On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, which is organized every year by the World Health Organization, we at the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation wish to join all the initiatives being promoted for the awareness and improvement of mental health-related problems around the world. In the [...]
The 4th Conference “Comprehensive Health Training,” held on March 4 and 5, 2016, addressed the challenges of comprehensiveness in training, care, and professional development. Organized by the Department of Health, the FCCSM, and the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine, they focused on [...]
The 8th “La Xarxa a Debat” Conference was held on February 26, 2016, under the title “The Mental Health Network: Myths and Realities. Reflections on the Vitality of the Network.” The conference reflected on the capacity of the mental health network to respond to the emerging needs of [...]
The conference “Human Rights and Psychiatric Admission: Good Practices” was held on November 13, 2015, at CosmoCaixa in Barcelona. It was organized by the Clinical Ethics Committee of the FCCSM with the aim of reflecting on ethics and good practices in psychiatric hospitalization. The conference presented the document “Human Rights and Hospitalization [...]
Àngels Vives, president of the FCCSM, explains what motivated the Foundation to promote the 1st Josep Clusa Award. Why has the CCSM Foundation decided to promote a Josep Clusa Award as part of L'Altre Festival? Dr. Josep Clusa was president of the CCSM Foundation for eight years until [...]
The Congress Foundation for Mental Health, as part of the Altre Festival held in Barcelona from June 4 to 7, 2015, announced the 1st Josep Clusa Performing Arts and Mental Health Award. The Josep Clusa Performing Arts and Mental Health Award, with a prize of 2,000 euros, has been awarded to [...]
Manifesto of the CCSM Juny Foundation 2011>>> For an exit worthy of the crisis
Barcelona, October 10, 2011 - World Mental Health Day The undersigned, representatives of professional entities with an impact in the field of mental health in Catalonia, consider that the fundamental resource of healthcare, and in particular of mental health care, are the professionals who provide this service and that their [...]
Barcelona, July 2011 Preliminary Considerations It is beginning to be widely admitted and recognized that the global economic and social crisis has been the result of financial speculation, favored by the policy of deregulation of public control mechanisms at the state and international levels. The ideology of the market and of [...]
