Asia-Pacific Mental Health and Well-being Congress

THEME: "Future Directions: Pioneering Mental Health and Well-being Initiatives"

img2 27-29 Oct 2025
img2 Bali, Indonesia

speakers

Rae Bonney OAM

Title: Creating environments that support good mental health and wellbeing within mostly male dominated workplaces in Australia

Rae Bonney OAM

Workplace Mental Health, Safety & Wellbeing Specialist, Australia
Conrad Murendo

Title: Climate change effects on depressive symptomology among adolescents in rural areas of Afghanistan

Conrad Murendo

Save the Children
Sonal Daftuar

Title: A quasi-experimental study on the challenges of mental health and access to care for marginalized adolescents in Bihar and Uttarakhand, India

Sonal Daftuar

Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3)
Shiyong Peng

Title: Sleep Spindles as Biomarkers: Enhancing TRD Diagnosis and Treatment Approaches

Shiyong Peng

ETPB, NIMH, NIH, USA

Ernst Hans Juerg Meier

Title: The alphorn, working tool for peasants and psychotherapists. Impulses from music, psychology and spirituality for a culture of change and empowerment in mental health and therapy

Ernst Hans Juerg Meier

Practice for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis Therapy, Switzerland
Martina Jonitz

Title: The alphorn, working tool for peasants and psychotherapists. Impulses from music, psychology and spirituality for a culture of change and empowerment in mental health and therapy

Martina Jonitz

Practice for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis Therapy, Switzerland
Jermin Valencia Guiao

Title: The Power of Here and Now: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression and Anxiety

Jermin Valencia Guiao

EAP Services, New Zealand
Anca Dinu Daniela

Title: Automatic Detection and Classification of Mental Illnesses from General Social Media Texts

Anca Dinu Daniela

University of Bucharest, Romania

Petrisor Liviu Dinu

Title: Linguistic Markers of Depression: Analyzing Social Media Discourse for Mental Health Insights

Petrisor Liviu Dinu

University of Bucharest, Romania
Muhammad Hoque

Title: Post-PhD Blues in a Non-Academic Environment: A Scoping Review

Muhammad Hoque

Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa
Melona Deguma

Title: Examining the Role of Grit and Valuing of Mistakes among Pre-Service Scholars in Cebu, Philippines: A Convergent Parallel Mixed-Methods Study

Melona Deguma

Cebu Technological University, Philippines
Jabin Deguma

Title: Exploring Mental Health Mastery among Informal Caregivers in the Philippines: Empowering Barangay Health Workers through Interlocutor Analysis

Jabin Deguma

Cebu Technological University, Philippines

Therecia Mae Chavez

Title: Association between the levels of perceived Social support and levels of psychological distress among nurses and psychiatry Doctors at the national center for mental health three years after the covid-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study

Therecia Mae Chavez

National Center for Mental Health, Philippines
Cindy Smith

Title: Motivational Interviewing as a Support for Adolescents with Autism who have Experienced Trauma

Cindy Smith

Curtin University, Australia
Cindy Smith

Title: Investigation Of Wellbeing Supports for International University Students

Cindy Smith

Curtin University, Australia
Jasmin Fyfe

Title: Motivational Interviewing as a Support for Adolescents with Autism who have Experienced Trauma

Jasmin Fyfe

Curtin University, Australia

Gaye Cameron

Title: The Ageing Population and the Rising Burden of Dementia: Implications for Care Systems and Economic Sustainability

Gaye Cameron

Counselling Service for You, Australia
Lamyaa Barek

Title: Leveraging Mindset Evolution to Elevate Professional Achievement and Personal Well?Being : From Limiting Beliefs to Limitless Impact

Lamyaa Barek

Hadi Scotland, Scotland
Courtenay Young

Title: Psychotherapy is not a mental health / quasi-medical treatment; it is more of a (soft-revolutionary) psycho-social exploration

Courtenay Young

International Journal of Psychotherapy EAP, UK
Corey Jackson

Title: TBA

Corey Jackson

University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

Shah Alam

Title: TBA

Shah Alam

Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India
Faisal Shaikh

Title: Rethinking Neurodivergence: A Psychodynamic Lens on Autism, ADHD, and the Question of Subjectivity

Faisal Shaikh

Mentis Clinic Ltd, UK
Neha Shukla

Title: Motivational Interviewing as a Support for Adolescents with Autism who have Experienced Trauma

Neha Shukla

Curtin university, Australia
Ciara Ward

Title: Therapy for the World: Redefining Mental Health Through Culture, Creativity, and Community

Ciara Ward

Caring Conversations Center, USA

Ine Indriani

Title: Brainspotting Therapy for Trauma Survivors in Indonesia: Insights into Multicultural and Multilingual Challenges

Ine Indriani

Brainspotting Indonesia, Indonesia
Jwala Subedi

Title: Abuse and its associated factors among elderly population of Kamalamai municipality of Sindhuli district, Nepal

Jwala Subedi

Public Health Office, Nepal
Tracy Tabvuma

Title: Understanding the mental health consequences of racism and the role of protective cultural factors for Black, African and CALD Communities in Australia

Tracy Tabvuma

Tabvuma Mental Health, Australia
Joy Tungol

Title: Taking off the Robe, Voices form the Bench: Grounding of the Judicial Burnout Scale for Filipino Judges

Joy Tungol

University of Santo Tomas, Philippines

Madeline Kay

Title: Introduction to The Odyssey Approach

Madeline Kay

The October Hour, PLLC, USA
Vinita Bansal

Title: Adopting and adapting Circle of Security Parenting Program for parents and carers of children with autism and or intellectual disabilities : A new initiative

Vinita Bansal

The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia