APSAAR symposium: Co-occurrence of alcohol use disorders and depressive disorders: mediating factors, preventive and treatment strategies

-Co-occurrence of alcohol use disorder and depressive disorder and socio-demographic disparities in the relationship between these disorders
Nopporn Tantirangsee, Thailand

-Prevalence of problem drinking in patients with depression and association between depression severity and problem drinking: a cross-sectional survey
Susumu Higuchi, Japan

-Clinical and Public health strategies in the management of co-occurrence of alcohol use disorder and depressive disorder
Haifeng Jiang, China

Professor Jean Delay, an inspiring legacy for the future of psychiatry

-Pr Jean Delay, First President of the World Psychiatric Association
Driss Moussaoui, Morocco

Emerging psychiatric concerns in millennials and gen Z

-Depression and suicide among adolescents in the Philippines in recent years
Vanessa Kathleen Cainghug, Philippines

-Peripatetic psychotherapy applied for a teenager in social isolation
Demetrius França, Brazil

-Dismorfophobia, the negation of human beauty
Luca Giorgini, Italy

Overcoming the stigma of mental illness in Asia-Pacific countries

-Rethinking mental health: recovery, dignity and empowerment
Sally Chan, Australia

-How Chinese psychiatrists see and manage stigmatisation of psychiatric patients: qualitative findings from Hong Kong
Kai Sing Sung, Hongkong, China

-Overview of stigma against psychiatric illnesses and advancements of anti-stigma activities in six Asian societies
Roger Ho, Singapore

International networking and career advancement: perspectives from Asian Early Career Psychiatrists

-International networking and career advancement: perspectives from Asian early career psychiatrists
Poom Chompoosri, Thailand

-International networking and career advancement: perspectives from Asian early career psychiatrists
Zulvia Syarif, Indonesia

-International networking and career advancement: perspectives from Asian early career psychiatrists
Bigya Shah, Nepal

Ethics in psychotherapy II: new challenges

-The relevance of free will in psychotherapy ethics
Tobias Zürcher, Switzerland

-Evidence and psychotherapy ethics
John Sadler, USA

-Ethics of online psychotherapy
Manuel Trachsel, Switzerland

Reap bipolar disorder and mood stabilizer: What we found and what we learned

-Polypharmacy in Bipolar disorder: Findings from REAP Bipolar Disorder
Vie Cheong Thong, Malaysia

-Clinical use of mood stabilizers in REAP study- beyond the treatment for bipolar disorder
Isa Multazam Noor, Indonesia

-Clinical use of mood stabilizer in Asian patients: Summary from REAP-BD and MS
Pornjira Pariwatcharakul, Thailand

How to manage a psychiatric hospital

-Quality management in mental care during mental-health service modernization
George Kostyuk, Russian Federation

-Quality management in mental health treatment and care
Wolfgang Gaebel, Germany

-The use of clinical guidelines in mental health care
Jack McIntyre, USA

Exploring and reporting the extent to which suicides are attributable to sociocultural factors

-Age patterns of suicide
John Snowdon, Australia

-Reporting of suicide by the media
Greg Armstrong, Australia

Psychoanalysis and public health: integrating psychodynamic treatments in rural and community settings

-The psychodynamic approach in community psychiatry: Insights from Indonesia
Petrin Lukman, Indonesia

-How to bring psychoanalytic knowledge into a community: a new look at an old idea
Saman Tavakoli, Iran

-Psychodynamics in the treatment of addiction: a salutary approach when facing a therapeutic deadlock
Hachem Tyal, Morocco

Sectional symposium of the WPA Psychotherapy Section: “Ethnopsychotherapy and the need for cultural adaptations of CBT – An international perspective”

-From the Western World to Asia-A 15 years CBT journey in Thailand
Nuttorn Pityaratsian, Thailand

-CBT for depression and anxiety disorders in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
Haifa Algathani, Bahrain

-CBT for psychosis in Thailand
Warut Aunjitsakul, Thailand

APSAAR Symposium: SUD and suicide prevention and treatment from their relationship

