Our Ministry of Youth and Sports (MYSS) together with the Social Community Programmes Urban Society (SCORPUS) Malaysia will be organising the “Southeast Asia Youth Mental Health Conference 2021” on July 31 via online webinars.
The conference’s theme is “Breaking the Mental Health Issues Stigma in ASEAN Amid Pandemic” and it is on from 8am to 4pm, with a half-hour break from 1pm to 1.30pm.
It is heartening to see that there are over 300 participants from Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei and Indonesia are expected to tune in to the webinar, where nine invited guests will present their research and opinions on mental health, psychology, youth counselling and Covid-19.
The local panel members include Dr Nurashikin Ibrahim who is Head of Mental Health and Public Physician in Ministry of Health (MOH), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) psychiatrist, Dr Bernard Ting Chuong Hock, Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) psychiatrist, Dr Ng Boon Seng and International Islamic University Malaysia psychiatrist, Dr Mohd Faiz Md Tahir.
We have also invited speakers from Indonesia who include Dr Eqachseryanti Zain, a psychiatrist at Hospital Samarinda, counselling psychologist Charlene Lucas from the Philippines, UKCP Accredited Therapist psychotherapist, Rachel An Vu (Vietnam), professional counsellor Dr Rusli Bujang from Brunei, and Singapore’s Institute of Mental Health associate consultant, Dr Oon Li Keat.
Of course we are also inviting all local youths including those from Sarawak to join this conference which is still open for registration until Friday (July 30) and participation is still open to the public. Those interested by contacting the ministry’s conference secretariat at 082-495555 on first come first serve basis.
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