06/07/2025/
ESSMA team participated in the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) 2025 congress, which took place in Strasbourg, France, from June 29 to July 1.
Our team leader Dr. Judith VAN DER WAERDEN chaired a symposium on early interventions in perinatal mental health to which Dr. Xavier BENAROUS contributed.
Mirna NADDOUR and Camilla SOMMA, a visiting psychiatry resident at the University of Verona, Italy, presented their research work during the posters’ sessions of the congress.
The symposium on early interventions in perinatal mental health, chaired by Dr. Judith VAN DER WAERDEN, highlighted three early intervention programs, distinct yet complementary, illustrating the diversity of approaches and therapeutic targets in this field.
Dr. Xavier BENAROUS presented the characteristics of families referred to a new French home-visiting program in perinatal care.
Prof. Dr. Tina MONTREUIL (McGill University Health Centre; McGill University, Canada) shared a study aimed at determining whether children of mothers who participated in an intervention designed to improve maternal well-being during pregnancy show better cognitive and socio-emotional development at 18 and 36 months.
Dr. Catherine SAINT-GEORGES (Sorbonne University) presented a program for the ultra-early detection of ASD/NDD risk in the first weeks of life, using the PREAUT grid and General Movement Assessment (GMA), with the goal of altering neurodevelopmental trajectories.
Mirna NADDOUR presented her research, conducted under the supervision of Dr. Judith VAN DER WAERDEN, on changes in familly structures over time and their impact on early adolscents’ emotional and behavioral problems, in the French EDEN cohort.
Camilla Somma presented a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis conducted with Gustave MAFFRE MAVIEL, under the supervision of Dr. Maria MELCHIOR, on the role of depression in the relationship between cannabis and suicidal behaviors.