-Suicidal behaviour among alcohol and drug users: prevention and treatment in Thailand
Suwanna Arunpongpaisal, Thailand

-Strategies and psychological autopsy for Suicide with SUD
Sung Young Huh, Korea

Digital child and adolescent psychiatry

-An interactive mobile app game to address aggression (RegnaTales)
Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng, Singapore

-Sharing best evidence and improving practice: the story of ACAMH
Gordana Milavic, UK

Synchronizing the internal clock: The role of biological rhythms in the pathophysiology and treatment of bipolar disorders

-Biological rhythms in bipolar disorders
Benicio N. Frey, Canada

-Assessment of circadian function in bipolar disorders: ISBD taskforce recommendations for research and clinical practice
Ben Bullock, Australia

-Chronotherapy in bipolar disorders: ISBD taskforce recommendations
Philipp Ritter, Germany

Conceptual issues in psychotherapy ethics

-Informed consent for psychotherapy: One-time event or evolving process?
Manuel Trachsel, Switzerland

-Ethics in selecting psychotherapy modalities and formats
John Sadler, USA

Psychiatry in a globalised world – modern challenges and novel approaches

-An open mind – discovering the intersections
Pramudie Gunaratne, Australia

-International online-based research by early-career psychiatrists: resources, opportunities, and challenges
Victor Pereira-Sanchez, USA

-Digital psychiatry: new opportunities
Mariana Pinto da Costa, Brazil

Quality improvement – recent advances

-Current initiatives to improve the quality of police responses to people in crisis and their follow-up care
Laura Kunard, USA

-Revised and extended national guideline on Schizophrenia
Wolfgang Gaebel, Germany

-New American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline on Schizophrenia
Jack McIntyre, USA

Family, spirituality and addiction; What is the evidence

-Religious/spiritual involvement, family and addiction: what is the evidence?
Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Brazil

-Domestic violence: from intimate partner violence to witnessing intraparental violence, how do relationships inside a family can change?
Jacopo Santambrogio, Italy

Mental health and major traumas: building resilience

-Predictors of resilience to war exposure in Syrian refugee children
Cassandra Popham, UK 

-Mental health in a highly stressful environment: a mental health survey in Afghanistan
Viviane Kovess-Masfety, France

-Resilience and vulnerability in long-term mental health among survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011: a literature review in the past 9 years
Norito Kawakami, Japan

Machine learning in mental health and neuroscience

-Prediction of suicide attempts in a national representative sample of the US population using machine learning techniques
Ives Passos, Brazil

-Early identification of bipolar disorder in a large cohort from Brazil

Flávio Kapczinski, Canada

-Machine learning in health administrative data in mental health
Bo Cao, Canada

Third wave psychotherapies east and west: Similarities, differences, and need for cultural adaptations

-Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in Mexico: current trends and future directions
Angel Ramirez, Mexico

-Acceptance commitment therapy in Mexico: cultural adaptations and clinical considerations
Iizax Ramirez, Mexico

-Clinical experience with DBT in Northern Malaysia
Noor Melissa Nor Hadi, Malaysia

The flourishing global psychiatric culture through 20 world congresses of psychiatry

-Reshaping the diagnostic borders of psychotic disorders: the look of history of psychiatric practices (Strasbourg, 1920-1930)
Julie Clauss-Kobayashi, France

-Making psychiatry global
Benoit Majerus, Switzerland

-History of Psychiatry in Thailand: 130 years of achievements
Kamonporn Wannarit, Thailand

Electrophysiological evaluation and modulation of symptoms and functional outcomes in psychosis

-Electrophysiological indices and real-life functioning in a sample of subjects with chronic schizophrenia
Giulia Giordano, Italy

-Transcranial direct current stimulation to enhance specific domains of cognitive function in schizophrenia
Tomiki Sumiyoshi, Japan

-Transcranial direct current stimulation in patients with dementia and mild cognitive impairment. Current knowledge
and future perspectives
Takuma Inagawa, Japan

