World Congress for Social Psychiatry

 The Twenty first World Congress of the World Association for Social Psychiatry will use the biopsychosocial approach to examine mental health and disease in populations

• Living in extreme environments
  such as in post-disaster situations and extreme climatic conditions
• Exposed to massive technological changes
  e.g. those related to phone technology and internet use
• Forced or wishing to move
  e.g. refugees and migrants
• Exposed to consequences of demographic change
  e.g. the rapid increase of life expectancy of people with disabilities and the changes of demographic structure of communities
• Having to adjust to new legislation relevant to social development and health care systems
• Experiencing rapidly changing patterns of morbidity of physical illness
  e.g. related to rapid increases of the co-morbidity of mental and physical illness
• Involved in processes of massive urbanization and rural-urban migration
• Witnessing continuing discrimination on grounds illness, gender, age and race