25^th World Summit on Psychology, Psychiatry & Psychotherapy October 19-20, 2017 San Francisco, California, USA

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ConferenceSeries LLC LTD heartily invites all the participants to attend 25^th World Summit on Psychology, Psychiatry & Psychotherapy schedule during October 19-20, 2017 at San Francisco, California, USA a leading forum for Psychiatrists, psychologists, Doctors, healthcare professionals, researchers and students.

Psychology 2017 anticipates hundreds of participants around the globe with thought provoking Keynote lectures, Oral and Poster presentations. We are truly honoured to welcome world renowned faculty to Innovate, Educate and invigorate our attendees.

Track 1: Psychology

Psychology is the study of mind and behavior, embracing all aspects of conscious and unconscious experience as well as thought. It is an academic discipline which seeks to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and by researching specific cases. In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a psychologist and is classified as a social, behavioral, or cognitive scientist. Psychologists attempt to understand role of mental functions in individual and social behavior, while also exploring the physiological and biological processes that underlie cognitive functions and behaviors. Psychologists explore mental processes and behavior, including perception, cognition, attention, emotion, intelligence, phenomenology, motivation (conation), brain functioning and personality. Psychology is described as a "hub science", with psychological findings linking to research and perspectives from the social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, humanities and philosophy.

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Track 2: Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, study, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.These include various abnormalities related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. Initially psychiatric assessment of a person begins with a case history and mental status examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted. Psychiatry is a highly visible activity, lack of care in the community, compulsion, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse are few motivation. Starting from the identification of the major mental illnesses and how they are considered distinction from normality. Flourishing of a psychoanalysis and its transformation into more accessible psychotherapies gave a chance for better understanding. Modern psychiatry brings with it new controversies such as the medicalization of normal life, power of the drug companies and the use of psychiatry as an agent of social control.

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Track 3: Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is known as talk therapy. It is a process of psychological method for treating mental health problems by talking with a psychiatrist, psychologist or any other mental health provider. It is a way to treat persons with a mental disorder by helping them understand their illness. It teaches people strategies and gives them tools to deal with stress, unhealthy thoughts and behaviors. The different types of Psychotherapy are Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy and Family Therapy & Group Therapy. Psychotherapy helps us learn how to take control of our life and respond to challenging situations with healthy coping skills.

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Track 4: Psychiatry Disorders

Psychiatric disorder is a psychological syndrome or behavioural pattern that causes suffering or a poor ability to function in ordinary life which occurs in an individual, and shows the symptoms of distress via a painful symptom or increases the risk of death or disability. The term psychiatric disorder means a mental disorder or illness that interferes with the way a person behaves, interacts with others and functions in a daily life. Psychiatric disorders are also known as mental health disorders or mental health illnesses.

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Track 5: Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology

Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology is a specialty in professional psychology that reflects an experimental clinical approach distinguished by the use of principles of human learning and development and theories of cognitive processing to promote meaningful change in thinking and maladaptive human behavior. Behavioural therapies are based on the way you behave or the way you think (cognitive). These therapies recognise that it is possible to change or recondition our behaviour or thoughts to overcome specific problems. Different types of therapies are Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Behavioural therapy & Cognitive therapy, Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT).

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Track 6: Personality Disorders

Personality disorder is a group of mental illnesses. People with personality disorder have problems to maintain healthy relationships. It’s a form of psychiatric disorder. The different types of Personality Disorders are Bipolar disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder. Personality disorders are defined by behaviors and experiences that differ from societal norms and expectations. Those diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, interpersonal functioning, emotiveness, or impulse control. Personality disorders are diagnosed in 40–60% of psychiatric patients that makes them the most frequent of psychiatric diagnosis.

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Track 7: Addiction Psychiatry

Addiction psychiatry is a medical subspecialty that focuses on the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of people who are suffering from one or more disorders related to addiction. This may include disorders involving legal and illegal drugs, food, gambling, sex and other impulse control disorders. Addiction psychiatrists are substance abuse experts. Growing amounts of scientific knowledge, such as the treatments and health effects to substance abuse, have led to advancements in the field of addiction psychiatry.