How to identify and address psychosocial needs of cancer patients

-An update on the National Cancer Care Network (NCCN) guidelines of distress management in cancer patients
Michelle Riba, USA

-European perspective of assessing and addressing the psychosocial needs of cancer patients
Luigi Grassi, Italy 

Psychological treatment for personality disorders: Latest findings

-Evidence-based psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Disorder – introduction to the background and methods of the 2020 update of a Cochrane review
Ole Storebø. Denmark 

-Psychological therapies for people with Borderline Personality Disorder: Results of the 2020 update of a Cochrane review
Jutta Soffers-Winterling, Germany

-Obstacles and challenges in patients’ ability to engage in and benefit from treatment
Elsa Ronningstam, Denmark 

Dealing with the unpredictable: crisis interventions in the face of COVID-2019 epidemic in China

-The Burden of COVID-19 on China and the World
Tanzeeb Mehman, USA

-Implementation of early psychosocial interventions based on specific subpopulation needs within China
Peng Pang, USA  

-A physician’s experience serving as a first-line responder in Wuhan, the epicenter of disease outbreak
Yanli Su, China 

Neuroimaging in addiction

-PET imaging of dopaminergic system in substance-dependence research
Kyoji Okita, Japan

-A longitudinal study of methamphetamine dependence by neuroimaging
Na Zhong, China

-Neuroimaging in ketamine addiction
Yanhui Liao, China

Collaborative mental health in Central Asia

-Regional Interdisciplinary Collaborative Alliances-RICAs-Principles and actions
Uriel Halbreich, USA

-Collaborative perspective from Kyrgystan
Tatiana Galak, Kyrgyzstan

-Post Soviet Union adaptation and needs
Saya Nurmagambetov, Kazakhstan

Psychiatric dimensions of the international coronavirus pandemic

-COVID19 experience in Hong Kong
Roger Ng, Hong Kong PRC

-Pandemic preparedness in a US national behavioral health system
Jerry Halverson, USA

-American Psychiatric Association and COVID19 response
Saul Levin, USA

Staged interventions for obsessive compulsive disorders; from models to services

-New staging models for OCD
Bernardo dell’osso, Italy

-Early intervention services for OCD
Vlasios Brakoulias, Australia

-Neuromodulation for resistant OCD
Shyam Sundar Arumugham, India

International advancements in understanding gambling and gambling disorder

-Self-reported gambling by youth 10 to 17 years of age from the 3 most populous states in the US
Linda Cottler, USA

-Gambling behaviours in South-East Asia: patterns and prevalence
Pratima Murthy, India

-Developing lower risk gambling guidelines using international data
David Hodgins, Canada

Innovations in child and adolescent mental health service delivery in China and Canada: Initiatives with potential for global reach

-An evidence-based national resource and strategy for improving mental health knowledge and help-seeking behaviours in schools
Yifeng Wei, Canada

-Child and adolescent mental health and psychiatry in China
Jingliu Liu, China

-On becoming trauma-informed, trauma-competent and trauma-focused in clinical practice (2016-2020): Implications
for assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and system design
David Cawthorpe, Canada

Sectional Symposium of the WPA Psychotherapy Section: “Ethnopsychotherapy and the need for cultural adaptations of CBT – an international perspective”

-From the Western World to Asia-A 15 Years CBT journey in Thailand
Nuttorn Pityaratsian, Thailand

-CBT for depression and anxiety disorders in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
Haifa Algathani, Bahrain

-CBT for psychosis in Thailand
Warut Aunjitsakul, Thailand

The impact of adversities on child mental health – An epidemiological approach

-Sensitivity, war exposure & childhood adversities
Elie Karam, Lebanon

-Emerging socio-political determinants of mental health
Michael Ni, Hong Kong PRC

-Mental health needs and barriers to treatment of Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon
Michael Pluess, UK

Evolving assisted dying policies and challenges with mental illnesses: What if there is no goldilocks solution?

