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African Journal of Psychiatry 26 Volume 5 Number 1 January 2008 ISSN 1749-3676 Forthcoming international events 27–30 January 2008 15–17 April 2008 12–15 July 2008 3rd Biennial Conference of the International 4th International Conference on Psychiatry: Brain Development and Learning Conference Society for Bipolar Disorders – ISBD Globalization, Psychiatry and Mental Health Vancouver, Canada Delhi and Agra, India Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Email: [email protected], melinda. Email: [email protected] Organiser: Saudi Psychiatric Association [email protected] International Website: http://www.kenes.com/isbd Contact: Dr Mohamed Khaled Website: http://www.interprofessional.ubc. Email: [email protected] ca/bdl.html 25–29 February 2008 11th International CPD Conference: 17–19 April 2008 13–17 July 2008 Psychiatric Challenges for 2008 Annual Conference of the African XXVI CINP Congress 2008 Montego Bay, Jamaica Association of Psychiatrists and Allied Munich, Germany Organiser: Canadian Psychiatric Association Professions: Mental Health and Social Website: http://www.cinp2008.com Psychiatry Email: [email protected] Changes Website: http://www.cpa-apc.org/ Ibadan, Nigeria 25–30 August 2008 Organiser: African Association of Psychiatrists 13th World Congress of the International 2–5 March 2008 and Allied Professions Association for the Scientific Study of 4th CINP Pacific-Asia Regional Meeting Contact: Dr Oye Gureje Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Cape Town, South Africa Website: http://www.cinpasia.com/ Website: http://www.iassid.org 22–25 May 2008 Guest editorial 14–17 March 2008 18th Alzheimer Europe Conference 27–30 August 2008 Psychiatry for the person and its conceptual bases 1 IV Biennial Conference: Integrative Oslo, Norway 12th European Symposium on Suicide and Approaches to Affective Disorders Email: [email protected] Suicidal Behaviour George Christodoulou, Bill Fulford and Juan E. Mezzich Cape Town, South Africa Website: http://www.alzheimer- Glasgow, Scotland Organiser: International Society for Affective conference2008.org/ Email: [email protected] Thematic papers – European perspectives on intellectual disability Disorders in collaboration with the WPA Introduction. European service perspectives for people with intellectual Section on Affective Disorders 29–31 May 2008 19–25 September 2008 disabilities and mental health problems 3 Contact: Caroline Holebrook International Congress of Dual Pathology 14th World Congress of Psychiatry Email: [email protected] Madrid, Spain Prague, Czech Republic Geraldine Holt, Helen Costello and Nick Bouras Website: http://www.isad.org.uk Organiser: Spanish Society of Dual Pathology Website: http://www.wpa-prague2008.cz Greece 4 Contact: Carolina Garcia Sicilia 16–20 March 2008 Email: [email protected] 26–29 September 2008 Anastasia Karastergeriou Third World Congress on Women’s Mental Website: http://www.cipd2008.com 11th Congress for Bridging Eastern and Austria 6 Health Western Psychiatry Melbourne, Australia 19–21 June 2008 Antalya, Turkey Germain Weber Organiser: WPA Section on Women’s Mental WPA Thematic Conference on Depression Website: http://www.turkeybipolar.com/ Switzerland 8 Health and Relevant Psychiatric Condition in Contact: Dr Donna Stewart Primary Care 6–8 November 2008 Sara Heer Email: [email protected] Granada, Spain 2nd International Conference on Intellectual Website: http://www.IAWMHCongress2008. Organiser: Wonca-Europe, the Spanish Disability/Mental Retardation Country profiles com.au Psychiatric Association and the Spanish Society Bangkok, Thailand Mental healthcare in Poland 10 of Family and Community Medicine (SEMFYC) Organiser: World Health Organization (WHO) Jacek Bomba 28–29 March 2008 Contact: Dr Francisco Torres-Gonzalez Contact: Dr Shekhar Saxena 3rd Italian International Workshop of Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mental health in New Zealand 12 Franciacorta on Mood Disorder Website: http://www.WPA2008granada.org Website: http://www.bangkok-id-conference.org A. P. McGeorge Iseo, Italy Organiser: Centro Studi Psichiatrici Contact: Dr Giuseppe Tavormina Original papers Email: [email protected] Contents of the African Journal of Psychiatry (affiliated journal) Lessons from an Australian community dialectical behaviour therapy programme Website: http://www.censtupsi.org Volume 10, Number 4, November 2007 for borderline personality disorder 15 Catherine Thompson 5–9 April 2008 Editorial Partnerships in publishing and developing world publications 185 16th European Congress of Psychiatry C. P. Szabo The yield from national surveys of mental health 16 Nice, France Newsletter Scott Henderson and Gavin Andrews Organiser: Association of European Board of International Affairs, Pan-African