Society of Social Psychiatry P. Sakellaropoulos (Athens, Greece)
The Society of Social Psychiatry P. Sakellaropoulos (SSP P. Sakellaropoulos) is a non-profit scientific organisation.
The organisation’s roots go back to 1964, when Panayiotis Sakellaropoulos-Professor of Psychiatry and his team of associates, started to work for Greece’s Psychiatric Reform, based on the spirit and principles of Social-Community Psychiatry. They developed the model of the Psychiatric Care at the Patient’s Home and the first Mobile Mental Health Units.
The organisation was officially founded in 1986, and since then it offers high quality psychiatric services, as part of the National Plan for Mental Health “Psychargos” of the Ministry of Health.
Today, the SSP P. Sakellaropoulos supports a wide network of Mental Health services, which include:
Services for the prevention, timely intervention, therapy and rehabilitation of psychiatric disorders.
Programmes for the social and employment inclusion of people with psychosocial problems.
Sensitisation and awareness-raising activities regarding mental health issues (Community Sensitisation – Community Psychoeducation).
Educational Training Programmes for mental health professionals and service users.
The Society’s work is based on the principles of social psychiatry, the psychoanalytic prism and action research. It provides services in 5 Prefectures of Greece: Attica (Capital), Fokida, Fthiotida (Central Greece), Evros – Rodopi (Northern Greece), through the operation of 35 Mental Health Units employing a total of 242 people. Every year the SSP P. Sakellaropoulos offers more than 62,500 therapeutic activities to approximately 3.500 service users. The Services of the SSP P. Sakellaropoulos are offered free of charge and are funded by the Ministry of Health.
At the same time, it actively participates in important national and European mental health networks and programmes, such as: Mental Health Europe, European Disability Forum, Social Firms Europe CEFEC, Asklepios Foundation, Argo Federation of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Organisations.
Our Mission
The Society of Social Psychiatry P. Sakellaropoulos offers mental health services to those who need them. At the same time, it works with the population in order to establish the request for help.
Our Vision
We work systematically for every person to have access to free quality mental health services and to be able to attain the highest possible level of mental health and wellbeing, in an open society.
Our values
High quality mental health services accessible to everyone
Equality and respect of human rights
Solidarity towards every vulnerable group
Transparency, accountability, ethics, trust in our relationship with our service users and associates
We work for the creation of modern, open and humane therapeutic units within the local communities and the establishment of innovative models of mental health services.
We strongly believe that every person with psychosocial problems has the right to enjoy a life with quality, dignity, autonomy, social and economic activity, without discrimination or restrictions, at every stage of their life.
For more information please visit: https://ekpse.gr/en/
