2024
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ECAP Journal - October 2024 issue
Editorial: Early psychopathology: a persistently misunderstood and overlooked issue?
By Franziska Schlensog-Schuster and Michael Kaess
The diagnosis of mental disorders in early childhood is a complex issue that encompasses a range of potential outcomes. These outcomes can vary considerably and may include normal psychological development, the emergence of minor developmental imbalances, the transient manifestation of symptoms, or the development of psychopathology. ... There is currently no reliable data available on the prevalence of mental disorders in early childhood. Furthermore, it is noteworthy, that some countries do not document or record mental health (problems) of children under the age of 10, as though they were nonexistent or insignificant.
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.
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Our 21st International Congress under the theme of "Beyond nature & nurture" will take place from 29 June to 1 July 2025 in Strasbourg, France. Abstract submission is now open and we are calling for
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.
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