Commitments

Cooperation and collaboration

AFG Psychiatric Nursing is in a lively exchange with various organizations and institutions dedicated to the topic of mental illness and health.

Its members are actively involved in various organizations and networks. Examples of this are

• Mental Health Action Alliance
• Alliance against depression
• DGPPN: Collaboration in the Nursing Division
• Horatio (European Association for Psychiatric Nurses)
• Swiss Psychiatry Nursing Cadre Association (VPPS) 
• Network for nursing research in psychiatry
• Pro Mente Sana
• SBK-Psychiatrics Commission
• Swiss Mental Healthcare (Swiss Association of Directors, Chief Physicians and Nursing Directors of Psychiatric Clinics and Services)
• Association for Outpatient Psychiatric Care (VAPP)
• Mental Health Network

Congresses with AFG participation

The members of the AFG Psychiatric Nursing are actively involved in the planning and organization of national and international congresses as well as in the scientific advisory boards of various congresses.

Examples:

• Symposium on Outpatient Psychiatric Care (APP) 
• European Nurse Directors Association (ENDA) - Kongress
• German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN)
• Dreiländerkongress Pflege in der Psychiatrie - Congress
• HORATIO-Kongress (European Psychiatric Nurses)
• International Psychiatry Congress