The WONCA Working party on Mental Health is pleased to announce that the book " CHALLENGES IN PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH CARE: Models for Interdisciplinary Collaboration " will be launched at the WONCA World Conference in Lisbon. Saturday 20 September 2025 12:30 (Lunchtime) at the WONCA Booth, Exhibition Hall
This insightful and timely book equips family doctors and other primary healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to address a diverse range of new and important challenges in the field of primary mental health care, including ongoing impacts from the COVID pandemic, thanatophobia, and end-of-life care, humanitarian and geopolitical catastrophes, and the effects of climate change. There is an emphasis throughout on the need to encourage and reap the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration between family doctors and mental health specialists, and across the range of primary care and community workers. Effective primary healthcare relies increasingly on the use of remote consultations, and the book explains how the potential of remote working can be maximised in low-resource settings. The book concludes with a consideration of how to protect and enhance the mental health of primary care workers in the face of these on-going challenges in care. Reflecting the expertise of the WONCA Working Party for Mental Health (WWPMH), building on the foundations laid in the 2020 WONCA volume Global Primary Mental Health Care, the editors and contributors all have expertise in primary mental health care at the frontline, with backgrounds in family medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and nursing.
Christos Lionis and Christopher Dowrick