Upcoming IACAPAP World Congress

2026 - Hamburg, Germany

Join us at the 27th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions

Congress Theme: Facing challenges in a constantly changing world - empowering child and adolescent mental health by evidence-based approaches
Congress Date: 1 - 4 July 2026
Congress Venue: Congress Center Hamburg, Germany
Website: www.iacapap-congress.com

Past IACAPAP World Congresses

Nr.	Year	Venue	Congress President	Theme
I	1937	Paris, France	Georges Heuyer	Conditioned reflexes –Pedagogics and Child Psychiatry – Juvenile Criminality
II	*1948	London, United Kingdom	J.R. Rees	Personality Development and its Individual and Social Aspects with Special Reference to Aggression.
III	1954	Toronto, Canada	Frederick H. Allen	Emotional Problems of Early Childhood
IV	1958	Lisbon, Portugal	Victor Fontes	The Emotional Life of the Child – 6-12 years
V	1962	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Arn van Krevelen	Primary Prevention of Mental Disorders in Children
VI	1966	Edinburgh, Scotland	John Bowlby	Puberty and Adolescence
VII	1970	Jerusalem, Israel	Serge Lebovici	The Child and His Family
VIII	1974	Philadelphia, United States	E. James Anthony	Children at risk. The vulnerable child – Psychiatric Risk and Mastery in Childhood
IX	1978	Melbourne, Australia	Albert J. Solnit	Children and Parents in a Changing World
X	1982	Dublin, Ireland	Lionel Hersov	Children in Turmoil-Tomorrow’s Parents
XI	1986	Paris, France	Colette Chiland	New Approaches to Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health
XII	1990	Kyoto, Japan	Reimer Jensen	Child Rearing, Education and Psychopathology
XIII	1994	San Fransisco, United States	Donald J. Cohen **	Violence and the Vulnerable Child
XIV	1998	Stockholm, Sweden	Donald J. Cohen	Trauma and Recovery – Care of Children by 21st Century Clinicians
XV	2002	New Delhi, India	***	Cancelled as World Congress
XVI	2004	Berlin, Germany	Helmut Remschmidt	Facilitating Pathways – Care, Treatment and Prevention in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
XVII	2006	Melbourne, Australia	Myron L. Belfer	Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Nurturing Diversity
XVIII	2008	Istanbul, Turkey	Per-Anders Rydelius	Carrying Hope Between East and West for 3 C’s: Children, Cultures and Commitments
XIX	2010	Beijing, China	Per-Anders Rydelius	Improving Child Mental Health: Increasing Awareness and New Pathways for Care
XX	2012	Paris, France	Olayinka Omigbodun	Brain, Mind and Development
XXI	2014	Durban, South Africa	Olayinka Omigbodun	From Research to Practice: Global Challenges in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care
XXII	2016	Calgary, Canada	Bruno Falissard	Fighting Stigma; Promoting Resiliency and Positive Mental Health
XXIII	2018	Prague, Czech Republic	Bruno Falissard	Understanding Diversity and Uniqueness
XXIV	2020	Singapore	Daniel Fung	Starting from the Beginning – Laying the Foundation for Lifelong Mental Health
XXV	2022	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Daniel Fung	Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Shaping the Future!
XXVI	2024	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Luis Rohde	Child development, mental health challenges and the future of nations

* A planned second international congress 1941 in Leipzig, Germany, under the leadership of Paul Schröder did not take place because of WW II.

** It should have been Irving Philips – however, Donald Cohen had to act as President because of the unfortunate death of Irving Philips in 1992.

*** The 15^th World Congress was scheduled for New Delhi/India but could not take place as an IACAPAP event due to external reasons. Therefore the congress was carried out as a regional meeting with international attendance under the leadership of our colleagues in India. It was agreed to put into writing in the IACAPAP annals, that the 15^th Congress could not be held as planned under the aegis of IACAPAP and that the Berlin Congress will be counted as the 16^th World Congress of our Association.