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April 2014
International Transcultural Psychiatry Conference
Dear Colleagues, As a president of Emirates Psychiatric society, I’m delighted to invite you to the International Transcultural Psychiatry Conference (ITPC Dubai 2014) on April 3-5 in Dubai, UAE organized by the EMA Psychiatry Society in partnership with the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry and supported by the WPA Transcultural Society. This conference is planned with the objective of sharing and exchanging opinions, views and expertises about the relationship between culture and psychiatry. Emirates Psychiatry Society believes that Dubai is…
Find out more »May 2014
21st IFP World Congress of Psychotherapy
Dear colleagues, The International Federation for Psychotherapy (IFP) will hold the 21st IFP World Congress of Psychotherapy from May 9 -11, 2014, in Shanghai, China. The theme of this congress will be ‘Psychotherapy Contributing to Global Health’. All IFP members and all colleagues who are interested in psychotherapy are cordially welcome to attend this every-4-year gathering. The board of IFP has authorized the Committee of Psychotherapy and Psychological Counseling of China Association for Mental Health, one of the member organizations…
Find out more »SSPC 2014 Annual Meeting
Trauma, Recovery, and Culture 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…
Find out more »June 2014
Dubrovnik Summer School of Psychotraumatology 2014
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…
Find out more »September 2014
Spirituality, Theology and Health; Durham University
This is an exciting new inter-professional, inter-disciplinary programme for those interested in Christian theology and those in Health related professions. The programme is a collaborative venture with the Department of Theology & Religion, focusing on the interdisciplinary and inter-professional issues that emerge in the study of spirituality and wellbeing, particularly in the healthcare context. The aim of the programme: To provide a taught postgraduate programme on which theologians and scientists, clery/chaplins and healthcare workers may reflect together on their…
Find out more »Transcultural Mental Healthcare
Students on this programme aim to: Develop more advanced understanding of the basis of assessment, diagnosis, formulation and care management of psychological disorders in general and then in diverse racial, ethnic and cultural groups drawing on cultural psychiatry, social sciences and allied disciplines. Have access to an academic programme that prepares competent practitioners to deliver effective mental health treatments for people with psychological problems. Develop knowledge of research methods and systematic and critical review. Develop and…
Find out more »WPA 16th World Congress of Psychiatry (Zone 8)
Focusing on Quality, Access and Humane Care
Find out more »October 2014
Living with schizophrenia. World Federation of Mental Health
The theme of this congress is identical with the theme we have selected for this year's World Mental Health Day. "Living with Schizophrenia" is both important and timely. It is important because of the great burden imposed by schizophrenia on the family and on society as a whole but essentially on the patient him (her) self. The degree of suffering of the persons with this illness can be understood only if one considers the very strong self-destructive potential of people…
Find out more »November 2014
Tanzania 2014
The program in Tanzania starts with a two day conference in Dar es Salaam, attended by Tanzanians, the Dutch group and other foreign delegates. The conference program is drawn up by Dr. R.V. Schwarz of Spoor6, in close cooperation with the Mental Health Association of Tanzania (MEHATA) and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Dar es Salaam. The format will be highly interactive: not only plenary, also parallel sessions and workshops. The main topic for 2014 is “Living with Severe…
Find out more »April 2015
First International Conference on Transcultural Psychiatry in Central European Countries
INVITATION 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…
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