Maastricht ESCAP congress 2022

Maastricht ESCAP Congress: postponed until 19-21 June 2022

Due to the COVID-19 developments and after lengthy and thoughtful considerations, the Dutch local organizing Committee and the Board of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry have decided to postpone the 19^th International Congress of ESCAP, scheduled to take place from 27 – 29 June 2021. The new dates for the 19^th International Congress of ESCAP will be 19 – 21 June 2022.

We extend our best wishes to all of you in this complex and challenging time. We regret not having the opportunity to see each of you in person in 2021, but look forward to gathering again in 2022! Meanwhile, ESCAP are organising a virtual event in 2021, check it out for more information.

The official congress website will be online soon and be regularly updated with information about the postponement, new deadlines and other important information.

The 2022 ESCAP Congress will still be held in Maastricht - in the south of The Netherlands, close to the German and Belgian borders - under the responsibility of the Dutch ESCAP member: the child and adolescent faculty of the NVvP, the Dutch Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The ESCAP 2022 Congress theme in Maastricht will be: ‘Networks in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’.

Manon Hillegers, congress organiser presenting Maastricht 2021

Manon Hillegers, congress organiser presenting about the Maastricht 2022 congress at the last ESCAP congress in Vienna

Some topics to tempt you with

• The brain as a network of neurons

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as a network of mental health professionals

• Children growing up in a network of peers

• The impact of the social media network on youth

•The need for collaboration and sharing knowledge in a European network of CAP

• The value of the community network for families and mentally ill children

• The network of antecedents in the development of mental illness

• Using eHealth applications to reach and treat youth.

• The need to develop, understand and use algorithms in networks of big data

Maastricht congress organiser Manon Hillegers addressed the crowds at the ESCAP Vienna 2019 congress to inform attendees of the next 2022 congress in Maastricht.

More information on the Maastricht conference will be published on this page as soon as the local organizing committee provide it.

Organising Committee: Scientific committee from the Dutch Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Manon Hillegers

Congress President ESCAP 2021

Professor and head of department of child and adolescent psychiatry/psychology at Erasmus MC-Sophia children’s hospital, Rotterdam

Arne Popma

Professor at Amsterdam UMC, loc. Vumc, department of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology

Therese van Amelsvoort

Professor - Personal chair, Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht

Wouter Staal

Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, Radboud Medical Center, Nijmegen

ESCAP Board congress committee

Dimitris Anagnostopoulos

President of ESCAP, Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Stephan Eliez

Past President of ESCAP, Professor and Director of child psychiatry and special education, University of Geneve, Switzerland

Johannes Hebebrand

ESCAP Academic Division lead and ECAP Editor-in-Chief, Professor University Duisberg-Essen, Germany