Mental Health

September, 2022

May, 2022

The consequences of the military aggression in Ukraine and the resultant humanitarian crisis have profound implications for health, for healthcare workers in Ukraine and surrounding countries, and for their systems of delivering care.

July, 2021

An effort of the WONCA Working Party for Mental Health led by Alfredo de Oliveira Neto (Brazil), Arnab Chowdhury (India) and Moisés Nunes (Brazil) that seeks to mitigate through music the psychosocial effects posed by the COVID19.

April, 2021

Professor Christopher Dowrick, chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health shares the latest news on the WP.

February, 2021

Read the testimony of one of the participants of the virtual educational programme to equip 12 motivated family doctors who wish to advance the integration of behavioural health care into routine primary care practice.

November, 2020

I trust you are all staying well, despite the resurgence of the pandemic in many parts of the world. The results of the turbulent US elections remind us that change is possible. As Jill Benson told us during our recent webinar: “We need to stay hopeful, because we know that hopelessness is more infectious that COVID-19”.

September, 2020

Professor Chris Dowrick, chair of Working Party on Mental Health, reports: I do hope you are all staying as well as possible in these exceptionally difficult times, with the pandemic spreading ever more rapidly around the world, accompanied by economic insecurities, political turmoil and other natural and man-made disasters.

June, 2020

Prof Chris Dowrick, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health, writes on some resources in the time of COVID-19 in his latest newsletter to colleagues.

April, 2020

Prof Bruce Arroll has now made a high quality film on the subject - Depression -an evidence based first consultation"

February, 2020

Prof Christopher Dowrick, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health writes: Fortunately, there is much for our Working Party to celebrate; including (as you will see at the end of this bulletin) the joy of making music together.