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European Society for Mental Health and Deafness |
 ESMHD is an international Non-Government Organisation for the promotion of the positive mental health of deaf people in Europe.
Mental health includes healthy emotional, psychological and social development, the prevention and treatment of mental illness and other disorders. ESMHD focuses on people, who were born deaf or deafness occurred in early childhood and whose first or preferred language is sign language.
The ESMHD is interested in the mental health of all deaf people, whatever the age of onset or degree of deafness. |
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8th European Congress on Mental Health and Deafness |
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2-5 November 2010, Cambridge-UK
Call for Papers has now closed Programme details will be announced in July. www.esmhdcongress2010.orgThe 8th European Congress on Mental Health and Deafness will be held in Cambridge, United Kingdom on 2nd - 5th November 2010. The theme of the Congress, 'Healthy Deaf Minds in Europe', will serve as the agenda for an exciting programme. Providing a forum for addressing mental health issues and developing links between all of the various professionals working in the field of deafness, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, therapists, nurses, social workers, interpreters, educationists, deaf people, carers and the community. |
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