Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) is the global voice on dementia. They raise awareness by supporting Alzheimer associations and individuals worldwide. ADI's works by empowering Alzheimer and dementia associations to advocate for dementia as a national priority, to raise awareness and to offer care and support for people with dementia and their care partners. Globally, ADI strives to focus attention on dementia, maintain it as a global health priority, campaign for better policy from governments and encourage investment and innovation in dementia research.

MEMBERS

• Alzheimer Albania
• Asociación Lucha contra el Mal de Alzheimer (A.L.M.A.)
• Alzheimer’s Disease Armenian Association (ADAA)
• Fundación Alzheimer Aruba (FAA)
• Dementia Australia
• Alzheimer Austria
• Azerbaijan Alzheimer’s Association (AAA)
• Dementia Care Foundation Bangladesh
• Barbados Alzheimer’s Association
• Ligue Nationale Alzheimer Liga
• Action on Alzheimer’s & Dementia (AAD) Bermuda
• Asociación Alzheimer Bolivia (AAB)
• Fundashon Alzheimer Bonaire
• Alzheimer Udruženje AiR – Alzheimer BiH
• Federação Brasileira das Associações de Alzheimer (Febraz)
• Virgin Islands Alzheimer’s Association
• demensia Brunei
• Foundation Compassion Alzheimer Bulgaria
• Alzheimer Community Support of Burundi (ACSB)
• Association Comprendre la Maladie d’Alzheimer (A.C.M.A)
• Alzheimer Society of Canada (ASC)
• Alzheimer’s and Dementia Association of The Cayman Islands (ADACI)
• Corporación Alzheimer Chile
• Alzheimer’s Disease Chinese (ADC)
• Asociacion Colombiana de Alzheimer y Otras Demencias (ALZDECOLOMBIA)
• Asociación Costarricense de Alzheimer y otras Demencias Asociadas (ASCADA)
• Alzheimer Croatia (Hrvatska udruga za Alzheimerovu bolest)
• Sección Cubana de la Enfermedad de Alzheimer
• Stichting Alzheimer Curaçao
• Cyprus Alzheimer Association and Related Dementias Forget-Me-Not
• ÄŒeská alzheimerovská společnost
• Alzheimerforeningen
• Dominica Dementia Foundation
• Asociación Dominicana Alzheimer y Similares
• Fundación TASE (Trascender con Amor, Servicio y Excelencia)
• Egyptian Alzheimer Society
• Asociación de Familiares Alzheimer de El Salvador
• NGO Living with Dementia / MTÜ Elu Dementsusega
• Alzheimer’s Ethiopia
• Alzheimer Society of Finland (Muistiliitto)
• France Alzheimer & Maladies Apparentées
• Georgian Alzheimer’s Association
• Deutsche Alzheimer Gesellschaft
• Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of Ghana
• The Gibraltar Alzheimer’s and Dementia Society (GADS)
• Panhellenic Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders
• Grenada Alzheimer’s Association
• Asociación Grupo Ermita Alzheimer de Guatemala
• Asociación Hondureña de Alzheimer
• Hong Kong Alzheimer’s Disease Association
• Alzheimer’s & Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI)
• Alzheimer’s Indonesia
• Iran Dementia & Alzheimer’s Association (IDAA)
• The Alzheimer Society of Ireland
• EMDA – Alzheimer’s Association of Israel
• Federazione Alzheimer Italia
• Alzheimer’s Jamaica
• Alzheimer’s Association Japan (AAJ)
• Al Oun For Alzheimer’s Patient Care Association
• Alzheimer’s & Dementia Organisation Kenya (ADOK)
• Alzheimer’s Association Lebanon
• Dementia Lesotho
• Dementia Lithuania
• Macau Alzheimer’s Disease Association (MADA)
• Madagascar Alzheimer Masoandro Mody
• Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia (ADFM)
• Alzheimer’s Society Of Maldives
• Association Comprendre la Maladie d’Alzheimer (A.C.M.A) Mali
• Malta Dementia Society
• Alzheimer Association Mauritius
• Federación Mexicana de Alzheimer, A. C. (FEDMA)
• NVO Futura
• Association Maroc Alzheimer (AMA)
• Alzheimer’s Association Myanmar
• Alzheimer and Related Dementia Society Nepal (ARDS-Nepal)
• Alzheimer Nederland
• Alzheimers New Zealand
• Fundación Alzheimer de Nicaragua (FADEN)
• Alzheimer’s Disease Association of Nigeria (ADAN)
• Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neuroscience – North Macedonia
• Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen
• Oman Alzheimer’s Society
• Alzheimer’s Pakistan
• Asociación de Apoyo a los Familiares de Pacientes con Alzheimer y Otras Enfermedades Demenciales (AFAPADEA)
• Asociación Peruana de Enfermedad de Alzheimer y Otras Demencias (APEAD)
• Alzheimer’s Disease Association of the Philippines (ADAP)
• Polish Alzheimer’s Association
• Obras Sociais Viseu – Centro Apoio Alzheimer Viseu
• Asociación de Alzheimer y Desórdenes Relacionados de Puerto Rico
• Qatar Alzheimer’s Society
• Korean Association for Dementia (KAD)
• Romanian Alzheimer Society
• Foundation Alzrus
• Saudi Alzheimer’s Disease Association
• Alzheimer Scotland – Action on Dementia
• Association Nationale Maladie d’Alzheimer et autres pathologies Neuroévolutives (ANAMAN)
• Seychelles Alzheimer’s Foundation
• Dementia Singapore
• Sint Maarten Alzheimer Foundation
• Slovenska Alzheimerova spoločnost
• Spominčica – Alzheimer Slovenija
• Alzheimer’s South Africa
• Confederación Española de Familiares de Enfermos de Alzheimer (CEAFA)
• Lanka Alzheimer’s Foundation
• Alzheimer’s Association of St Kitts and Nevis
• Stichting Alzheimer en Overige Dementieën Suriname
• Demensförbundet
• Alzheimer Sverige
• Alzheimer Schweiz Suisse Svizzera
• TADA
• Fight Dementia and Care Organisation – Tanzania
• Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Association of Thailand
• The Bahamas Alzheimer’s Association
• Huelo Alzheimer’s Tonga
• Alzheimer’s Association of Trinidad and Tobago
• Association Alzheimer Tunisie
• Turkish Alzheimer Association
• Uganda Alzheimer Association
• Nezabutni Foundation
• 4get-me-not Alzheimer’s Organization
• Alzheimer’s Society
• Alzheimer’s Association
• Asociación Uruguaya de Alzheimer y Similares
• Fundación Alzheimer de Venezuela
• Vietnam Alzheimer Disease & Neurocognitive Disorders Association (VnADA)
• Yemen Foundation against Alzheimer Dementia (YFAAD
• Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in Zambia (ADDIZ)
• Zimbabwe Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Association (ZARDA)

