EPA 2021 Virtual Conference
| LIVE - Symposium: When East Meets West the Treatment of Depression is at its Best | 08:00 | 09:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - EPA Forum: Benchmarking Mental Health in Europe: Quality Indicators for Better Services and Care | 10:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Opening Ceremony | 13:00 | 14:00 | JOIN |
| Course 01: Comorbidities of ADHD Across the Lifespan | 15:00 | 17:00 | JOIN |
| Course 04: Useful Open Science Tools to Do Research in Psychiatry | 15:00 | 17:00 | JOIN |
| Course 02: The ABC of the Clinical-diagnostic Interview | 15:00 | 17:00 | JOIN |
| Course 03: Arsenic and Old Lace: Prescribing Psychotropics in Old Age | 15:00 | 17:00 | JOIN |
| Course 07: Lifestyle Modification for Improved Outcomes in Major Psychiatric Disorders | 17:30 | 19:30 | JOIN |
| Course 05: Psychiatric Management of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) With or Without Psychotherapy | 17:30 | 19:30 | JOIN |
| Course 08: Reshaping Training: Integrating Modern Neuroscience to Prepare Modern Clinical Psychiatrists | 17:30 | 19:30 | JOIN |
| Course 06: Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Violent Patients in General Psychiatry | 17:30 | 19:30 | JOIN |
| The horizon in treatment of schizophrenia: from the onset to the chronic stage - SUPPORTED BY Richter-Recordati | 20:00 | 21:30 | JOIN |
| Management of MDD and TRD: advances in treatment optimisation and digital healthcare - SUPPORTED BY Janssen | 20:00 | 21:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: East Meets West: How did Psychiatric/Mental Health Services Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic? | 08:00 | 09:00 | JOIN |
| Course 09: Depression in Old Age: State of the Art | 09:00 | 11:00 | JOIN |
| Course 10: Early Intervention in Psychosis: Working as a Team and Involving Families | 09:00 | 11:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Psychological and Psychiatric Issues in the Care of Transgender Children Adolescents and Adults: Overcoming Health Care Barriers | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Depression Treatment | 09:00 | 10:05 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Health and Environmental Resilience: Effects of Urbanisation Climate Change and Environmental Determinants on Mental Health | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Genomic and Transcriptome Signatures of Endophenotypes of Major Depressive Disorder: Recent Insights Current Challenges and Future Prospects | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Recent Progress in Women's Mental Health | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Debate: The COVID-19 Pandemic: Is it a Turning Point for e-Health? | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECNP Symposium hosted by the EPA: The Neuroimaging of Pharmacological Effects | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Sunday 11 April: Daily Overview | 10:30 | 11:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Practical Suggestions on the Clinical Ethical and Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Improving Care for Patients with Co-occurring Addictive Disorders Through Personalised and Integrated Addiction Psychiatry | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Psychiatric Genetics: What a European Psychiatrist Should Know in 2021? | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Predicting the Outcomes in Psychosis: Recent Advances in Molecular Profiling Neuroimaging and Machine Learning | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Psychopharmacology During Infections Including COVID-19 | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECP Symposium: Perinatal Psychiatry: Is it All About the Mother? | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Implementing Digital Mental Health Across Europe | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Transdiagnostic Approaches to the Treating Anhedonia in Schizophrenia and Depression | 11:30 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Potential of EEG and ECG Biomarkers as a Treatment Stratification Tool in Depression: Precision Psychiatry or Stratified Psychiatry? | 11:30 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Sunday 11 April: Morning Interviews | 12:30 | 13:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Plenary: Violence Against Women and Mental Health | 13:00 | 14:00 | JOIN |
| Sunday 11 April: Midday Roundup | 14:00 | 14:30 | JOIN |
| Tailoring treatment for depression: a focus on patients with emotional blunting or trauma - SUPPORTED BY Lundbeck | 14:30 | 16:00 | JOIN |
| Meeting the challenges of schizophrenia care during the COVID-19 pandemic - SUPPORTED BY Janssen | 14:30 | 15:30 | JOIN |
| Caring for patients with schizophrenia in the digital era - SUPPORTED BY Angelini Pharma | 14:30 | 16:00 | JOIN |
| Course 12: Clozapine: Chances and Pitfalls | 16:00 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Course 11: Medical Ethics in Psychiatry | 16:00 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Sunday 11 April: EPA Extras | 16:00 | 16:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Preventing the "Hype Hope and Disappointment" Cycle in Early Intervention of Psychosis | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Next Chapters in the Story of Internet-based CBT: Implementation Personalisation and AI-driven Decision Support Tools | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: e-Mental Health and the Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: The Complex Inter-relationships Between Therapeutic Interventions Neuroanatomy and Cognition in Major Psychoses | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Autism Spectrum Disorder: Challenges in the Assessment and Management Across the Lifespan | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECP Symposium: Treatment Against Your Will: Views from the Stakeholders | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Evidence-Based Family Interventions in Perinatal Psychiatry | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Sunday 