11th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health (ICSWHMH 2025)

The 11th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health (ICSWHMH 2025) is dedicated to issues concerning health, mental health, and social work practices.

Topics

• Global Challenges
  • Welfare and work
  • Migration
  • Changing climate and environments
  • Trauma
  • Stigma, discrimination and shame
  • Sexual violence and human trafficking
  • Isolation and loneliness
  • Ageing populations
  • Housing & homelessness
  • Family, domestic and gendered violence
• Practice Domains
  • Cancer care
  • Acquired brain injury
  • Emergency care
  • Renal care
  • Disaster social work
  • Mental health social work
  • Palliative care
  • Dementia care
  • Veteran health
  • Hospital social work
  • Community social work
  • Sensory social work
  • Public health
  • Forensic social work (including in criminal justice settings)
  • Alcohol and other drugs (AOD)
  • Social work with older people
  • Eating Disorders
  • Child Protection
  • Disability
  • Private practice
  • First nations peoples/indigenous health& emerging services for Aboriginal/Indigenous communities
  • School social work
  • Health - primary & community
  • Justice (forensic social work/corrections)
  • Health tertiary
• Social Work Intervention
  • Suicide prevention
  • Social intervention/prescribing
  • Spirituality and mental health
  • Iatrogenic risks of social work intervention
  • Artificial intelligence and digital interventions in social work practice
• Social Determinants
  • Income inequality
  • Health inequalities
  • Gender identity issues
  • LGBTIQA+ folk
  • Gender and health
  • Race, racialisation and ethnic disparities in health
  • Rural and Remote
• Knowledge Production & Utilisation
  • Indigenous and community knowledge
  • Service user and survivor research
  • Supervision
  • Social work education in the 21st century
  • Academia
  • Research
• Working with Children in Health & Mental Health Care
  • Child and adolescent sexual abuse and exploitation
  • Child welfare and poverty
  • Adverse childhood experiences
  • Adolescence
  • Child and adolescent mental health
• Law & Policy
  • Welfare systems, social policy and law
  • Mental health and mental capacity law
  • Human rights advocacy
  • Social Policy

Who should Attend

• Social work practitioners
• Professionals in the health and mental health