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Release of the DSM-5 in 2 weeks. The debate goes on.
The release of DSM-5 will take place during the American Psychiatric Association (APA) 2013 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, May 18-22, 2013. The DSM-5 is the fifth edition of the APA’s Diagnostic and...
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Where is Mental Health on the Global agenda’s? Vote!
Where is Mental Health in the NCDs (Non Communicable Diseases), the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), the UHC (Universal Health Coverage) movement, or the Post-2015 Development Agenda? And what are...
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Is the Global Mental Health Field in 2013 showered with too much meetings?
To mention a couple of Global Mental Health and international Psychiatry conferences this year: 1. May 31 Amsterdam, Europe: Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health Symposium, 2. June 19-23...
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Join the new WHO Global Clinical Practice Network. Revision of the ICD-10.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is forming a global network of mental health professionals to help the development of the classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders in next version of the...
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Global Mental Health and the 66th session of the World Health Assembly 20-28...
The World Health Assembly is the senior decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO). It generally meets in May each year, and is attended by delegations from all 194 Member States. Its...
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Recap of the Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health Conference May 31st...
Last Friday, May 31th, I attended this one day conference, which was organized to mark the farewell of Joop de Jong as Professor at the VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Europe. I hope the...
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UNITAR-EMDR Europe Conference Geneva in 25 Tweets:
This time together with UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research), EMDR Europe organized it’s 14th annual conference in Geneva. This corporation with UNITAR resulted in a special...
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WHO releases new guidelines for treating conditions related to stress, trauma...
Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse released 2 new guidelines, a news release and an article in the The Journal of the American Medical...
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What can YOU do on World Mental Health Day 10-10-2013?
Every 10th of October it’s World Mental Health Day. This is a day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy. It’s an initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) and the...
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End of the year read: Mental Health Care News from Asia
image from transitionsabroadThis article is a trip through the current mental health field of Asia in 51 recent articles about 16 Asian countries. Mental health services, legislation and capacity...
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