WPA’s Education Portal continues to evolve

Since its launch in early 2021, WPA’s Education Portal has played a critical role in WPA's education and communications programmes. The portal delivers a platform to share the wealth of knowledge across WPA, its members and the wider mental health community. It provides a connection between trainers and trainees, enables the transfer of knowledge and skills and is accessible to any learner across the globe with an internet connection.

Over the past 18 months the portal has evolved considerably:

• new resources continue to be developed and added on a range of topics

• interactive elements have been added to resources and will continue to evolve

• learners are now able to purchase CPD certificates and associated points for several courses on the portal

WPA has many educational resources and there is more to come with a number in development. Visit the Education Portal to see WPA’s full catalogue of resources. Below are some of the most in-demand educational curricula and newly added resources:

• Anxiety Disorders

• Bipolar Disorders with a special focus on youth

• Comorbidity - Depression & Cancer

• Comorbidity - Depression & Diabetes

• Comorbidity - Depression & Cardiovascular Disease

• Dementias with Parkinsonian Features

• Disaster Psychiatry

• Early Intervention in Psychosis – A Global Perspective (part 1)

• Early Intervention in Low Resource Settings – WIC Project (part 2)

• Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence

• Medical Student’s Wellbeing

• Medically Unexplained Symptoms

• Psychiatric Rehabilitation

• Psychotherapy - Common Factors in Psychotherapy (modules 1)

• Psychotherapy - Supportive Psychotherapy (module 2)

• Psychotherapy – Psychodynamic psychotherapy (module 3)

• Psychotherapy - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) (module 4)

• Psychotherapy - Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) (module 5)

• Psychotherapy - Motivational Interviewing (module 6)

• Psychotherapy - Group Psychotherapy (module 7)

• Psychotherapy - Family and Couple Therapy (module 8)

• Principals of Supportive Psychotherapy

• Psychosomatic Medicine

• Suicide Prevention

• Vascular Cognitive Impairment

• Telepsychiatry

• Yoga in Mental Health Online Orientation Programme (Part 1)

WPA also continues to increase the number of languages we offer curricula in. Currently there are resources available in English, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bosnian, Chinese, Czech, Estonian, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

WPA thanks Teva and Viatris who, without their support, the WPA Education Portal would not be possible. Additionally, WPA’s unparalleled wealth of knowledge through its membership has been integral to the development and creation of new materials for the portal. Many experts have contributed to the portal on their area of expertise and we continue to welcome this moving forward. If you are interested in contributing to the portal please submit your proposal in writing to Afzal Javed and Roger Ng.

To view WPA’s full suite of educational curricula, please visit the Education Portal.

For any queries relating to the WPA Education Portal, please contact education@wpanet.org.

Author: WPA Education Coordinator, President and Secretary Education