The International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) is a non-governmental international association that advocates for the "promotion of the mental health and development of children and adolescents through policy, practice and research".
Its membership is mainly Latin and North American, European, and Pacific Rim-based.
History
In 1935 a group of practitioners in the new medical field of
child psychiatry
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started work to establish and expand mutual contacts in spite of the social and political turmoil surrounding World War II.
Two years later, they formed the "International Committee for Child Psychiatry".
, the then head of the "Clinique annexe de neuropsychiatrie infantile" at the
Salpêtrière in Paris, organized and chaired the first congress there, calling it the "Premier Congrès international de psychiatrie infantile, Paris, 24 juillet au 1er août 1937"
First international conference on child psychiatry"[
The second international congress took place in London in 1948. During this meeting the international committee was renamed the "International Association for Child Psychiatry" (IACP) with about 30 national societies as members. All countries were to have access to IACP, however a credentials committee was set up to verify the qualifications of each applicant.][
The name was changed again during the Lisbon congress of 1958, this time to the "International Association for Child Psychiatry and Allied Professions" (IACP&AP). At the 9th Congress (]Melbourne
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, Australia
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, 1978) adolescents were incorporated in the official name: "The International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions" (IACAPAP).[
In 1954 they incorporated as a tax-exempt organization in . Today, the IACAPAP is registered in Geneva, Switzerland, as a non-government organization (NGO) structured as a corporation and empowered as a juridical entity according to the Swiss Civil Code and the Constitution.][IACAPAP web site]
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During the 1960s '' Acta Paedopsychiatrica'' served as the IACAPAP's official scientific journal. The on-line journal, '' Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health'' is the official scientific journal of IACAPAP.[
]Donald J. Cohen
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became a vice-president of the IACAPAP in 1986,Tokyo
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hosted meetings of the regional .Dublin
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was the Adolescent Psychiatry Program Chairman.Ian M. Goodyer
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, a professor who founded the department of Child and Adolescent psychiatry at Cambridge University
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.Istanbul
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in 2008.
References
External links
Official site
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Child and adolescent psychiatry organizations
Organizations established in 1937
International professional associations
International organisations based in Switzerland