Special Projects

Asia Pacific Community Mental Health Development (APCMHD)  Project

 

UPDATE: The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) recently published the APCMHD examples of best practice in their latest newsletter. View here (pages 11-22).

 
This landmark project aims to illustrate and inspire best practice in community mental health care in the Asia-Pacific region. A high-level network of mental health government officials, chief psychiatrists and research leaders from fourteen countries/regions has been formed through the project. Countries/regions currently involved are: Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Read about the history of the APCMHD project.

 

The Asia-Pacific Community Mental Health Development Project Summary Report [pdf, 2.57mb, 92 pages] summarises the work of the project so far and contains brief reports about each participating country’s/region's development of community mental health services. Written and edited by the region's mental health leaders, this unique document also contains country-specific examples of best practice.  Reflecting the significance of the publication, the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing has provided resources to assist with the publication costs of the Summary Report. 

 

Full Country Reports from each participating country/region about the current status of their community mental health services and examples of best practice have also been compiled. 

 

Country Presentations highlighting particular aspects of community mental health development or examples of best practice were presented at the World Psychiatric Association International Congress in September 2007. 

  

You can view some of the exemplars of best practice included in this project on our Showcase page. 

 

Xiangdong Wang and Helen Herrman

 

Dr Wang Xiangdong, Mental Health Advisor, WRPO WHO and Prof. Helen Herrman, University of Melbourne, WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health and World Psychiatric Association chairing the Symposium of the Asia-Pacific Community Mental Health Development Project held at the World Psychiatric Association Congress in Melbourne, November 2007.