Working Groups

Who are we?

We are a group made up of mental health professionals from various disciplines who work in the field of childhood (from early childhood), adolescence, or youth (beyond 18 years old).

The professionals are members of FCCSM or close collaborators, and in this space, they do not represent the institution where they work, but rather participate in a personal capacity.

What are our goals?

• That the FCCSM has its own voice, as an entity, in various forums in the field of child and adolescent mental health.
• To foster dialogue and share topics in this area, which are already being worked on in other spaces linked to the FCCSM, such as The Agora with Primary Health Care Professionals, the Congress Committee for Catalan Mental Health of Children and Adolescents, The Digital Society and Mental Health Observatory, among others, in order to have a broad and articulated view of the work involved in the FCCSM in the field of childhood and youth.

What do we do?

Our activities are diverse and include: reflection spaces for professionals, including the topic of professional well-being, positions on issues affecting the field of child and youth mental health (for example, by developing manifestos), participation in other spaces, forums, debate panels, and external conferences.

It also includes the organization of training activities, such as the 2024 Conference on Sexuality and Gender Identity in Childhood and Adolescence, among others.

Who is part of the group?

Paloma Azpilicueta, Ester Boixadera, Marcel Cortada, Neri Daurella, M. José Fernández de Sanmamed, Myriam García, Carmen Grifoll, Soledad Jachevasky, Antònia Llairo, Mar Marañón, Teresa Morandi, Marta Pérez Campdepadrós, Marta Prat de la Riba, Clara Pujol, Anna Robert, Esther Rodríguez, Raúl Salmerón, and Benedetta Zecchi.

Coordination Team: Myriam García, Anna Robert, Ester Boixadera, and Teresa Morandi

If you want more information, contact us at: info@fccsm.net

With support

Who are we?

Newly formed group to drive and energize various initiatives around creativity, artistic production, and mental health. The project aims to highlight artistic creation processes as a means of raising awareness for the improvement of recovery, socialization, and community inclusion pathways for individuals experiencing emotional distress.

Art contributes to psychological well-being and also provides elements of community well-being and health. Individually, it contributes by providing a task, helping to develop skills and recognize identities, allowing connection with oneself, and connection with others. The development of expressive arts allows for communication and expression beyond what words can convey, and generates spaces for collective construction through the sharing of perspectives, fostering debates and dialogues around each work and the creative process itself.

Making the creative process visible and giving voice to the authors of the works helps build healthier neighborhoods, contributing to the community's well-being. Art also brings well-being to our communities and offers them a tool for expressing their desires and also their discomforts.

Through art, men and women who use the mental health network have an opportunity to become visible, actively participate in the community, contribute to the community, and avoid exclusion.

Coordination team Anna Carrió, Montse Martínez, and David Clusa

What are our goals?

• Promote and make visible the transformative capacity of creative processes in the recovery of people suffering from emotional distress and discomfort.
• Promote spaces for debate and awareness in the community context on mental health and artistic creation.
• Promote the diffusion and distribution of artistic production in its various formats and expressions: painting/drawing, poetry and narrative, photography, music, theater, among others.

Who is part of the group?

Ada Ruiz, Anna Carrió, David Clusa, Silvia Ramos, Mar Busquets, Francesc de Diego, Montse Martinez, Josep Duran “Urco”.

If you want more information, contact us at: info@fccsm.net

With the support:

Who are we?

Family group, created in 2022, with the aim of meeting to share experiences with our children, who have been diagnosed at some point with a mental health-related diagnosis. Some situations are more serious and chronic, others perhaps milder and slowly recovering. Our discussion initially focuses on sharing how we have lived through this process, how we feel about the treatment offered to our children, and how we have felt treated as families by the healthcare service system we have had to access, always with the intention of generating alternative (or improvable) proposals to the model of care and treatment for patients' families.

The group meets regularly on the second Monday of each month. The meetings also serve to mark new milestones that allow the group to consolidate progressively.

The group's intention is not to create a therapeutic or mutual help group, but rather to bring together families who have lived or are living with the reality of having a daughter or son, or a close relative, affected by a mental health issue. These are families who, at some point, received a diagnosis and didn't know what to do with the news. They include families with minor children, families with young adults or adult children (and thus already excluded from the care system), and diverse families who shared the bewilderment of being individually and alone within a system thatAssigns blame and excludes. Progressively, care professionals have also joined the group to facilitate discussion and broaden knowledge and understanding of the current model.

Coordinator Montserrat Rovira

What are our goals?

• Sharing life experiences that have marked us
• Generate alternative/improvable proposals to the relational model with families from mental health/addictions.
• Generate debate among group members and with mental health professionals
• Build an opinion group
• Visualize ourselves and escape the stigma

Who is part of the group?

Family members of people (early adolescence) diagnosed with, or not, a mental health disorder (chronic or episodic) and/or addiction.

If you want more information, contact us at: info@fccm.net

With the support:

Who are we?

Newly formed group aims to maintain the interest generated by the 2021 congress. “Digital Society and Mental Health” on the influence of digital transformation in society on mental health and continuing to foster debate around its various facets, ethical, psychosocial, psychopathological, and therapeutic.