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Track 8: Mental Health and Rehabilitation

Innovations in the range of evidence based medication, therapies and psycho-social services such as psychiatric rehabilitation, employment, housing and peer supports have made wellness and recovery for people living with mental health conditions. Research showed that half of the cases with mental illness begin by age 14. Treatment options for mental health conditions will vary from person to person. Even people who have the the same diagnosis will have different kinds of experiences, needs, objectives and goals for treatment. Therapy can take many forms, from learning relaxation skills to intensively reworking our thinking patterns. Psychiatrists and psychologists use specially designed assessment tools to evaluate a person for mental illness. Millions of Americans are surviving with mental health problems such as social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, drug addiction and personality disorders. Treatment includes medication and psychotherapy. A psychologist is trained in a way to evaluate and diagnose mental illnesses but usually treats them by counseling or behavioral therapy.

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Track 9: Abnormal and Developmental Psychology

Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as a cause of mental disorder. Although many behaviours could be considered as abnormal, this branch of psychology deals with behavior in a clinical context. The science of abnormal psychology studies two types of behaviors: maladaptive and adaptive behaviors.

Developmental Psychology explains about the development of humans over time. It explain both the effects of nurturing from babies to adults and the effect of nature, as the culture itself evolve through the years and decades. Developmental Psychology is an amalgamation of various disciplines in Psychology which are having a shared purpose but dissimilar from one another in remaining respects.

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Track 10: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Child and adolescent psychiatry or Pediatric Psychiatry is a medical subspecialty that involves working with children, adolescents and thier families with emotional and behavioral illnesses. A child and adolescent psychiatrist offer families the advantage of a medical education, the medical tradition of professional ethics, and medical responsibility for providing comprehensive care. Child and adolescent psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and thier families. It investigates the biopsychosocial factor that influence the development and course of psychiatric disorders and treatment response to various interventions.

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Track 11: Social Psychology

Social psychology is a discipline that had bridged the gap between psychology and sociology. Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, behaviors and feelings are influenced by the actual, implied or imagined presence of others. In this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, behaviors and feelings include all psychological variables that are measurable in a human being.

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Track 12: Forensic Psychology

Forensic psychology is the intersection between psychology and justice system. It is the study to analyse a rapidly growing discipline professionally practiced by psychologists within the areas of clinical psychology, counselling psychology, Forensic statistics, school psychology and they are engaged as experts and represent themselves in an activity primarily intended to provide professional psychological expertise to the judicial system. An important aspect of forensic psychology is the ability to testify in court as an expert witness, reformulating psychological findings into the legal language of the courtroom, providing information to the legal personnel in a way that can be understood.

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Track 13: Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic therapies

Psychoanalysis therapy explores how the unconscious mind influences thoughts and behaviours, with the aim of offering insight and resolution to the person seeking therapy. Psychoanalytic therapy tends to look at experiences from early childhood to see if these events have potentially contributed to the current concerns or affected the individual’s life. This form of therapy is considered as a long-term choice and can continue for weeks, months or even years depending on the depth of the concern being explored. Differing from several other therapy types, psychoanalytic therapy aims to make deep-seated changes in personality and emotional development.

Psychodynamic therapy or psychodynamic counselling is a therapeutic approach that embraces the work of all analytic therapies. The aim of psychodynamic therapy is to bring the unconscious mind into consciousness, helping individuals to experience and understand their true or deep-rooted feelings in order to resolve them. It takes the view that our unconscious holds onto painful memories and feelings, which are too difficult for the conscious mind to process. In order to ensure these experiences and memories do not surface, many people will develop defences, such as projections and denial. According to psychodynamic therapy, these defences will often do more harm than good.   

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Track 14:  Psychological Syndromes

Psychologists define a psychological syndromes broadly as psychological dysfunction in an individual that is associated with impairment or distress and a reaction that is not culturally expected. Psychological dysfunction refers to the cessation of purposeful functioning of cognition, behaviour or emotions. A psychological syndrome is a disorder of the mind involving thoughts, emotions and behaviors that cause either self or others significant distress. Significant distress can mean the person is unable to meet personal needs on their own, to function or are a danger to themselves or others. Another definition of mental illness is a person's inability to work or to love.

