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Call For Abstract

You are invited to submit an abstract for consideration by the Organizing Committee for presentation at the National Trauma Symposium 2024 to be held in Kigali, from 12th-14th December 2024.

Abstracts are invited for Oral presentations or Poster displays. If your abstract is accepted, Register here and pay to attend the conference.

Research Topics

Mental Health Needs and Approaches

  • Research priorities in mental health
  • Mental health needs and management assessment
  • Family approaches in trauma healing and mental health
  • Mental health in schools

Trauma, Healing, and Psychosocial Support

  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Role of Community-based approaches in Trauma Management and psychosocial support
  • Mental health among genocide survivors, elderly people, and special categories
  • Unity, reconciliation, and peace-building

Mental Health in Youth and Vulnerable Groups

  • Child and adolescents’ mental health and wellbeing
  • Mental health in youth
  • Early pregnancy, parenting, and psychosocial support
  • Drug abuse, delinquent behaviors, and relapse

Reintegration and Social Cohesion

  • Reintegration of prisoners and social cohesion
  • Professionalization and Institutionalization

Community Mental Health and Specialized Interventions

  • Mental health needs and management in special categories such as genocide survivors
  • The role of community-based interventions for trauma healing and mental health

Abstract Guidelines

  • Full Paper Title (Font 14 size, Arial font, bold)
  • Author(s) First Name Author(s) Last Name (Font 12 point, Arial, bold)
  • Organization/Affiliation (Font 10 point, Arial), Country (Font 10 point, Arial)
  • Presenting the author’s email address
  • All papers/abstracts must be written in English.
  • Please upload the abstracts as a Word file and a PDF file.

Important Dates

Friday 13th September 2024

Submissions will be opened

November 22, 2024, at 11:59 PM CAT.

The abstract submission deadline

Submit

Abstracts must be submitted via the Conference website www.traumasymposium.rw

November 29, 2024, by 11:59 PM CAT (Central African Time)

The registration deadline

Abstract submission is now closed. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

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Dusingizemungu Jean Pierre is currently a Senator in the Senate of Rwanda. Professor of Psychology, he headed the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the former National University of Rwanda where he actively participated in the creation of the department of Clinical Psychology. His research is generally focused on the reconstruction of Rwanda after the Genocide against the Tutsi.
Dusingizemungu Jean Pierre led the Ibuka Collective for more than 10 years.