Day 2 :
Keynote Forum
Erin Ramachandran
Mental Health Strong, USA
Keynote: Breaking the Silence from this Relationship Destroyer - - Marriage & Mental Health
Time : 09:00-09:30
Biography:
Erin Ramachandran is a published author of Mental Health Strong, A Christian’s Guide to Walking Resiliently alongside Your Spouse with a Mental Health Condition. Erin holds a master’s degree in Health Care Administration and is a certified Mental Health First Aid USA instructor. She has worked in the healthcare industry for more than fifteen years and is the Mental Health & Wellness Program Director at one of the largest non-profit health plans in the United States. Outside of work, Erin enjoys traveling, swimming, mentoring, and watching movies. She is passionate about helping marriages affected by mental health challenges. Her and her husband, Keith live in Southern California and have been married for twelve years
Abstract:
Do you feel hopeless, tired, and worn out? Are you ready to give up on your marriage because of your spouse’s mental health condition? Twenty to 80 percent of marriages where a mental health condition exists are more likely to end in divorce depending upon the diagnosis. People seem to be talking about mental health challenges in themselves or their children but rarely in the context of the marriage relationship. Now breaking the silence from this relationship destroyer, solutions can be discussed, empathy can be provided, and hope can be restored. Provided from the perspective of a spouse whose partner battles multiple mental health conditions, Erin offers real-life, faith-based, practical examples to maintain a healthy relationship. She has tried over fifty resources and simplifies what works in eight effective steps to walking resiliently alongside their spouse with a mental health condition.
- Women’s Mental Health and Midwifery | LGBT and Sexual Orientation | Religion and Language
Location: Andromede
Session Introduction
Marcelo Pombo Novaes Fernandes
Cis-IUL, Portugal
Title: The influence of internet in the increased suicides among young male homosexuals
Biography:
Professor Marcelo Pombo Novaes Fernandes is a Psychoanalyst, Bachelor of Arts, Master in Religion, TEFL Teacher in London, travelled all over the Globe teaching in countries like England, Brazil, Bolívia and China and giving lectures/being invited to talk about human sexuality and religion at Oxford University and several other educational instituitions in Brazil, England, Thailand, Turkey, Poland and Portugal. He also worked as a newspaper columnist where he used to talk about human sexuality and other subjects related to ethics, religion or sociology. He now lives in Portugal where he is doing his second Master, this turn in Anthropology, and is also the vice-president of OGA – Obra Gay Associação (Opus Diversidades), a NGO that works among LGBT community
Abstract:
The figures on suicide among young people have been increasing in most countries around the world, especially among LGBTI people. Some researches show that a gay man has five to 11 times more possibility to commit suicide than a heterosexual of the same gender and age. The study we are working on tries to understand why it has been increasing and the influence of social media on that. The subject bellow is what author working on right now. It will be finished by March. For my previous research I interviewed 1516 people and presented the results in more than 10 Congresses all over the Globe (from Oxford University to Istambul, from Brazil to Poland) – if you accept my paper, that will be my international 'debut' on the subject (I have already spoke about the subject in an International Congress in Prague, but without the final figures ).
Silvia da Costa
University of the Basque Country, Spain
Title: Religiosity, psychosocial factors, and well-being: An examination among a national sample of Chileans
Biography:
Silvia da Costa has expertise in Social Psychology and Behavioral Science. Specifically it is dedicate to creativity and innovation in open complex social systems such as organizations. Her lines of research are creativity and innovation in organizations, including the role of positive emotional climate, wellbeing, emotional intelligence, self and hetero emotional regulation, as well as beliefs, values and emotions of self-transcendence, like spirituality elevation at work. High positive affect and emotions, like gratitude, are related to creativity that is an antecedent of reappraisal or positive cognitive restructuring. Creativity is also a facet of individual and communal adaptive coping and resilience that helps to build individual and social wellbeing. Finally, she is also interested on cultural determinant of both creativity and wellbeing, having examined the role of macro-cultural dimensions like collectivism, power distance and uncertainty avoidance on societal creativity and innovation.
