The award is given by the Slovenian Science Foundation to excellent communicators in science – individuals or groups – who are outstanding in effectiveness, persuasive and interesting communication. The recipient of award Vita Poštuvan demonstrates scientific excellence with numerous publications of original scientific and professional articles. Besides that it is important to her to implement practical psychological work: workshops, educations, counselling and psychotherapy.
E.01 National awards
This well-established periodical’s reputation for publishing important articles on suicidology and crisis intervention from around the world is being further enhanced with the move to 6 issues per year. Crisis also publishes potentially life-saving information for all those involved in crisis intervention and suicide prevention, making it important reading for clinicians, counselors, hotlines, and crisis intervention centers.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
Article about mental distress in work environment, critical events at work, which can be triggers to thinking about suicide, and on the important role of coworkers in solving the problems, is aimed at general public. It informs readers, how problems can be solved and it gives a sense of responsibility to understand the distress of employees.
F.35 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 1536963012Professionals from 19 European countries participate in the COST action. Aim is to better understand the status, legal aspects, characteristics and needs in the field of forensic psychiatric care, with an emphasis on long-term psychiatric care. There are 3 working groups, focused on different areas of (long-term) forensic psychiatric care: (1) features of (long-term) forensic psychiatric patients; (2) examples of good practice in long-term forensic psychiatric care; (3) the needs and quality of life of forensic psychiatric patients. Vita Poštuvan is the coordinator of the third working group.
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees
Within World suicide prevention day celebration, cycling with the aim of informing and rising public awareness about suicide was promoted in 2014 under the slogan One world connected. In Slovenia, we actively promoted the campaign and invited people to participate. Among others, we disseminated the invitation to participate through our web page and encouraged active participation through Facebook profile of the Andrej Marušič Institute. Supporters of the campaign posted photos from their cycling tours on the Facebook page. They reported their mileage through an online form. Up until 10th September 2014 we cycled 39.480,97 km in Slovenia altogether. The campaign was attended by more than 130 participants.
F.35 Other