14th International IACAPAP Congress
P-A Rydelius and Kari Schleimer
Dear Colleagues:
It is a great pleasure to invite you to the 14th International
Congress of the International Association for Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) which will
be held August 26 in Stockholm. The congress will address the
full range of contemporary research and clinical issues related
to the mental health of children and adolescents under a broad
organizing theme of Trauma and Recovery Care of Children. The
congress organizers view trauma in its broadest sense, including
biological, medical, social and emotional aspects, ranging from
the prenatal period to the adolescent transition into adulthood.
Four central themes have been selected:
Brain and Mind developmental perspectives (developmental biology of the brain and its implications for emotional health)
Family, School, Social network and Support in life of children (the role of family, school and other social networks, and social support in the emotional life of children)
The child in his social context (i.e., being raised within developing countries or metropolitan areas, during [civil war and other] wars or exposure to large scale and individual natural or man-made catastrophes)
Intervention Caring for Children (effective interventions for caring for children and adolescents including the emotional aspects of acute and chronic physical illness).
Every day will open with a IACAPAP lecture from a distinguished international expert on one of these four main themes, followed by invited main sessions that will provide an update on knowledge and opinions within our disciplines. The afternoon will be devoted to symposia, workshops and submitted papers and posters that will address the full range of contemporary research and clinical issues related to the epidemiology, etiology, prevention, care and treatment of mental and emotional disorders and deficiencies of children, adolescents and their families.
The International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions was formed to promote the study, treatment, care and prevention of mental and emotional disorders and deficiencies of children, adolescents and their families through collaboration in research and sharing of clinical knowledge among child psychiatry, psychiatry and the allied professions of psychology, social work, pediatrics, public health, nursing, education, social sciences and other relevant professions. This will guarantee that the congress will be of broad interest to a wide range of professionals.
We hope that you will plan to join us in Stockholm and invite you to submit an abstract of your work for presentation at the Congress.
P-A Rydelius, M.D., Ph.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit
Karolinska Institutet
St. Gšrans Children’s Hospital
SE-112 81 Stockholm
Sweden, Fax +46 8 672 1733
Kari Schleimer, M.D., Ph.D.,
Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Lund University, Malmš
University Hospital, SE-205 02 Malmš
Sweden, Fax +46 40 33 62 53
Pre- and Post-Congress Study Visits
August 2, 12:00 noon - 3:00 p.m. and
August 7, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Study visits will be arranged both on Sunday, August 2nd and Friday, August 7th. At the study visits you will meet out- and in-patient services for child and adolescent psychiatry, in a spectrum ranging from child guidance clinics, consultation and liaison work to day care, 24-hour-units and treatment homes. You will have opportunities to discuss treatment, care and training from different views. Psychodynamic approaches, family treatment, pharmacological aspects, training programs, social support are included as well as the long-time care of pervasive developmental disorders, psychoses, conduct disorders, and alcohol and drug abuse.
In the Stockholm area, child and adolescent psychiatric service to the population is divided into separate in- and out-patient organizations. For in-patient care there are two fully equipped hospital clinics organized in a Northern and a Southern Sector. Parts of the Northern Sector, the University Clinic of the Karolinska Institutet, will in March 1998 be integrated into a new children’s hospital, The Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital. The outpatient organization covers the whole geographic area and consists of about 40 local Child Guidance Clinics, different units for infant psychiatry, etc. The Maria Clinic is a special clinic for alcohol and drug abuse in childhood and adolescence.
The pre-congress study visits on Sunday cover the hospital units. They will start and end at the main entrance of the congress venue (StockholmsMŠssan, Alvsjo). Transportation is by buses.
At the post-congress study visits on Friday, the Child Guidance Organization will be your host. You are given opportunities to visit a local child guidance clinic, a specialized clinic for treatment of sexually abused children and adolescents, a refugee center, a team of consultant psychologists working at maternal and infant health centers, or a mother baby daycare unit. It is also possible to visit the training institute or the administrative center. Information on transport facilities is given at registration.
Registrations for the study visits are to be made on the enclosed registration form. Please note that the different departments only allow a limited number of visitors. Registrations will be treated on a first come, first served basis. Price: SEK 50.
Please mark on the registration form which of the following visits you wish to participate in order of preference (1, 2, etc.). You are welcome to both pre- and post-congress study visits.
Sunday, August 2
Hospital and Treatment Homes
Child psychiatric consultation and liaison work; Treatment of psychotic adolescents; Units for young children; Family care units; Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital; Drugs and alcohol among children and youth; Probationary homes.
Friday, August 7
Child Guidance Organization
Child guidance/outpatient treatment; Treatment for sexual abuse; Refugee center; Maternal and infant health care center; Mother baby daycare unit; Training Institute; Administrative Center.
Stockholm Beauty on Water
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is gracefully set on fourteen separate islands, each with a distinct character and charm of its own. To the east lies the Baltic, and clear brackish water runs throughout the city and downtown areas. To the west lies Lake MŠlaren with its pleasant, sunny beaches.
The first traces of human settlement in the area surrounding the city are very old. The location of Gamla Stan, the Old Town, at the outlet of Lake MŠlaren reflects 13th century military strategy. Gamla Stan was officially founded at this time by Birger Jarl, regent of Sweden. Storkyrkan, the cathedral built in Birger’s time, and the early 18th century Royal Palace are located within walking distance of each other in this, the oldest part of the city. Antique shops, fashion and handicraft boutiques, candy stores and art galleries line the narrow winding cobblestone walkways and lanes. The modern city with its big department stores are only a five-minute walk away, and the quay facing the Royal Palace, where quaint white steamboats depart for tours of one of the loveliest archipelagos on earth, is just as close. There may not be time enough to visit all the islands in this yachtsmen’s paradise, but one isolated, rocky islet or quiet, picturesque bay can sooth the mind and refresh the body.
