Important dates
2024 Chris Abderhalden Award for Young Researchers in the Field of Aggression in Healthcare
The EViPRG awards the Chris Abderhalden Award for Young Researchers in the Field of Aggression in Healthcare every two years at the European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry. It is awarded to a researcher who shows the greatest potential for a future contribution in this area based on a description of current or recent research work. Applications are peer-reviewed and evaluated in terms of scientific quality and potential impact. The winner is awarded 1200 Euros and their name is published on the EViPRG website and the conference website of the European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry.
7.-8.11.2024 Kraków, Poland ICE Congress Centre
We invite psychiatrists, practitioners, psychiatric mental health nurses, psychologists, health scientists, educators, trainers, researchers, managers, and policymakers engaged in the prevention, management, research into violence and aggression in mental health and intellectual disability settings to submit an abstract and / or attend the 13th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry to be held in 7.-8.11.2024 Kraków, Poland ICE Congress Centre.
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The themes of the congress:
- Epidemiology and nature of violence against staff in mental health
- Epidemiology and nature of violence against patients / victimisation
- Violence prevention, care, and treatment
- Trauma informed practice
- Assessment of risk, prevention, and protective factors
- Humane safe and caring approaches to coercive practices
- Neurobiological and pharmacological interventions
- Psychosocial interventions
- Service users and family perspectives
- Intersectional perspectives (gender, race, culture, and ethnicity)
- Ethical, human rights and legal perspectives
- Sexual offending violence
- Specific populations: forensics
- Specific populations: intellectually disabled / learning disabilities
- Specific populations: children and adolescents
- Specific populations: older persons and those living with dementia
- Specific populations: community and outreach care
- Specific populations: displaced people
- Specific populations: psychiatric patients in emergency services
- Staff training and education
