WPA Task Forces / Working Groups
WPA Task Forces / Working Groups
The WPA works with its members, partners and components around the world to promote mental health and to
encourage the highest possible standards of clinical practice and ethical behavior in psychiatry. Through the
different WPA Task Forces, also known as Working Groups, we aim to increase knowledge about mental disorders in
order to grow the skills and knowledge needed to prevent and treat them.
WPA works to disseminate knowledge about evidence-based therapy and values-based practice; to be a voice for the dignity and human rights of patients and their families; and to uphold the rights of psychiatrists where they may be challenged. Most importantly, it acts to facilitate communication and provide assistance to societies who are isolated or whose members work in impoverished circumstances.
Through these Working Groups, WPA focuses on consolidating psychiatry as an inspiring branch of medicine. Examples of some of the work these task forces have completed can be found below:
WPA works to disseminate knowledge about evidence-based therapy and values-based practice; to be a voice for the dignity and human rights of patients and their families; and to uphold the rights of psychiatrists where they may be challenged. Most importantly, it acts to facilitate communication and provide assistance to societies who are isolated or whose members work in impoverished circumstances.
Through these Working Groups, WPA focuses on consolidating psychiatry as an inspiring branch of medicine. Examples of some of the work these task forces have completed can be found below:
WPA Working Groups
Public Mental Health
Child, Adolescent & Youth Mental Health
Co-Morbidity in Mental and Physical Health
Defining and Managing Autism Spectrum Disorder
Dealing with Learning Disabilities
Promoting Evidence-based Psychopharmacotherapy
Providing Mental Healthcare for Refugees and Migrants
Digitalisation in Mental Health and Care
Medical Students
Developing Partnerships with Service Users and Family Carers
Implementing Alternatives to Coercion in Mental Health Care
Volunteering
Geopsychiatry
Co-Morbidity in Mental and Physical Health
Defining and Managing Autism Spectrum Disorder
Dealing with Learning Disabilities
Promoting Evidence-based Psychopharmacotherapy
Providing Mental Healthcare for Refugees and Migrants
Digitalisation in Mental Health and Care
Medical Students
Developing Partnerships with Service Users and Family Carers
Implementing Alternatives to Coercion in Mental Health Care
Volunteering
Geopsychiatry
Other examples of the work completed by these task forces can be found below:
Other examples of the work completed by these task forces can be found below:
Capacity Building
Continuation and Completion of previous Action Plans Work
Partnership with other Professional Organisations & NGOs
