Recently, our university hosted a delegation of mental health professionals representing the Oregon Health & Science University Foundation (SSHA). For the first time in 5 years due to the pandemic and full-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine, but not for the first time in Ivano-Frankivsk. It has already become a good tradition to cooperate both offline and online with OHSU professors M.D. Linda Schmidt and M.D. Robert Nickel. The story visit, which took place on September 30 – October 10, 2024, was dedicated to the discussion of interdisciplinary psychological, medical and pedagogical problems by scientists, practitioners and students from all over Ukraine. Namely, scientifically-based approaches to providing assistance to adolescents with non-suicidal self-harming behavior; diagnostics and therapeutic interventions to harmonize the development and self-organization skills of children with autism spectrum disorders and their families; social changes regarding the inclusiveness of society. The organizers of the event were the Center for Cognitive Psychology and Psychotherapy of the Science Park “Prykarpattia University”. Participants spoke positively about the lectures and insights from leading professors of the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and behavioral pediatrics; about practical cases ready for implementation in practice; about networking with professionals and like-minded people, such as psychologists, psychiatrists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, etc.
The training seminars were held at the invitation of Assoc. Prof. Nadiia Kohutyak and in collaboration with teachers from other departments: Assoc. Prof. Iryna Hryhoruk, Department of Management and Business Administration, Head of the University’s Research Department; Assoc. Prof. Volodymyr Mytsko, Department of Speech Therapy and Innovative Technologies in Inclusion; Assoc. Prof. Svitlana Kobuta, Department of Foreign Languages and Translation; Assoc. Oksana Rudnianyn, Department of Foreign Languages); with the assistance of the head of the educational and scientific center for research, projects and scientific information Tetyana Hrynyshak; and the specialist of the educational and scientific center for research, projects and scientific information Volodymyr Kurtianyk.
