WPA (World Psychiatric Association) Thematic Conference 2013

WPA (World Psychiatric Association) Thematic Conference 2013 is focused on topics related to human factors in crisis and disasters including:

• Transnational mass casualty disasters
  • Cyber terrorism
  • Chemical or toxic
  • Multiple disasters
  • Mass catastrophe
  • Radiological or nuclear
  • Pandemic diseases
  • Terrorism
• Human caused disaster
  • Compassion fatigue
  • Accidents
  • Mass shootings, mass violence
  • Emergency services
• Global policy and collaboration
  • Critical infrastructure protection
  • Community engagement
  • Disability and disasters
  • Defense and disaster
  • Global policy, local action
  • Future disasters
  • Resilience
  • Media and disasters
  • WHO, WMA, WPA
• Slow disasters and multilayered hazards
  • Climate change
  • Chronic conflict
  • Economic disaster
  • Drought or famine—food and water supplies
  • Refugees
  • Mass displacement and dislocation
• Trauma across cultures
  • First nations and indigenous people
  • Children and families
  • Trauma symptoms and syndromes
  • Generational trauma