2025
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ECAP Journal - April 2025 issue
Editorial: From haze to horizon: epigenetic research and artificial intelligence in child and adolescent psychiatry by Yulia Golub, Antje Wulff & Torsten Plösch
As decades before, methods for diagnosing child and adolescent psychiatric (CAP) disorders still largely depend on the collection of patient histories by physicians and self-reported questionnaires from patients, with CAP assessments being largely “expert-based diagnostic” and “expert-based treatment” decisions. In their editorial, the authors are asking how we can leverage this knowledge to enhance our understanding of CAP disorders, thereby advancing both clinical practice and scientific progress.
11/09/24 - ESCAP held the first of a series of Webinars for healthcare professionals in Ukraine. More than 370 participants joined us online – not only child and adolescent psychiatrists, but also family doctors, paediatricians, adult psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers - a very broad, mixed field of participants. The series of webinars is organized in collaboration with the Mental Health Coordination Center of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and UNICEF. Presentations are simultaenously translated into Ukrainian.
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The European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) is a not-for-profit association whose purpose is to promote the mental health and wellbeing of children, adolescents and their families. As well as to improve the quality of their lives and to ensure children’s right for support to healthy mental development and for appropriate preventive and therapeutic mental health services and interventions.
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