Annual Congress on Child Care: Mental Health, Psychology and Nursing April 12-13, 2019 , Park Inn by Radisson Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Å eibokaitÄ— Laura, PhD in Social Sciences, Psychology, currently works as Associate Professor in Psychology Department of Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. She teaches Developmental Psychology, Research Methods, and Group Theory and Practice for Bachelor level students at university, Advanced Topics of Research Methodology in Psychology for Master level students. Her research interests are issues and difficulties of adolescence, problem behaviour in adolescence and adulthood (risky driving, substance use, aggressive behaviour, suicidal behaviour, etc.), risk taking behaviour in applied fields of psychology. She defended her PhD thesis on changes of risk taking behaviour through the adolescence more than 10 years ago. Since then together with colleagues she published more than 20 scientific articles and two books. Scholar actively participates in many national and international research projects. She is an active member of CADROSA (Consortium of Adolescent Road Safety) and TPI (Traffic Psychology International). She serves as Co-Editor of peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Psychology: A Biopsychosocial Approach. Å eibokaitÄ— Laura is active and passionate researcher and teacher who believes that university students might be taught only though personal contact, own example, and sharing the commitment to scientific way of world perception.

Research interests are issues and difficulties of adolescence, problem behaviour in adolescence and adulthood (risky driving, substance use, aggressive behaviour, suicidal behaviour, etc.), risk taking behaviour in applied fields of psychology.

Sam Vaknin is Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies). Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders. His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers. He spent the past 6 years developing Cold Therapy: a treatment modality for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Over the years, with dozens of volunteers, he found that it was effective with clients suffering from a major depressive episode as well.

Personality disorders

Director of Positive Psychology, BSc, MSc. Caralyn Cox has a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Caralyn has worked as a coaching psychologist for eight years. One of her specialisms is childhood conditions such as ADHD and Conduct Disorder.

My specific research areas in positive psychology are resilience, mindfulness and savouring. I also have an interest in how these areas can act as buffers. Positive interactions, strengths based working and flourishing are also key areas that I work with. One of her specialisms is childhood conditions such as ADHD and Conduct Disorder.