PD Ulrike M.E. Schulze | University of Ulm, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy | Germany
Prof. Diane Purper-Ouakil | CHRU Montpellier-Saint Eloi, Médecine Psychologique de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, Montpellier | France
As transition in psychiatry poses an international challenge, prior to an improvement and the implementation of sustainable recommendations and guidelines a detailed inventory concerning operational practice and needs is necessary. Another focus has to be laid on dissemination activities, as such concrete requirements of interdisciplinary cooperation and the sustainability of agreements. In the context of the EU-funded MILESTONE project on transition which is in progress, essential parts of the basic work have been carried out to date. While results of a nationwide survey point to obviously existing critical gaps between current operational practice and best practice guidelines of care, the issue of transition within the training of professionals has to be referred as still inconsistent and insufficiently considered. Based on the results of a trans-European survey, recommendations towards the different aspects of support and training models for transition will be formulated. Finally and in accordance with a concrete example developed by the two German psychiatric expert societies, the preparation of a common European key issue paper of professionals will be encouraged - with a view on a mutually well-conceived and coordinated establishing of “transition psychiatry”.