Mental Health and Telehealth
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FEBRAPSI organizes national meetings, engages in regional meetings of its member societies, publishes a journal, maintains a roster of Brasilian psychoanalysts, promotes the interests and development of psychoanalysis in the country as well as in scientific progress and professional training.

The official publication of FEBRAPSI is the Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise.

The official publication of FEBRAP is Em Cena.

• Acrecentar el intercambio científico entre asociaciones de psicoterapia analítica de grupo de AmÉrica Latina, promoviendo y difundiendo conceptualizaciones teorico-prácticas vinculadas al trabajo con grupos, parejas, familias e instituciones en el área de la salud mental
• Estimular la producción científica el intercambio y la divulgación de trabajos, a travÉs de la organización de congresos y otros eventos y mediante la realización de distintas publicaciones

• The Joint Working Group on Telemedicine [JWGT] Inventory, which includes information on active, federally funded telemedicine projects that provide direct patient care
• Links to other federally funded telemedicine projects that do not provide patient care
• Links to other telemedicine resources, activities, and databases

The Federation is a dues-supported coalition comprised of 20 scientific societies and approximately 150 university departments of psychology, schools of education, research centers, regional psychological associations and science divisions of the American Psychological Association.

One activity of the Federation is its series of Science and Public Policy Seminars for Congressional and Federal agency staff that summarize and communicate the perspectives of top behavioral scientists and which are available for academic use in monograph format.

FENS was founded with the goal of advancing research and education in neuroscience and representing neuroscience research in the European Commission, IBRO, and other granting bodies. FENS is the European partner of the American Society for Neuroscience.

The official publication of FENS is the European Journal of Neuroscience [EJN].

• Provide leadership in the field of children's mental health
• Address the unique needs of children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders from birth through transition to adulthood
• Ensure the rights to full citizenship, support and access to community--;based services for children with mental health needs and their families
• Provide information and engage in advocacy regarding research, prevention, early intervention, family support, education, transition services and other supports needed by children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders and their families

The Federation's membership comprises the medical boards of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands and 13 state boards of osteopathic medicine. The Canadian provincial medical licensing authorities hold affiliate membership in the Federation. Individuals, physicians and non-physicians who are interested in licensing issues may become courtesy members.

The Federation is a parent organization of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, and member organization of the National Board of Medical Examiners [NBME]. It was a founding member of what was to become the American Board of Medical Specialties and remains an associate member of that body. Additionally, a Federation representative sits on the board of the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

Together with the NBME, the FSMB established the United States Medical Licensing Examination [USMLE] as a single, uniform examination for medical licensure as well as the Post-Licensure Assessment System [PLAS].

FSMB also operates the Federation Physician Data Center, a nationally recognized system for collecting, recording and distributing to state medical boards and other appropriate agencies data on disciplinary actions taken against licensees by the boards and other governmental authorities.

In addition, the FSMB operates the Federation Credentials Verification Service [FCVS] to provide a centralized, uniform process for state medical boards to obtain a verified, primary source record of a physician's core medical credentials.