Under the slogan “towards a best psychical health perspective”, the Laboratory of Psychometrics and Counselling of Algiers 2 University, organised on March 3rd and 4th, 2020 in the Grand-Auditorium, an International Conference on the Psychical Health and the Therapeutic Practices, with the participation of teachers, researchers and practicing psychologists who came from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Jordan, France and from different universities of the country.
The Conference President, Dr Yahi Samia, declared in her opening speech that the idea of the Conference came after so many years of clinical practice. She added that the Conference is an opportunity to meet the specialists to highlight the psychological and environmental variables which further the individual’s capacities for facing stress and protecting his psychological security.
On his part, the Head of Psychometrics and Counselling Laboratory, Dr. Zegaar Fethi, spoke about the importance of the psychical health in our life, while emphasizing the importance of choosing the communications and the suitable therapeutic practices. The Social Sciences Faculty Dean, Pr. Nacer Eddine Zebdi, showed in his word that these scientific events are part of the training of students. He spoke also about the psychical health levels in the individual and the factors that influence him, such the natural disasters and the epidemics.
Besides, the Vice-rector in charge of Pedagogy, Abdelhamid Ben Cheikh, said through his address that the Conference is taking place while the coronavirus is spread in many countries of the world, leaving its psychological impact of the individuals. This matter highlights the importance of the Conference that deals with psychological health aspects, while basing on stabilising the behaviour and consolidating the psychic health.
The International Conference aims to consolidate the psychological and environmental variables, as well as the protective factors which strengthen the capacities of the individuals, relating to the psychological security, to face effectively stress and trauma.
This scientific event aims also to make known the different therapeutic practices known in the psychological practices, and to take care of the psychological health of each of children, adolescents, elderly persons, as well as of family, schooling and psychical health in the field of work.
The participants’ communications were about the following themes: psychological and environmental variables furthering the psychical health; The psychical health in children and adolescent; The therapy by desensitisation and re-treatment by eye movements; Emergency psychological intervention after disasters, Interventions in regard to counselling that protects and strengthens the psychological health; The therapeutic practices in the psychical health field.
