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Global Psychiatry at the Frontier: Sharing the Future

Conference

Start Time:01 Sep 2010

End Time:05 Sep 2010

Where:China National Convention Center, Beijing, China

The International Congress in Beijing will be sponsored by the WPA, which aims to encourage the highest possible standards of clinical practice, to increase knowledge and skills about mental disorders and how they can be prevented and treated, to promote mental health, to promote the highest possible ethical standards in psychiatric work, to disseminate knowledge about evidence-based therapies and values-based practice, to be a voice for the dignity and human rights of the patients and their families, and to uphold the rights of psychiatrists and to facilitate communication and assistance especially to psychiatric societies which are isolated or whose members work in impoverished circumstances.
Keynote lectures:
Mario Maj – Lessons learnt in the implementation of community mental health care
Pedro Ruiz - The role of acculturative stress on mental health and mental illness
David Goldberg - Towards ICD-11, revising the classification for mental disorders in primary care
Norman Sartorius - Challenges and hopes for global mental health
Kari Stefansson - Genetics of mental disorders
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