11 April: Highlights of the Day | 18:00 | 18:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: On a Level Playing Field with Forensic Patients? | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Personalising ECT for Depression | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Recently Proposed Trans-diagnostic Criteria for Apathy: Commonalities and Differences With the Avolition/Apathy Domain of Schizophrenia | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Epigenetic and Metabolic Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity for Personalised Interventions in Neuropsychiatric Disorders | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Social Distancing and Suicide in COVID-19 Age | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECP Symposium: Are You Online? | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - State of the Art: Digital Interventions in Severe Mental Disorders | 18:30 | 19:15 | JOIN |
| Good Parenting: How to Prevent MH Disorders Early | 18:30 | 19:30 | JOIN |
| How to Organize MH Service to Support New Mothers | 18:30 | 19:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - State of the Art: Digital-based Parent Training (DPT) Programmes for Parents of Children with Disruptive Behaviours | 19:15 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Course 13: Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (ECT rTMS tES): Last Evidence for Up-to-Date Daily Practice | 09:00 | 11:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Challenging Stigma Attached to Mental Disorders in Different European Countries: Understanding and Doing Something | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Behavioral Addictions During Social-distancing for the COVID-19 Pandemic | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: The Four Views of the Future of Psychiatry | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Workshop: (Assisted) Suicide in the Elderly | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Advances in the Pathophysiology of Eating Disorders: Implications for Treatment | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECP Workshop: Trauma and Public Mental Health | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Implementing Alternatives to Coercion in Mental Health Care | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Monday 12 April: Daily Overview | 10:30 | 11:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Advancing Community-Based Mental Health Care in Europe: Early Findings and Lessons Learned from the RECOVER-E Project | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Adaptations of the Project ECHO Model of Tele-Education to Address Child Mental Health Disparities Internationally | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Workshop: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women’s Mental Health and Service Delivery: What Have we Learnt? | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Nutritional Psychiatry | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Novel Pharmacotherapeutic Strategies for Regaining Control over Alcohol Intake in Alcohol Use Disorder | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - EPA EAN and EFPA Symposium: You Can Tell a Good Workman by His Tools: The Instruments of Psychiatrists Psychologists and Neurologists. Why so Different? | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Debate: Legalisation of Cannabis: Is it Harmful or is it a Needed Change? | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| How to Fight Against Violence Towards Women | 11:30 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Women as Leaders | 11:30 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Monday 12 April: Morning Interviews | 12:30 | 13:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Plenary: Empathy and Embodied Self: Neural Underpinnings of Interpersonal Relations | 13:00 | 14:00 | JOIN |
| Monday 12 April: Midday Roundup | 14:00 | 14:30 | JOIN |
| Treatment-Resistant Depression - SUPPORTED BY Janssen | 14:30 | 15:15 | JOIN |
| Course 14: Peer Support Workers in Inpatient Mental Health Settings | 16:00 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Course 15: Personalised Psychopharmacotherapy Using Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Genotyping | 16:00 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Monday 12 April: EPA Extras | 16:00 | 16:30 | JOIN |
| Workshop: The European Brain Research Area: A Catalysing Initiative for Brain Research Stakeholders to Streamline Brain Research across Europe | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Suicidal Risk in Bipolar Patients: Vulnerability and Mediators? | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health and Mental Health Professionals: Two Large Longitudinal Studies | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Rational Approaches to Polypharmacy in the Treatment of Schizophrenia | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Best of 2020 : Research that Advanced Psychiatry and Changed our Practice | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - State of the Art: The Clinical Characterisation of the Patient with Primary Psychosis Aimed at Personalisation of Management | 16:30 | 17:15 | JOIN |
| The Less Expected Consequences of the COVID Pandemic | 16:30 | 17:30 | JOIN |
| Mindfulness & Compassion: Indications for Use in Psychiatry and Public Health | 16:30 | 17:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - State of the Art: Targets and Outcomes of Psychotherapies for Mental Disorders | 17:15 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Monday 12 April: Highlights of the Day | 18:00 | 18:30 | JOIN |
