WPA-TPS: Action Plan 2020-2023:

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This action plan is preliminary and may need to be adapted due to the COVID-19 PANDEMIC

  • Conferences: Besides the symposia at various congresses:

2020      Business meetings

4 joint symposia proposals submitted for the WPA- Intersectional Congress on “Psychological Trauma: Global burden on mental and physical health” on 11-13 December, Athens, Greece

2021

  • The postponed 20th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry, 10-13 March, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Congress of the European Psychiatric Association in Florence on “Personalising and Integrating Mental Health Care in the Digital Era“ , 10-13 April, Italy
  • 6th World Congress of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry on The cultural perspective in psychiatry on „Moving forward to meet the needs of a globalizing society“, 18-20 November, Rotterdam, Netherlands:

In planning: A conference on Refugees and Asylum Seekers (worldwide) 2021 will be organized by WPA-TPS in collaboration between WACP, SSPC, Section on Cultural Psychiatry of the EPA, Gladet (Latinamerican ), Asian and African Platform: The idea ist to bring together all associations and sections on cultural psychiatry (if possible) to a conference in Rotterdam during the WACP congress 2021.

  • Congress of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Berlin, Germany
  • Annual meeting oft he Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture, Canada

2022    Different conferences, business meeting

2023    Different conferences, business meeting, new elections

  • Communication with members and others (section, individuals, other associations) will be stepped up
  • Website (WPA and WPA-TPS); will be update regular; a lot a lot of information can be found; Hans is Webmaster with a Dutch man is his technical help; facebook, emails about single issues (linkeIn, twitter)
  • Newsletter: what is useful, what do we want as section board, what do the members need / want. Who gives what messages? Is the newsletter still a medium of use? Who reads the report form congresses in the past?  
  • Recruitment of new members: Suggestion to make a member only part on the website (Robert); Results of discussion during the business meeting:

The importance of recruiting members from low income countries was stressed.

The importance of informing about the section on WPA meetings and being connected with other organisations was stressed. Suggestions for recruitment:  information about the section in the WPA newsletter; make a flyer as a pdf on the website, information about the section on the WPA website; make a short video targeted towards young psychiatrist about the section and put it on you tube. 

  • Development and member relations
  • Special issue TP:  Special Issue of TP on „Training in culture and migration Mental Health“, Deadline for manuscript submission December 1, 2020.  

The board will formulate in collaboration with Laurence Kirmayer, chief-editor of Transcultural psychiatry, guidelines on how to work with the yearly special issue.

  • Hamburg´s Discussion Document needs a follow up, 2021
  • Cooperation with SSPC and WACP  
  • Attention mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on vulnerable groups. Information on different languages and links to ta articles will be added to the web page of the section.
  • Webbinares two times a year

Stockholm 2020-09-06