World Association for Stress Related and Anxiety Disorders e.V. (WASAD)

The WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR STRESS-RELATED AND ANXIETY DISORDERS e.V., WASAD, is an independent non-profit organization founded in 2016 in Wurzburg, Germany, by leaders of clinical and translational science to address stress and disease sequelae related to stress and trauma as well as anxiety disorders as they represent ever growing psychological and social problems affecting professional life, lifestyle and quality of life.

WASAD has set itself the goal:
• To promote basic research on stress-related disorders and anxiety disorders, to ensure effective and safe drug treatment and prevention strategies for these mental illnesses.
• To make the interdisciplinary science findings suitable for clinical and psychological institutions and their representatives.
• To offer the right framework for clinicians and practicing physicians, psychotherapists, physicians and psychotherapists in training, students and health care professionals in order to exchange knowledge and experiences in the fields of clinical and basic research, stress, stress-related disorders and anxiety disorders.
• To adress causes of work absences which have direct social consequences.
• To make recommendations to current therapy-relevant topics.
• To promote international contacts in this field.