ECAP Journal

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Pieter J. Hoekstra

June 2024 issue

Editorial by Veit Roessner, Anne Uhlmann, Stefan Ehrlich and Robert Waltereit: Taming the chaos ?! – part 2: limitations of using eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) to tackle the complexity in psychotherapy of children and adolescents

In line with their previous editorial on “eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)” it remains essential to combine artificial intelligence with human expertise in order to achieve interpretable results. XAI will provide us with novel and important tools and we should be open to use them as both clinicians and researchers. However, comprehending the complex realities in child and adolescent psychiatry cannot be outsourced. We excel in our work best when we combine being sophisticated and well trained clinical scientists, learning from patients, colleagues and the academic literature, while being always keen to make use of the most recent techniques.

Past issues

Here, we document the last six years of the ECAP journal. On the official ECAP page on Springer, you can find articles that date back to the first volume, published in 1992.

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ESCAP Communications

Each year, ESCAP team up with ECAP to generate ESCAP Communication articles. These articles aim to address specific and current issues that are impacting the ESCAP community, from refugee children to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Online first articles

Overview of Online First Articles in the ECAP journal, not (yet) assigned to an issue.

Official ESCAP Journal

European Child + Adolescent Psychiatry Journal

ECAP ('European Child + Adolescent Psychiatry') is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to child and adolescent psychiatry. In August 2011 ECAP has been designated as the official ESCAP Journal and issues regularly close off with two pages of ESCAP communication.

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The ECAP Journal aims to further a broad understanding of psychopathology in children and adolescents. Empirical research is its foundation, and clinical relevance is its hallmark. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry welcomes in particular papers covering neuropsychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, neuroimaging, pharmacology, and related fields of interest. Contributions are encouraged from all around the world.

Editor-in-chief and chairman of the editorial board is Professor Pieter J. Hoekstra (The Netherlands).

Impact Factor 2023: 6.0, Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters. Frequency: twelve issues per year, including special issues to hot topics. The journal publishes the following article types:

Original Articles
Reviews
Brief reports
Letters to the Editor
ESCAP Communications

To learn more about the ECAP Journal, visit the journal's homepage or access the tables of content and abstracts of the current and past issues. Further questions with regards to the journal European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry will be answered by Patricia Wiley (Publishing Editor, patricia.wiley@springernature.com ).

Read about the origins of this journal (February 2017 editorial by Helmut Remschmidt and Philip Graham on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of ECAP).

Information for authors

Submitting your article

Submitting articles to the European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Journal can only be done through the journal's publishers, Springer.

These two buttons will direct you to their dedicated ECAP submission and more information about author instructions webpages and how to create an account to submit your article.