PROMOTION PREVENTION (Last Updated On: 09-19-2023) PROMOTION & PREVENTION Sixth World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders 17-19 November 2010 The conference organizers are The World Federation for Mental Health, The Clifford Beers Foundation, The Carter Center and Education Development Center, Inc. Education Development Center is the Host Organization for the meeting. REPORT COMING SOON for the Sixth World Conference on the Promotion and Prevention The program themes were: Promoting mental health and community well-being Social connection and mental health Human rights, preventing discrimination and promoting diversity Economic issues and mental health Prevention of disorders Healing from adverse experiences and trauma The themes will be explored through the following strategies: Research on promotion and prevention worldwide Influencing policy Developing stakeholder partnerships Implementing effective programs Developing an effective workforce for promotion and prevention 2008 WORLD CONFERENCE ON THE PROMOTION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND PREVENTION OF MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS FROM MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM The Fifth World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders presented a program firmly set in the social context of mental health, a trademark of the host organization, the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth). The meeting attracted 860 participants from 44 countries and added several new plenary program topics to the themes established at previous conferences in the series. Altogether 370 presentations at various levels from plenary addresses to posters were crowded into the three-day event on 10-12 September 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. Please click here for a longer report on the conference program. TOP WFMHS LEADERSHIP IN PROMOTION & PREVENTION: A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY Throughout its 59 year history, the promotion of mental health and prevention of mental and behavioral disorders have been central elements of WFMHs work. Here are some brief examples of WFMH initiatives and activities that have addressed the Federations prevention and promotion goals: In September 2004, WFMH and the World Health Organization (WHO) collaborated on the publication of MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION: Case Studies from Countries, a collection of mental health promotion programs and activities from grassroots mental health organizations in 30 countries; With the International Labour Organization and the New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (HK), WFMH co-sponsored a regional conference on the challenges of job stress and its impact in the workplace, held in Hong Kong in February 2002; In 1995-1996 WFMHs European Regional Council represented the mental health interests of European NGOs in discussions of a proposed European Commission plan to promote mental health as a component of a broad based program on health promotion, education and training. At the end of the year the WFMH/ERC was invited to become the European Commissions liaison office for the European Network on Mental Health Promotion; The 1995 WFMH Biennial World Mental Health Congress (Dublin, Ireland) theme had a major focus on prevention and promotion with a number of sessions on topics relating to prevention research, preventive intervention models and dissemination of knowledge. From this emphasis evolved efforts to form a WFMH International Consortium for Prevention including 45 members from 7 regions; In 1993, in collaboration with the Vermont Conference on Primary Prevention of Psychopathology, WFMH created the George W. Albee Lecture on Prevention as a regular part of the program for future WFMH biennial world congresses; In 1989, WFMH formed the International Committee on Prevention, which was approved by the WFMH Board of Directors in 1991; In 1986, the Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention Research became WFMHs first Collaborating Center; In February 1986 WFMH co-sponsored, with the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Mexican Committee for Mental Health, a symposium entitled Prevention and Education in the Field of Mental Health: Implications for Latin America; One of the two major themes for the 1985 WFMH Biennial World Mental Health Congress in Brighton, England, was Prevention of Mental and Emotional Disability. The other primary theme for the Congress was Services for the Chronically Mentally Ill; The August 1975 WFMH World Congress in Copenhagen included papers on such topics as Preventive Health and the Psychology of Economic Growth. TOP