WAPR HEAD OFFICE.

President:

Professor Michael G. Madianos.

Treasurer:

Associate Professor Stelios Stylianidis.

Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Scienses. University of Athens.

Zografou Community Mental Health Center.

42 Davaki-Pindou St.

15773 Athens. Greece.

Tel:  +30 210 7481174 / 7718320

Fax: +30 210 7481174

madianos@nurs.uoa.gr

Secretariat:

Rania Asariotaki, Secretary.

Angeliki Koula, Administrator.

P. Chondros, Accountant.

WAPR is registered as a non-profit organization in France and Italy; it is recognized as a charity in Madras (India) and Edinburgh, (Scotland, U.K), registered as a voluntary, non-profit organization in New York State (U.S.A.) WAPR has a constitution approved at Vienne in 1986, amended at Barcelona in 1989, at Montreal in 1991, and at Dublin in 1993.
 

 

 

 

WELCOME

The World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR) has been founded in France in 1986 and it has been developing steadily since. Its growth over the last years reflected the increasing importance of the prevention and reduction of social disability as a framework for the community care of people with severe mental disorders.

Today, WAPR is recognised as a non-governmental organisation in consultative status with the World Health Organization, the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the International Labour Office. Moreover, it also maintains close relations with the European Commission, the African Rehabilitation Institute and keeps working and collaborative ties with many other agencies in the five continents.

In the life of WAPR health professionals, researchers of various disciplines, administrators, policy makers, consumers and their relatives, advocacy groups have worked together to build what has now developed into a major world-wide movement. Therefore, the WAPR is at the same time a scientific society, a multi-disciplinary professional organisation and an advocacy association. This is because the primary aim of the WAPR is to provide to all stakeholders a forum for an ongoing discussion of the relevant issues concerning the long-term mental health care.

We welcome everybody interested in fighting the disability related to mental disorders to raise the quality of life and enhance the social inclusion of people with mental health problems.