World Mental Health Day 10 October 2023

This year’s World Mental Health Day was observed on 10th October 2023 with WHO choosing the theme of mental health as a universal human right.

WHO note: “Everyone, whoever and wherever they are, has a right to the highest attainable standard of mental health. This includes the right to be protected from mental health risks, the right to available, accessible, acceptable, and good quality care, and the right to liberty, independence and inclusion in the community.”

EFPA President Prof. Dr Christoph Steinebach notes "Human rights made concrete in the Sustainable Development Goals are an important compass for evidence-based psychology in prevention, counselling, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation.”

In observing the occasion EFPA representatives attended a number of events which relate to 7 points of mental health and its social determinants: commitment to mental health in all policies; mental health as a core part of societal crises responses; community-oriented services; mental wellbeing in the workplace; the impact of climate change on mental health especially for the young; training standards and regulation; and equality of access including digitalisation

EFPA’s and its members’ activities around World Mental Health Day 