A healthy lifestyle – healthy diet, exercise, sleep, and being in nature – is believed to be beneficial for one’s mental health. So, the study of healthy lifestyle choices and their putative relation with psychological well-being may yield important knowledge in order to increase quality of life and in fact perhaps even prevent or treat mental disorders. In this EPP symposium experts from the field will discuss how healthy lifestyle could be beneficial for mental health, the challenges that research on this topic faces, and wheth-er interventions that promote a healthy lifestyle as yet should or should not be applied as part of the treatment and prevention of mental health problems..

Program (Temporary)

Thursday February 13

10.30 – 11.00 Walk-in with Coffee/Tea

11.00 – 12.00 Lifestyle and Mental Health – Nathalie Michiels (Ghent University)

12.00 – 13.00 Physical Exercise and Mental Health – Irene Esteban – Cornejo                                       (University of Granada)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.45 Research on lifestyle: Challenges and Biases – Marc Molendijk                                       (Leiden University)

14.45 – 15.15 Coffee

15.15 – 16.30 Sleep and Mental Health – Lucia M. Talamini                                                                           (University of Amsterdam)

16.30 – 18.00 EPP Run The Hague (Bring your running shoes!), or EPP relax.

18.30 – 20.00 Dinner at Willibrordushuis

Drinks afterwards in The Hague City

Friday February 14

09.00 – 10.00 Coaching people to change their lifestyle (Bjarne Timonen):                                             Assignment + Workshop

10.00 – 10.15  Coffee

10.15 – 11.45   PhD talks:

1. Eveliina Glogan (UM)

2. Juliane Traxler (KU LEU)

3. Martijn van Teffelen (UM)

11.45 – 13.15     Lunch

13.15 – 14.15     Nature and Mental Health – Simone Kuhn (MPI Berlin)

14.30 – 15.30    Eating and Mental Health – Ingeborg Brouwer * Food  Mood trial* (Free University of Amsterdam)

15.30                    END