Editorial
Forensic child and Adolescent Psychiatry and mental health in Europe
- † Equal contributors
1 VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, PO Box 303, 1115 ZG Duivendrecht, The Netherlands
2 Leiden University, Law School Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
3 University Hospital Ulm, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, Steinhövelst 5, 89075 Ulm, Germany
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2011, 5:20 doi:10.1186/1753-2000-5-20
Published: 29 June 2011First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
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:
