Abstract
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, containing eight papers from all over Europe. Other aims of EFCAP are: to improve forensic assessment and treatment of children and adolescents in the justice system, as well as of their families to improve facilities for these young people to facilitate joint international research, and to promote international training and education. EFCAP-EU is a federation of some officially founded national EFCAP’s like in Finland, Switzerland and The Netherlands, and of working groups in other countries like Germany (Arbeitsgemeinschaft), United Kingdom (unit of the Royal College of Psychiatrists), Italy, Portugal, Spain, Hungary and Turkey. Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and France are initializing a national EFCAP. Other countries sympathize with EFCAP without having yet formal organizations: Sweden, Norway, Austria, and Ukraine. EFCAP’s activities focus on: Since 1995 annual conferences organized in collaboration with EAPL, ESCAP, IALMH; since 2008 biannual EFCAP-congresses on its own: 2008 Amsterdam, 2010 Basel, 2012 Berlin; Educational exchange: Finnish and British colleagues came to Holland, Dutch colleagues went to the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany; Student projects: Dutch student-trainees in Italy, Spain and UK, a German student in The Netherlands Phd-projects: Dutch phd-student in Germany and UK; PhD-ceremonies in Belgium, Norway and Sweden; Finnish research in Belgium and Holland; Swiss PhDproject with Germany and The Netherlands; Practice experiences exchange: Russia, Ukraine. Striking and topical themes at the EFCAP 2010 Basel Congress were focusing on specific groups like children and adolescents with characteristics of psychopathy, offenders of very young age, juvenile sex offenders and girls in the justice system. There were quite a few presentations on neurobiological research topics, on intercultural issues and on risk assessment and management in juveniles. What is more, practice presentations were given: individual interventions, family therapies, restoration and mediation. In addition there were also presentations on policy and legislation. The Basel Congress was opened by an overview of what is going on in the countries represented in the board. A summary is given here below.
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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
- Educational exchange: Finnish and British colleagues came to Holland, Dutch colleagues went to the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany;
The findings revealed that only few neighbourhood differences had an impact on individual and parental risk factors but individual and parental risk factors can differ between ethnic groups
Summary
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. Striking and topical themes at the EFCAP 2010 Basel Congress were focusing on specific groups like children and adolescents with characteristics of psychopathy, offenders of very young age, juvenile sex offenders and girls in the justice system.
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