-Psychiatrist’s role in assisted dying
K. Sonu Gaind, Canada 

-Ethical dilemmas around dying with dignity
Rutger Jan van der Gaag, Netherlands

-Ethical issues in assisted dying
Paul Appelbaum, USA

Women’s health in a troubled world

-Causes and consequences of violence against women
Gail Robinson, Canada

-Struggles for women in Oman and the impact on their mental health
Zakia Ali Al Difai, Oman

-Interplay between genetics and sociocultural factors in the pathogenesis of eating disorders
Allan Kaplan, Canada 

Uncovering subjectivity in clinical psychopathology

-Burn out and individuality – social aesthetic perspectives
Michael Musalek, Austria

-Borderline personality disorder and the moral self: Self-management as relational moral agency
Anna Bergqvist, UK

-Existential types in a dialectic approach to temporality and intersubjectivity in psychopathology
Guilherme Messas, Brazil

The potential of an active lifestyle in the prevention, treatment and management of psychosis

-Physical activity as behavioural risk factor for incident psychosis
Felipe Schuch, Brazil

-Health outcomes and program adherence of a integrated lifestyle intervention in people with severe mental illness in community settings
Rachel Morell, Australia

-Less medication use after a lifestyle-focused treatment in severe mental illness in inpatient settings
Jeroen Deenik, Netherlands

The relevance of spirituality/religion in enhancing Asian mental health – the why, what, when and how?

-Roles of spirituality/religion in mental health and care in East Asian communities in Canada
Wai Lun Alan Fung, Canada

-Working with faith communities, Brahmakumaris in India, for the interface of principles of spirituality for mental
health promotion & symptom management
Avdesh Sharma, India

-Partnering with faith communities in enhancing mental health – examples from Hong Kong
Agatha Chong, Hong Kong, China

APSAAR symposium: Amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) and mental health

-Mental health of individuals receiving methamphetamine dependence treatment in a treatment center in Thailand
Rasmon Kalayasiri, Thailand

-Project for introducing evidence-based relapse prevention program to drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation centers for international technology cooperation
Tomohiro Shirasaka, Japan

-Prognostic factors of patients with methamphetamine abuse after one year follow up Chia-Chun Hung, Taiwan Depression, religiosity and religious coping in Amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) use Disorder
Anne Yee, Malaysia

Perspective and outcome of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Asia

-Perspective of health professional for ECT in Indonesia
Dharmawan Purnama, Indonesia

-Training System for ECT in Japan
Hitoshi Iida, Japan

-ECT status in Korea especially for treatment resistant Schizophrenia
In Chung, Korea

Contributions of psychoanalysis to social psychiatry; symposium cosponsored by WPA affiliated organizations: WADP and the AAPDPP

-Psychodynamics and social dynamics of suicide in low- and middle-income countries
Cesar Alfonso, USA

-How can psychoanalysis and social psychiatry collaborate?
Driss Moussaoui, Morocco

-How can psychoanalysis contribute to social psychiatry?
Maria Ammon, Germany

WPA position statement on spirituality and religion in psychiatry: practical implications

-Approaching S/R in clinical care: evidence and guidelines
Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Brazil

-Psychiatry and religion. controversies and consensus: a matter of attitude
Peter Verhagen, Netherlands

-Interface of Spiritual organizations & mental health professionals, past, present & future
Avdesh Sharma, India

Situation and mental health impact of COVID-19 – the high risk Asian countries’ perspectives

-The current issue of COVID-19 infection and the survey on the mental state at the medical institutions for infectious diseases in Japan
Tomohiro Shirasaka, Japan

-Investigation into public anxiety symptoms and preventive measures during the COVID-19 outbreak in Taiwan
Chia-Chun Hung, Taiwan

Novel ways to conceptualize prevention and interventions to reduce mental health problems

-Resilience and mental health: Longitudinal evidence from epidemiological samples in the United States
James Anthony, USA

-Does providing personalized depression risk information lead to psychological harm?
JianLi Wang, Canada

