Towards Integration and Impact: Clinical Psychology Takes Action for Mental Health in Europe Editorial Towards Integration and Impact: Clinical Psychology Takes Action for Mental Health in Europe Tanja Endrass a, Philipp Kanske ab [a] Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. [b] Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2019, Vol. 1(4), Article e49194, https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v1i4.49194 Published (VoR): 2019-12-17 Corresponding Author: Tanja Endrass, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Psychology, Insititute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Chair of Addiction Research, 01062 Dresden, Germany. Phone +49 351 463 32460, Fax +49 351 463 39830. E-mail: tanja.endrass@tu-dresden.de From October 31 to November 2, 2019, the first conference of the new European Associa‐ tion of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment (EACLIPT) took place at Tech‐ nische Universität Dresden, Germany (Beesdo-Baum et al., 2019). It was a historic mo‐ ment that brought together clinical psychologists from many different regions of the world. About 300 researchers and psychotherapists discussed the most recent develop‐ ments in clinical psychology, possibilities for outreach, collaboration across countries, improvement of therapy delivery and the science-policy dialogue. With their inspiring presentations, they brought to life one of the main goals of EACLIPT: fostering exchange among clinical psychologists from all over Europe (Andersson, 2019). The five renowned keynote speakers reflected the diversity of topics at #EACLIPT2019: Claudi Bockting (University of Amsterdam) called for more engagement with European politicians to raise awareness for mental health and the efficacy of psychological treatments. Present‐ ing the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies program (IAPT; Clark, 2018), David Clark (University of Oxford) demonstrated that such engagement can be extremely fruit‐ ful. New developments in psychotherapy were presented by Susan Bögels (University of Amsterdam) on mindfulness in families and by Maria Karekla (University of Cyprus) on e-mental-health tools. Stefan Hofmann (Boston University) integrated different novel ap‐ proaches in his talk on Modern Process-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The scientific program included symposia and posters on novel developments in the field of mechanisms underlying mental disorders, epidemiology, prevention, diagnostics, psychotherapeutic treatment, and methods. Thus, the full spectrum of clinical psycholo‐ gy and psychological intervention was represented at the conference. The program also 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. https://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.32872/cpe.v1i4.49194&domain=pdf&date_stamp=2019-12-17 https://cpe.psychopen.eu/ https://www.psychopen.eu/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ included three stimulating panel discussions on current topics of clinical psychology. The first discussion addressed the theme of the conference “No Health without Mental Health” and focused on how to move forward in research as well as on how clinical psy‐ chology can contribute to European initiatives. The discussion on "Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Training across Europe" addressed the problem of immense heterogeneity in national regulations of clinical psychology and psychological treatment. The differen‐ ces across European countries pose problems for collaborative research initiatives and exchange in education; potential solutions were discussed (Laireiter & Weise, 2019). "Challenges and Innovations for Psychotherapy" was the topic of the final panel which focused on transdiagnostic research strategies as well as new innovative mechanism- based interventions and online therapies. Although we can only transmit a brief idea of the rich panel discussions, we can subsume that they covered highly relevant topics and stimulated reflections about the current situation in clinical psychology, and brought to‐ gether knowledge, experiences and insights into future perspectives by professionals from diverse fields and different countries. Figure 1. Panel Discussion "No health without mental health", Discussants: Tanja Endrass, Philipp Kanske, Stefan Hofmann, Claudi Bockting, Agnieszka Popiel, Martin grosse Holtforth. Photo and copyright by Michael Höfler, published under a CC-BY 4.0 license. Besides the official scientific program, additional pre- and post-conference workshops were held on “Psychopathology and the Social Brain” (Philipp Kanske and Jan Haaker, funded by Die Junge Akademie), “Suicide Prevention in Germany” (Susanne Knappe, fun‐ ded by the Federal Ministry for Health), “Ubiquity - New Perspectives on Experienced Traumata” (Philipp Kanske and Miriam Akkermann, funded by Die Junge Akademie), and an Early Career Research Workshop (Lara Maliske and Susanne Knappe, supported Towards Integration and Impact 2 Clinical Psychology in Europe 2019, Vol.1(4), Article e49194 https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v1i4.49194 https://www.psychopen.eu/ by Springer Nature). During the members meeting, Claudi Bockting was elected as the new president of EACLIPT. With her motivation for more political engagement she will push for increasing awareness for mental health at the European level. Finally, we would like to highlight the great posters presented at the conference and congratulate the two young researchers who were awarded the first EACLIPT poster prize: Marie-Christin Atzor (Poster title: “Tell me something good! The influence of experience reports on atti‐ tude towards psychotherapy”, University of Marburg, Germany) and Marike van Vugt (Poster title: “Using computational process of depressive rumination to predict cognitive deficits”, University of Groningen, Netherlands; funded by Wiley). Figure 2. Postersession at the EACLIPT conference. Endrass & Kanske 3 Clinical Psychology in Europe 2019, Vol.1(4), Article e49194 https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v1i4.49194 https://www.psychopen.eu/ Beyond these specific events, most participants will keep a great memory of the stimulat‐ ing and warm ambience of this meeting. People were standing together, engaged in com‐ munication and exchanging ideas, and new projects and collaborations were started. Fi‐ nally, the conference would not have been possible without the great help of our collea‐ gues in the organizing team, Hannah Niermann, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Jürgen Hoyer, and Corinna Jacobi, as well as many other contributors and everyone, who presented their work, making the conference a fantastic start for now yearly meetings of EACLIPT. Funding: Financial support for the conference was granted by the German Academic Exchange Service, the German Research Foundation, and the Technische Universität Dresden. References Andersson, G. (2019). 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