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Page Background European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S14–S17

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24th European Congress of Psychiatry

Early career psychiatrists programme

Conversations – the political and social mission

of psychiatry

EECP 01

The political and social mission of

psychiatry

S. Priebe

Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary – University

of London, London, United Kingdom

Psychiatry is based on values and scientific evidence. The presen-

tation will argue that both bases come with a social and political

mission.

The values require a commitment to help those in need of support,

which cannot be fully achieved without social and political action.

The scientific evidence points to the central role of societal fac-

tors, such as inequality and poverty, for the development of mental

disorders. Influencing these factors requires political decisions.

It will be concluded that taking up the social and political mission

is a moral imperative for both psychiatrists as a professional group

and individual psychiatrists, and may make the profession more

relevant in society, more attractive to medical students, and more

effective in helping patients with mental distress.

The discussion will address the challenges and practical options for

such a mission.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration

of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.807

EFPT/ECPC-EPA Symposium – Identity or

competency: how to train the modern day

psychiatrist

EECP 02

The tension between identity and

competency: Comparing behavioural

and constructionist approaches to

professional formation

A. Brittlebank

The Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, United Kingdom

Contemporary approaches to medical education emphasize the

importance of doctors in training demonstrating the acquisition

of competencies. This approach to educating doctors has been

criticized on a number of grounds, not least because a solely

behavioural focus risks trivializing medical professionalism. An

alternative approach is to look at the formation of professional

identity as a legitimate goal of training.

In this presentation, I will describe the behavioural and construc-

tionist approaches to medical education and their implications for

psychiatry training. I will make a plea for psychiatry training to

renegotiate the balance between the two approaches.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration

of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.808

EECP 03

Should all psychiatrists be skilled to

practice psychotherapy?

T. Gargot (Master de sciences cognitives)

1 ,

, E. Sonmez

2

1

Service de pédopsychiatrie, école normale supérieure, hôpital de la

Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

2

Marmara University Pendik Training and Research Hospital,

Psychiatry, Istanbul, Turkey

Corresponding author.

Psychiatrists have a unique place in the spectrum of mental

health services, as being able to integrate psychotherapy and

pharmacotherapy in clinical practice. It is through psychother-

apy training that a trainee gains optimal communicative skills and

competence in establishing therapeutic alliance with a patient. It

helps developing empathic understanding, which is very impor-

tant for a good collaboration and enable understanding, diagnostic

and treatment. It improves trainees’ own insight. All are these

fundamental aspects of a biopsychosocial approach of psychia-

try.

In many countries psychiatry trainees have a positive attitude

towards psychotherapy during their training. Moreover, patients

often prefer and adhere to combined psychotherapy and med-

ication than split-care treatments. Research in psychotherapy

provides ample evidence that these treatments are effective. The

UEMS considers psychotherapy education as mandatory. EFPT

advocates that all trainees must gain competence in at least one

recognized form of psychotherapy and have a basic knowledge

for other forms. Altogether, there is a consensus among all actors

of mental health services that psychotherapy training is essential

and should be improved. Yet, it is still far from being a priority

in psychiatric training and is subdued by biological training and

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