The end of the pandemic makes it necessary to reflect on the sustained effects that are being observed and the psychosocial changes that will remain, including in the use and misuse of digitalization.

Many self-harm behaviors, including eating disorders, have increased, and social media plays a significant role in this. The hyper-demand and isolation during the pandemic seem to have played a relevant part.

With the closest date, there is the organization of a post-conference day, which will take place next December 16 to CoMB, more information (this will link to the day's information on the website)

Our purpose is to gather relevant publications and information on the evolution of this topic.

Coordination team Albert Mariné and Amparo del Pino

What are our goals?

• Promote an interdisciplinary observatory on the evolution of digitalization processes and their impact on the mental health of the population and care models.
• Analyze the development of care models through technologies
• Understanding the problems that arise or grow through technologies
• Ensure equal opportunities without differentiating by ethnicity, gender, or age.
• Maintain a critical attitude towards digital models that do not respect diversity. Ensure ethical practices.
• Promote spaces for debate and awareness regarding the influence of digitalization in its various aspects (ethical, psychosocial, psychopathological, and therapeutic) on society, and more specifically, on mental health.
•  Track scientific production in the field.

Who is part of the group?

Amparo del Pino, Albert Mariné, Jose Fernandez, Anna Robert, Eduardo Valenciano, Helena Serrano, Sonia Bernad,

If you want more information, contact us at: info@fccsm.net

With the support:

Who are we?

In 2010, from the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation and from the initiative of a group of professionals, it was launched Thinkers Group. The group was initially formed with users, family members, and mental health professionals. Later, it expanded to include citizens interested in the subject with the aim of jointly reflecting on mental health issues in a freer way, outside of the healthcare setting.

Check the following document To get to know each other a little better

What are our goals?

• Delve into the concept of (mental) health and the knowledge of the socio-family, work, care, etc. processes that affect people's health.
• Defend the rights of people with mental illness and study the causes of social exclusion and their alternatives.
• Promote a community-based, interdisciplinary primary care model, grounded in understanding mental phenomena and focused on prevention, equipped with the necessary psychotherapeutic and psychosocial tools.
• Establish cooperative relationships with other professional, scientific, civic, political, and governmental organizations.
• Forming opinions on healthcare needs and concrete proposals for care transformations, legislative actions, and community initiatives to promote mental health for individuals, families, and organizations.
• To advise and support professionals and associations, especially those who care for people (teachers, doctors, family members, judges, etc.), in order to make possible the understanding of psychological problems and needs and healthy growth.
• Favor changes in teaching and research to make them more suitable for the promotion of (mental) health.

What do we do?

The methodology work is from 9 group sessions per edition, an hour and a half long, with a monthly frequency and with the support of some Coordinators and an observer. We have carried out until this moment 20 editions approximately more than a hundred people participated thinkers.

 Some of the topics we have covered are the following:

• • • The relationship
    • Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization
    • Responsibility
    • The family
    • And then what?
    • Discernment
    • The identity
    • The pig
    • Voice Management
    • Loneliness
    • The recovery
    • The integration of difference with the other.
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    • Think tank group project remodeling
    • Emotional education
    • The meaning of life
    • COVID-19
    • Post COVID - Collective Malaise
    • Dependence
    • The pain of war
    • We live in a changing world (current edition) working title.

We propose that you participate in the 21st edition, where, as in previous editions, we are opening up the space to different community groups who may feel the need to be heard and who want to share their opinions on mental health-related topics from a perspective of citizen competence and empowerment.

We invite you to train us thinking in a group and creating a fabric of social thought, rich, broad, varied, controversial, that contemplates each person's uniqueness. We want everyone to have a place and to be able to express themselves freely within certain limits (respect for others' opinions and the group's functioning), with the aim of creating collective capacities for new thinking.

The working method is the usual one for the Think Tank Group, broadened and open to all citizens. That is, in-person sessions with a numerical limit of 20-22 assistants in a commitment to participation 9 sessions per course. The periodicity is once a month and the duration Each session is 90 minutes long.

Session calendar:

• October 7, 2024
• November 4, 2024
• December 2, 2024
• January 13, 2025
• February 3, 2025
• March 3, 2025
• April 7, 2025
• May 5, 2025
• June 2, 2025

The sessions are held on 7:15 PM to 8:45 PM
The chosen site is a Civic center with the intention of locating ourselves within the community and away from healthcare resources.
The sessions are held at the’L'Harmonia de Sant Andreu Ateneu. C/ Sant Adrià, 20 08030 Barcelona.

Where are we?

Do you want to participate?

To sign up for the sessions, send an email to info@fccsm.net I'm calling you on the phone / I'm calling you by phone 93 238 62 47

Come and participate. We're waiting for you!!

The Thinkers Group addresses the anxieties caused by armed conflicts around the world.

The Thinkers Group writes a letter in Catalan, English, French i Arab It is proposed to create different thought spaces intended to provide emotional support to victims of armed conflicts. This initiative serves to address the mental health effects of both people directly experiencing a war situation and those suffering the devastating effects of conflicts from afar.

