Child and adolescent psychiatry in Europe

Forensic child and Adolescent Psychiatry and mental health in Europe

Editorial The medical and educational interests of young people who find themselves in the police and justice systems are the main aims of the European Association for Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychology and other involved professions, EFCAP-EU, which was officially founded in 1997. Two years earlier the first youth forensic symposium was held at the ESCAP Congress in Utrecht, ...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research

Research is another key component to our commitment to improving the lives of children and adolescents with severe mental illnesses. We foster a wide and growing range of investigations. Basic genetic and neuroscience research focuses on how the normal brain develops and why and how that development sometimes goes awry. Our clinical researchers are seeking to develop better tools for early, pre...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research

Research is another key component to our commitment to improving the lives of children and adolescents with severe mental illnesses. We foster a wide and growing range of investigations. Basic genetic and neuroscience research focuses on how the normal brain develops and why and how that development sometimes goes awry. Our clinical researchers are seeking to develop better tools for early, pre...

Functional neuroimaging in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Multidisciplinary audit in child and adolescent psychiatry

Recent guidelines recommend that where appro priate, procedures for the development of audit in medicine and professions allied to medicine can be replaced by comprehensive multidisciplinary audit of services. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1990) suggests that clinical audit, involving the work of other staffin the multidisciplinary team, is preferable to purely medical audit. Given the im...