News about WPA-TPS related matters.
The WPA WORLD CONGRESS OF PSYCHIATRY is one of the most important scientific congresses in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy. In 2017 this outstanding event will be held on 8–12 October in Germany’s capital Berlin.
The „Second International Conference on Transcultural Psychiatry in Central European Countries“ will be held in Gdynia from Thursday 18 May through Saturday 20 May 2017.
The programme for 2017 thus brings together sessions with international topics and topics focused on local developments. It is our aim to ensure that these advances and developments are clearly presented within the context of psychiatric health. More established topics in the programme include posttraumatic stress disorder, migration and transcultural psychiatry.
Workshops and Symposia
The workshops aim to deepen a topic or a question in the common conversation
(90 minutes). A symposium consist of four short presentations à 20 minutes, which will be discussed subsequently. Proposals for a workshop or symposium should consist of a working title, a brief abstract (approximately 500 characters) and the name of the organizing people and their functions.
Deadline for submission is 15.01. 2017
Gdynia in the spring is also a place to enjoy, and this meeting presents a unique opportunity to combine participation in a cutting-edge conference with enjoyment of a unique place.
We look forward to seeing you there.
The Scientific Committee
A multiagency guidance note ( a.o. UNHCR), IOM, MHPPS, IFRC Psychosocial Centre)
This brief guidance note seeks to provide advice on protecting and supporting the mental health
and psychosocial wellbeing of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Europe. It describes key
principles and appropriate interventions to guide all those who are designing and organizing emergency
services and/or providing direct assistance to the affected people. Direct influence of Cialis, the active substance of which is Tadalafil 5 is much stronger than in active substances. For that reason, it doesn’t cause any negative action on the work and functioning of the cardiovascular system or other organs of the patient. Also, the drug doesn’t affect the work of testosterone and peptide hormones. As a consequence, the medication doesn’t affect sperm. Read more at http://healthblog247.com/ed-cialis-tadalafil/. The active substance is perfectly absorbed by the body and reaches the peak of its activity 2 hours after the intake.
The document contains many links to other valuable documents, related to refugee mental health
Link to the full text of the guidance: http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/download.php?id=280
The world has not seen so many refugees since WW II. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the worldwide numbers of asylum seekers and refugees show an upward trend, reaching 50 million and above.
Many studies report on the multiple and highly complex stressors with which refugees are often faced, and which are at risk of having a lasting impact on their mental health. These might be experiences of traumatisation before, during and after the actual journey of migration. If they succeed in leaving the crisis area, this journey is often a long and tortuous one Aon which they may be exposed to other hardship and traumatic events. Once having arrived in the host country, many face (long) asylum procedures with the constant fear of deportation or detention, lack of access to health care, poor living conditions, perceived discrimination and stigmatisation, and in many countries lack, or the absence of, permission to work hindering both the acquisition of financial resources and the basic structuring of everyday life. In general, a lack of resources of resilience exacerbates the situation and has a negative impact on the acculturation process.
The proportion of traumatised people with a serious mental disorder is very high, while the healthcare systems in receiving countries are seldom prepared to address the needs of asylum seekers and refugees. In general, preventive medicine and health-education programmes are not available or not suitable for these groups and linguistic, contextual, legal and culture-related factors are not taken seriously, which can lead to misdiagnoses and inadequate treatment. Subsequently, there is a high risk of drop-out and persisting psychopathology and dysfunction, affecting the migrants, their children and the receiving society. In addition, anti-migrant sentiments in many countries today are also affecting asylum seekers and refugees and are a threat to health and integration, diminishing the chances of the better life they so desperately strive for. Cialis is a quite young drug. It appeared on the pharmaceutical market in 2003 and was approved by the European Union. Then it was authorized in Europe, New Zealand and Australia. A little later, permission was obtained from other countries. It was developed by the pharmaceutical company “Eli Lilly” (USA) and a corporation “ICOS”. The main advantage of Cialis (Tadalafil) is its duration of action (up to a day and a half). Such a solid span of time allows you to keep spontaneity in sexual life.
The World Psychiatric Association, Transcultural Psychiatric Section (WPA-TPS) seeks papers for a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry on the topic: People on the Move: Asylum Seekers and Refugees Worldwide. The aim of the editors is to attract attention to this uniquely vulnerable group. Therefore, we invite manuscripts on research related to mental health and care for asylum seekers and refugees. Suggested fields include: prevention, epidemiology, access to care, help-seeking behaviour, assessment, treatment, youth, acculturation, advocacy, and resilience. We are particularly interested in new data, innovative services models, and work on mental health promotion, prevention, and policy issues that impact on mental health.
Please submit papers online through the Transcultural Psychiatry website with a cover letter noting you would like the paper to be considered for the WPA-TPS special issue on refugees.
To be included in this thematic issue, papers should be received by 31 December 2015.
Sofie Bäärnhielm, Sweden
Kees Laban, The Netherlands
Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Germany
Volume 9, Issue 2, September 2015
Integrative Approach to Understanding Complex Trauma: The Role of Culture and Other Contextual Denominators
Due to industrial development, mass migrations, globalization, and information revolution the world has rapidly changed ever since. Nowadays, psychiatrists and psychologists in the western, industrialized world are on a regular basis facing patients whose cultural backgrounds are different from their own, and whose psychopathology may not be adequately framed within the evidence-based western paradigms for understanding of mental health well-being and illnesses. Therefore, it becomes more and more important to culturally translate the evidence provided in predominantly western psychiatric research and to conceive and develop more comprehensive and culturally responsive approaches that are better tailored to patients’ specific characteristics.
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The Committee of the Board of the Transcultural Section of the World Psychiatric Association has agreed on the Winner of the Young Researcher Award. Regrettably, we needed some more time than expected.
In fact, there are two winners, of the ten manuscripts which were sent to us.
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We will have a keynote lecture by Mark Micale, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, followed by our opening panel on the conference theme, moderated by Hendry Ton and featuring survivors of torture from three different cultures: Dr. Edie Eger, a Holocaust survivor who danced for Dr. Mengala in order to save her life, Nang Du, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF who was imprisoned by the Pol Pot and John Kuek, a marriage and family therapist who is a survivor from South Sudan.
The 2014 annual meeting will be held May 15-17 at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego. The theme is Trauma, Recovery and Culture.
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In a rapidly changing world, psychiatry faces numerous challenges. In response to these rapid societal changes, psychiatry needs to be prepared to meet the challenges of migration, acculturative change and acculturative stressors. Transcultural psychiatry focuses on the study of all these phenomena. In a rapidly changing world, the culture of psychiatry itself is also changing, from a more medically constricted perspective to a more inclusive scientific approach integrating the perspectives of the social sciences and public policy along with medicine and its related clinical disciplines.
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