All psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social and behavioral scientists, and mental health-related workers who are interested in cultural psychiatry and/or culture and mental health, are invited to become members of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP).

WACP members will have opportunities to communicate with colleagues around the world to exchange information and share knowledge and experiences relating to cultural psychiatry, through the WACP Newsletter, which is circulated through the WACP website to the members. The Association is also publishing on-line the World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review (WCPR Review), which is comprised of original and review articles by colleagues around the world. It is the intention of the Review to include articles from colleagues working in locations with limited capacity to publish their work in international journals. At present, WCPR Review will be accessible to every colleague but in the future, it will be available primarily to the WACP members through the WACP website.
           
Full payment of membership will bring members the additional advantage of having a reduction to their registration fees for the World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry (WCCP), which will take place every three years in different regions of the world. After the First World Congress held in 2006, the Second World Congress is scheduled to take place in 2009.  Members of the association will also have the right to participate in the voting to elect members of the board of directors, who will serve three year terms.