ASAPPIA

Founded in 1969, ASAPPIA is a non-profit association based in Buenos Aires, Argentina working on mental health, children & youth, education.

ASAPPIA (Asociación Argentina de Psiquiatría y Psicología de la Infancia y la Adolescencia) is a non-profit association founded in 1969 in Argentina. It promotes scientific research, training and dissemination on child and adolescent mental health, grounded in psychoanalytic theory. It runs postgraduate schools for mental health professionals, a psychological orientation centre (Centro de Orientación Psicológica Dr. Mauricio Knobel), and thematic areas covering childhood, adolescence, disability, family and vocational guidance. It also holds courses, seminars and conferences, and seeks to cooperate with national and international organisations and state and private institutions working on the mental health of children, adolescents and families.