Ambulatory psychiatry in Belgium is under structural pressure. European and international mental health care policy frameworks are based on prevention-oriented cooperation, in which healthcare professionals play a central role in governance, alongside patients and their caregivers (European Commission, WHO Europe).
In Belgium, this governance is lacking for outpatient psychiatry, with BFAP making this level of care structurally visible. Membership is not a formality, but necessary to sustainably anchor outpatient psychiatry in policy and at the same time contribute to more care in the living environment, better accessibility, quality and more coherence within the Belgian mental health care landscape.
Objectives 🎯
- An independent voice for ambulatory psychiatry: BFAP ensures that clinical reality, including evidence-based psychotherapy for complex care, is structurally translated into appropriate policy.
- Socialisation of care, in dialogue with other mental health care actors: BFAP contributes to a coherent care continuum, tailored to contemporary care needs and scientific knowledge, through sustainable cooperation with primary care, crisis care, residential psychiatry and patient organisations
- From practice to policy with impact: BFAP bundles signals and data from the field into substantiated and supported positions, so that members together have more policy-making power.
Network & collaboration 🌐
- Scientific associations (psychiatry, psychotherapy, mental health care research)
- Professional associations and unions (BVAS, ASGB)
- Patient and family associations
- Mental health care organisations (outpatient, CGG, primary care, residential)
- Policy and advisory bodies at regional, national and European level
Member benefits 🎟️
- Mediris Multi: 30% member discount on the first license year
- QIT-online: 15% member discount on the first license year
- Doctena: 20% permanent discount if registration before 27/7/26
- KBC: discount on legal assistance insurance (application pending)
- Accredited training: Commitment to up to 4 accredited webinars per year, bundled around an annual content theme (clinical, organizational, or policy-related)
- Targeted policy and practice information: Regular updates on relevant policy developments and files.
For whom? 👤
- Outpatient psychiatrists: self-employed in solo or group practice, Mental Health Care Centres (CGG), intramural polyclinics
- Psychiatrists in training with an interest in outpatient care and socialisation of care
- Partner organisations and healthcare providers within mental health care who endorse our objectives and want to contribute to qualitative, effective, evidence-based mental health care
⏳ Please transfer the appropriate amount to account number
BE65 7310 7480 8896 (BFAPFBPA) stating “BFAP 2026 membership” and “your name” before or shortly after submitting the form
