ESCAP Congress 2021 in Maastricht

It is never too early to start planning your future congresses. ESCAP is pleased to announce that our next congress will take place in Maastricht, The Netherlands on 27-29th June 2021. The ESCAP 2021 Congress theme in Maastricht will be: ‘Networks in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’. The congress website is up and running and more information will be added over the coming year. Check it out www.escap2021.eu

 

 

Meet our new ESCAP board members

At the General Assembly held at the ESCAP congress in Vienna, five new board members were selected, Anne Marie Räberg Christensen - Denmark, Joerg Fegert - Germany, Konstantinos Kotsis - Greece, Manon Hillegers – The Netherlands, Eniko Kiss – Hungary. We welcome them to the board. We also saw the exchange of the ESCAP presidency, Stephan Eliez after 8 years of being in the board, 4 of which were as president, hands the reigns over to Dimitris Anagnostopoulos. The new board will meet in Berlin in November. From left to right: Andreas Karwautz, Stephan Eliez, Jean-Philippe Raynaud, Joerg Fegert, Eniko Kiss, Dimitris Anagnostopoulos, Maeve Doyle, Milica Pejovic-Milovancevic, Konstantinos Kotsis, Manon Hillegers, Johannes Hebebrand, and insert Anne Marie Räberg Christensen.

 

 

 

 

 

December issue online now! Affective dysregulation  

This issues’ editorial explains affective dysregulation (AD), characterized as “excessive reactivity to negative emotional stimuli with an affective (anger) and a behavioral component (aggression)” and emotional dysregulation (ED) in the context of children and adolescent psychiatric disorders. For individuals displaying behaviors related to AD or ED, which can comprise of external- and internalizing behaviors, the complexity of their expression adds to the type and accessibility of care and support systems available to them. AD is less established and requires further research to unravel and define its neurobiological and psychopathological mechanisms, with an attempt to provide new treatment strategies for those children and adolescents affected by it. Read the editorial.

 

 

 

 

Congress Report

Did you attend the meeting and want to recap on what happened? Or were you unable to attend but want to find out more? ESCAP have put together a small congress report to summarise the key events, lectures, board meeting outcomes for everyone to appreciate.

Click to read the Congress Report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ESCAP first and second residential courses

The first ESCAP Research Academy residential course was held in Catania, Italy on 2-5th October. The course was a huge success consisting of 28 participants from 13 countries. As a result, the organisers are now launching the second residential course on the 'Assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents' in Catania, Italy on the 30th Sept to the 3rd Oct 2020. More information will be available soon, meanwhile, read the report from the first course here.   

 

 

 

• ESCAP 2019 Vienna: president interview, registration & scholarships

  
  The ESCAP Vienna congress president Andreas Karwautz provides us with two video interviews on the organisation of the event and reasons why you should come to Vienna, as if you need any more. ESCAP is interviewing keynote and state of the art speakers about their upcoming lectures, check out the latest interviews. The congress is under the responsibility of the Austrian ESCAP member, ÖGKJP. Find out more on the official website.

• ESCAP 2019 speaker

  Anke Hinney interview

  

  Anke Hinney is a professor of molecular genetics working in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. In her latest interview with ESCAP, she describes the techniques behind genome-wide association studies and how her research team are using them to screen DNA or genomes markers in patients suffering with eating disorders and body weight regulation disorders. Read more.

• Tweets from @ESCAPonline

• KEYNOTE AT ESCAP 2019

  Psychotherapy: compulsory for every psychiatrist

  

  Professor Franz Resch pleads for a key role for psychotherapeutic skills in the psychiatric practice. “Psychotherapy must be a standard part of the training of every psychiatrist”, he says.
  View all of his arguments, or read the Franz Resch interview on adolecents at high risk. Resch is a keynote speaker at the 2019 ESCAP Congress in Vienna.

• IFP WORLD CONGRESS

  Prof Kizilhan: the impact of extreme trauma and terror

  Professor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan (University of Baden-Württemberg, Germany), psychologist and trauma expert, gave a keynote lecture on the damage of IS violence against Yazidi women and their community at the 2018 IFP World Congress of Psychotherapy in Amsterdam. He explained what happens when individual violence adds up with genocide and oppression over generations, and how he organized treatment for women and children, suffering from extreme trauma. Read more.

• ALAN APTER INTERVIEW

  Prevention of suicidal behaviour in adolescents

  

  “The idea is to try and encourage adolescents and children to feel more free about asking for help”, says Dr Alan Apter of Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petach Tikva (Israel). Read the exclusive Alan Apter interview on ESCAP’s research pages, including abstracts and original presentations, backgrounds, and publications.

• LARGE SAMPLE STUDY

  High prevalence of mental disorders in Austrian adolescents

  A large sample epidemiological study to assess the prevalence of mental disorders in Austrian adolescents between 10 and 18 years has now been published in ECAP, the official ESCAP journal. The Austrian and British investigators conclude that "DSM-5 mental health disorders are highly prevalent among Austrian adolescents" and recommend that "early access to effective interventions for these problems is needed to reduce burden due to mental health disorders." Read the article (open access) or download the pdf.

• Trilingual interview

  Growing up poor: a high-risk transition

  

  Inequality is related to the onset of mental health problems, confirms Maria Melchior, member of ERES, the prominent social epidemiology research team of the collaborating Paris universities. Melchior was the opening keynote lecturer at the ESCAP 2017 Congress about Social inequalities in children’s mental health. Read the interview in English, French or German and learn about her answers to the high risks of low socioeconomic status (SES). 

• Fonagy: ESCAP Expert Article on borderline personality disorder

  

  Professor Peter Fonagy wrote an ESCAP Expert Article on borderline personality disorder in adolescence. This "research review with implications for clinical practice" was published in the November issue of the ECAP Journal.
  View Peter Fonagy's 100+ slides presentation, read the interview or watch his comments on video.

• Mood problems: the person-centred approach

  

  Professor Patrick Luyten (Leuven, London), pleads for a more person-centred approach of mood problems in young people, a greater focus on developmental factors and underlying vulnerability, and less parent blaming. Luyten was a keynote speaker at the 2017 ESCAP Congress in Geneva. Read the interview.