Join over 15 global partner sites for this year’s International East Africa Psychology Conference. Local gatherings across Uganda, Kenya, DRC, Nigeria, the U.S., and beyond will connect through shared online sessions – all centered on this year’s theme: Community-Based Participatory Mental Health Care: Focusing on the Role of the Family.

Conference Theme Background:

The 2025 conference theme builds on years of dialogue around community care, inclusion, and resilience. In 2024, we examined the power of cultural context, intergenerational healing, and the roles that traditional and clinical systems play in shaping mental health outcomes.
This year, we center the family as the foundation of identity, belonging, and both individual and collective wellbeing. Across cultures, families are where we first learn trust, connection, and repair – but also where trauma, silence, and exclusion can take root. Our subthemes draw from prior conference conversations and ongoing webinars, addressing challenges such as displacement, disability, substance use, and systems change, while honoring local voices and traditional forms of care.

Conference Subthemes Include:

1.     Family Systems and Intergenerational Mental Health
2.     Embedding Family Mental Health in Broader Systems of Care
3.     Traditional, Faith-Based, and Culturally Grounded Interventions
4.     Hidden Crises Within Families: Grief, Violence, and Addiction
5.     Living with Disability, Impairment, and Adaptation
6.     Family Resilience in the Face of Environmental and Social Change

We hope you will join us for this important event!

Participants at the 2024 conference in Kisubi, Uganda

Images from the 2024 East Africa Psychology Conference
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