11th World Congress on Women´s Mental Health

The 11th World Congress on Women s Mental Health is dedicated to the biological, psychosocial and clinical sciences of women’s mental health from family, individual, community, society and global perspectives.

Topics

• Women and psychiatric disorders
  epidemiology screening and assessment mood disorders anxiety disorders adh psychosis dementia substance abuse eating disorders suicide
• Reproduction and women’s mental health
  sexuality and sexual dysfunction, puberty, pmdd, menstrual cycle, abortion, contraception, maternal mental health, infertility/assisted fertilisation, pregnancy loss, pregnancy and birth, midwifery, caesarean sections, postpartum disorders, infanticide, hormone therapy, menopause and older mothers
• Etiology and prevention of mental illness in women
  brain differences, genetics, well-being, stress, psychological aspects of medical illness in women, resilience, gynaecologic cancer, consultation, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, polycystic ovarian syndrome, autoimmune diseases, smoking and hiv/aids
• Treatment issues for women with mental illness
  psychotherapies, psychopharmacology, complementary and alternative and new treatments
• Political and sociocultural aspects of women’s mental health
  ethical challenges international women’s mental health, diversity issues, poverty, ethnic / cultural / religious challenges, war and natural disasters, trauma, violence, abuse, discrimination, feminism, women`s career development, global warming, women and leadership
• Women’s mental health in special populations
  aging & elderly women, child & adolescent mental health, immigrants & refugees, indigenous and first nation women and lesbian mental health