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Interview conducted with the Thinkers Group

“We want to offer a framework that allows for reasoning and questioning the current system of mental healthcare in our region, with the aim of improving care processes and patient care with all the actors involved (patients, families, and professionals).”

We invite you to read the entire’Thinkers group interview

Thinkers Group Meetings

• First meeting - Thinkers Group: December 12, 2012. Convent of Sant Agustí. FCCSM.
• Second meeting – Thinkers Group: December 9, 2013. Convent of Sant Agustí. FCCSM
• Third meeting – Thinkers Group November 30, 2015. Convent of Sant Agustí. FCCSM

* Consult all the information about the  III Meeting of the Thinkers Group

Presentation / Sharing Experiences:

• Presentation of the Thinkers Group at the CCSM Foundation's 10th Anniversary Conference, at a meeting with the participation of: Àngels Vives, Sebastià Sáez, Albert Briansó, Gemma Galan – December 15, 2010.
• Debate Space – “Think Tank. A working experience among users, families, and professionals” at the V Catalan Mental Health Congress of the CCSM Foundation, June 2013.
• Think Tank: Narrative and Subjectivities surrounding Mental Health“. Mr. Serrano, associate professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Services at the University of Barcelona (UB). Journal of the Spanish Association of Neuropsychology. 2014; 34 (123) 507-519.
• “New Spaces for Participation and Social Listening” Mercedes Serrano at the XXXII National Congress of Mental Health Nursing (Anesm), Burgos. May, 2015
• Presentation of the Thinkers Group at the Manantial Foundation, by A. Vives, November, 2015

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Who are we?

We are a newly formed group made up of professionals from the fields of mental health and architecture, interested in everything related to the relationship between living spaces and people's mental health, as well as between the urban environment and people themselves.

Coordination team: Josep Vilajoana and Àngels Vives

What are our goals?

• Open an interdisciplinary workspace among the involved fields.
• Sharing knowledge to develop proposals and recommendations for the administration and other bodies in the sector

What do we do?

We have launched a multidisciplinary seminar/working group to address the topic and share insights and proposals with politicians and managers, as well as to welcome professional associations and organizations committed to the well-being of individuals, both individually and collectively.

Some of the topics we are concerned about and plan to address are:

1. Urbanism and public space. The influence of the environment on mental health.
2. Access to housing: young people and other vulnerable groups.
3. Public spaces in the institutional sphere: healthcare, social services, education, others.

Who is part of the group?

Josep Vilajoana, Àngels Vives, Albert Mariné, Carles Garcia Ribera, Teresa Aragonès, Benedetta Rodeghiero, Jordi Marfà Vives, Rosa Lopez, Adrià Vilajoana, Cristina Maragall, Itziar Gonzalez, Enric Pol, Carmen Moratinos, Oscar Cano, Alicia Casals, Patricia Maestre, Marta Fité, Montserrat Rovira, Jordi Formiguera, Ania Bech, Sandra Bestraten, and Sonia Hernández.

If you want more information, contact us at: info@fccsm.net

With the support:

Who are we?

This group is being established on the initiative of the Catalan Foundation for Mental Health Congress. For some time now, the FCCSM has been considering the possibility of creating a working group around these phenomena, especially following the attacks in Barcelona in August 2017.

Interdisciplinary discussion and reflection group, made up of professionals from health, mental health, community health, justice, education, and others. This is a working group based on the professional experience of its participants with phenomena directly or indirectly linked to radicalization, and whose work in each meeting will focus on a thematic axis. One of the group's objectives will be to develop thinking and tools to help confront increasingly frequent conflicts and problems (of violence?) in our society and in different areas.

In this first stage, several thematic axes are proposed around which to organize the working group's monthly meetings.

The idea is to work throughout this year and promote a conference at the end to present reflections, suggestions, and possible future proposals.

What are our goals?

• Creation of a space for reflection and participation from all areas to enable thinking about a phenomenon that is difficult to think about and in the face of which we can quickly seek protocols to help contain anxiety.
• To better understand the phenomenon through the professional experience of the group members, which, while perhaps not directly related to radicalization phenomena, can offer reflections and thoughts from their experience that can foster greater understanding.
• Develop a task that can help raise awareness among professionals, entities, NGOs, associations, etc., about the importance of emotional support in the face of this phenomenon in order to create a strong social network.

Interview conducted with the Working Group “Radicalization Processes”

“Although we do not aspire to eradicate radicalization, we can imagine ways to contain it by working collaboratively and assisting professionals and families.”

We invite you to read the’full interview

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Who is part of the group?

Members:

Eduardo Bada, Rosa Bada, Juan Carlos Barroso, Najat Driouech, Josep Oriol Esteve, Rachid El Younoussi, Ana Hernández, Solange Hilbert, Zyab Ibáñez, Josep Mª Lahosa, Francisco Martín, Abdou Mawa, Hajar Menssouri, Teresa Morandi, Miguel Perlado, Núria Riera, Miguel Angel Tapies, Jorge Tió, Juanjo Vernet,

If you want more information, contact us at: info@fccsm.net

With the support: