Sectorial Activities - Scientific Sections




Chair: Prof. Dusica Lecic-Tosevski
Co-Chair:Prof. Rachel Jenkins
Secretary:Prof. Sadanand Rajkumar
SECTION ON PREVENTIVE PSYCHIATRY

Established in 1996.
Founder and first president
Prof. George N. Christodoulou (Greece)



ORGANIZATION

Chair: Prof. Dusica Lecic-Tosevski
School of Medicine, University of Belgrade
Institute for Mental Health
Palmoticeva 37
11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
T/F: (381 11) 3226 925, 3236 353
E-mail: dlecic@eunet.yu
          dusica.l@imh.org.yu
Areas of interest: personality disorders, stress and posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, psychotherapy, research

Co-Chair: Prof. Rachel Jenkins
Director, WHO - UK Collaborating Centre
WHO Collaborating Centre, PO 35
David Goldberg Centre
Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London
De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill
London, SE5 8AF - UK
T: +44 (0) 20 7848 0383
F: +44 (0) 20 7848 0669
E-mail:r.jenkins@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Website:www.iop.kcl.ac.uk

Secretary:Prof. Sadanand Rajkumar
The University of Newcastle
Director, Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health (CRRMH)
c/o Bloomfield Hospital
Forest Road
ORANGE NSW 2800, Australia
T: 61 2 6360 7991
F: 61 2 6361 2457
Mobile phone : 61 428 221426
E-mail: sadanand.rajkumar@mwahs.nsw.gov.au

OFFICERS     


Summary of objectives and activities for the period of 1996-2002

Objectives
  • Promotion in three levels of psychiatric prevention
  • Collection and dissemination of information on psychiatric prevention
  • Cooperation with the various sections of the WPA (on community psychiatry, epidemiology, ecology, environment and mental health, rehabilitation, mass media)
  • Encouragement of involvement of colleagues from all over the world in the Section so that transcultural aspects of psychiatric prevention can be looked into
  • Cooperation with scientific associations and international organizations dealing with preventive psychiatry
  • Organisation of scientific meetings
  • Organisation of symposia at the world congresses or regional symposia of the WPA
  • Editing of scientific books based on scientific meetings or symposia organised by the Section

Activities
  • Section symposium: "Preventive Psychiatry" (WPA Regional Meeting in the Mediterranean area, Rome, Italy, 16-19 June 1997)
  • Section symposium: "Secondary and Tertiary Psychiatric Prevention" (World Congress on Rehabilitation in Psychiatry, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 27-30 August 1997)
  • Organization of the WPA Congress on Psychiatric Prevention (in collaboration with the Hellenic Psychiatric Association) in February 1999. Within the Congress a special Inter-Sectional Forum to which Presidents of 12 more sections participated and explained ways in which their sections could contribute to psychiatric prevention. Our Section has officially proposed clustering of all sections that are relevant to psychiatric prevention.
  • Section Symposium: "Early Preventive Interventions" (WPA Regional Meeting, Athens, Greece, February 1999)
  • Section Symposium: "Preventive Strategies in Psychiatry" (XI World Congress of Psychiatry, Hamburg, Germany, August 1999)
  • Section Symposium: “Preventive Psychiatry” (Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Meeting and WPA European Regional Meeting, London, England, 9-13 July 2001)
  • Two Section symposia were organized at the XII World Congress of Psychiatry, Yokohama 2002: 1) Prevention of Negative Consequences of Mental Disorders and 2) Health Promotion: An Integral Component of Clinical Care.
  • The Section participated at the Intersectional symposium, XII World Congress of Psychiatry.
  • A Consensus Statement on Prevention has been approved by the WPA General Assembly, XII World Congress of Psychiatry.
  • Two officers of the Section (G.N.Christodoulou and D.Lecic-Tosevski) are members of the WPA Educational Network
  • G.N.Christodoulou, Founder and member of the Section, is WPA Secretary for Sections. He participates in the Public Health Aspects of Psychiatry - WPA educational program, chaired by Prof. N. Sartorius and in "Neuroscience in Psychiatry", Task Force chaired by Prof. A. Okasha.
  • Cooperation with the World Federation of Mental Health, Clifford Beeer’s Foundation and The Carter Center (Atlanta) has been achieved, and members of the Section participated as the chairman and plenary lecturers of the II World Conference on Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders and Promotion of Mental Health, London, 11-13 September 2002
  • Cooperation with WHO, related to prevention of mental disorders and promotion of mental health


Publications
  • Mental Health in Emergencies  
  • Book of the Section: "Issues in Preventive psychiatry", Eds. G. N. Christodoulou, D. Lecic-Tosevski, V. Kontaxakis (Bibiotheca Psychiatrica, Karger, Bazel, 1999)
  • Chapter in “Recent Advances in Psychiatry”, comprising of contributions of all other sections, edited by G. Christodoulou, Secretary for Sections.
  • Contribution to the Sections’ New Bulletin, edited by G. Christodoulou, Secretary for Sections.


REPORT OF ACTIVITIES IN 2002     


Plans for 2003

  1. To extend the Consensus Statement on Prevention and publish it in a Journal. Persons delegated to do it are: Rachel Jenkins, Clemens Hosman, Sadanand Rajkumar, Terry Brugha and Dusica Lecic-Tosevski;
  2. Intersectional collaboration should be encouraged. One of the ways is to collaborate with other sections with similar area of interest (rehabilitation, disaster, ecology, torture, etc.), in symposia, consensus statements, research, etc.
  3. WPA EC has delegated our Section to participate in the text on disasters (it will be an extended version of the Consensus Statement on disasters which has been adopted at the General Assembly);
  4. Members of the Section should contribute to the Sections’ News Bulletin, edited by Prof. George Christodoulou, Secretary fort Sections;
  5. New Bulletin of our Section would be important to publish. However, this is not easy to achieve, since the Section does not have its own funding;
  6. Research of the Section should be stimulated. This is one of the suggestions of WPA EC. Most of our members are involved in individual research, and some of it is directly related to prevention, for instance: Multicentric research on trauma and posttraumatic stress, supported by the EU, and involving the centers from London, Dresden, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Rijeka and Belgrade. DLT, chair of the Section is Serbian coordinator of this research project.
  7. Collaboration with WHO, as one of the goals of WPA. Our new members (Helen Herman, Shakher Saxena), as well as the old ones (Rachel Jenkins) who are directly involved in the WHO work, will be helpful in this respect.
  8. Symposia as part of WPA congresses should be organized.
  9. New members are welcome, and should be proposed.
Prof. Dusica Lecic-Tosevski
Chair, WPA Section on Preventive Psychiatry