2026
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.
ESCAP is open to joining research consortia as a collaborative partner. ESCAP offers dissemination opportunities through the ESCAP communication channels (website, newsletter, LinkedIn account) and a dedicated symposium during the biannually ESCAP Congress. Partners can benefit from ESCAP’s extensive European network of CAP professionals. To ensure ESCAP can contribute actively and meet the necessary time commitments, a budget allocation of 0.5% of the total grant is requested. Collaboration requests, including a clear project description and the proposed role and budget for ESCAP, should be sent to editor@escap.eu as early as possible, and no later than one month before the final submission deadline. The ESCAP academic division will review the collaboration request and advise the ESCAP board on the decision.
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ECAP Journal - June 2026 issue
Editorial: Go digital or die ? Reflections on digital device use and digital mental health interventions in youths by Maria Melchior & Camille Davisse-Paturet, 01 June 2026
“Digital technologies have transformed the way we live, learn, interact, and entertain ourselves. Children and adolescents of the 21st century are digital natives, and increasingly experience a world that is no longer either virtual or analog, but often both. This digitalization creates great opportunities but also raises health risks. … How do we reconcile public health messages relative to harmful and beneficial uses of digital tools by children and adolescents? How do we promote uses of digital technologies that can relieve psychological distress, provide psychosocial support, or teach cognitive skills, without promoting a replacement of in-person interactions by digital substitutes? There are no simple answers to these complex questions, but a lot of thinking ahead of us.”
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.
