About This Branch 

 Mission Statement of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association

• to improve the treatment, rehabilitation, and care of the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, and the emotionally disturbed.

• to promote research, professional education in psychiatry and allied fields and the prevention of psychiatric disability.

• to advance the standards of all psychiatric services and facilities.

• to foster the cooperation of all who are concerned with the medical, psychological, social and legal aspects of mental health and illness.

• to make psychiatric knowledge available to other practitioners of medicine, to scientists in other fields of knowledge, and to the public.

• to promote the best interests of patients and those actually or potentially making use of mental health services.

Further, the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association seeks to promote optimal health care delivery systems and to support psychiatrists in the practice of their profession. The WPA will endeavor to carry out the above objectives with in the state of Wisconsin.