Mental Health and Telemedicine Organizations and Their Events

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The official publication of ISPP is Political Psychology.

ISPCAN's mission is to prevent cruelty to children in every nation, in every form:

• Physical abuse
• Sexual Abuse
• Neglect
• Street Children
• Child Fatalities
• Child Prostitution
• Children of War
• Emotional Abuse
• Child Labor

ISPCAN is committed to increasing public awareness of all forms of violence against children, developing activities to prevent such violence, and promoting the rights of children in all regions of the world.

The official publication of ISPCAN is Child Abuse & Neglect.

Objectives:

• Promote and facilitate studies of the genetics of psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders and associated traits
• Promote education, both of the scientific community and of the lay public
• Encourage communication and collaboration among researchers
• Encourage development of research methods
• Strive for the highest ethical standards in research
• Facilitate application of findings from genetic research to clinical psychiatric practice

The Society's aim is to share organizational research, consultation and experiences in the context of psychoanalysis. The ISPSO holds an annual meeting and symposium, locally organized study groups and ongoing discussions on the Internet and encourages scholarship and research in the field.

Founded in 1985 by some of the most distinguished contributors to the field, the organization presently has an international membership of about 150.

Objectives:

• Promote the appropriate use of psychotherapy and psychological treatments for persons with schizophrenias and other psychoses
• Promote the integration of psychological treatments in treatment plans and comprehensive treatment for all persons with schizophrenias and other psychoses
• Promote the appropriate use of psychological understanding and psychotherapeutic approaches in all phases of the disorders including both early in the onset and in longer lasting disorders
• Promote research into individual, family, group psychological therapies, preventive measures and other psychosocial programmes for those with psychotic disorders
• Support treatments that include individual, family, group and network approaches and treatment methods that are derived from psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioural, systemic and psycho-educational approaches
• Advance education, training and knowledge of mental health professionals in the psychological therapies and psychosocial interventions in the treatment and prevention of psychotic mental disorders for the public benefit regardless of race, religion, gender or socio-economic status

The official journal of ISPS is Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.

• Improving the relationship among research workers in the neurobiological sciences in different countries through scientific congresses
• Making possible an active interchange of people investigating specialized areas of brain functions to produce more integrated programs in psychoneuroendocrine research

The official journal of ISPNE is Psychoneuroendocrinology.

The following general definition of psychophysics is offered by John C Baird and Elliot Noma in their 1978 book, Fundamentals of Scaling and Psychophysics (John Wiley & Sons, Inc), on page 1: Psychophysics is commonly defined as the quantitative branch of the study of perception, examining the relations between observed stimuli and responses and the reasons for those relations. This is, however, a very narrow view of the influence it has had on much of psychology. Since its inception, psychophysics has been based on the assumption that the human perceptual system is a measureing instrument yielding results (experiences, judgments, responses) that may be systematically analyzed. Because of its long history (over 100 years), its experimental methods, data analyses, and models of underlying perceptual and cognitive processes have reached a high level of refinement. For this reason, many techniques originally developed in psychophysics have been used to unravel problems in learning, memory, attitude measurement, and social psychology. In addition, scaling and measurement theory have adapted these methods and models to analyze decision making in contexts entirely divorced from perception.

Objectives:

• Promote the study of psychobiological and psychosocial, ethical and cross-cultural problems in the fields of obstetrics and gynaecology, women's health and reproductive health
• Promote education and training in the management of the problems mentioned under the previous paragraph
• Encourage the creation of national societies of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynaecology which will promote research, education and training on a national level
• Promote and facilitate the dissemination of new information in the fields mentioned before by organizing international congresses and through the official ISPOG publication

The official publication of ISPOG is the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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