july, 2017
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Event Details
This is the annual conference of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP). The main theme of the ESCAP 2017 Congress is Transition. The ESCAP programme committee has compiled a top quality line-up of keynote and state-of-the-art speakers and symposia around this important theme. View the preliminary programme schedule for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Keynote speakers:
- Tony Charman (UK) – Tracking the emergence early autism symptoms in at-risk infants: possibilities for prodromal intervention?
- Jörg Fegert (Germany) – Care of traumatized children in youth welfare systems.
- Patrick McGorry (Australia) – Transitioning to 21st century mental health care: early intervention for young people with emerging mental disorders.
- Johannes Hebebrand (Germany) – Pre- and postnatal screening: implications for child and adolescent psychiatry.
- Paul Hoff (Switzerland) – Conceptual transitions: what will happen to the concept of mental disorders in the 21st century?
- Patrick Luyten (Belgium/UK) – A radical shift in the treatment of child and adolescent depression Perhaps the time is ripe?
- Maria Melchior (France) – Social inequalities in children’s mental health – from observation to prevention.
- Dieter Wolke (UK) – Peers and siblings matter for mental health: long term consequences of bullying.
State of the art speakers:
- Henrikje Klasen (Netherlands), Milica Pejovic Milovancevic (Serbia), Dimitris Anagnostopoulos (Greece) – ESCAP for mental health of child and adolescent refugees: facing the challenge together, reducing risk and promoting healthy development
- Celso Arango (Spain) – Future of neurodevelopmental and neuroprotective psychopharmacology in child and adolescents psychiatry
- Silvia Brem (Switzerland) – From the preschool child to the adult: Neuronal basis of developmental dyslexia
- Martin Debbané (Switzerland/UK) – Where mind meets brain: the adolescent body and its implication in psychopathology
- Bruno Falissard (France) – Why child and adolescent psychiatrist are repulsed by public health and why they are so wrong
- Christine Freitag (Germany) – Adolescent female conduct disorder – state-of-the-art and new findings
- Joaquín Fuentes (Spain) – Autism spectrum disorder: supporting people to transit through science, lives and services
- Bernard Golse and Sylvain Missonnier (France) – Joint therapies parents/baby and interactive guidance: a move from a model to another one (differential indications, change factors)
- Raquel Gür (USA) – Early Course and Intervention in Youth At-Risk for Psychosis: results from longitudinal studies
- Pieter Hoekstra (Netherlands) – Tourette syndrome: an update on newest findings on treatment and pathophysiology
- Martin Holtmann (Germany) – Complementary approaches for the treatment of children and adolescents with ADHD; with particular address on neurofeedback
- Carmen Moreno (Spain) – First-episode psychosis in children and adolescents: research advances and opportunities for intervention
- Antonio Persico (Italy) – New medication based on genetic research in the field of autism, but also ADHD, anxiety, etc.
- Norman Sartorius (Switzerland) – Comorbidity of mental and physical illness: a major problem for the medicine of the 21st Century
- Marie Schaer (Switzerland) – Translate latest findings in autism research to clinical practice
- Frauke Schultze-Lutter (Switzerland) – Identification of clinical high risk of psychoses: special requirements in children and adolescents
- Robert Vermeiren (Netherlands) – Effect of the change on the Netherland health system organization
- Panos Vostanis (Greece/UK) – Where are all they coming from? Child mental health response to the refugee crisis
All plenary sessions will be translated simulaneously into German and French.
Toutes les séances plénières seront traduites simultanément en allemand et en français.
Alle Plenarsitzungen werden simultan in Deutsch und Französisch übersetzt werden.
Symposia
An impressive number of symposia is being prepared for the ESCAP 2017 Congress. Some of the highlights are:
- School drop-out / modern families and child & adolescent psychiatry, organized by professor Norman Sartorius (Switzerland).
- Transition from adolescence to adulthood: The challenges to establish “transition psychiatry”, by professor Jörg M. Fegert, dr Iris Hauth, professor Tobias Banaschewski and professor Harald J. Freyberger.
- Synapsy Autism symposium: Understanding mechanisms of change in children with ASD who receive intervention.
- Synapsy Autism symposium: Early intervention in preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the Swiss experience in 5 university centers.
- Synapsy 22q11DS symposium: Neuroimaging markers of psychosis in 22q11DS.
- Synapsy 22q11DS symposium: Overview of the behavioral phenotype and available clinical interventions.
- Synapsy 22q11DS symposium: Social impairments across the psychosis continuum.
The programme highlights will be regularly updated on this web page. A complete overview of all lectures, symposia and workshops will soon be available.