Problematic usage of the internet – from obsessive compulsive related disorder to behavioural addiction

-Gaming disorder – ‘The new kid in the block’
Dan Stein, South Africa

-PUI the hidden epidemic
Konstantinos Ioannidis, UK

-Harnessing technology to diagnose and treat behavioral addictions
Lior Carmi, Israel

Outcomes of addictions in women: developing country perspectives

-Psychosocial correlates of addiction in women
Florence Thibaut, France

-Neurobiological correlates of addictions in women
E Mohandas, India

Law and ethics of compulsory psychiatric treatment with special focus on indigenous populations

-Law and ethics of compulsory psychiatric treatment with special focus on indigenous populations. A maori perspective
Kiri Prentice, New Zealand 

-Human rights and social determinants of health of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Neeraj Gill, Australia 

Psychosocial consequences of COVID-19 in urban settings

-The psychosocial consequences of COVID-19 in urban settings
Jair Mari, Brazil 

-A series of disasters and recoveries in Sri Lanka
Dulshika Waas, Sri lanka 

-Forced social isolation and consequent mental health problems: lessons from hikikomori
Takahiro Kato, Japan 

The science and ethics of digital phenotyping in adolescent mental health

-Digital phenotyping from research to clinical implementation
Aditya Vaidyam, USA

-Tracing tomorrow: Adolescents’ preferences in digital phenotyping from an online game
Gabriela Pavarini, UK

Research on Asian psychotropic drug prescription pattern: Past, present, and future

-REAP Survey: Development and performance in multiple regions
Shu-Yu Yang, Taiwan

-Advanced studies in REAP-AP4
Seon-Cheol Park, Korea

-Associate factors of psychotropic drug prescribing
Takahiro Kato, Japan

Bridging the gap in mental health via mass media, social media and telepsychiatry-experiences from Nigeria, Kenya and Greece

-Bridging the gap in mental health via mass media and telepsychiatry – experiences from Nigeria, Kenya and Greece (radio highlights)
Margaret Ojeahere, Nigeria

-A mental health startup platform changes the way mental health is provided in Greece
Nikolaos Gkouvas, Greece

Biological developments in whole person psychiatry

-Integrating precision medicine within whole person psychiatry and medicine
Juan Mezzich, USA

-Advances in integrated person-centered care to promote a whole person coordinated approach
Helen Millar, UK

-Neuro-psychiatry and hermeneutics make psychiatry person-centered
Michael Wong, Hong Kong PRC

Integrating mental health into primary care: promoting best practices in APEC economies

-Integrating mental health into primary care (WONCA)
Garth Manning, Thailand

-Integration of mental health into primary care and community settings in APEC
Jill Murphy, Canada

-Integrating mental health into primary care (Indonesia)
I. Irmansyah, Indonesia

Sexual harassment at work place: Recognition and prevention

-Sexual harassment of women at work place: The way ahead
Saroja Indran, Australia

Comorbidity and of somatic and psychiatric disorders: The state of the art

-Meta-analysis (MA) of pharmacological treatment of smoking cessation
Dan Siskind, Australia

-Physical health and health risk in people with severe mental illness (SMI) in the Indian subcontinent. Results form a survey in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan Najma Siddiqi, UK

Art and psychiatry: Past and future

-The art of living a fulfilled life
Hans-Otto Thomashoff, Austria

-Semiotic mechanisms of art in fighting stigma
Ekaterina Sukhanova, USA

-The Cunningham Dax Collection
Jennifer Harrison, Australia

The challenge of behavioural addictions

-Problematic internet use and gaming disorders in students and outpatients with different psychiatric disorders
Donatella Marazziti, Italy

Homelessness and mental illness: Views from early career psychiatrists from multiple Asian countries

-Homelessness and mental health in India
Siddharth Sarkar, India 

-Homelessness and mental health in Indonesia
Rossalina Rossalina, Indonesia

-Homelessness and mental health in Nepal
Bikram Kafle, Nepal

Public mental health

-Public mental health and associated opportunities
Jonathan Campion, UK

-Community based mental health model. The actual distance between a real transformation and the mere rhetoric thereof
Santiago Levin, Argentina