Division, Quarterly newsletter, Psychiatrists African International Division 193 A re-evaluation of the yield from national surveys of mental health 18 Website: http://www.kenes.com/aep2008/ Royal College of Psychiatrists Ronald C. Kessler and T. Bedirhan Üstün index.asp Presentation Anti stigma and mental health 199 A comment on the yield from national surveys of mental health 20 Kjell Magne Bondevik 13–17 April 2008 Rachel Jenkins, Howard Meltzer, Terry Brugha and Paul Bebbington 9th Congress of the European Federation of Review Sexology A framework for current public mental health care practice in South Africa 205 Rome, Italy A. B. R. Janse Van Rensburg Special paper Organiser: European Federation of Sexology Original articles Perambulations of a President 22 Parenting stress of caregivers of young children who are HIV positive 210 Contact: Dr Rosi Romagnolo J. Potterton, A. Stewart and P. Cooper Sheila Hollins Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.aimgroup.it/2008/efs Polypharmacy in psychiatric out-patient practice in northern Nigeria 215 A. B. Adeponle, A. O. Obembe, S. O. Adeyemi and G. T. Suleiman News and notes 24 14–15 April 2008 Prevalence and clinical characteristics of obsessive–compulsive disorder and obsessive– compulsive symptoms in Afrikaner schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder patients 219 Correspondence 25 From Innovations to Practice: F. Seedat, J. L. Roos, H. W. Pretorius, M. Karayiorgou and B. Nel The Promise and Challenge of Achieving Recovery For All Psychiatric disorders among war-abducted and non-abducted adolescents in Gulu district, Uganda: a comparative study 225 Forthcoming international events 26 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cambridge, J. Okello, T. S. Onen and S. Musisi Massachusetts, USA Public enquiry submission Organiser: Center for Psychiatric South African Human Rights Commission Public Enquiry 233 Rehabilitation, Boston University Movie review 243 Contact: Joan Rapp [email protected] Website: http://www.bu.edu/cpr/workshops/ Affiliated journal: African Journal of Psychiatry International Psychiatry Volume 5 Number 1 January 2008 2 5 CORRESPONDENCE Editor Subscriptions Correspondence should be sent to: Amit Malik MRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust, UK, email [email protected] Professor Hamid Ghodse International Psychiatry is published four times a year. Non-members of the College should contact: Associate editor Publications Subscriptions Department, Maney Publishing, Christopher Szabo (Editor, African Journal of Psychiatry) Suite 1C, Joseph’s Well, Hanover Walk, Leeds LS3 1AB, UK Smoking Traditionally, only 4% of those leaving medical school tel. +44 (0)113 243 2800; fax +44 (0)113 386 8178; choose psychiatry as a career, while 10% would be needed to Editorial board email [email protected] fulfil the UK’s requirements for consultant psychiatrists with For subscriptions in North America please contact: As a medical student who has been researching indigenous medical workforce. The College is taking steps Dr John Henderson Maney Publishing North America, 875 Massachusetts Sir: global trends in smoking, it was enlightening to attract high-calibre doctors to the specialty and to foster Professor Rachel Jenkins Avenue, 7th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA for me to read Professor Ghodse’s editorial in the January good attitudes towards psychiatry. Dr Nasser Loza tel. 866 297 5154 (toll free); fax 617 354 6875; 2007 issue and Dr Symonds’ correspondence in the July Last year, as part of this campaign, the College, prompted Dr Amit Malik email [email protected] 2007 issue on smoking and mental health. I did not know by the Psychiatric Trainees Committee and the Board of Inter- Professor R. N. Mohan that there was a relationship between smoking and people national Affairs, introduced bursaries for medical students to Dr Shekhar Saxena Annual subscription rates for 2008 (four issues, post free) suffering from mental health problems and both pieces take up electives in psychiatry or to undertake research. The Professor David Skuse are £26.00 (US$47.00). make excellent points. bursaries, open to undergraduate medical students enrolled Single issues are £8.00 (US$14.40), post free. In the UK and other higher-income countries, decreasing on a full-time course of studies in medicine at a medical Administrative support the number of patients with mental health problems who school in the UK or Ireland, are offered for three types of Joanna Carroll smoke is an admirable goal; however, it is unlikely this will be activities: the priority around the world. The smoking epidemic will dis- m to undertake an elective in psychiatry (five bursaries a year) proportionately affect low- and middle-income
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