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ECAP Journal - January 2025 issue
Editorial: Youths’ mental health care in the 21st century: too much or too little?
Maria Melchior & Camille Davisse-Paturet
Considering the current global political, economic and environmental context, many children and adolescents will need mental health support in upcoming years, in Europe as well as in other parts of the world. It is time to think creatively about the ways in which different types of care can be devised, evaluated and broadly implemented, in order to address complex needs of youths with psychiatric disorders as well as those who experience more mundane symptoms of psychological distress which can nevertheless impact their social functioning, academics, and future prospects.
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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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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