-Social justice, health equity and Covid-19
Michael Marmot, UK 

Advances in psychiatric classifications and diagnosis

-Historical perspective on international classifications of psychiatric disorders: Past, present and future
Juan Mezzich, USA

-GLAD-P-Revised: The Latin-American classification of psychiatric disorders: A person-centered based diagnostic system
Elvia Velasquez, Colombia

-Neuroscience and classification in psychiatry
Ihsan Salloum, USA

Human rights and women’s mental health in special populations

-Woman, human rights and psychiatry
Guadalupe Morales Cano, Spain

-Sexual and reproductive rights for girls and woman with mental illness
Donna Stewart, USA

-Suicidality in women and girls in humanitarian crisis
Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Germany 

Human trafficking and mental health

-Human trafficking and mental health in general and in North America
Donna Stewart, Canada

-Human trafficking from a South American Andean perspective
Marta Rondon, Peru

-A project on mental health recovery for trafficked victims in England
Nicola Wright, UK

Ill dopamine signaling in brain disorders: Recent progress

-Dopaminergic epistasis in addiction
Carl Lin, USA

-Genetic findings from rat models
Raul Gainetdinov, Russian Federation

-Dopamine-immune pathway confers risk for brain disorders
Barbara Fedorova, Germany

Prevalence and correlates of new psychoactive substance (NPS) use

-New psychoactive substance use in Taiwan
Jih-Heng Li, Taiwan

-Surveillance strategies to detect new psychoactive substances and their correlates in Thailand
Chitlada Areesantichai, Thailand

-Surveillance methods for detecting NPS in the US
Linda Cottler, USA

Meditation as medication

-Overview of meditation and its scope in mental health
Avdesh Sharma, India

-Letting go
Paul Summergrad, USA

Coercive practices in psychiatry: are they necessary?

-Are we forced to coerce, or are we using excessive force?
K. Sonu Gaind, Canada

-Mental health laws: applications and cultural aspects
Nahala Nagy, Egypt

-Coercive practices: the balance between the individual’s rights and the collective rights
Zvi Zemishlany, Israel

Therapeutic interventions addressing trauma in infants and toddlers- application of infant parent psychotherapy and EMDR narrative methods

-Evaluating the impact of trauma on infants and parents at a Paediatric Hospital in Thailand
Sasitorn Chantaratin, Thailand

-Psychotherapeutic responses with infants with complex cardiac disorders and their parents in a Paediatric tertiary hospital
Campbell Paul, Australia

-EMDR treatment of a toddler with PTSD following a random violent attack and subsequent medical trauma
Allister Bush, New Zealand

Psychiatry of the future – Web based solutions for mental health and primary care in low income countries!?

-Building on synergy – international collaboration for mental health system development
Ian Hickie, Australia

-Adaptation of EMH solutions to COLOMBIA
Laura Ospina- Pinellos, Australia

-Starting with youth – web based strategies for the Arabic World
Mostafa Kamel, Egypt

The knowledge of the possible development of a psychiatric disorder

-Infant psychiatry
Campbell Paul, Australia

-Child and adolescent psychiatry
Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng, Singapore

Young adult psychiatry
Patrick McGorry, Australia

Current electroconvulsive therapy practice in Southeast Asian countries

-Current ECT practice in Asia: Results from a recent survey
Kok Yoon Chee, Malaysia

-Naturalistic ECT outcomes in Singapore
Phern Chern Tor, Singapore

-Electroconvulsive Service in Thailand
Pichai Ittasakul, Thailand

WPA literature and psychiatry symposium: Religion, poetry, melancholia, and violence: archetypes in the life of the psyche

-A tale of the medicine man
Sergio Villaseñor-Bayardo, Mexico

-The poetry of disability
Jennifer Harrison, Australia

-Loss and mourning in European modernist poetry
Ekaterina Sukhanova, USA

Rethinking our future: medical student and resident wellbeing and suicide prevention

