World Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Day (WICAMHD) 2025
Theme: Bridging Worlds: Mental Health Support for Displaced Children and Families
This theme underscores the importance of comprehensively understanding and addressing the mental health challenges encountered by displaced children and families as a result of crises, while simultaneously promoting inclusion and fostering understanding between displaced individuals and host communities.
Activity
WICAMHD 2025 Symposium
23 April 2022 is declared as World Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Day (WICAMHD) by 4 organisations:
- International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP)
- International Society for Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology (ISAPP)
- World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH)
- World Psychiatric Association - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section (WPA-CAP)
This year marks the 4th celebration of the World Infant, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Day (WICAMHD). In previous years, we hosted webinars featuring distinguished speakers addressing various themes. For 2025, the WICAMHD Committees are excited to adopt a hybrid format.
The WICAMHD 2025 Symposium will be held as part of the Turkish Association of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (TACAP) annual national conference, the 34th National Congress of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Illnesses, from April 29 to May 3, 2025, at the Pine Bay Holiday Resort Hotel, Kusadasi, Turkiye. The half-day symposium is scheduled for April 29, 2025.
Date: | Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 |
Time: | 14:00hr to 17:00hr (Istanbul time) |
| Duration: | 03 (Three) Hours |
Venue: | |
Format: | Hybrid |
Symposium Program
Click here to download the symposium program.
Opening Remark by the WICAMHD 2025 Organising Chair, Dr Daniel Fung |
Welcome Speech by IACAPAP President, Dr Luis Rohde |
Presentation by Dr Campbell Paul, Australia (WAIMH) |
Presentation by Dr Fusun Cetin Cuhadaroglu, Turkiye (ISAPP) |
Experience Sharing by Displaced Child / Adolescent |
Presentation by Dr Matthew Hodes, United Kingdom (IACAPAP) |
Presentation by Dr Chiara Servili, WHO |
Presentation by Dr Anthony Guerrero, United States (WPA-CAP) |
Panel Discussion |
Q&A |
End of Symposium |
Invited Speakers & Panellists
Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng, MD
CEO, Institute of Mental Health Singapore
Adjunct Associate Professor, Lee Kong Chian Medical School, Nanyang Technological University
Yong Loo Lin Medical School and DUKE NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore
Singapore
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Prof. Dr. Füsun Çetin Çuhadaroğlu
President of ISAPP
Honorary President of the Turkish Assoc. for CAP
Founding Chair of the Policy Division of ESCAP
Turkiye
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Dr Chiara Servili, MD MPH PhD
Technical officer, Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Department of Mental Health, Brain Health and Substance Use
World Health Organization
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Dr Matthew Hodes
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Division of Psychiatry
Imperial College London
Member of IACAPAP
United Kingdom
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Associate Prof Campbell Paul
Consultant Infant Psychiatrist, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, the University of Melbourne, Royal
Women’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Australia
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Anthony P. S. Guerrero, M.D
Professor, Chair, and Residency Program Director, Department of Psychiatry
The Char, McDermott, and Andrade Endowed Professor of Psychiatry
University of Hawai‘i John A. Burns School of Medicine
Chief of Clinical Program, Psychiatry
Chief of Psychiatry (Medical Staff)
The Queen's Medical Center
United States
View ProfileImportant Note
- The symposium is open to the public.
- Participants intending to attend the symposium in person (without accommodation) will incur an external participation fee of 42 Euros. The hotel's concept is ultra all-inclusive, and we are responsible for paying the hotel for anyone who enters and stays for more than 20 minutes.
- There is no cost for virtual participation, but registration is required in advance. Seats are limited, and registration is based on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Kindly click this link to view the time in your country.
- For enquiry, please contact info@iacapap.org.
Message from the WICAMHD Committees
Activities organised by IACAPAP member organisations and supporting organisations in conjunction with the World Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Day (WICAMHD) 2025
| No | Name of IACAPAP Member Organisations / Supporting Organisations | Activities | |
| 1 | Event | Spring Workshop "Recent Advances in Understanding and Supporting Attachment in At-Risk Infants by AiMH UK | Link | Flyer 1 Flyer 2 |
| 2 | Event | Activities organised by AAPI (Argentine Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Related Professions) and ALIAMPSI (Ibero-American Alliance of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) will be holding within the framework of the APSA 2025 Congress (Argentine Association of Psychiatrists). | - | Flyer |
| 3 | Event | Journey with Autisim, a half day event in support of orld Autism Awareness Month and World Infant, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Day, organised by Institute of Mental Health, Singapore | - | |
| 4 | Event | Webinar organised by Chinese Society of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (CSCAP) | - | |
| 5 | Event | Webinar organised by Bangladesh Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BACAMH) | - | |
| 6 | Community Leaflet | Social Media post prepared by Infant Mental Health Committee-Emirates Society for Child and Adolescent Mental Health-WAIMH affiliate | ||
How to support WICAMHD 2025
- Share the logo widely.
- Use social media to spread your message about the importance of mental health for the young.
- Please involve your communications teams and do it on all websites and social media platforms you are on.
- We suggest the following hashtags.
#WICAMHD
#WICAMHD2025
#IACAPAP
To download the marketing flyer, please click here.
To download the WICAMHD logo, please click here.
To download the social media tool, please click here.
