Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Mon, 9 Jan 1995 17:21:10 -0800 (PST)
INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATION OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS (IACPP)
ENTERS 3RD YEAR OF ACTIVITY
The Independent Association of Child Psychologists and Psychiatrists was
first established in Moscow in June 1992. Two years later, in July 1994,
representatives attended the annual Congress of the International
Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions
that took place in San Francisco, California, and were adopted as a
permanent member of that body, representing Russia.
Work of the IACPP to date has included:
--a program on discovering gifted children
--developing an orphanage that will allow mothers who feel incapable of
caring for their children, to remain with their children and care for them
in an institutional setting
--a program of assistance to children in military conflict zones (e.g. Karabakh)
--the organization of a Charitable Foundation for the Protection of the
Mental Health of Children in Russia.
With some assistance from groups in Britain and elsewhere, the IACPP has
published two resources that emerged from conferences it organized over
the past two years: "Russian Orphans: Problems, Hopes, Future" and "A
Special Child and His Surroundings: Medical, Social and Psychological
Aspects." It soon plans to put out a directory of child and adolescent
psychology and psychiatry in Russia, and also hopes eventually to publish
a periodical on childhood personality problems and pathologies.
For further information about the Independent Association of Child
Psychologists and Psychiatrists, contact Anatoly Severny, Ph.D., president
of the association. His telephone numbers are (work) 7-095-169-1812 or
(home) 7-095-254-2866.
(From article by Veronica Severnaya in Interlegal's "Third Sector"
newsletter, no. 9, 1994.)
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