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Volume 6, Issue 5(Suppl)
Epidemiology (Sunnyvale)
ISSN: 2161-1165 ECR, Open Access
Page 95
Epidemiology 2016
October 3-5, 2016
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Epidemiology & Public Health
October 3-5, 2016|London, UK
4
th
International Conference on
PSYCHOTHERAPYAND PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENT: FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND
RECENT ADVANCES
Eric M. Plakun
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Austen Riggs Center, USA
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his workshop addresses the future role of psychotherapy and psychosocial treatment in psychiatry and mental health
treatment. This future depends on several factors related to psychiatric practice and teaching, but also to government
policy toward funding treatment and research. In the realms of practice, teaching and research, it is ironic that, as psychiatric
practice has become increasingly narrowly biologically focused, evidence is accumulating that psychotherapy and psychosocial
treatment are effective forms of treatment for a range of individual and complex comorbid disorders. The field’s biologically
reductionistic stance constitutes a kind of “tunnel vision” that contributes to the increasingly recognized phenomenon of
treatment resistance in psychiatry. This workshop reports evidence from epidemiology, molecular genetics and clinical research
suggesting that psychiatry is adversely influenced by 3 unwitting false assumptions linked to its biological reductionistic stance:
[1] Genes = disease, [2] Patients present with single disorders that respond to single evidence based treatments, and [3] The
best treatments are pills. The future of psychiatry, and the role of psychotherapy and psychosocial treatment, depend on the
field’s ability to address these false assumptions, but also on policy issues like full implementation of mental health parity,
and a shift in research and education policy that prioritizes funding of research into and teaching of nonspecific and specific
“elements” shared by effective psychosocial therapies.
SEXUALVIOLENCEAMONGHOUSEMAIDSAND ITSADVERSEREPRODUCTIVEHEALTH
OUTCOMES IN ETHIOPIA, HAWASSA
Fasika Esatu
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, Negusse Deyassa
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University of Gonder School of Medicine & Public Health, Ethiopia
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exual violence is a violation of human rights and a serious public health problem. It has a profound impact on physical and
mental health, both immediately and many years after the assault. To date, sexual violence has received insufficient attention
from researchers, policy-makers and program designers and it has been a long struggle to have it recognize as a legitimate
public health issue
Objectives
:- to assess the magnitude of sexual violence and its adverse RH outcome on housemaids, & to compare the adverse
RH outcomes on sexually violated & non violated maids. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among 523 house
maids in Hawassa. After the quantitative data was collected using self-administered questionnaire data were entered, cleaned
and analyzed using SPSS. The lifetime prevalence of sexual violence was 15.3% with 95% CI (12.2, 18.4) and the 12 month
prevalence of sexual violence were 5.9%. In this study the likely hood of experiencing sexual violence is higher among house
maids who use any substance. The prevalence of any adverse RH outcome was 14.5% with 95% CI (11.5, 17.6) and the likely
hood of experiencing adverse RH outcome is higher among those house maids who ever use any substance and house maids
who experience sexual violence
Epidemiology (Sunnyvale), 6:5(Suppl)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-1165.C1.015