Organized by the Section of Psychiatry, University of Ferrara, the 8th World Congress of Psycho Oncology, entitled Multidisciplinary Psychosocial Oncology: Dialogue and Interaction and chaired by Professor Luigi Grassi, was held in Venice, Italy October 18-21, 2006. It was preceded by the event of the Psychosocial Academy - Training Workshops, that was organized and chaired by Professor Luigi Grassi in Ferrara, Ocotber 16-17, 2006. The theme of the 8th Wordl Congress of Psycho-Oncology underlined the need for scientific societies, health care agencies and academic institutions, to work together, and to integrate their knowledge towards a common language and accepted standards in the comprehensive care of cancer patients, their families and caregivers. Among the several topics of the congress the most important were psyhciatric aspects of cancer; grief and bereavement; burn-out and psychosocial morbidity in cancer care professionals; communication skills; psychotherapy; psychopharmaoclogy. The Congress, to which participated around 1500 professionals from 58 countries, consisted of an opening ceremony with a keynote lecture and three plenary sessions with a total of 10 keynote speakers; three round-tables in plenary sessions with a total of 10 speakers; two update courses of three hours each, with a total of 6 speakers (Assessment and treatment of depression in cancer patients; Assessment and treatment of symptoms in palliative care); 13 intersociety symposia of 90 minutes each, with a total of 60 speakers; three sponsored symposia of 90 minutes each, with a total of 10 speakers; 32 accepted special symposia, with a total of 82 speakers; four Meet-the-Expert sessions (of 60 minutes) with a total of four speakers; 25 parallel symposia consisting of the accepted abstracts for oral presentation and organized by theme, with a total of 137 speakers; and 769 posters presented during the three days of the Congress, with 1289 abstracts published in the Abstract Book published by John Wiley as a special issue of the journal Psycho-Oncology (IF 2006: 2.7)
8th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology - Multidisciplinary Psychosocial Oncology: Dialogue and Interaction (Venice, October 18-21, 2006)
GRASSI, Luigi
2006
Abstract
Organized by the Section of Psychiatry, University of Ferrara, the 8th World Congress of Psycho Oncology, entitled Multidisciplinary Psychosocial Oncology: Dialogue and Interaction and chaired by Professor Luigi Grassi, was held in Venice, Italy October 18-21, 2006. It was preceded by the event of the Psychosocial Academy - Training Workshops, that was organized and chaired by Professor Luigi Grassi in Ferrara, Ocotber 16-17, 2006. The theme of the 8th Wordl Congress of Psycho-Oncology underlined the need for scientific societies, health care agencies and academic institutions, to work together, and to integrate their knowledge towards a common language and accepted standards in the comprehensive care of cancer patients, their families and caregivers. Among the several topics of the congress the most important were psyhciatric aspects of cancer; grief and bereavement; burn-out and psychosocial morbidity in cancer care professionals; communication skills; psychotherapy; psychopharmaoclogy. The Congress, to which participated around 1500 professionals from 58 countries, consisted of an opening ceremony with a keynote lecture and three plenary sessions with a total of 10 keynote speakers; three round-tables in plenary sessions with a total of 10 speakers; two update courses of three hours each, with a total of 6 speakers (Assessment and treatment of depression in cancer patients; Assessment and treatment of symptoms in palliative care); 13 intersociety symposia of 90 minutes each, with a total of 60 speakers; three sponsored symposia of 90 minutes each, with a total of 10 speakers; 32 accepted special symposia, with a total of 82 speakers; four Meet-the-Expert sessions (of 60 minutes) with a total of four speakers; 25 parallel symposia consisting of the accepted abstracts for oral presentation and organized by theme, with a total of 137 speakers; and 769 posters presented during the three days of the Congress, with 1289 abstracts published in the Abstract Book published by John Wiley as a special issue of the journal Psycho-Oncology (IF 2006: 2.7)I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
