A huge thanks to everyone who helped with the organising, presented, and attended. After more than two years of struggles we were so happy to host over 900 people at this first face to face meeting since 2019.
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 organising events and educational programs to nurture child and adolescent psychiatry at all levels. Our recent activities:
Aims
Accoring to its status, ESCAP pursues the following aims:
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Goals
The goals of ESCAP are:
Child and adolescent psychiatry meets its challenges
In her editorial, Franziska Degenhardt highlights two major ongoing challenges that the child and adolescent psychiatry community are continually trying to tackle in the field; the need for “a substantial expansion of the qualified workforce” in CAP and “expanding research on the etiology of psychiatric disorders”. She speaks of the huge endeavor the Spanish Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry have taken to finally get CAP recognized as a specific training curriculum. And the multifactorial aspects of psychiatric disorders both in terms of genetics and non-genetic factors and the need for more specific large scale research programs to understand the etiology of these disorders. Read her editorial.
MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH: New Realities, Experiences and Knowledge
At ESCAP we love to participate in the local congresses that our National Member countries organise. ESCAP president Dimitris Anagnostopoulos, ECAP editor in chief Johannes Hebebrand, ESCAP 2022 congress president Manon Hillegers, joined ESCAP board member Milica Pejovic-Milovancevic in Belgrade on the 26-28th May to take part in the Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions of Serbia DEAPS VI congress. They held a special ESCAP symposium to discuss the impact of COVID19 on mental health of youth in Europe. Professor Hebebrand held a plenary lecture on "Pronounced clinical improvement in patients with anorexia nervosa upon treatment with human recombinant leptin". In general, the 3-day congress had a packed programme with great opportunities for attendees to discuss key issues in child and adolescent psychiatry in Europe.
We are more than happy to have ESCAP representatives at your local congresses, get in touch with us on info@escap.eu to discuss further.
European Child + Adolescent Psychiatry Journal
"The infliction of war and military aggression upon children must be considered a violation of their basic human rights and can have a persistent impact on their physical and mental health and well-being, with long-term consequences for their development. Given the recent events in Ukraine with millions on the flight, this scoping policy editorial aims to help guide mental health support for young victims of war through an overview of the direct and indirect burden of war on child mental health. We highlight multilevel, need-oriented, and trauma-informed approaches to regaining and sustaining outer and inner security after exposure to the trauma of war."
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.
