26th WPA Congress Abstract Topics

1. Addictions to psychotropic substances
Subtopics:

  • Cannabis use: consequences of mental health and assessment of cannabis use
  • Treatment of people with dual diagnosis
  • Alcohol, cannabis and tobacco: current trends, impact and public health responses

2. Addictions, gambling and internet abuse
3. ADHD
4. Adversity and psychiatry (Violence & mental health; Poverty & mental health; Mental health of refugees and displaced persons)
5. Anxiety disorders
6. Art and psychiatry
7. Autism spectrum disorders
8. Bipolar disorders – the state of the art in treatment
9. Child and adolescent psychiatry (including infant psychiatry)
10. Classification, diagnostic assessment and nomenclature
11. Clinical practice in psychiatry
Subtopics:

  • Identity and health of psychiatrists
  • Towards the future of diagnostics in clinical practice
  • Multiomics of psychiatric disorder: will more biological information help understand mental illness?
  • Precision psychiatry: How it works
  • Community mental health services worldwide: the state of the art

12. Comorbidity of mental and somatic disorders
13. Consultation liaison psychiatry
14. COVID-19
15. Dementia – Examples of dementia care on different continents
16. Developmental psychopathology
17. Digital psychiatry
Subtopic:

  • Digital modes of psychiatric treatment
  • Artificial intelligence for mental health care
  • Artificial intelligence in psychiatry – Pitfalls and challenges

18. Dissociative and somatization disorders
19. Early interventions in psychiatry
Subtopics:

  • The evidence of early intervention services and flexible assertive community services – similarities and differences
  • What is the long term prognosis for first episode psychosis and what can we do to improve it?
  • Treatment of first episode psychosis in adolescence

20. Eating disorders
21. Ecology, psychiatry and mental health
22. Education in psychiatry
Subtopics:

  • Models for reinforcement for psychiatric identity: to act as clinician and public mental health educators and leaders
  • Mental health in educational systems (preschools, schools, and universities)

23. Emergency psychiatry
24. Epidemiology in psychiatry
25. Ethical issues in psychiatry – The impact of the doctor-patient relationship on patient outcomes in mental health care
26. Evolutionary psychiatry – How nature nurtures: consequences for mental health

27. Implementation of healthy lifestyles (physical activity, diet and sleep) – Exercise & sports psychiatry
28. Family therapies
29. Forensic psychiatry – Advantages of compulsory care in different psychiatric diagnoses
30. Gender and mental health (Male mental health, Mental health of women and girls)
Subtopic:

  • Gender perspective in mental health disorders
  • Rapid onset gender dysphoria
  • Model for empowerment of women to combat violence in close relationships and in their communities

31. Genetics and epigenetics in psychiatry
– Clinical utility of pharmacogenetics in psychiatry
32. Harmful use of alcohol and drugs
33. History of psychiatry
34. Human rights and mental health
Subtopics:

  • Examples of a human rights-based approach to mental health care
  • Racist violence and its consequences

35. Immunology in psychiatry
36. Intellectual disabilities
37. Literature and mental health
38. Medically unexplained symptoms
39. Mental health and public health
Subtopics:

  • Implementation barriers of evidence-based interventions for people with mental illness
  • Closing treatment gaps in psychiatry
  • Determinance of psychiatric disorders
  • Climate change and mental health challenges
  • Management of mental health geographical regions experiencing migrant crises, war, and natural disasters
  • Psychiatry in a globalised world – modern challenges and novel approaches
  • Caring for family carers – an assessment of high risk for mental illness
  • Homelessness, mental health problems, and models for care
  • From public health to individual management
  • Implementation of preventive methods in psychiatry
  • Prevention of psychiatric disorders across the life cycle
  • Loneliness and mental health problems on different continents, in different genders, and in different phases of the life course
  • Social determinants of health and mental health in 21st century

40. Mental health economics
41. Mental health users and care givers
42. Migration & mental health
Subtopics:

  • Workforce migration and brain drain
  • Refugees & mental health
  • Mental health of forcibly displaced people worldwide

43. Military psychiatry
44. Minor cognitive deficit
45. Mood disorders, depressive disorders and other depression and anxiety
46. Neurological-psychiatric syndromes
47. Neuromodulation (including DBS, TMS; tDCS, VNS; Neurofeedback)
Subtopics:

  • Noninvasive neuromodulation treatments in psychiatry
  • Deep brain stimulation in psychiatry: current evidence and future perspectives
  • Non-invasive brain stimulation in mental disorders: what works and what does not?

48. Neuroscience and psychiatry, Neuro-imaging – BRAIN 2.0: Transforming neuroscience
49. Obsessive-compulsive disorders
50. Old age psychiatry
51. Other
52. Other themes on disorders
53. Other themes on treatments in psychiatry
54. Perinatal disorders
55. Personality disorders
56. Philosophy and humanities in psychiatry: What is the role of philosophy in psychiatry?57. Psychiatric institutions
58. Psychiatric nursing
59. Psychiatry in developing countries
60. Psycho-oncology
61. Psychopathology and epistemological issues in psychiatry
62. Psychopharmacology
Subtopics:

  • Pharmacological treatments: Schizophrenia, Depression, Abuse, Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD
  • Long-term use of benzodiazepine in psychiatry: evil or demonized?
  • Monotherapy vs polypharmacy in psychopharmacology
  • Placebo vs. Nocebo Effect
  • Supported reduction or discontinuation of psychopharmacological treatment: necessary skills and guidelines
  • Psychedelic drugs in psychiatry: Existing evidence in the field and future directions
  • Psychedelics in the treatment of mental health disorders

63. Psychotherapies
Subtopics:

  • Psychological treatments
  • Supported reduction or discontinuation of psychological treatment: necessary skills and guidelines

64. Rehabilitation of people with mental disorders – Peer involvement in psychiatric treatment
65. Religion, spirituality and psychiatry
66. Schizophrenia and psychotic spectrum disorders
67. Sleep wakefulness disorders
68. Somatic treatments other than pharmacotherapy
69. Stigma and mental illness
70. Suicidology – Suicide prevention: public health and clinical strategies
71. Transcultural psychiatry 
72. Urban mental health – Urbanisation and mental health
73. War & mental health
– Mental health of forcibly displaced people worldwide

Submission & Guidelines