The 65th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Advancing Child Psychiatry and Connecting it to the Future
By Dr. Kentaro Kawabe, Conference director-general of the 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Department of Child Psychiatry, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine.
The Japanese Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JSCAP) is a multidisciplinary professional association of child and adolescent psychiatry established in 1960, with 4,398 active members including 2,611 psychiatrists, 413 pediatricians, 783 psychologists, and 269 school teachers. The annual meetings are held around the country every year. The 65th meeting was held in Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan, on October 17-19, 2024, convened by the conference president Shu-ichi Ueno and vice president Fumie Horiuchi (Figure 1). Our theme this year was "Advancing child psychiatry and connecting it to the future." More than 1,800 attendees were welcomed to the conference, including on demand. The preparation period for the annual meeting was relatively long, we had spent around two years preparing for this exciting event. A lot of JSCAP members including clinicians and researchers applied to present various symposia and lectures, as well as oral and poster presentations at the meeting. The number of applications fortunately exceeded our expectations.
Figure 1: The executive committee members of 65th annual meeting and JSCAP
The front row: JSCAP president Prof. Takashi Okada (fourth on the right), conference president Prof. Shui-ichi Ueno (second on the left), conference vice president Prof. Fumie Horiuchi (first on the right), and conference director-general Dr. Kentaro Kawabe (first on the left).
There were 3 invited lectures and 7 academic lectures, 12 symposiums by open recruitment and 9 by committee, 110 oral and 90 poster presentations, and 5 case conferences. For example, the title of one of the invited lectures was “Team Management” by Takeshi Okada, a former manager of the Japanese national soccer team for the World Cup. The symposiums focused on several topics of growing concern in child and adolescent psychiatry including: Eating disorders including Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Substance Abuse, Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Sexual Victimization, Bullying and Suicide. The case conferences were focused on clinical practice lasting two hours for presentation and discussion. Professional child psychiatrists (Dr. Kazuhiko Saito, Dr. Shozo Aoki, Dr. Mari Kasahara, Dr. Futoshi Suzuki, and Dr. Satoshi Oishi) had supervised these sessions and around 200 attendees in each, and all the case conferences were fascinating. On the gala dinner at the second day, the musical performance such as piano, guitar, flute, saxophone, and drums by executive committee members generated a great deal of excitement (Figure 2).
Figure 2: The musicians among the executive committee members opened the performance with a powerful rendition in gala dinner
Figure 3: Closing Ceremony with members of the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Department of Child psychiatry, Ehime Graduate Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime Rehabilitation Center for Children, and Ehime University Hospital.
The meeting was successful, we would like to thank to all the attendees, collaborators, especially to the entire staff at the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Department of Child Psychiatry, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime Rehabilitation Center for Children, and Ehime University Hospital (Figure 3). We would like to add that the essence of IACAPAP is packed into this Japanese annual meeting. We actively encourage our members to attend the 27th World Congress of the IACAPAP in Germany in July 2026, and develop partnerships with all member associations of the IACAPAP.
This article represents the view of its author(s) and does not necessarily represent the view of the IACAPAP's bureau or executive committee.