Organisation

Address: Alzheimer's Disease International 57A Great Suffolk Street London, SE1 0BB

Country: United Kingdom

Email: info@alzint.org

Call +44 20 79810880

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The European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM) is an international organization that exists to promote a unified mental and physical perspective on health and illness. It does this by sharing research and clinical understanding and by promoting patient centred care in all countries. EAPM joins with those clinicians and academics in all parts of the world. The member associations include:

• ÖGPP (Austria)
• CACLP (Canada)
• Czech Society of Psychosomatic Medicine
• DGPM (Germany)
• DKPM (Germany)
• SIPC (Italy)
• Societat Catalana de Psiquiatria i Salut Mental (Spain)
• Spanish Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (SEMP)
• SACLP (Sweden)
• SAPPM (Switzerland)
• SSCLPP (Switzerland)
• NALK (The Netherlands)
• NVvP (The Netherlands)
• Ukrainian Psychosomatic Medicine Association (UPMA)

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The International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS) is an international non-profit association that: 

• Enhances the standards of forensic mental health services in the international community
• Promotes an international dialogue about forensic mental health, in all its aspects, including violence and family violence
• Promotes education, training and research in forensic mental health
• Informs professional communities and the public about current issues in forensic mental health
• Promotes and utilizes advanced technologies in the pursuit of the above goals
• Forms informal and formal liaison with organizations having a similar purpo
• Holds an annual conference
• Provides an arena for information sharing on the latest research, program development, as well as legal, administrative and ethical matters
• Publishes the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health.

