European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: position statement on mental health of child and adolescent refugees

The ESCAP online forum (http://www.escap.eu/care/position-statement-announcement/escaps-approach/ Web End =http://www.escap.eu/care/ http://www.escap.eu/care/position-statement-announcement/escaps-approach/ Web End =position-statement-announcement/escaps-approach/ ), introduced 6 months ago to openly discuss challenging issues and allow professionals to share their experience, has served as a valuable platform to gather, enrich and * Dimitris C. Anagnostopoulos danagnost@med.uoa.gr Johannes Heberbrand johannes.hebebrand@uni-due.de Stephan Eliez stephan.eliez@etat.ge.ch Maeve B. Doyle MaeveB.Doyle@hse.ie Henrikje Klasen henrikje.klasen@gmail.com Soe Crommen soecrommen@hotmail.com Fusun Cetin Cuhadarolu fusun.cetin@gmail.com Milica Pejovic-Milovancevic milica.pejovic@imh.org.rs Oscar Herreros oherreros@gmail.com Ruud Minderaa r.minderaa@gmail.com Andreas Karwautz andreas.karwautz@meduniwien.ac.at Carl Goran Svedin carl.goran.svedin@liu.se Jean Philippe Raynaud raynaud.jp@chu-toulouse.fr 1 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Schoolof Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany 3 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 4 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Cavan/ Monaghan Mental Health Service, St Davnets Hospital, Roosky, Co. Monaghan, Ireland 5 Medical Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands 6 Flemish Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Antwerp, Belgium 7 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey 8 Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Belgrade University, Belgrade, Serbia 9 Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain 10 European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Antwerp, Belgium 1 3 674 Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry (2016) 25:673676 distribute knowledge for anybody involved in the mental health care for refugee children. [...]of our experience so far, we have worked together to devise an ESCAP position statement calling for action. Within this context, the initial provision of a safe environment to traumatized young refugees should not be taken for granted. [...]even once migrants have settled and formed families, their children, the second-generation migrants, have an increased risk for mental health problems. Financial resources of ever