About ASEAN Federation of Psychiatry and Mental Health (AFPMH)
Since its birth in 1981, AFPMH has achieved many successes including the biennial congress and regular publications of the ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, which is the formal journal of the federation. From its five original member countries of ASEAN (Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and The Philippines), the federation has, over the years, increased the participation from other ASEAN countries, now including the Indochina region. Not only that, it has gone beyond the region to forge links with China, Korea and Japan in 2006 through the "ASEAN Plus Three Partnership". The federation also joined as a founder member of the newly formed Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations (AFPA) in 2007. Currently the AFPMH is based in Singapore (2011 - 2012).
ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry was founded in 1991 and has since been receiving a steady increase in number of articles from the ASEAN region for publication. Notably, the journal, an online peer-reviewed six-monthly publication, has been reaching its readers regularly since 2007 through its open access online publication. Through this journal, we share and learn from the work of many researchers from the different countries of ASEAN on a variety of mental health and psychiatric issues. Through the journal also, we get to know new people in our large community of mental health and psychiatric professionals.
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