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Registrations closing soon for WPA online learning course: Principles of Supportive Psychotherapy

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Registrations closing soon for WPA online learning course: Principles of Supportive Psychotherapy

Par WPA Education Coordinator

Following unprecedented demand for the latest course in WPA\'s World Congress of Psychiatry Online Learning Program - registrations will close imminently. More than 900 participants…

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Update on WPA Working Group\'s “Implementing alternatives to Coercion” collaboration with the WHO

Par Prof. Silvana Galderisi and Prof. John Allan

During the last triennium, the WPA Working Group, “Supporting Alternatives to Coercion in Mental Health Care” worked hard to not only support mental health professionals…

Professor Michaela Amering was selected by the members of the European Psychiatric Association’s (EPA) jury as the winner of the EPA “Constance Pascal – Helen Boyle Prize” of €10,000 for “Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in Working to Improve Mental Health Care in Europe for 2021”! The WPA President, Professor Afzal Javed, commented “We are thrilled that Prof. Amering, our chair of an Action Plan Working Group on Partnerships with Service Users and Family Carers, has been awarded with such a prestigious prize from the EPA”.

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Professor Michaela Amering wins EPAs 2021 “Outstanding Achievement” Award

Prof. Amering is a psychiatrist and Professor at the Division of Social Psychiatry of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. The main focus of her…

The recently established Indian Association of Psychiatry Trainees (IAPT) held its first event on 28 February 2021 to officially launch the association. During this important gathering, IAPT also announced a new initiative, the “Asian Federation of Psychiatry Trainees Interest Group (AFPTIG)”, which aims to support psychiatry trainees across Asia. Proposed by the IAPT President, Dr Sharad Philip, the initiative is fully supported by the WPA. At the event, WPA President, Professor Afzal Javed emphasised the “role that numerous WPA activities play in supporting the promotion of psychiatry training, as well as how they improve access and opportunities, particularly in Asia”.

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IAPT Launches a New Initiative for Psychiatry Trainees during their Opening Event

The event was also attended by two former WPA Presidents, Professors Norman Sartorius and Dinesh Bhugra who both gave insightful presentations. Professor Sartorius highlighted areas…

During the 20th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry earlier this month, immediate past-President of the World Psychiatric Association, Professor Helen Herrman, announced Professor Hannelore Ehrenreich as the winner of the 2020 Jean Delay prize. Professor Hannelore Ehrenreich is a remarkable and distinguished winner, and is the first woman to win the prize. Not only is she a psychiatrist, but she is also a veterinarian and physician of neurology and psychiatry. Her work extends from molecular-cellular characterisation of disease-relevant phenotypes to genotype-phenotype associations of human and animal behaviour and to clinical studies; and beyond that, to the promotion of science and psychiatry in society.

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Professor Hannelore Ehrenreich named winner of the 2020 Jean Delay prize.

She has won numerous awards and honours in Europe and the USA, and is currently working as Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry and Head of…

WPA joins WHO to identify gaps and solutions to the mental health impacts of COVID-19

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WPA joins WHO to identify gaps and solutions to the mental health impacts of COVID-19

The World Psychiatry Association\'s (WPA) President has been asked to join The World Health Organisation (WHO) to assist in identifying gaps and finding solutions to…

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