Congress Topics
Axis 1: Heightening Public Awareness About the Importance of Equity and Mental Health:
1.1 Equity Issues in Mental Health: (Research papers addressing the need to heighten public awareness about the importance of equity in financing mental health, gender issues, rural-urban care, involvement of users/consumers, and prevention programs versus management programs).
Axis 2: Promotion of Mental Health and Optimal Functioning:
2.1 Mental Health National/Regional/Global Public Awareness and Promotion Campaigns: (Case studies of successful mental health promotion programs and media packages addressing specific needs and topics, including culturally sensitive messages using Internet, Web page and Media-based educational programs).
2.2 Promoting Emotional Well-being across the Life Span: (Workshop presentations describing successful programs and strategies for promoting emotional well-being of infants, children, young adults, men and women, and the elderly).
2.3 School-based Mental and Emotional Health Education: Presentations of examples of successful educational and instructional materials on healthy emotional development, including school based programs addressing conflict resolution, social skills development, leadership training, peer and family relations, etc.
2.4 Promoting Mentally Health Lifestyles: Paper and Workshop presentations on promoting mental and emotional health in activities of daily life (mental health and work, management of life stresses, responsible parenting, mental health and religion, mental health and the community, mental health and politics, mental health and the law, culture and mental health, etc.)
Axis 3: Prevention of Mental, Behavioral, and Psychosocial Disorders:
3.1 Building evidence-based knowledge on the prevention of Mental, Behavioral and Psychosocial Disorders. It will include also scientific papers on current research efforts to enhance the body of knowledge about the prevention of mental, behavioral and psychosocial disorders
Axis 4: Improved Care and Treatment of those with mental, behavioral and psychosocial disorders:
4.1 Mental Health Public Policy.
4.2 Community Mental Health Care Models.
4.3 Primary Mental Health Programs across Cultures.
4.4 Recent Advances in Understanding of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders.
4.5 Recent advances in Schizophrenia and its management.
4.6 Current findings in Mood disorders.
4.7 Substance Abuse prevention, treatment and recovery houses.
4.8 Update on new Psychotropic drugs research.
4.9 Update on Neuro-psychiatry.
4.10 Brain Mapping and Imaging, Computers and Mental Health.
4.11 Emergency Mental Health services by telephone and Tele-Mental Health services.
4.12 Cultural and Social Issues. (Mental health of victims of trauma, war, and displacement, the mental health consequences of HIV/AIDS, mental health needs of the physically and medically disabled).
4.13 The Relationship Between Physical and Mental Health: Co-occurring Physical and Mental Disorders.
Axis 5: Special Emphasis Training Tracks*:
5.1 Skills Training in Recovery and Peer Support.
5.2 Capacity Building and Strengthening Effective Mental Health Associations.
5.3 Mental Health Advocacy Training for Citizen Advocates.
5.4 The Mental Health of Caregivers and Family Members of Persons with Mental and Behavioral Disorders.
* WFMH and the Congress Program Committee will design the tracks included in Axis 5. Individual abstracts for the topics included in this Axis are by invitation and may not be accepted through the general abstract submission process.
Other Events:
- George Albee Lecture - Gamal Abou El-Azayem Lecture - WFMH Regional Meetings
- Margaret Mead Lecture - Mental Health Association Day
- Collaborating Centers
- Mary Hemingway Rees Memorial Lecture
Scientific Format:
- Plenary Lectures - Workshops - Training Courses
- Symposia
Official Language:
- English
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 15 August, 2005
Deadline for Submission of Symposia: 15 August, 2005
Deadline for Submission of Workshops: 15 August, 2005
