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Centre for Psychiatry Seminar Series: Wednesday 22nd February 2017 12.30-1.30pm Room 130 Wolfson Institute, Charterhouse Square, EC1M 6BQ You are warmly invited to attend our seminar: Choose Life Not Silence (EN) Kies voor het leven en niet voor het zwijgen (NL) Sessizliği Değil Hayatı Seç (TR) A Culturally Sensitive Online Self-Help Intervention for Turkish Migrants with Suicidal Thoughts in the Netherlands and in the UK. The Turkish-speaking communities are one of the vulnerable groups for presenting suicidal behaviours who do not access psychological services easily. The low-up-take of services suggests the presence of cultural and linguistic barriers in their help-seeking process. Recent advancements for suicide prevention, such as interactive online therapies, are promising ways of addressing such barriers in the help-seeking process. The biggest challenge however, is to adapt these interventions to address such culturally specific barriers while remaining to be effective. Thus, this presentation will demonstrate a systematic approach to adapt an e-health intervention for suicidal thoughts according to Turkish-speaking migrants. First, the initial qualitative study informing the adaptation process and the promotion of the intervention will be presented. Then, the key decisions for adaptation will be discussed by giving specific examples from the content of the e-health intervention. Finally, the on-going pilot study evaluating the acceptability and the relevance of the culturally adapted intervention for the target population will be presented. Overall, the seminar will address 3 important questions whilst adapting psychological interventions to specific ethno-cultural groups: How to adapt, how much to adapt and how to promote those interventions so that the target group will use them. The presentation is of particular value for clinicians, researchers as well as policy makers who are working on improving access to mental health services for all. Brief Biography of speaker: Özlem Eylem is a PhD student at VU Amsterdam University and an honorary researcher at Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London. For her research project, she is managing a clinical trial, testing the effectiveness of a culturally adapted e-health intervention for suicidal thoughts for Turkish migrants in the UK and in the Netherlands and. Her project has been supervised by Professors Ad Kerkhof and Annemieke van Straten in the Netherlands and by Professor Kamaldeep Bhui in England. Please RSVP to Lisa Kass: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/charterhouse This is a fascinating topic of great interest. I am sure it will be a thought provoking talk and there will be time for discussion. Tea and coffee will be provided and you are welcome to bring a sandwich and have lunch as you listen. Best Wishes Dr Ruth Taylor Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Liaison Psychiatry BSc.(Hons Psychology); MBChB, MRC Psych, MSc (Psych), MSc (Epid), PhD Centre for Psychiatry Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary UUniversity of London Charterhouse Square London EC1M 6BQ