The 7th International Conference of Health Behavioral Science (7ICHBS)

Theme: Narrative and Health Behavioral Science

Sep 15 - 18, 2014, London, United Kingdom


President: Prof. Akira Nakagawa (Naragakuen University, Japan)

Vice President: Prof. Brian Hurwitz (King's College London, United Kingdom)
           Dr. John Launer (Health Education England, United Kingdom)

Organiser: The Japan Academy for Health Behavioral Scienc
Co Organiser: The Centre for the Humanities and Health at King's College London, United Kingdom
          The Association for Narrative Practice in Healthcare, United Kingdom


Conference Program and Abstracts


Mon, Sep. 15, 2014

Pre Study for Japanese Participants

Introduction to the British Healthcare System (Japanese)
   Dr. Akira Naito (Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom)


Tue, Sep. 16, 2014

Academic Conference

Keynote Speech 1: About Reciprocal Story Telling Method
   Prof. Akira Nakagawa (Faculty of Health Science, Nara Gakuen University, Nara, Japan)

Keynote Speech 1: About Reciprocal Story Telling Method (Japanese)
   Prof. Akira Nakagawa (Faculty of Health Science, Nara Gakuen University, Nara, Japan)

Keynote Speech 2: How is a New Natural History of Tremblings, Agitations, and Shaking Created in 1817?
   Prof. Brian Hurwitz (King's College London, United Kingdom)

Special Speech: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study and Its Implications for the Study of Illness Narrative
   Dr. Neil Vickers (King's College London, United Kingdom)


Wed, Sep. 17, 2014

Clinical Workshop for Japanese Participants

Conversations Inviting Change: Narrative Medicine in Clinical Practice
 Facilitators: Dr. John Launer, Dr. Sarah Divall, Dr. Serena North and Dr. David Wheeler
 (The Association for Narrative Practice in Healthcare, United Kingdom)

Association of Narrative Practice in Healthcare Introducing Conversations Inviting Change
   Dr. Sarah Divall (The Association for Narrative Practice in Healthcare, United Kingdom)

Conversations inviting Change: An Introduction to Theory
   Dr. John Launer, June 2008


Executive Committee for the 7th International Conference of Health Behavioral Science
Email: tyfa*naragakuen.jp
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Secretariat of the Japan Academy for Health Behavioral Science
c/o Faculty of Health Science, Naragakuen University
3-15-1 Nakatomigaoka, Nara, 631-8524 Japan