Ag Smaoineamh, ag Mothú, a Bheith Ann: Peirspictíochtaí Criticiúla agus Rannpháirtíocht Chruthaíoch i Sláinte Síceasóisialta.

About the Conference

It is with great pleasure that the School of Nursing, Dublin City University invites you to the second annual Health4Life conference. The focus of this year's conference is on psychosocial health and is entitled 'Thinking, Feeling, Being: Critical Perspectives and Creative Engagement in Psychosocial Health'. The conference provides an opportunity for practitioners, service users, carers, artists, academics and researchers to present innovative practice, research and/or lived experience relative to psychosocial well-being.

Conference Aims and Objectives

The title of the conference; "Thinking, Feeling, Being" reflects the idea that the experience of health and illness is bound up with our reasoning, emotional and social selves and that similarly; effective healthcare practice involves critical thinking, emotional engagement and awareness of peoples' individual social and cultural contexts. To help us to fully explore these dimensions, the conference will incorporate a mixture of academic and arts based presentations. The official language of the conference is English.

Themes

Key note speakers come from a range of positions and perspectives and will encourage dialogue and debate with the audience on conference themes.

The themes of this conference include:

• Recovery and rehabilitation
• Community and communities that care
• Risk and power
• Advances in psychiatric care and treatment
• "Therapy"
• Bodies and embodiment
• Cultures, understandings and meanings
• Working with/Facilitating expressions of the Self