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CONSENSUS STATEMENTS BY THE SECTIONS


By George Christodoulou,
WPA Secretary for Sections


The WPA Sections are the basic source of consensus or position statements of our organization.
The Sections have produced a total of 17 consensus or position statements.

In the last triennium the following Consensus Statements have been produced, have been accepted by the WPA Executive Committee and will be presented to the General Assembly in Cairo for ratification.


WPA Consensus Statement on Psychiatric Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Dusica Lecic-Tosevski, George N. Christodoulou, Clemens Hosman, Rachel Jenkins, Jennifer Newton, Sadanand Rajkumar, Margit Schmolke, Helen Herrman, Shekhar Saxena.
WPA Section on Preventive Psychiatry

Consensus Statement on Physician Impairment with Mental Illness and/or addictions
Nady el-Guebaly (Chair), George Christodoulou (Co-Chair), Julio Arboleda-Flo Jack McIntyre, Dusica Lecic-Tosevski, Lennart Levi, Donna Stewart

WPA Intersectional Task Force


International Women's Mental Health Consensus Statement
Florence Baignana, Elena Berger, Jose Bertolote , Pat Franciosi ,Uriel Halbreich, Diane Halpern , Helen Herrman ,Gwen Keita , Susan Kornstein , Juan Mezzich, Michelle Riba, Mart Rondon, Donna Stewart

WPA Section on Women's Mental Health and a multidisciplinary, international committee of women's health experts


Consensus Statement on Interpersonal violence against women
WPA Section on Women's Mental Health


Consensus Statement on the Use and Safety of Electroconvulsive Therapy

Mohammed T Abou-Saleh, Yannis G Papakostas , Iannis M Zervas George N. Christodoulou
WPA Section on Biological Psychiaty



Leadership Meeting of the WPA Scientific Sections, November

Additionally, the WPA Institutional Program for Eastern Europe and the Balkans has prepared the
. CONSENSUS STATEMENT ON MENTAL HEALTH IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS (Craiova Declaration) approved by the representatives of the psychiatric societies of Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro and Turkey and by the WPA Executive Committee.



Meeting of the WPA Institutional Program for Eastern Europe and the Balkans, November 2004.