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Track 15: Psychiatric nursing

Psychiatric nursing is a area of nursing practice committed to promoting mental health through the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric mental health nursing is a core mental health profession that employs a purposeful use of self as its art and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and neurobiological theory and research evidence as its science. Psychiatric mental health nurses provide comprehensive, patient-centered mental health and psychiatric care and outcome evaluation in a variety of setting across the entire continuum of care. Essential components of this specialty practice include wellness and health promotion through identification of mental health issues, prevention of mental health problems and care and treatment of people with psychiatric disorders.

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An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older or about one in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder. When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, figure translates to 57.7 million people. 20.9 million American adults, or about 9.5 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older have a mood disorder. In 2004, 32,439 people died by suicide in the U.S. 2.4 million American adults, or about 1.1 percent of the population age 18 and older have schizophrenia. 40 million American or about 18.1 percent adults ages 18 and older, have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders cost the U.S. more than $42 billion a year, almost one-third of the country's $148 billion total mental health bill. 6 million American adults ages 18 and older, or about 2.7 percent of people in this age group have panic disorder. 2.2 million American or about 1.0 percent adults age 18 and older have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.  7.7 million American adults age 18 and older, or about 3.5 percent of people in this age group have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.  6.8 million American adults, or about 3.1 percent of people age 18 and over have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. 15 million American or about 6.8 percent adults age 18 and over have social phobia. Females are much more likely than males to develop an eating disorder. An estimated 5 to 15 percent of people with anorexia or bulimia and an estimated 35 percent of those with binge-eating disorder are male. An estimated 0.5 percent to 3.7 percent of females suffer from anorexia, and an estimated 1.1 percent to 4.2 percent suffer from bulimia. A recent study reported the prevalence of autism in 3-10 year olds is 3.4 cases per 1000 children. Alzheimer's Disease affects an estimated 4.5 million Americans. The number of Americans with Alzheimer's Disease has more than doubled since 1980.

 $100,000,000,000 estimated economic cost of untreated mental illness in the U.S. 70 – 90% of individuals with mental illness saw improvement in their symptoms and quality of life after taking part in some form of treatment. 800,000 estimated number of people globally who die by suicide each year. 350,000,000 number of people worldwide who are affected by depression. The costs of depression treatment paid by Medicare increased from $0.52 billion in 1997 to $2.25 billion in 2007. 10% of children and adolescents whose mental and emotional disorders disrupt their day-to-day lives. 60% of adults who didn't receive mental health treatment in 2012. 6,100,000 number of individuals in the U.S. who suffer from some form of bipolar disorder. About one in 10 Americans aged 12 and over takes antidepressant medication. In 2008, 13.4 percent of adults in the United States received treatment for a mental health problem.

Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco). From drug overdoses 100 people die every day and this rate has tripled in the past 20 years. Over 5 million emergency room visits in the year 2011 were drug related. 2.6 million persons with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs. 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs. 6.8 million persons with an addiction have a mental illness. Rate of illicit drugs used is highest among those aged 18 to 25. Over 90% people with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18. Tobacco-related costs for the United States is over $190 billion (healthcare costs, loss of productivity, etc). In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine. The largest amount of illicit drug related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits). 27.4% of the U.S population aged 12 or older are current users of a tobacco product. 23.1 million persons aged 12 or older needed treatment for an alcohol or substance use disorder

                          Health Care      Overall

Tobacco          $130 billion      $295 billion

Alcohol            $25 billion        $224 billion

Illicit Drugs      $11 billion        $193 billion

In 1987, 7.85 million or 3.24 percent of the nation's population visited mental health professionals for psychotherapy. Ten years later, that number had risen to 9.69 million or 3.59 percent. The researchers noted large increases in the use of psychotherapy among people from the ages of 55 to 64. The proportion of psychotherapy patients who also took psychiatric medication, increased to 61.52 percent in 1997 from 31.52 percent a decade earlier.

An estimated 106,500 psychologists possess current licenses in the United States. California (17,890), New York (12,020) and Pennsylvania (5,620) have the most licensed psychologists, while Wyoming (170), South Dakota (190) and Alaska (190) have the lowest licensed psychologists. 33.9 psychologists are licensed per 100,000 population in the United States.