Plenary Session 5 Passed
Thursday October 21, 2021 14:00 - 16:30 Plenary Session 5
Key-note speakers: Catharine Ward Thompson, Christian Benedict, Steven C. Hayes
14:00 Welcome Back
14:05 Plenary Session 5: Pathways to lifelong mental wellbeing
Dr Christian Benedict, Researcher in Neuroscience, Uppsala University, A sleep-deprived society: A brief wake-up call!
Dr Catharine Ward Thompson, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK Healthy green space and inclusive landscapes: the salutogenic environment
Dr Steven C. Hayes Nevada Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, Founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), USA , Isn’t That Tweet:
ACT in 15 Minutes
15:30 Report back from workshops
16:15 Closing Remarks, The Road Ahead.
Dr. Ing-Marie Wieselgren, MD, PhD Psychiatry, Project Manager for Joint Action for Mental Health Sweden, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
16:30 End of Summit
Lecturers
Catharine Ward Thompson Key-note speaker
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Dr Catharine Ward Thompson is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of OPENspace - the research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments - at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on inclusive access to outdoor environments and links between landscape and health. It includes work with children, young people and older people; it covers environment-behaviour interactions, historic landscapes and contemporary needs, and salutogenic environments.
She has led several multidisciplinary research collaborations, including a study of links between green space and mental wellbeing in deprived urban areas and longitudinal evaluation of improvements to local woodlands in such communities. Work with older people includes ongoing research on the value of outdoor activity and environmental support that allows people to flourish into very old age.
She contributed to WHO’s European Regional office Urban Green Spaces and Health report and has advised on Scottish Government’s Good Places, Better Health initiative and the development of its Place Standard.
Christian Benedict Key-note speaker
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Dr Christian Benedict is an associate professor in neuroscience. He has published 150 scientific articles. His group studies the health consequences of sleep and circadian disruption. Work from his sleep lab has uncovered several mechanisms through which sleepdisrupting conditions increase the risk for weight gain, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer's
disease.
For example, his team has demonstrated that men with chronic sleep disturbances have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life. For
more information, please visit www.benedictlab.org.
Steven C. Hayes Key-note speaker
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Dr Steven C. Hayes is a Nevada Foundation Professor of Psychology in the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Nevada. An author of 46 books and nearly 675 scientific articles, he is especially known for his work on "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" or “ACT” which is one of the most widely used and researched new methods of psychological intervention over the last 20 years.
Dr. Hayes has received multiple awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. His popular book Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for a time was the best-selling self-help book in the United States, and his new book A Liberated Mind has been recently released to wide acclaim.
His blogs and TEDx talks have been viewed or read over 3 million times, and he is ranked among the most cited psychologists in the world.