The APA Office of International Activities and its components, the Council
on Global Psychiatry, Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters, and
Corresponding Committee on Misuse and Abuse of Psychiatry, will present
several timely symposia and workshops at this year's annual meeting. Among
them:FIG1
Other activities include five discussion groups that will examine current
issues in psychiatry pertinent to Europe, Latin America, South Asia, Africa,
and the Middle East.
In addition to the many international activities, and in response to
Hurricane Katrina's devastation on the Gulf Coast and the subsequent need for
disaster psychiatry services, the Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of
Disaster will host two important sessions:
The goals of the Office of International Activities are to strengthen APA's
international membership base and carry on APA's long tradition of
international collaboration with related organizations devoted to furthering
the mission of psychiatry.
Information about the Office of International Activities is posted at<www.psych.org/research/dor/international/index.cfm>
or can be obtained by e-mail to
internationaloffice@psych.org.