Welcome

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organising Committee we warmly greet you on the International Conference sponsored by the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ESCAP, and organised jointly together with the Hungarian Association for Child Neurology and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The main theme of the conference is the improvement of the quality of life for children. As we all know, psychiatric disorders are those that – besides the sociocultural conditions and effects of organic diseases – can influence the quality of life for children and young people in the most negative way. The human rights of children and young people with mental ill and/or learning disabilities must be taken seriously.

Every intervention that evaluates mental conditions and contexts, or makes an effort to improve mental health, simultaneously brings changes in the quality of life. Defining the concept of quality of life is both a considerable task and challenge. This task includes the necessity to devise and develop a range of instruments that can allow us to examine, evaluate and compare the quality of life of children and adolescents across different countries. This would be putting into practice the improvement of human rights in the day to lives of these children. It is essential to know which preventive and therapeutic interventions have the greatest positive effect on the quality of life in the field of psychiatric, neurological and other diseases prevalent in children and young people.

During the conference we will have opportunity to extend considerably our knowledge about the quality of life of children, the aethiopathogenesis and therapy of ADHD, Pervasive developmental disorders, Tic disorders as well as the function of the different Child Mental Health Services all over Europe.

Over the last 50 years Hungary has been on a journey of a great social change and now is a member of the European Union. Budapest, which lies on the two banks of the Danube is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. We hope that beside of the scientific value of the conference you will enjoy your stay in our capital and the social events organised by us would be a pleasure for you. It’s a great pleasure to see you in our Conference which could contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of children and young people.

Tuula Tamminen Conference co-President President of ESCAP

Agnes Vetró Conference co- President

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