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

IAFMHS Special Interest Groups were formed to provide a specialized forum for mental health professionals within the association. Special Interest Groups meet at the annual conference and may distribute other communications throughout the year. Admission is open to all current IAFMHS members.

• Emerging Forensic Systems: a group that expands all emerging forensic systems to allow mental health practitioners to exchange ideas on how to develop and sustain forensic mental health services in different parts of the world  
• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Group: a special interest group committed to fostering equity and diversity in our organization and in forensic mental health and intellectual disability services
• Forensic Mental Health Nurses: a special interest group for nurse practitioners, nurse managers/administrators/directors, and researchers working in forensic mental health settings
• Long-Term Forensic Psychiatric Care: a special interest group where issues and best practices regarding long-term forensic psychiatric care can be discussed and shared
• Offenders with Intellectual Disability: a special interest group for psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and other specialists involved in the treatment of offenders with intellectual disability
• Mental Health Courts and Diversion Programs: a special interest group interested in better addressing the problems associated with mentally ill individuals entering the criminal justice system
• RISC – Team: a special interest group for all practitioners and researchers working in the area of clinical risk assessment and management
• Service Development, Organization, Strategy, and Delivery: a special interest group for hospital administrators, directors and service managers in the forensic mental health field

Organisation

Address: RCB 5246 8888 University Drive Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6

Country: Canada

Email: iafmhs@sfu.ca

Call +1 604-924-5026

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The International Mental Health Association is a tax-exempt public charity building a healthier world by pursuing mental wellness through an intersectional lens. They do this by:

• Centering Local Leadership: helping local leaders strengthen their capacity towards their goals, on their terms.
• Improving Community Health: focusing on improving community health in an expansive cycle that gets better, stronger and more joyful with time.
• Building Creative Partnerships: interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral work that embeds mental health & wellness structures in every project, every field, every community.

PROGRAMS

• Black Mental Health Fellowship Program: a fellowship program designed to encourage Black-led capacity building towards better mental health across Africa and the African Diaspora. 

• Afghan Communities in California: a unique program focuses on providing Afghan-led, trauma-informed wraparound services for newly-settled Afghan communities in California. 

• South Asian Mental Health Initiative (SAMHI) is dedicated to changing the narrative around mental health throughout South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora to help people understand what can be done with knowledge and how it can be applied to their lives in trauma-informed ways. They engage communities in enhancing pathways to mental healthcare through local collaborations. 

Organisation

Email: team@imha.ngo

Call +1 302-200-6829

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The International Mental Health Collaboration Network (IMHCN) is an International Non-Governmental Organisation founded by Mental Health Organisations and individuals who have developed good practices and services in community mental health based on the whole life whole system approach. Its membership consists of professionals, managers, service users and experts of experience, family members, policy makers from many countries. The three main strands of IMHCN's work include to:

• Campaign for the closure of psychiatric institutions through the development of comprehensive community mental health services.
• Develop a Whole Life -Whole System Community approach by developing Strategies and implementing them through partnership working with local communities harnessing their strengths, resilience and resources.
• Promote and provide opportunities for people with mental health issues and their families to develop their own recovery plans through self determination, autonomy and a full recognition of their assets

The purpose of the Collaborating Network is to bring together places, services and practices that have been successful in developing good quality community mental health, with those that are in the process of implementing change. Discovery Partners forge and facilitate a partnership between identified service users, their social networks and their mental health workers. They use their professional skills and expertise in a collaborative partnership with the service user. This involves the willingness and ability to shape a journey based on the discovered needs and preferences of the individual.

