From the very beginning of the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation, we have strived to maintain a debate and take a stance (internally and externally) at various events that have taken place in our immediate surroundings or in the world. We have tried to be consistent with a line of thought that upholds respect for life, [...]
From the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation, we want to thank you for the interest shown in the congress "Behavioral Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: New Times, New Strategies" among the media. We want to highlight the following interviews and reports that have appeared: Experts discuss juvenile behavioral disorders from a multidisciplinary approach - News published in La Vanguardia on [...]
The Catalan Congress on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Addresses Behavioral Disorders in Youth The VI Congress addresses the issue of behavioral disorders in children and adolescents from a multidisciplinary and intersectoral perspective. It has over 400 registered participants from various fields and around seventy speakers, guests, and attendees [...]
In view of the brutal police repression in Catalonia against people of all ages, who were gathering in a totally peaceful manner to defend and exercise their democratic right to vote, the Board of Trustees of the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation STATES: Our complete rejection of the violent actions that the State Government has [...]
Migration, refuge, and mental health
Various organizations in Catalonia have promoted the filing of an appeal before the Court of Justice of the European Union against the Agreement signed on March 18 between the European Council and Turkey. The purpose of the appeal is for this Agreement to be “declared null and void and of no effect” and for it to be stopped [...]
On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, which is organized every year by the World Health Organization, we at the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation wish to join all the initiatives being promoted for the awareness and improvement of mental health-related problems around the world. In the [...]
The 4th Conference “Comprehensive Health Training,” held on March 4 and 5, 2016, addressed the challenges of comprehensiveness in training, care, and professional development. Organized by the Department of Health, the FCCSM, and the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine, they focused on [...]
The 8th “La Xarxa a Debat” Conference was held on February 26, 2016, under the title “The Mental Health Network: Myths and Realities. Reflections on the Vitality of the Network.” The conference reflected on the capacity of the mental health network to respond to the emerging needs of [...]
The conference “Human Rights and Psychiatric Admission: Good Practices” was held on November 13, 2015, at CosmoCaixa in Barcelona. It was organized by the Clinical Ethics Committee of the FCCSM with the aim of reflecting on ethics and good practices in psychiatric hospitalization. The conference presented the document “Human Rights and Hospitalization [...]
