More than 150 professionals of all Spain will meet the III Conference on schizophrenia.

-Under the theme of the aspects psychosocial ” of schizophrenia, will be in common issues and advances in research into a disease that affects nearly half a million people in Spain

– will have essential role new therapies as project IDEFIX, therapy with dogs than, of how pioneer, is being developed in the San Luis hospital complex of Palencia

– is confirmed the presence the main researchers on issues of schizophrenia and the recovery of patients for a life in society as standardized as possible

-the sisters hospital is a non-profit which currently has three centres in Castile and León, Spain: CH San Luis Palencia, CH Benito Menni of Valladolid and CA Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes in Burgos

Valladolid, September of 2011- the hospital Benito Menni Valladolid Centre will host the III National Conference on Schizophrenia on October 21. More than 150 professionals from all Spain, to address various aspects of mental illness, as well as advances will meet in treatment.

With these days again face the great challenge of improving the social acceptance of the persons concerned of schizophrenia, which have limited their personal development, with the aim of eliminating social stigmatization. During these days, will explore the latest advances in the treatment of schizophrenia, a disease that already affects 460,000 people in Spain and still the science does not know in depth ” points out Rubén de la Fuente, managing director of the centers of the hospital sisters in Castilla y León during the days, will be given special attention to the advances in research as well as the results of innovative treatments such as pioneer project IDEFIX, therapy dogs, which is developing the complex hospitalier San Luís de Palencia.

These meetings are sponsored by the Fundación María Josefa Recio, institution non-profit whose aim is to help and defend the interests of people with mental disabilities or mental illness through the protection of persons with disabilities and the development of projects of research and teaching.

Profile of the hospital sisters

The Congregation of the sisters hospital has treated more than 16,000 people in Castile and León, Spain since 1989, more dependent on cases in all areas of mental illness, dementia, elderly, intellectual disability, and rehabilitation.

In our country, the hospital sisters have 28 care centres distributed in eleven autonomous regions: Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Basque country, Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Andalusia and Canary Islands.

Throughout its centuries-old existence, the hospital sisters have extended by 27 countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia, offering more than 20,000 places for the care of people with mental illness and/or any pathology.

Schizophrenia day

(Centre Hospitalier Benito Menni, Pº Juan Carlos I, nº 10 – Valladolid)
Program
09: 00 to 09: 30 reception attendees, accreditation and delivery documentation.
09: 30 to 10: 00 opening.
10: 00 to 11: 00 keynote: “treatments psychosocial: something more than a hope ”
Dr. Fermin Mayoral Cleries
11: 00 to 11: 30 round table: rehabilitation interdisciplinary psychosocial in schizophrenia ”
” usefulness of new technologies and procedures in the rehabilitation and
recovery of the person with enf. “” Mental ” “
Dr. Manuel a. Franco Martín
rehabilitation in patients with refractory schizophrenia psychosocial ”
MS Amaya Ortiz de Zarate Augustine
11: 30 to 13: 30″Psychological techniques for schizophrenia psychosocial rehabilitation”
D. Alejandro Florit Robles
16: 30 to 18: 10 panel discussion:”New trends in the schizophrenia psychosocial intervention”
16: 30 to 16: 40 functional evaluation in patients with schizophrenia ”
Dr.” Jesus j. of the Gándara Martin
16: 40-16: 50 hyperprolactinemia by antipsychotics: is clinically relevant? ”
Dr. Ángel Luis Montejo González
16: 50 to 17: 00 staff therapy of schizophrenia ”
Dr. Francisco of the elm Romero-Nieva
17: 00 to 17: 10 effects of a cognitive rehabilitation program: neurocognitive study ”
Dr. Jesus j. Gomar Soñes
17: 10-17: 20 “study Icaro in patients treated with antipsychotic drugs for the first time: characteristics
and perspectives ”
DRA.” Natalia Jimeno Bulnes
17: 20 to 17: 30 industrial aspects in the rehabilitation of psychoses ”
Dr. Ricardo Martinez Gallardo
17: 30 to 17: 40 intervention in Grave Mental Disorder perspective Contextual –
functional ”
D. Carlos Francisco Salgado Pascual
17: 40-17: 50 project IDEFIX. Therapy assisted by dogs
D. Emilio black González
17: 50-18: 00 assessment of the level of dependence due to mental disease ”
Ms. Teresa Orihuela Villameriel
18: 00 to 18: 10 application of new technologies ”
D. Jaime Gómez García-Bermejo
18: 30 to 19: 30 closing conference: Investigation on Schizophrenia in Spain ”
Dr. Benedict Crespo-Facorro
19: 30-19: 50 conclusions and closing