Behavioral Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence. New Times, New Strategies

Josep Moya Àngels Vives

President of the Organizing Committee President of the FCCSM

What has the Congress contributed?.

• Has permitted give voice to different models and disciplines within a framework of respect and collaborative spirit.
• It has been an intense emotional experience to be able to share with almost five hundred colleagues the pulse of the plural, multidisciplinary, and singular thought of each speaker, filling both rooms (Auditorium and Agora).
• The need has become apparent to share the difficulties and proposals regarding working with children, adolescents, families, schools, primary care professionals, and social services.
• It has provided a space for intense and plural reflection that has made clear the importance of’address behavioral problems in a diverse and committed way, beyond diagnostic labeling, on the part of professionals who bear an ethical responsibility for the current generation and toward future generations.
• In particular, it has also become clear that in the face of such serious situations that occur in our society, such as the August 2017 attacks, Professionally we have felt addressed and we are sensitized far beyond what happens in the office or the department.
• The experience of shared work between the members of the Organizing and Scientific Committees with the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation opens us new opportunities for the creation of spaces for thought, debate, and participation, that allow us to equip ourselves with better instruments for our work.