Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you that the deadline for submissions of an abstract for a poster has been extended till 1^st of August 2013. Click here to submit your abstract electronically online. Click here for the guidelines regarding the submission of abstracts. And you can download the Preliminary Program here.

The 8^th European Congress on Violence is a WPA (World Psychiatric Association) co-sponsored meeting and coorganized by the European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group (EViPRG). The 8^th European Congress on Violence will focus strongly on new clinically relevant and practically useful interdisciplinary interventions aiming at treating and reducing violent behaviour of psychiatric patients, forensic patients and severe problem behaviour in persons with intellectually disability. Hence the overall congress theme new "horizons in interdisciplinary approaches". Click here for the subthemes.

Approval of accreditation will be requested again from the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) for the award Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credits, and from the International Council of Nurses (ICN) for the award of International Continuing Nursing Education Credits (ICNECs).

All submissions will be acknowledged on receipt. If you do not receive an acknowledgement within a week, please contact us, and we will verify if we have received your submission.

Abstracts must be submitted in English, and also the conference language will be English for all papers, posters, workshops or symposiums.

Schedule

• Submission extended deadline for posters only till 1^st of August
• Notification of acceptance as soon as possible after the submission
• Registration for full congress before 1^st of September 2013

We hope to welcome you in Ghent in October 2013!

Prof. Henk Nijman, Ass. Prof. Tom Palmstierna, Dr. Roger Almvik & Mr. Bart Thomas. Chairs of the Scientific Committee of the 8^th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry. Mr. Nico Oud, MNSc, N.Adm, RN. Congress Organiser.