​ENTER Mental Health will hold its annual conference 2025 in association with the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin on the 19th June 2025.  This will mark the 25th anniversary of the inaugural conference.  The programme will feature keynote sessions, parallel sessions, poster presentations and interactive workshops. Submissions are invited for parties interested in each of these categories.​

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Conference Theme

To dovetail with ENTER Mental Health’s research theme for 2024 and 2025 and following on from our conference in Warsaw, the overarching theme for the next ENTER Mental Health Conference is ‘Trauma, the workforce and the workplace’.  Participants are invited to submit abstracts for consideration under the following seven subthemes:

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i) Understanding trauma, the workforce and its environment: 

• Defining trauma in the workplace and how it affects employees' mental health, productivity, and overall well-being.

• Vicarious Trauma

• Identifying and addressing the hidden impact of trauma.

• The personal, emotional, financial, and operational impacts of trauma on workforce.

• The impact of trauma on care delivery, including the hidden costs i.e. employee absenteeism, turnover, lower morale, and productivity, long-term consequences of unresolved trauma and organisational health.

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ii) Legal and ethical considerations - Navigating the legal landscape of workplace trauma:

• The legal perspectives on workplace trauma.

• Workers' rights, workforce harassment laws, disability accommodations, and ethical responsibilities of organisations to protect and support employees.

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iii) Research methodologies for trauma in the workplace: 

• Measuring the effects of trauma in the workplace.

• The scientific and human dimensions of trauma research for workplaces.

• Innovative, effective, and ethically sound approaches to exploring the impact of trauma on workplaces.

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iv) Trauma and organisational change:

• Building a trauma-informed workforce: policies, practices, and support systems.

• The effects of trauma on employees during periods of organisational change.

• Organisational adoption of trauma-informed approaches. 

• The role of leadership in mitigating trauma in workforces.

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v) Prevention and resilience: Supporting recovery and resilience:

• Healing in trauma.

• Recovery for individuals experiencing trauma in the workplace. 

• Strategies to prevent workforce trauma before it occurs.

• Advanced and specialist practices working with trauma.

• Building resilience among employees and teams to minimise the impact of trauma.

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vi) Intersectionality and trauma in the workplace:

• Marginalised groups experiences of workplace trauma.

• Creating more inclusive and healing environments in organisations.

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vii) The future of work - Emerging trends impacting on trauma in the workforce:

• The future of work - applications of remote work, AI, automation, and changing social norms.

• Trauma, climate change and the environment.

 

Call for abstracts

We are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the conference under the themes is now open.  The call for abstracts will close on the 28th February 2025.

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Click here to download the abstract submission form.  Abstracts should be submitted to: entermentalhealth@gmail.com

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Conference Details

Attendance at this conference will be free.

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Book of Abstracts

A book of abstracts will be published for the conference.

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