Abstract:
This study analyzed the association between public religiosity, private religiosity, and life satisfaction in a representative sample of the Chilean population. Religiosity was associated with low income and low socioeconomic status and with being older and female. These variables were negatively associated with satisfaction with life. However, attendance at collective religious rituals was associated with life satisfaction, while private religiosity was unrelated. These results support the view that it is the social aspect of religion that benefits well-being. Controlling for gender, age, and socioeconomic variables, public religiosity predicts life satisfaction. Participation in religious rituals was associated with high social support and affect balance (low negative and high positive affect). Mediational analyses that included all variables related to public religiosity (main predictor) and to life satisfaction (dependent variable) showed that attendance to religious rituals had a direct effect on well-being, and a significant indirect effect on well-being through high social support and low negative affect. These results are congruent with previous studies that found that participation in religious public rituals was the most important predictor of well-being, above praying and being religious. Attendance at services could provide more social support and had more important emotional impact than praying, which could be done individually. Collective rituals provide opportunity to higher optimal experience and positive affect, as well as to higher social support, in comparison with similar individual activities. Participation in public religious rituals was associated with low negative and high positive affect. Private religiosity or praying was unrelated to satisfaction with life and associated with illness and unsatisfactory perceived health, but also to positive affect, supporting the idea that people use rituals to generate positive emotions to cope with stress. Results support the hypothesis that in a collectivistic culture religiosity is associated with well-being through the social component of religious ritual.
Marcelo Pombo Novaes Fernandes
Cis-IUL, Portugal
Title: The influence of Christianity in the process of acceptance of homosexuality: guilt and apostasy
Biography:
Marcelo Pombo Novaes Fernandes is a Psychoanalyst, and has completed Bachelor of Arts, Master in Religion, is a TEFL Teacher in London. He travelled all over the Globe teaching in countries like England, Brazil, Bolívia and China and giving lectures/being invited to talk about human sexuality and religion at Oxford University and several other educational institutions in Brazil, England, Thailand, Turkey, Poland and Portugal. He also worked as a Newspaper Columnist where he used to talk about human sexuality and other subjects related to ethics, religion or sociology. He now lives in Portugal where he is doing his second Master, this turn in Anthropology, and is also the Vice-President of OGA–Obra Gay Associação (Opus Diversidades), a NGO that works among LGBT community.
Abstract:
The trilogy of money, sex, and power has always been real. Only a naïve or demagogic vision would be able to deny the influence of them inside the churches. Sex and corruption scandals and false prophets with messianic and dictatorial postures are spread among us, grossly opposing the Gospel. A Christianity that does not have Jesus Christ in its core will demand a clear and common enemy to gather all the flock and, through fear and hatred, keep it together in the practice of tithing and, nowadays, serving as a political support to the ones appointed by their religious leaders. In a confused Christianity so typical of Brazil, the elected enemy once was the Catholic, later the Freemasons, the Spiritualist, the Communist and, in the last 10 years, the homosexuals and the LGBT movement which are blamed for cases of pedophilia by Christian leaders in this country. Our goal here is not to prove the coherence or not of such gospel “jihad” though the analysis of the canonical books searching for answers, instead will try to understand who and how many of such people there are there, the connection between pedophilia and homosexuality, to be aware of what they have been through in their pursuit of correcting their sexual drive, their religious dilemma when facing the Christian intolerance, and their subsequent apostasy (1,516 people were intertwined during a period of two years in order to bring credibility to the research).
Maimoona Asad
Jeddah National Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Title: Positive thinking in psychology and its outcomes and benefits: Ways to be a positive thinker
Biography:
Maimoona Asad is a General Practitioner and a Consulting Philologist. She has expertise in counselling the patients of different back ground, different cultures, different age groups and different problems; this research is based on years of experience and evaluation in hospital, personally with direct in contact with people, educational institutions in different seminars. Her research will surely be helpful and benefit for people of any age group or any problems.
Abstract:
The quality of your thinking determines your quality of life. Whatever we are today is because of our thoughts. In this study author addressing to issues pertaining to how positive psychology can be used to improve the life of an individual of any age groups; this study explores various positive conditions such as happiness and wellbeing and addresses to prosocial human reactions such as empathy, altruism, gratitude, love, motivation and success and failures. Author has done a study on different age groups, different back grounds, and different professions. Author has tried to explain you through diagrams and examples. This study shows how positive thinking can achieve emotional wellbeing and success in your personal and professional life. You will have a blue print to free you from the tyranny of thoughts that limit your achievement. You enjoy greater self - confidence, you can bring your own personal transformation. This study gives you the keys to open up positive thinking and release stress out of your life. This study shows how positive thinking helps in fighting your failures and overcome any diseases. This study shows how you can control your thoughts, and create a wonderful life for yourself, as thoughts decide our destiny. This study shows how positive thinking decides our present and future. In conclusion you will find how it is easier to avoid worry and negative thinking and be a positive thinker, and a positive thinker can achieve anything impossible in life. Most of all we will end up with inner peace. All you have to do is you have to say to yourself you can do it.