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ECAP Journal - September 2025 issue
Editorial: Childhood trauma: the elephant in the room in child and adolescent psychiatry by Carmen Moreno, Renzo Abregú-Crespo & María Mayoral
Although the interplay between trauma and psychopathology in childhood and adolescence has been well established, it is frequently overlooked in clinical practice, as it requires consideration of diagnostic complexities and awareness of symptom overlap between trauma-related symptoms and clinical manifestations of other psychiatric disorders. It also poses unique challenges in clinical assessment and treatment provision that confront not only clinicians but also the current organization and provision of mental healthcare for young patients.
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.
