No Health Without Mental Health – European Clinical Psychology Takes Responsibility


Letter to the Editor | Commentary

No Health Without Mental Health – European Clinical
Psychology Takes Responsibility
1st European Congress on Clinical Psychology and
Psychological Treatment in Dresden, Germany, October 31 –
November 2, 2019

Katja Beesdo-Baum a, Tanja Endrass a, Jürgen Hoyer a, Corinna Jacobi a, Philipp Kanske a

[a] Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2019, Vol. 1(1), Article e34220, https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v1i1.34220

Published (VoR): 2019-03-29

Corresponding Author: Philipp Kanske, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität
Dresden, Chemnitzer Str. 46, 01187 Dresden, Phone +49 (0)351 463-42225, Fax +49 (0)351 463-36984. E-mail:
philipp.kanske@tu-dresden.de

The European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment
(EACLPT) was founded in 2017 with the goal of promoting European collaborations on
research and education about mental health problems as well as their treatment. In 2019,
the association’s first congress will take place to foster such collaborations from October
31st to November 2nd in Dresden, Germany. It will be the first international meeting in
the field of clinical psychology at a European level.

The conference theme “No Health without Mental Health - European Clinical Psy‐
chology Takes Responsibility” expresses our goal of moving mental health into societal
focus. Mental disorders are among the most debilitating conditions and clinical psycholo‐
gy offers a wide range of preventive and therapeutic interventions. The discussion of
these, as well as underlying etiological models, will be at the heart of the conference.
Keynote speakers include Claudi Bockting, Susan Bögels (University of Amsterdam), Da‐
vid Clark (University of Oxford), Stefan Hofmann (Boston University) and Maria Karekla
(University of Cyprus).

We invite submissions for symposia and poster presentations on the full range of clin‐
ical psychological research: diagnostics and classification, psychological and psychobio‐
logical mechanisms, psychological treatments, prevention and rehabilitation. We particu‐
larly encourage early career researchers to join the conference. Targeted pre-conference
workshops, mentoring and financial support can be offered.

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International License, CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction, provided the original work is properly cited.

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The conference will be a unique chance to discuss current challenges for mental
health in Europe and initiate collaborations and joint projects with colleagues from all
over the continent. We look forward to seeing you in Dresden!

For details on the conference and registration visit:
www.clinicalpsychologycongress2019.eu

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