Group leader: Álvaro Iruin Sanz, M.D., Ph.D.

Red de Salud Mental alvaro.iruinsanz@osakidetza.eus

Strategic Objectives

• Contribute to knowledge on risk factors and protection of mental health in adult and infant-youth population.
• Design and assess new interventions that make more effective prevention and treatment possible for mental pathologies.
• Contribute to knowledge on aspects of mental health service organisation, helping it to work better.

Main lines of research

• Mental health in adult populations:
  • Promotion and prevention in mental health.
    •  Study of risk and protection factors in mental health.
      •  Mental disorder prevention programmes
  • Therapeutic intervention models for mental pathologies.
  • •  Procedure for psychosis in young adults.
    •  Procedure for redisual schizophrenia.
    •  Procedure for major depression.
    •  Procedure for problematic consumption of alcohol.

• Mental health in infant-youth populations:
  • Promotion and prevention in mental health.
    •  Early detection of neuro-development pathologies.
  • Therapeutic intervention models for mental pathologies.
    •  Procedure for severe mental disorders.

• Research into mental health systems and policies:
  • Research into mental health systems.