-Clinical management of medical students with suicidal thoughts, an Indonesian perspective
Petrin Lukman, Indonesia

-Suicide among us-prevention strategies, a North American perspective
Renato dos Santos, Canada

-Physician and medical student well-being, a Thai perspective
Paul Thisayakorn, Thailand

APSAAR symposium: The rising challenge of cyber addictions in Asia: insight into internet gaming in the rapid techno-economic developing region

-Internet Gaming Disorder: Who is at Risk?
Kristiana Siste, Indonesia

-Custom Tailored Treatment Modalities for IGD
Satoko Mihara, Japan

-How to prevent Internet gaming disorder: Lesson from Korean cohort study (iCURE: Internet user Cohort for Unbiased Recognition of gaming disorder in Early Adolescence)
Hae Lee, Korea, Republic of

Psychotherapy for populations in need in underserved areas of the world

-Psychological help in rural areas: an IFP programme
Driss Moussaoui, Morocco

-Cultural adaptations of IPT in the care of displaced persons and refugees
Xavier Pereira, Malaysia

-Cultural adaptations of CBT-evidence based research from Egypt
Reham Aly, Egypt

Epistemological challenges in psychiatric classification and diagnosis

-Are causal accounts in psychiatry necessary for a classification to be valid scientifically?
Werdie van Staden, South Africa

-Psychiatric classification and a person-centred integrated diagnosis
Ihsan Salloum, United States of America

-Belgian governmental advice on DSM-5 revisited: anthropopsychiatric investigations of psychiatric classification
Marc Calmeyn, Belgium

Models of collaboration between psychiatrists and indigenous healers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand

-Two-Eyed Seeing: models of psychiatric care for Indigenous people in Canada
Cornelia Wieman, Australia

-Developing clinically and culturally capable mental health services for Aboriginal communities in Western Australia
Helen Milroy, New Zealand

-Tataihono- a model for partnership between psychiatry and Maori healing in New Zealand
Allister Bush and Wiremu NiaNia, New Zealand

Why we need a new international treaty on the human rights of older persons

-Why a treaty for older persons
Andrew Byrnes and Carmelle Peisah, Australia

-The World Dignity Project
Gabriel Ivbijaro, Portugal

-A rights-based approach to mental health of older adults
Carlos Carlos Augusto de Mendonça Lima, Switzerland

Pharmacological management of autism

-Presentation of Autism and Co-Morbidities
Aafia Malik, Pakistan

-ADHD: Diagnostic And Treatment Challenges In LMIC Compared to North America
Nasar Khan, Pakistan

-Pharmacological Management of Autism in difficult situations
Muhammad Ayub, Canada

Recent developments in forensic psychiatry: Biological treatment and management of sex offenders

-Nothing works again – the evaluation of the Sex Offender Treatment Programme (SOTP) in England and Wales.
Birgit Voelm, Germany

-The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) 2020 Guidelines for the Pharmacological Treatment of Paraphilic Disorders.
Florence Thibaut, France

-Ethical issues of testosterone lowering treatment.
Kris Goethals, Belgium

Psychoanalytic insights and the psychodynamic treatment of Schizophrenia

-Psychodynamic understanding and treatment of schizophrenia
Maria Ammon, Germany

-Psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of delusions
Hervé Granier, France

-Psychodynamic principles informing the care of persons with schizophrenia – an Indonesian Perspective
Sylvia Detri Elvira, Indonesia

Challenges and benefits of providing community mental health services as an early career psychiatrist in low and middle income country (LMIC)

-Challenges and Benefits of Providing Community Mental Health Services as an ECP in a LMIC.
Margaret Ojeahere, Nigeria

-Community Work and Reducing Stigma in India- to liberate the chained mentally ill persons and reintegrate them into the Society.
Rakesh Kumar, India

The distribution and occurrence of psychiatric disorders in the general population: A global perspective on innovations in measurement and study design