Organisation

Address: International Mental Health Collaborating Network Limited, 24 Weirside Place, Exeter, EX2 4BW

Country: United Kingdom

Email: info@imhcn.org

Call +44 (0)7932 639 757

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The International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) fosters international multidisciplinary communication about clinical, educational and research issues that relate to the subspecialty of psycho-oncology and psychosocial dimensions of cancer including the response of patients, families and staff to cancer and its treatment at all stages; and the psychological, social and behavioral factors that influence tumor progression and survival.

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIG)

• IPOS Early Career Professionals in Psycho-Oncology (ECPP) Committee: brings together and represents the interests of IPOS members who are early in their career and want to provide a platform through which they can find and support each other.

• IPOS Special Interest Group – Cancer and Aging: Reflection for Elders (CARE)

• E-Health: exploring and advancing E-health activities that relate to psychosocial oncology.

• Fear of Cancer Recurrence Special Interest Group (FORwards): provides an interactive professional network for IPOS members with a special interest in Fear of Cancer Recurrence.

• Survivorship Special Intererst Group

• Latin American/Spanish Special Interest Group (LASSIG): foster the science and practice of psycho-oncology in Spanish-speaking countries, in order to improve the care of cancer patients, and aide in the development of professional networks to exchange clinical and research-related knowledge as well as scientific material in Spanish.

• Low and Medium Income Countries (LMIC) Special Interest Group: identify problem areas of LMIC in psycho-oncology compared with the western world where psycho-oncology has become relatively well developed. 

• Pediatric Special Interest Group: brings together and represents the interests of IPOS members who work with children and adolescents with cancer and their family members.

Organisation

Address: 1-189 Queen Street East Toronto, Ontario M5A 1S2

Country: Canada

Postal Address: 244 Fifth Avenue, Suite L296 New York, NY 10001

Email: info@ipos-society.org

Call +1 416-968-0260

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The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) fosters research on individual differences in temperament, intelligence, attitudes, and abilities. The aim of the society is to investigate the major dimensions of individual differences in the context of experimental, physiological, pharmacological, clinical, medical, genetical, statistical and social psychology. It further aims to seek the determinants, causes, and concomitants of individual differences, using concepts derived from these disciplines. The Society publishes scientific papers and organizes scientific meetings to discuss and exchange information and ideas relevant to the measurement, structure, dynamics and biological bases of individual differences. The official journal of the Society is Personality and Individual Differences.

PARTNERS

• British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID)

• World Association for Personality Psychology publishes the International Journal of Personality Psychology

• Association for Research in Personality publishes the Journal of Research in Personality

• Japanese Society of Personality Psychology publishes the Japanese Journal of Personality

• European Association of Personality Psychology publishes the European Journal of Personality

• Society for the Study of Motivation

• Society for Personality and Social Psychology

• Personality Pedagogy

• Psychology Education Resource Guide

• Social Psychology Network

• International Society for Intelligence Research

• Society for the Study of School Psychology

• The Personality Project (William Revelle)

• Great Ideas in Personality (Scott Acton)

• pBarrett.net (Paul Barrett)

• The Personality Laboratory (John D. Mayer)

• Personality Theories (C. George Boeree)

• Delroy L. Paulhus & His Whirlwind of Psychological Tests (Delroy L. Paulhus)

• Hans Eysenck website

• London Psychometric Laboratory (K. V. Petrides)

• International Personality Item Pool

• London Psychometric Laboratory (K. V. Petrides)

• The R Project

• General SEM information with examples in AMOS and R (Lavaan)

• Moderation/ Mediation (Andrew Hayes)

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Email: colin@colincooper.org

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The International Society of Behavioral Medicine (ISBM) is an organisation that serves the needs of all health‑related disciplines concerned with the integration of psychosocial behavioral and biomedical sciences. The scope of "behavioral medicine" extends from research efforts to understand fundamental biobehavioral mechanisms; to clinical diagnosis and intervention; to disease prevention and health promotion. The International Society of Behavioral Medicine (ISBM) is intended to serve the needs of all health‑related disciplines concerned with the integration of psychosocial behavioral and biomedical sciences. The goals of the ISBM are to:

