Positive Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychology

Erick Messias, MD, MPH, PhDProfessor of PsychiatryAssociate Dean for Faculty AffairsUniversity of Arkansas for Medical SciencesHamid Peseschkian, MD, DM, DMSc, IDFAPA DirectorWiesbaden Academy of PsychotherapyPresidentWorld Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy Consuelo Cagande, MD, DFAPA, DFAACAPAssociate Professor of PsychiatryResidency Training DirectorCooper Medical School of Rowan University Dr. Messias was born and raised in Brazil, where he completed medical school and practiced family medicine in rural areas, before moving to the US in 1997 and becoming an American citizen in 2014. Dr. Messias completed his residency training in psychiatry at the University of Maryland in 2001, and in preventive medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003. While at Hopkins, he also received a master’s in public health and a PhD in psychiatric epidemiology. Since then, Dr. Messias has been practicing psychiatry in private practice and academic institutions in both Georgia and Arkansas. From 2010 to 2015, he was the medical director of the Walker Family Clinic and the House Staff Mental Health Service at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, where he is currently the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. He has also published several papers in scientific journals on risk factors for depression and suicide, as well as schizophrenia and psychiatric epidemiology. 

Part 1: Basic Concepts, Background, and History.- Positive Psychiatry: An Introduction.- Positive Psychotherapy: An Introduction.- Positive Psychology: An Introduction.- Part 2: Staying Positive Through Life.- Positive Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- Positive Psychiatry in Midlife.- Professional well-being.- Successful Aging.- Life Balance with Positive Psychotherapy.- Part 3: Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders.- Positive interventions in Depression.- Positive interventions in Anxiety disorders.- Positive interventions in Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders.- Positive interventions in Substance Use Disorders.- Positive Psychotherapy and Eating Disorders.- Positive interventions in PTSD and post traumatic growth.- Positive Psychosomatics.- Positive Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.- Part 4: Special Settings and Populations.- Culture and Minorities: Positive Psychology and Positive Psychiatry Perspectives.- Positive Psychotherapy in different Cultures.- Positive Sports Psychiatry.- Positive Family Counselling and Marital Therapy.- Positive Pedagogy and Counselling.- Positive Group Psychotherapy.- Positive Psychotherapy in organizational and leadership coaching.- Psychotherapeutic work with men.- Part 5: Theoretical Foundations and Training.- Theoretical Foundations and Roots of Positive Psychotherapy.- The First Interview in Positive Psychotherapy.- The Conflict Model in Positive Psychotherapy.- Using stories, anecdotes and humor in Positive Psychotherapy.- Supervision in Positive Psychotherapy.- Spirituality and Religion in positive psychiatry and psychology.- Positive Psychotherapy as an Existentialism.- Positive Psychotherapy and other psychotherapeutic methods.- Positive Psychotherapy and Meaning.- Positive interpretation as a tool in psychotherapy.