About the 14th International Congress of IACAPAP in Stockholm, August 1998
Kari Schleimer, M.D., Ph.D.
Arrangements Programme Local Organizing Committee
The main theme of the congress is Trauma and Recovery Care of Children by 21st Century Clinicians. We are close to the next century and it is important to summarize for our younger colleagues in mental health care what we have learned in this century to help them go on, give them directives in their work into the next century. This congress is aiming at recovery after trauma, including all measures that can be taken to achieve this for the benefit of children worldwide.
The local organizing committee has been constituted with respect to gathering all different vocational groups who are working with children and their families, representing child and adolescent psychiatry, child psychology and social work, pediatrics, general psychiatry, care-taking and nursing and special education.
The structure of the four main congress days is that each day has its central theme and will start with a IACAPAP lecture, referring to this central theme, for all delegates in the main hall. The invited lecturer for each day is a well known researcher and expert.
1st day: Brain and mind development perspectives. Invited speaker: Torsten Wiesel, M.D., F.R.S., president of the Rockefeller University in New York, USA. He is a neurobiologist whose pioneering studies have significantly shaped understanding of brain structure, function and development. He received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine together with Dr. David H. Hubel and Dr. Roger Sperry.
2nd day: Family, school, social network and support in life of children. Invited speaker: Urie Bronfenbrenner, Ph.D., professor emeritus of Human Development and Family Studies and of Psychology at Cornell University, New York, USA. His famous theory on the ecology of human development provides a basis for understanding child development from social and cultural perspectives.
3rd day: The child in its social context. Invited speaker: James Garbarino, Ph.D., professor of Human Development & Family Studies, and Director of Family Life Development Centre at Cornell University, New York, USA. He has studied child abuse and is an advisor and scientific expert in criminal and civil cases involving issues of violence and children.
4th day: Intervention Caring for Children. Invited speaker: Sir Michael Rutter, M.D., F.R.S., Honorary Director of MRC Child Psychiatry Unit, London, Great Britain, and Professor of Child Psychiatry. His famous research activities include resilience in relation to stress, developmental links between childhood and adult life, schools as social institutions, reading difficulties, psychiatric genetics, neuropsychiatry, infantile autism and psychiatric epidemiology.
However, one and the same day will not deal with only the central theme of the day but also include appropriate sessions, lectures, and papers from the other central themes to make a suitable mix and keep up the interest for every day during the whole congress. After the main and central IACAPAP lecture, there will be four other main symposia in the morning. After lunch there will be several concurrent symposia, workshops, roundtable discussions and free presentations. Many well known international researchers have accepted to participate in the program that covers a wide range of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology under the main theme, Trauma and Recovery.
Besides IACAPAP lectures, the tradition of an international IACAPAP congress is also to present lectures in the names of two well known former, active members of our association.
The invited Caplan Lecturer is Professor Michele Maury, M.D., professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Montpellier, France. She has great clinical and research experience about infants at risk, premature neonates, infants with diseases, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, etc., and their families. Her team has developed different intervention programs together with the medical and surgical pediatric wards.
The invited Bowlby Lecturer is Professor David Magnusson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has developed basic models for individual behavior, models for and empirical analyses of perceived situations and a holistic-interactionistic perspective on individual development. His IDA project is said to be the single most important longitudinal study of this century.
The evening programs will start with a Get-Together party on Sunday at the congress hall, open to all delegates with accompanying persons. On Monday evening a reception with a buffet dinner will be hosted by the City of Stockholm and the Stockholm County Council at the Stockholm City Hall. On Tuesday, the Warship Vasa may be visited. On Wednesday, we want to have a proper Congress Dinner with good food, music and dance Ñ in the traditional Swedish way. The last evening, after the final ceremony at the congress, will be open without any prepared program.
Congress delegates will have the opportunity to take part in study visits at hospitals and treatment homes on Sunday before the opening ceremony or in the Child Guidance
Organization on Friday, the day after the congress. A pre-congress tour to Helsinki in Finland will be arranged July 31 - August 2, and post-congress tours to Lapland or the islands of Gotland & Bornholm are also available. They all must be booked by advance registration. Also, social programs for participants and accompanying persons will be arranged in Stockholm, like a City tour, Drottningholm Palace (home of the royal family), Art tour and Old Town walk.
So, all together, we would like to present to you a full program both for the mind and for the heart in a town that is called The Venice of the North, or Beauty on Water Stockholm that in August shows its best side with a nice and warm (not hot) temperature, a long light day where, however, the evenings could be chilly.
Welcome to the 14th International Congress of IACAPAP in Stockholm, Sweden!
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee,
Kari Schleimer, M.D., Ph.D.
Arrangements Chairperson
Vice President of IACAPAP
Stockholm Cultural Capital of Europe 1998
The European Union had many reasons to select Stockholm as Cultural Capital of Europe for 1998!
Stockholm boasts more than 100 theatres, music halls and operas, including Europe’s only theatre still using original sets and props from the 18th Century, the Drottningholm Theatre, which was designated by the UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage. The 91 museums in Stockholm include the startling Vasa Museum housing the world’s best preserved 17th century warship. Nearby is Skansen, the world’s oldest and biggest open-air museum. A reminder of Sweden’s glorious past is the newly-built Gold Room, 23 feet beneath the Museum of National Antiquities. The oldest district of Stockholm, Gamla Stan, is a living museum, with cobbled lanes and dim alleys. Here you find the Parliament, the Stockholm Cathedral and the Royal Palace. Add to this 70 cinemas, cultural boat excursions, festivals and events year round in a city surrounded by clean waters and an archipelago of 24,000 islands.
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