry at King Saud University, which was held under the title (Stress, Anxiety and Health), which was held during the period 18-19 February 2015, corresponding to 29-30 Rabi al-Akhir 1436 AH, were concluded at the Marriott Hotel in Riyadh, and opened by the Vice-President for Health Specialties and Executive Director General The Medical City has Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Muammar, in the presence of the Dean of the College of Medicine and the supervisor of university hospitals, Dr. Fahd Al-Zamil, and a number of consultants and specialists in the field of mental health from various hospitals in the Kingdom. The Saudi Psychiatry Association, the Arab Psychiatrists Association and the World Psychiatric Association, and the conference witnessed an unprecedented turnout, as more than six thousand participants were registered in the conference. The conference also included a scientific program that provides (33) lectures and (7) training workshops within two days, presented by (29) speakers from elite doctors, psychologists and sociologists from within the Kingdom and from Kuwait, America, Britain and Canada. It should be noted that the conference contained two tracks, one in English and the other in Arabic. In addition, up to (25) training hours were approved by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties and the pre-conference workshops.
The attendees were from different specialties: psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and many other specialties such as dentistry and family medicine, as well as the presence of a large number of students from several universities. The scientific program won the admiration of a large segment of the audience. The conference dealt with several topics including anxiety disorders, how to deal with shocks, methods of dealing with stress, adjustment disorders and how to deal with them, and pressures at work and its consequences. The conference included several seminars and workshops with various titles.
The English track consisted of lectures that dealt with developments in anxiety disorders, as well as the relationship of stress to other disorders such as sleep disorders, as well as the effect of stress on children.
The Arab track also contained various lectures, including
A lecture "Towards a distinguished therapeutic relationship" presented by Dr. Muhammad Al-Youssef explained through it what are the nine pillars scientifically proven through studies that they directly contribute to establishing a professionally distinguished therapeutic relationship in the field of mental health.
In another lecture, she talked about the challenges facing scholarship students in the work and study environment, presented by Dr. Bandar Al-Aqeel stated in it that the scholarship and exposure to different cultures and a study or work environment different from what the student or practitioner is accustomed to is one of the most important enrichment experiences for a person who is eager to increase his experience and experience. However, the scholarship student may face a set of challenges in the work or study environment once he arrives at the mission headquarters and becomes involved in the surrounding environment, the most important of which are the difference in the language and the way of dealing with the other party.
Dr. Omar Al-Mudayfer gave a lecture entitled Parental pressure and what to do with children, while Dr. Mansour Al-Dahiman, a lecture on the pressures of caregivers, which consisted of a review of articles from different parts of the world on the subject of caregivers, with the aim of opening the doors to a topic that affects us all, especially since research and scientific papers are very scarce in the Arab library.
Dr. Sultan Al-Shahrani is the relationship of sleep and stress, and it became clear that sleep is one of the biological factors sensitive to stress and stress. And that people who suffer from PTSD have influential sleep disorders that directly interfere with their normal lives and cause dysfunction at many personal and social levels, and he shed light on the relationship between sleep and stress, as well as PTSD and the effect of some on the other.
And Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Shamrani on the relationship of stress with addiction and recovery from it and explained that the most severe effects of stress and feeling of anguish on addiction and the most related to it is relapse and recurrence of abuse after recovery even if this recovery lasts for a long time, and it may be behind the conditional link between them, but addiction also interferes with the response process. The natural individual for stress, which makes him vulnerable to resist the temptations to relapse. Hence the importance of awareness and awareness of addiction therapists of the importance of discovering such pressures and knowing how addicts deal with them in order to develop appropriate interventions that help patients to deal with them healthily. And Dr. Ahmad Al-Shaya on the psychological explanation of the emergence, persistence, and relapse of symptoms in people with bipolar disorder.
There were scientific researches and studies carried out in the Saudi environment presented by distinguished doctors, trained doctors and psychologists, including psychological distress and its impact on academic performance on students of the College of Medicine presented by Dr. Hatem Asiri (Distinguished Physician), and a study on the effectiveness of educational interventions in reducing anxiety in patients before operations (research study) presented by Prof. Alaa Al-Anzi, and a study on anxiety in the operating room, the percentage of anxiety and its causes among surgeons in the operating room (research study) presented by Dr. Afnan Al-Morshedy, and work pressures and ways to deal with them (research study) presented by Dr. Ayed Al-Ghamdi.
The workshops were in Arabic on the first day under the title of Managing Stress in the Work Environment, presented by Dr. Iman Aba Hussain, and the second, entitled Psychoanalysis in Anxiety Clinic, presented by Dr. Ghada Al Saad. On the second day, the first workshop was entitled Behavioral therapy for an obsessive-compulsive patient with the method of exposure and response prevention, and it was presented jointly by Dr. The happiness of humans and d. Dalal Al-Radaan from Kuwait. And provided both d. Noah Jewels and Dr. Hayat Al-Harithi, a workshop entitled wedding night phobia and how to treat it.
The President of the Conference, Prof. Dr.. Fatima bint Abdulrahman Al-Haidar, Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Head of the Scientific Committee at the conference, thanks to His Excellency Dr. Fahd bin Abdullah Al-Zamil for his support of the events.
For his part, Dr. Ahmed bin Nayef Al-Hadi, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, thanked all the speakers who enriched the conference with their lectures and useful workshops, the scientific committees, the organization and the sponsors who had a great impact on the success and distinction of the conference. The biggest thanks go to all those who attended the conference and participated in this scientific event.