• Encourage formation of national or regional organizations of behavioral medicine, and to develop and maintain liaison with related professional organizations.
• Encourage and co‑ordinate communication and interaction among various health professionals including biomedical and behavioral science researchers and clinicians, without regard to specific discipline loyalties.
• Stimulate research, clinical, preventive and training activities through formal meetings, collaborative undertakings and awards for meritorious effort.
• Develop guidelines for implementation of behavioral medicine training and research activities at various levels in the health sciences.
• Serve as an information resource for behavioral medicine by facilitating access to scientific and professional journals computer‑based information systems, and organization of scientific meetings/conferences.

PARTNERS

• International Network For Subjective and Unexplained Health Complaints (INSUHC)
• International Evidence In Research & Action Network (EIRA)
• INSPIRE
• INSUHC
• Diabetes Collaboration

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Lifeline International is an affiliation of Lifeline organisations operating around the world. LifeLine International partners with organisations in suicide prevention as well as supporters that enable LifeLine International to achieve its purpose.

• Member Engagement: promoting, organising and conducting conventions, conferences, meetings and educational programmes aimed at promoting the objectives of LifeLine International and our Members.

• Knowledge Sharing: capturing, sharing and disseminating knowledge and learnings drawn from LifeLine International members, partners and our wider network. Facilitating member access to knowledge through resources, issues focused training, links to subject matter experts and through communities of practice.

• Advocacy and Global Leadership: encourage and lead global public discourse on suicide prevention as a global public health priority. Create a high level of public awareness of and support for LifeLine International and their Members to act as an authoritative and influential voice on suicide prevention across the world.

• Financial Sustainability: LifeLine International seeks opportunities to diversify and grow our income to ensure that we have the capacity to deliver our strategic plan and empower our Members to deliver sustainable services.

NETWORK

• Australia
• Botswana
• Canada (DCO)
• Canada (Telecare)
• China
• Fiji
• Japan
• Korea 
• Malawi 
• Malaysia
• Namibia 
• New Zealand
• Northern Ireland
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Taiwan
• Tonga
• United States of America
• Zambia

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Mental Health Europe (MHE) is a European non-governmental network organisation committed to the promotion of positive mental health, the prevention of mental distress, the improvement of care, advocacy for social inclusion and the protection of the rights of (ex)users of mental health services, persons with psychosocial disabilities, their families and carers. Related content includes:

• Understanding Mental Health
• Social Europe
• Human Rights
• Mental Health & Work
• Recovery Community-based Services
• Projects & Campaigns

MHE works closely with the European Institutions and international bodies to mainstream mental health in all policies and end mental health stigma. Mental Health Europe represents associations and individuals in the field of mental health including users of mental health services, professionals, service providers and volunteers.  Together with its members, MHE formulates recommendations for policy makers to develop mental health friendly policies. MHE places users of mental services at the centre of its work to ensure the voice of people who have experienced mental ill health is heard across Europe.

PROJECTS & CAMPAIGNS

• European Mental Health Week 
• Each of Us
• Rural Mental Health
• Periscope
• Go Green Routes
• InALMH
• e-youth

Organisation

Address: Rue de la Presse 4 , Brussels

Country: Belgium

Email: info@mhe-sme.org

Call +32 2 227 27 08

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The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through the alignment of science, treatment, and education. ADAA works to prevent, treat, and cure anxiety disorders and depression.

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Country: United States of America

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The International Forensic Screening and Assessment Network for Adolescents (InForSANA) is an interdisciplinary and international consortium of researchers. The group is dedicated to collaborative efforts to improve knowledge of, and response to, the mental health needs of young people in juvenile justice systems. Identifying their needs with adequate screening and assessment methods as they enter the juvenile justice system is important for their treatment, their protection, and improving their conditions in order to reduce future delinquency.

To meet these research objectives, InForSANA collaborators have worked together to develop ways to perform their mental health research in juvenile justice settings that will allow their research results to be compared more meaningfully. InForSANA is an consortium open for researchers who are willing to join us and stimulates collaborative interchange.

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