The European Center for Peace and Development of the University for Peace established by the United Nations (ECPD), Belgrade in the framework of the ECPD International Program of Transfer of Knowledge System, in cooperation with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità of Italy, National School of Public Health of Greece, South-Eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN), Croatian Medical Association - Society for Alcoholism and Other Addictions, National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia, Office for Combating Drugs of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the International Center for Integrative Medicine, organizes
XIV ECPD INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIST SCHOOL
LATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN PREVENTION, THERAPY
AND REHABILITATION OF ADDICTIVE DISEASES
with the main topic
PEERS AND FAMILY VIOLENCE
AND ADDICTIVE DISEASES
Pula, 12 – 13 May 2023
ECPD Regional Center for Development Studies (Flaciusova 18)
The European Center for Peace and Development UN University for Peace organizes this School with the aim to direct the focus to all modalities and aspects of addiction, as well as to bring together experts from various fields - physicians, psychologists, social workers, special pedagogues, lawyers, criminologists and other professionals, who will enable a more extensive exchange of experience, as well as provide the latest knowledge, practical and scientific achievements in the areas of prevention, treatment and integral rehabilitation of addictive diseases.
The school is internationally and nationally accredited. The School is accredited by the Health Council of Serbia as an International seminar of the 1st category with 14 points for lecturers and 7 points for participants. The accreditation number of the School is je А-1-305/23.
President of the School Council is Prof. Dr. Slavica Đukić Dejanović, former Minister of Health of Serbia, Professor at the ECPD UN University for Peace, Director of the School is Prof. Dr. Zoran Zoričić, Head of the Reference Center of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia for Addictions, Director of the Clinic for Alcoholism and Other Addictions of KBC "Sestre Milosrdnice", Zagreb and President of the Croatian Society for Addiction, and Co-director is Prof. Dr. Petar Nastasić, Professor of the ECPD UN University for Peace.
The phenomenon of addiction, focused on substance (alcohol, drugs) or focused on behavior (games of chance, video games, internet and others), in addition to physical and psychological complications, results in a number of social complications, among which aggression stands out. The cause-effect dilemma, of whether addiction encourages aggression or personality traits encourage a person to experiment with addictive substances, is still present.
In working with addicts and their families, as well as the social environment, establishing abstinence is usually the first step, but insufficient for the overall development and maturation of the personality. Already in psychosocial interventions, we are faced with physical, verbal and latent aggression, both from addicts and from other family members, which can be latent or manifest. Ignorance of the theory and practice of interventions in the approach of the addict's personality, as well as the modality of aggressiveness, often leads to the abandonment of treatment by the addict through acting out procedures characteristic of a lack of insight and an immature personality.
Without the psychological, social and spiritual progress of the personality, there is no stable abstinence, and the overall development of the personality implies the mastery of the individual's own aggressiveness.
The goal of this year's School is, in accordance with the above, to raise awareness of the problem of aggression associated with addictions, to educate addiction experts to work with aggression through lectures, training workshops and examples of good practice. Addictions and aggression are accessed through a multidisciplinary approach, and experts of various profiles will be engaged in the school, including doctors, social pedagogues, sociologists, psychologists and other helping professions.
Program
The Program of the School includes the following main topics:
· Causal-consequential connection between addiction and aggressiveness
· Variations in violence with alcohol abuse in relation to drugs
· Pathology of marriage in families of addicts and the occurrence of domestic violence in them
· Family secrets in families with addict
· Traumatization of drug users, criminal behavior and violence in therapeutic centers
· Internet addiction and digital violence
· Therapeutic interventions for adolescent online abusers
· Modern technologies in the prevention of violence and addiction
· Integral treatment of people with addiction problems and comorbidities
· Development of training program: Opioid agonist treatment (OAT)
· Prevention of therapist burnout in work with addiction and aggression
· Sustainable development goals - UN Agenda 2030 and addiction diseases
· Multisectoral approach and decentralization in the field of drug policy
· The impact of state interventions on the prevalence of addiction
· Practical aspects of cooperation between healthcare, social services and non-governmental organizations and other current topics.
Lecturers
· Prof. Dr. Slavica Đukić Dejanović, Professor at the ECPD UN University for Peace, former Minister of Health of the Republic of Serbia and
· Prof. Dr. Zoran Zoričić, Head of the Reference Center of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia for Addictions, Director of the Clinic for Alcoholism and Other Addictions of KBC "Sestre Milosrdnice", Zagreb and President of the Croatian Society for Addiction
· Prof. Dr. Petar Nastasić, Professor of the ECPD UN University for Peace, Belgrade
· Prof. Dr. Mila Goldner Vukov, Member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
· Prof. Dr. Luca Rosi, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
· Prof. Dr. Nera Zivlak Radulović, Head of Psychiatric Clinic, University Clinical Centre of the Republic of Srpska
· Prof. Dr. Andrej Kastelic, President of the Global Addiction Association (GAAD) and Head of the Centre for Treatment of Drug Addiction of the University Psychiatric Clinic in Ljubljana
· Prof. Dr. Verica Jovanovic, Director of the Institute of Public Health of Serbia "Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut"
· Dr. sc. Zdenka Čebašek-Travnik, former President of the Medical Chamber of Slovenia, Head of Interdisciplinary Group - Alcohol and Mental Health in the national MIRA Program, National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
· Prof. Dr. Nikša Dubreta, Chair of Department of Sociology, University of Zagreb
· Mr. Milan Pekić, Director of the Office for Combating Drugs of the Government of the Republic of Serbia
· Ass. Prof. Dr. Olivera Vuković, Institute of Mental Health, Belgrade
· Prof. Dr. Srđan Milovanović, Clinical Center of Serbia, University Psychiatry Clinic
· Prof. Dr. Nermana Mehić Basara, Director of the Institute for Addiction Diseases, Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
· Dr. sci. med. Diana Raketić, Director of the Special Hospital for Addiction Diseases, Belgrade
· Ass. Prof. Dr. Erik Brezovec, Department of Sociology - Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
· Ass. Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Weisner, ECPD UN University for Peace, Belgrade
· Ass. Dr. Nuša Šegrec, Centre for Treatment of Drug Addiction of the University Psychiatric Clinic in Ljubljana
Certificate
School participants that have successfully completed the School program will obtain an internationally accredited Certificate of the European Center for Peace and Development of the University for Peace established by the United Nations.
Application Form and Registration Fee
Registration fee for participation in the School amounts 350 EUR.
Application should be sent to: European Center for Peace and Development UN University for Peace, Terazije 41, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; Fax: +381 11 3240 673, +381 11 3234 082; E-mail: ecpd@Eunet.rs and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; www.ecpd.org.rs
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