European Psychiatry - Volume 33 - March 2016

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