-Advancing global metrics in child and adolescent mental health
George Patton, Australia

-Prevalence of mental disorders in China
Yueqin Huang, China

Helping kids with autism thrive in their schools: The interdisciplinary approach in Southeast Asian context

-Using ABA in a School Readiness Program
Nurhayati Ismail, Singapore

-The Implementation of Interdisciplinary Approach in a Hospital-Based Demonstration Classroom for Primary School Students with ASD
Suvimon Apinantanakul, Thailand

-Helping Teens with ASD Navigate the Complex Social World: the Thai- PEERS® Intervention
Napat Sittanomai, Thailand

Opioid substitution treatment in transition

-Opium tincture as substitution treatment in Iran and Asia
Mohammadali Nikoo, Canada

Personalisation, psychiatric excellence and “post-truth”

-The conceptual (mis)match between personalised neurotechnologies and person-centred psychiatry
Werdie van Staden, South Africa

-Psychiatric excellence and the art of living
John Sadler, United States of America

-Is post-truth bad for your mental health?
Derek Bolton, United Kingdom

APSAAR Symposium: expected treatment outcomes of gaming disorders: what matters to patients and clinicians?

-Patients’ preferable health outcomes of their treatment for gaming disorder
Dutsadee Juengsiragulwit, Thailand

-Clinicians’ expected treatment outcomes of gaming disorder
Kristiana Siste, Indonesia

-How to balance between patients’ and clinicians’ preferences in treatment of gaming disorder
John Saunders, Australia

Intimate partner violence and mental health: opportunities for change

-Developmental approaches to intimate partner violence
Marta Rondon, Peru

-A measurement agenda for intimate partner violence and mental health
Prabha Chandra, India

-Transforming mental health service responses to intimate partner violence
Louise Howard, United Kingdom

Telepsychiatry in the time of COVID-19: A potential solution to a global issue

-Patient satisfaction with use of home-telepsychiatry in North Macedonia during COVID-19 pandemic
Stojan Bajraktarov, North Macedonia

-Home-telepsychiatry : Challenges, benefits… and pitfalls
Davor Mucic, Denmark

Cross-continental and cross-cohort views of psychiatric training

-Perspective of the director of a psychiatry training program in Brazil
Joao Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Brazil

-Psychiatric training in Russia – the early career psychiatrist’s outlook
Egor Chumakov and Nataliia Petrova, Russian Federation

-Exploring Burnout among Psychiatric Trainees at a South African University
Tejil Morar, South Africa

Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

-Pandemic-related emergency psychiatric presentations of children and adolescents in 10 countries (PREP-Kids): a retrospective international cohort study
Dennis Ougrin, United Kindgdom 

-Work-related stress and socio-economic context of mental health of healthcare workers during a COVID-19 pandemic
Volodymyr Virchenko, Ukraine

-Mind the gap
Robert Van Voren, Netherlands

Depiction of autism through a cultural lens: a comparison between east and west

-Bollywood depiction of ASD
Dr Shruti, India

-Hollywood depiction of ASD
Aniruddh Behere, United States of America

-Concerns for overdiagnosis and anti-vaxxers phenomenon
Pamela Campbell, United States of America

The journey towards excellence: Mental health policy & strategy

-Bangladesh’s National Mental Health Strategy 2020-2030
Saima Wazed, Bangladesh

-Sri Lanka
Haris Chandra Gambheera, Sri Lanka

-The journey towards excellence: Mental health policy and strategy
Benjamas Prukkanone, Thailand

Launch and implementation of the WHO/UNODC international standards for the treatment of drug use disorders: revised edition based on results of field-testing

-Implementation of WHO/UNODC International standards for the treatment of drug use disorders (Joint Presentation)
Dzmitry Krupchanka, Switzerland and Wataru Kashino, Austria

-Implementation of WHO/UNODC international standards for the treatment of drug use disorders: Good practice in Indonesia
Diah Setia Utami, Indonesia

-Experience of field-testing and implementation of The Standards in Thailand
Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Thailand