| Course 16: Collaborative Internet-based Research in Psychiatry: an Introductory Course by Early-career Psychiatrists | 18:30 | 20:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Physician Aid-in Dying and Mental Disorders | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: COVID-19 Pandemia and the Demented Patients in Nursing Homes | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: The “Forgotten” Psychiatric Syndromes | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: The Collaborative Outcomes Study on Health and Functioning During Infection Times (COH-FIT): Results in Adults and Youth From Over 130 Countries | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Workshop: Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Masterclass | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECP Workshop: What Should Early Career Psychiatrists Know? | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Consequences of COVID-19 Outbreak on Mental Health | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Youth Mental Health Now: Focus on Prevention Intervention and Outcomes | 20:30 | 22:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: New Perspectives on Bipolar Disorder | 20:30 | 22:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Update on the Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic | 20:30 | 22:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Early Intervention in Psychoses: Assessment and Treatment to Improve Functional Outcome | 20:30 | 22:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Epigenetics in Mental Disorders | 20:30 | 22:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Debate: Should Schizoaffective Disorder be Diagnosed Cross-Sectionally (ICD-11) instead of Longitudinally (DSM-5)? | 20:30 | 22:00 | JOIN |
| Course 19: A Third Wave CBT Universal Protocol and Its Application for Therapy and for a Resilience Prevention Intervention in the Community | 09:00 | 11:00 | JOIN |
| Course 17: Brief Motivational Interviewing Intervention in the Emergency Room: How to Engage Quickly Patients with Addictive Disorders | 09:00 | 11:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Disentangling the Role of Risk and Protective Factors in Developmental Trajectories Leading to Mental Disorders | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium with the European Institute for Women's Health: Mental Health of Women: What Can we do to Improve it? | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Integrating Real World Evidence and Mobile Technology to Reduce Treatment Gaps in Mental Healthcare: Lessons from COVID-19 | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Improving Real-life Functioning in People with Schizophrenia: From Assessment to Integrated Treatment Plans | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECP Debate: Mental Health Care has Radically Changed with the Pandemic | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - NPA Symposium: COVID-19 Pandemic and Psychiatry in Europe: Challenges Experiences and Future Perspectives from Different European Countries | 09:00 | 10:30 | JOIN |
| Tuesday 13 April: Daily Overview | 10:30 | 11:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Medication Deprescribing in Elderly Patients with Mental Disorders: Why When and How? | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Psychiatric Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Severe Mental Illness in the Perinatal Period: Recognising and Managing Risks | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Racism and Discrimination in Mental Health Care of Forcibly Displaced People over the Globe | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECP Symposium: Personalised Psychiatry: Hype or Hope? | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Difficult to Treat Depression | 11:00 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Psychopharmacology in Patients with COVID-19 | 11:30 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Burn Out Among First Line Workers in COVID-19: Is it Preventable at All? | 11:30 | 12:30 | JOIN |
| Tuesday 13 April: Morning Interviews | 12:30 | 13:00 | JOIN |
| Tuesday 13 April: Midday Roundup | 14:00 | 14:30 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Plenary: Charting Mental Disorders from Childhood to Adulthood | 15:00 | 16:00 | JOIN |
| Course 18: How to Write a Scientific Paper | 16:00 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Tuesday 13 April: EPA Extras | 16:00 | 16:30 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Unmet Needs in Modern Psychiatric Practice: a Collaborative Workshop between the Committee on Education and EPA Scientific Sections | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Birth Asphyxia: Is This an Area of Primary Prevention in Schizophrenia? | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Online Education in Suicide Prevention in the Field of Higher Education in Europe | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECP Symposium: Let's Talk About the Pandemic | 16:30 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - State of the Art: Virtual Reality: Everything Psychiatrists Should Know | 16:30 | 17:15 | JOIN |
| LIVE - State of the Art: Personalised Psychiatry and Predictive Modelling: Translational Gimmick or Realistic Way Forward? | 17:15 | 18:00 | JOIN |
| Tuesday 13 April: Highlights of the Day | 18:00 | 18:30 | JOIN |
| Course 20: How to Implement Telemental Health Care in Clinical Psychiatry Settings | 18:30 | 20:30 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia: New Evidences and Future Perspectives in the Digital Era | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: Faster than Time: Serious Mental Illness and Accelerated Biological Aging | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Symposium: Psychosocial Imaging: Disentangling the Interplay Between Environmental Variables and Psychotic Disorders | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| Workshop: A Role for the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF): Advantages and Limitations in the Treatment and Care of Individuals with Mental Health Problems | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - ECP Workshop: Can we Have Your Attention Please? | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |
| LIVE - Symposium: Network Analysis for Personalisation of Treatment: Understanding Links Among Symptoms Risk Factors and Functioning | 18:30 | 20:00 | JOIN |