The Section of Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology (Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Verona) was designated by WHO as Collaborating Centre for Research, Service Evaluation and Training in Mental Health on 23 February 1987. It provides care, education and research.

Clinical activity takes place in the Psychiatric University Clinic, in the Mental Health Centre, in the staffed residential facilities and apartments for long-term patients, in the Outpatient Departments, and in other community-based facilities, which constitute an integrated system of mental health care, dedicated to the residents in the South-Verona area (100.000 inhabitants) and run by the University of Verona in collaboration with the Hospital Trust and the Local Health Trust No.20.

Education and training is provided for undergraduate students in medicine, in psychosocial rehabilitation and in other health professions, post-graduate residents and post-graduate Ph.D. students (clinical psychology and psychiatry).

The areas of research regard epidemiological psychiatry, genetics and neuroimaging of schizophrenic and bipolar disorders, clinical psychopharmacology, patient-health provider communication, geography of mental health, costs evaluation and evaluation of mental health services.