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24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S8–S11

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a limited number of patients confirm that ibogaine treatment may

be effective in reducing opiatewithdrawal, but can potentially have

transient cardiac and cerebellar toxicity.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied his declara-

tion of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.799

Symposium: world psychiatry in 2020 – where we

are and where we need to go – Joint symposium

with the WPA

JS09

Social psychiatry in a global

perspective

T. Jamieson-Craig

King’s College London- Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and

Neuroscience, Health Service and Population Research, London,

United Kingdom

Social psychiatry starts from the position that as social animals,

the cause, course and response to treatment of mental health

problems are powerfully determined by the social environment.

For example, childhood trauma within the home and bullying at

school is associated with both internalizing and externalizing dis-

orders and exerts its influence through life-long impacts on the

individual’s ability to form supportive relationships with others,

their self-esteem and their resilience in the face of future adver-

sity. Difficulties forming and sustaining personal relationships are

intensified by the emergence of illness, consequent social exclu-

sion and discrimination that in turn intensifies damaging beliefs

of low self-worth and rejection. In contrast, we have consider-

able evidence for the “therapeutic” value of good relationships,

notably the role of family and social support in the remarkable

resilience shown by those who have come through the most

appalling environmental and personal crises. It is therefore surpris-

ing that the balance of psychiatric therapeutic effort is stubbornly

focused on the individual patient as the problem with less atten-

tion paid to developing and implementing social interventions

targeted at the family and wider social network to prevent and

alleviate mental illness. In this presentation I will argue that

psychiatrists should bemore active in developing and leading inter-

ventions that focus on the social and interpersonal networks of

their patients with illustrations from past and ongoing efforts to

this end.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration

of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.800

Symposium: development of a European training

curriculum on psychiatry – Joint symposium with

hosting NPA

JS10

Psychiatric trainees’ view on a

European curriculum of psychiatry

M. Pinto da Costa

Psychiatry Department of Porto, Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, Porto,

Portugal

The European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) represents

the consensus of psychiatry trainees associations across more than

30 European countries, advocating for the improvement and har-

monization of psychiatry training across Europe. This federation

has as priority to get direct feedback from psychiatry trainees, ana-

lyzing the concerns related to psychiatry and training in Europe,

collaborating with other national and international partners to

translate trainees’ views into action, while offering trainees several

opportunities.

Surveys of psychiatry trainees show that the main concerns around

Europe revolve around differences of duration of training in the

different countries, the discrepancies between the European train-

ing standards, the national programmes and the real experience

of trainees. Likewise, levels of recruitment into psychiatry and

inadequate working conditions also concern trainees, especially

at the current times of economic challenge, where the choice to

migrate abroad is quite frequent. Nevertheless, the involvement

of psychiatry trainees in the development of national programmes

and in the quality assurance of training varies significantly around

Europe.

This presentation will highlight the current differences observed in

the structure, content and duration of psychiatry training programs

in Europe, reporting trainees’ views on a European curriculum of

psychiatry, and exploring mechanisms to evaluate and harmonize

the postgraduate training in Europe.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration

of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.801