In this panel discussion, dementia care workers and caregiver will come together to share
their perspectives on what have been done and what are the current gaps.

• Causes of hoarding behaviour
• Prevalence and correlates of hoarding among patients with
  mental illness in Singapore
• Hoarding through the lens of patients and caregivers

• What are the similarities between Hoarding Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Differentiating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from Hoarding Disorder

Reclaim your space and your life by engaging with the 8-
Step Decluttering Programme

• Adopting the 8 Step Plan Approach developed in UK
• Successful Stories of Recovery
• Challenges faced by Community Mental Health Team
  (CMHT) in managing hoarding in the community

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• Historically, mental health and physical health have existed in silos, mental health conditions receiving much less focus compared to physical conditions.
• These silos have perpetuated the stigma associated with mental health conditions and resulted in unmet care needs, adversely impacting health outcomes and significantly impacting health care costs.
• Integrating care of mental health and physical health conditions will be discussed embracing ‘the care of the whole person’

• Introduction of services provided by the Community Psychiatric Nursing to allow clients to be independent and integrate back to the community
• Community Psychiatric Nursing roles in the Community, having better support to clients and families.
• Introducing dual competencies of Community Psychiatric Nursing to assist clients to have an understanding of their conditions and seek early treatment.
• Collaboration with community partners to have a holistic support network for clients and families

• Mental health clients face many social challenges besides their mental health conditions.
• Often their recovery is very much intertwined with the social issues they face. They face many obstacles in managing their social concerns.
• One of the roles of community mental health team like MindCare is to serve as bridge social services to these clients with mental health conditions.
• The MindCare team can better assist the mental health clients in the community to resolves social issues that might contribute to the mental health recovery using a biopsychosocial perspective.
• This talk will focus on how MindCare carries out this vital role.

• In April of 2018 IMH National Addiction Management Service embarked on a pilot to provide interventions for persons with severe alcohol dependence in the community.
• These patients generally present at A&E departments and/or come into contact with EMS services.
• The pilot used an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model (similar to that used for treatment for Schizophrenia) and had showed positive results.

• Parental concerns surrounding children’s digital use
• Activities parents engage in to manage their children’s digital diet
• Common parenting cautions
• Values to adopt in the children’s digital journey

• Introduction to the use of technology  in assessment of mental health and delivery of evidence-based mental health treatments, such as for internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT)
• Review of evidence for iCBT for different disorders and population groups
• Findings from local pilot study of iCBT
• Special considerations in implementing iCBT

• Overview of Attention Bias Modification for Individuals with addictive disorders
• Feasibility and Acceptability of a Smartphone Application for Attention Bias Modification
• Application of Participatory Research Design Methods in Conceptualizing a Personalized Attention Bias Modification Application for Individuals with Addictive Disorders

• Persons with cognitive impairment often experience difficulties in performing community living tasks effectively.
• Cognitive rehabilitation involves training these task components in the real-world setting, in order to facilitate community independence.
• Virtual reality can be used as an adjunctive intervention tool, to simulate various community living scenarios. This will allow therapists to facilitate the training of these task components in a systematic, safe and an enjoyable manner.
• This presentation will cover the initial development phase of a virtual reality prototype