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ESCAP's purpose is to promote the mental health and wellbeing of children, adolescents and their families throughout Europe. To do so, we are constantly working on initiatives based on research, clinical and policy, as well as orgnaising events and educational programs to nurture child and adolescent psychiatry at all levels. Our current projects are:

ESCAP launch its policy statement on Next Generation Europe - A recovery Plan for Children, Adolescents and their Families
Collaborating with UEMS-CAP and EFPT to organise an ESCAP Training Day
Preparing the ESCAP Expert Day: Changing perspectives - ESCAP speaks with Carmen Schroder and Samuele Cortese ahead of their talks in June.
Sending an official invitation to all our member societies to call for proposals and participation to our next General Assembly
Preparing the next stage of the CovCAP survey Unfolding COVID-19 crisis: implications for child and adolescent psychiatry
Updating the Coronavirus resource pages

Aims

Accoring to its status, ESCAP pursues the following aims:

To promote mental health of children and adolescents in Europe
To increase quality of life among children and families
To ensure children's reight for healthy development and wellbeing

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Goals

The goals of ESCAP are:

To foster the European knowledge and skills in child psychiatry
To facilitate and extent the bonds between European countries in mental health issues
To spread the results of research and experiences by publishing reports and organizing scientific conferences an meetings and to collaborate with international organizations with the same or related aims

Divisions

ESCAP has three devisions:

An academic division
A clinical division
A policy division

ECAP Journal

ECAP April issue

Diagnostic overlap and exploration of risk factors in child psychiatry

In Carmen Moreno’s editorial ‘Diagnostic overlap and exploration of risk factors in child psychiatry’, she perfectly summarises all 12 articles in this ECAP issue. There’s a diverse array of articles that cover ASD, ADHD, parental influences, bullying, environmental and genetic contributions on anger and anxiety syndromes, and finally suicide. Read her editorial.

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E-mentoring program organized by the Turkish Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry during the COVID-19 pandemic

ESCAP Communications

"Mentorship is defined as a relationship between someone with experience in a certain field or area (“mentor”) and another individual who can gain from that experienced person’s guidance (“mentee”). In this relationship, the mentee can gain important information and skills that will aid them with their professional growth throughout the years....".

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ESCAP Guidance Paper for Autism

European Child + Adolescent Psychiatry Journal

"Across Europe, there is increased awareness of the frequency and importance of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which is now recognised not only as a childhood disorder but as a heterogeneous, neurodevelopmental condition that persists throughout life. Services for individuals with autism and their families vary widely, but in most European countries, provision is limited"

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Who we are

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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ESCAP Community

Our national member societies