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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.

• Abstract submission for #ESCAP2025 is now open!
• New ESCAP webinars for healthcare professionals in Ukraine
• ESCAP on air: new podcast is out!
• "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
• 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. 

ESCAP launches webinar series

11/09/24 - ESCAP held the first of a series of Webinars for healthcare professionals in Ukraine. More than 370 participants joined us online – not only child and adolescent psychiatrists, but also family doctors, paediatricians, adult psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers - a very broad, mixed field of participants. The series of webinars is organized in collaboration with the Mental Health Coordination Center of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and UNICEF. Presentations are simultaenously translated into Ukrainian.

For more information and the recording

ESCAP on air - new podcast

In the first episode in this new podcast from the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, "ESCAP on air," the focus is on mental health at the population level, early interventions and collaboration in research with policy makers. We interview Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, and Anna Sofie Kjærgaard Hansen, a specialist and PhD at Aalborg University Hospital. Ford discusses her research on school-based interventions and the importance of involving policymakers, while Hansen shares her insights on service use in psychiatry. 

Listen here