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ECAP Journal - August 2025 issue
Editorial: Complexity beyond the usual suspects by Julian Koenig
Like no other medical discipline, child and adolescent psychiatry deals with a multiverse of factors contributing to the etiopathology of mental ill-health, its prevention and treatment. Trans-generational effects, somatic comorbidity, and sociocultural specificity in an ever-changing global context are just a few of the phenomena that the present issue highlights.
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.
