Most of the participants felt that they could benefit from suitable tailor-made continuous multi-professional education. The focus areas for training were clinical assessment and psychopharmacology. The multi professional approach was favored in order to optimize the benefits of care for elderly patients with multiple problems. There is a need for continuing professional education in old age mental health for primary care personnel and its incorporation into extant primary health care. Resources provided by guidelines and modern technology should be available for professionals working with elderly. Little is known about the impact of self-efficacy (SE) in changing specific diabetes self-management (DSM) behaviors on patient adherence to a DSM regimen, compared to general SE in DSM. We used data from the American Association of Diabetes Educators Outcome System, implemented in eight DSM education programs in western Pennsylvania, to examine the bivariate relationship between adherence to the DSM regimen and SE in changing specific behaviors and general SE in DSM among patients with type 2 diabetes. DSM regimen adherence was measured as the frequency with which patients followed their recommended DSM regimen, including medication taking, diet, exercise, and self-monitoring of blood glucose [SMBG] ). Behavior-specific SE was measured by asking patients their level of confidence in making changes in these four DSM behaviors. Higher scores indicated greater adherence or confidence. General SE in DSM was measured by asking "How sure are you that you can manage your diabetes?" with four responses (A lot/ some/ a little/ not at all). We used correlation and simple linear regression to analyze the data. The sample (N=709) was 88.3% white and 53.8% female, with a mean age of 58.2 years and an average of 7.9 years since diagnosis of diabetes. We observed a stronger relationship with SE in changing diet (r =.29, p<.001) and exercise (r=.21, p<.05) and the corresponding adherence behaviors than we found between DSM self-efficacy and adherence to diet (r=.14, p<.001) and exercise (r=.10, p<.05). These associations remained significant after controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, education, family history, and time since diagnosis. Medication adherence was weakly correlated with SE in DSM (r=.09, p=.02) but not medication-specific SE (r=.25, p=.08). No associations were found between general or specific SE measures and SMBG (ps>.05). Further evidence is needed to confirm our results in a research setting. Our findings suggest that promoting patients' confidence in managing their diabetes, especially with respect to making changes in diet and exercise could improve patient adherence to their recommended diabetes self-management regimen. Background: Training in self management support (SMS) for long term conditions (LTC) were offered to 367 clinicians as a part of The Health Foundation's Co Creating Health Initiative. We applied the Self Determination Theory to explain how SMS behaviours are formed and sustained. Aims: Explore the relationship between motivational regulation to support self management and clinicians' practices in SMS. Method: We obtained 78 responses . To assess the use of SMS practices we applied the Practices in Self Management Support questionnaire (PSMS) developed by the authors. The questionnaire comprises 3 subscales: Clinical Self Management Support (CSMS), Patient Centeredness (PC) and Organization of Services to Support Self Management (OSMS). We adapted the Self-Regulation Background and purpose: Stress-related illness with psychosocial antecedents has increased globally. Patients seeking help in primary care often exhibit a wide variety of problems with both somatic and psychological symptoms. The role of primary care has also changed in relation to psychiatry in that it now constitutes the first-order treatment for psychiatric disorders. A biopsychosocial perspective, increased knowledge of behavioural medicine and improved inter-professional collaboration all offer a viable response to this situation. Inter-professional courses at the advanced undergraduate level provide opportunities for interprofessional learning, a learning about, and with one another. At Karolinska Institutet, a cross-program elective course in applied behavioural medicine has been offered since the fall of 2006, first for medical and psychology students, and since 2008 also for physiotherapy students. This presentation describes the course structure and presents evaluation results from the five-week interprofessional course between 2006 and 2009. Results and discussion: In 2006 and 2007 the course was held with medicine and psychology students; in 2008, only physiother-apy and clinical psychology students were recruited. Medical students did not apply due to new program changes. All three groups have been very satisfied with the course, experiencing it as an important complement to their undergraduate education. It has been rewarding to train themselves to communicate and interact around the patient's problems from each separate perspective. Individual professional roles have become clearer, and all indicate their conviction of the need for inter-professional collaboration. Evaluation of attitudes toward other professional groups showed that only psychology students changed their perceptions of physicians and physiotherapists during the course. Conclusion: Inter-professional courses at the advanced undergraduate level offer a useful meeting between the different professions and can therefore be an important step in applying bio-psychosocial model to work in practice. Results will also be presented from the 2009-10 courses where registered and professionally active physiotherapists, doctors and psychologists have also been recruited as course participants alongside the undergraduate students. Disadvantaged children and adolescents need more supportive care, and most studies show that parenting plays a significant role in explaining mental health among them. This research is to evaluate connections between supportive behavior and the need of mental care for disadvantaged boys and girls in Taiwan. By collecting the data of thirty ordinary families and thirty disadvantaged families, parenting and psychological conditions of children are categorized and compared. Major parenting behavior produces results similar to or lower in quality than those acquired from ordinary families; however, according to the analysis of scale, disadvantaged boys and girls face more conflicts and difficulties in mental condition. Even though parenting affects the mental health of young kids, it seems that other factors must be considered. Findings provide empirical support for further research and practice in supportive parenting. Additionally, the attitude of children and adolescents on feeling supportive behavior is also a key aspect to understand their mental health. Introduction: A child's HSCT is distressing for both parents and children. The child experiences side effects to treatment, infections, Graft versus Host Disease under isolation conditions. A psychosocial intervention study aimed at reducing parents and child's level of distress identified a group of parents with an immediate, extended need for psychosocial intervention.