16th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting

Session

Parallel session 1B: Participatory Research and Practice

24 Sept 2025, 11:00

Innere Medizin/2-403 (Virchowweg 9)

Description

Chair: Charlotte de Kock

189. Partnership Centered Research Leads to Integrated Family-School Partnership Support for Adolescents with Emotional and Behavior Concerns

Andy Garbacz

24/09/2025, 11:00

Adolescents and Risky Behaviours

Oral presentation

Author: Andy Garbacz

Background: We developed a research-practice partnership with schools, community mental health, and researchers and used the eco-interactional developmental model to develop and test a family-school partnership intervention for adolescents with emotional and behavior concerns. Aims included: (1) Determine the core components of the family-school partnership...

166. A Co-Designed Multi-Level Prevention Approach to Gender-Based Violence Among Refugee Women in Sweden

Georgina Warner (Department of Public Health and Caring Science, Uppsala University, Sweden)

24/09/2025, 11:15

Participatory Research and Practice

Oral presentation

Authors: Georgina Warner (Department of Public Health and Caring Science, Uppsala University, Sweden), Anna Pérez-Aronsson (Department of Public Health and Caring Science, Uppsala University, Sweden)

Background: Despite its reputation for gender equality, Sweden experiences persistently high rates of gender-based violence (GBV). Refugee women can be disproportionately affected due to...

23. Substance use among displaced populations in Europe: structural prevention as a policy imperative

Dr Charlotte De Kock (Ghent University)

24/09/2025, 11:30

Substance Use Prevention

Oral presentation

Author: Charlotte De Kock (Ghent University)

Background: Displaced populations in Europe, including applicants for international protection and undocumented individuals, face elevated risks of mental health and substance use related problems due to pre- and post-migration stressors such as war trauma, hazardous journeys, and fragmented reception conditions. While WHO and academics...

154. Developing and prototyping Friends in Focus, a new UNODC youth-based peer-to-peer prevention programme

Ali Yassine (Associate Drug Control and Crime Prevention Officer)

24/09/2025, 11:45

Participatory Action with Youth

Oral presentation

Authors: Su Hong (UNODC), Peer van der Kreeft (Ghent University College), Johan Jongbloet (Ghent University College), Wadih Maalouf (UNODC)

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) seeks to promote a culture of prevention in line with prevention science, including through meaningful participation of youth in prevention efforts. UNODC recently developed ‘Friends in Focus’, a new...