Day 1 - Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Nordic and Global Perspectives on Child and Adolescent Mental Health
9:00-9:15 Welcome Address André Sourander & Sonja Gilbert
9:15-9:45 Plenary I Norbert Skokauskas: Global Mental health perspectives
9:45-10:15 Plenary II James Scott: Child maltreatment and the associated outcomes: The Australian Child Maltreatment Study
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 Plenary III Sven Bölte: Psychiatry 2.0 in autism and ADHD – from categorical overfocus to personalized functioning implementing WHO’s ICF system
11:00-11:30 Discussion and reflection
11:30-12:30 Lunch Break
12:30-14:05 Parallel Sessions
14:05-14:50 Plenary IV Keiko Yoshida: Perinatal Mental Health: Perspective of Life Course Psychiatry
14:50-16:00 Coffee & interactive poster session
16.00 Departure to Villa Wolax from Teutori (address: Lemminkäisenkatu 3, Turku) Read more here.
Day 2 - Wednesday, 2 September 2026
Crises, Health Services and Interventions in Mental Health
9:00-9:05 Welcoming words
9:05-9:35 Plenary I Rosanna Comoretto: Large-scale school surveys in adolescent well-being and mental health research: opportunities and methodological challenges
9:35-10:05 Plenary II Psychosocial problems, service barriers, participation and interventions during crises in Nordic countries – findings from NordForsk funded consortium
- Laura Korhonen: Overview of the CrisesSolutions
- Xiao Zhang: Temporal Mental Health Specialist Service Use and COVID-19 related experiences Among Children and
- Young People: Evidence from Register and COVID-19 Survey Data
- Sanna Herkama: Mental wellbeing-related threats among Nordic adolescents - A qualitative cross-country study
- Sonja Gilbert: The development and evaluation of a digital intervention for adolescents
10:05-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-10:50 Plenary III Sigita Lesinskiene: Child and adolescent mental health perspectives in Baltic region in times of the global crises
10:50-11:05 Discussion
11:05-11:55 Parallel sessions round 1
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:55 Plenary IV Andre Sourander & Tiia Ståhlberg: Digital interventions in public mental health
13:55-14:45 Parallel sessions round 2
14:45-15:05 General discussion: Nordic collaboration in intervention research
15:05-15:30 Moa Jederström: Future networking of young researchers in Nordic countries
15:30-15:45 General discussion of NordCAP future and closing remarks
