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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 organising events and educational programs to nurture child and adolescent psychiatry at all levels. Also check out our News Section.

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"Youth mental health entering dangerous phase, as experts warn of megatrends affecting young people" - The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health publishes their report
Council of Europe releases new guide to children's participation in decisions about their health
ESCAP statement on the care for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria: an urgent need for safeguarding clinical, scientific, and ethical standards
New ESCAP Communication: Sustainable action is needed more than ever
ESCAP endorses the inclusion of methylphenidate in the WHO model lists of essential medicines and in the Union list of critical medicines
EU Commission Commission issues recommendations to better protect children from violence
FAMILY consortium publishes in ECAP: Running in the FAMILY: understanding and predicting the intergenerational transmission of mental illness
Statement of the ESCAP Board: Stop the humanitarian crisis in Gaza - Ensuring the basic needs of children
Statement of the ESCAP Board on children taken as hostages in the context of the recent terrorist attacks in Israel
Are you interested in submitting an “ESCAP Practical Guidance Article”? Then we want to hear from you! Find all information regardung requirements and submission here.
Continue our partnerships with our partner societies, such as the EFPT-CAP, UEMS-CAP, IACAPAP. We hope to form more partnerships in the coming years.
Communicating key issues in the ECAP Journal through ESCAP Communications, and Editorials.
ESCAP presence at national society meetings. We want to be involved with more of the events our national societies organise, so if you have an event that you want ESCAP to be part of, then let us know.

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 - August 2024 issue

Editorial by Xiao-Jing Shou & Yong He: Autism and comorbidity: insights from brain imaging studies
Despite the fact that brain imaging research has substantially improved our understanding of ASD and ADHD, several critical issues still require further exploration. Advanced approaches such as connectomics should be integrated with neuroimaging technologies in developmental disorder studies. Connectomics is a field of study that aims to comprehensively map the brain’s neural connections, or ‘connectome’, and to understand how these connections contribute to brain function and behavior. This approach can assist in investigating the distinct and shared features of ASD and its comorbidities. Moreover, there is a growing need to better understand the long-term neurological changes in individuals with ASD and ADHD.

View the August issue here

ESCAP participates in DEAPS VI Congress in Belgrade, Serbia

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 editor@escap.eu to discuss further.

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Impact of war and forced displacement on children’s mental health—multilevel, needs-oriented, and trauma-informed approaches

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."

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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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