Committee on Ethical Issues
The EPA Committee on Ethical Issues is responsible for giving its contribution to the EPA position statements on ethical subjects (migration, prisons, assisted suicide, psychedelics, transgender, racism), collaborating with the EPA National Psychiatric Associations to promote ethical standards in psychiatric research and care, organising events during the EPA congresses as well as during independent meetings relevant to ethical issues for psychiatry in Europe and actively gathering information through surveys on how ethics in psychiatry is being managed in Europe and elsewhere.
Committee on Ethical Issues Members 2024
![Meryam Schouler-Ocak](https://www.europsy.net/app/uploads/2013/11/Meryam-Schouler-Ocak_Foto-2-175x175.jpg)
Prof. Meryam Schouler-Ocak - Chair
Germany
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Prof. Eka Chkonia
Georgia
![Silvana Galderisi](https://www.europsy.net/app/uploads/2019/01/silvana-g.jpg)
Prof. Silvana Galderisi
Italy
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Dr. Luís Madeira
Portugal
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Dr. Sofie Bäärnhielm
Sweden
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Dr. Mariana Pinto da Costa
UK
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Prof. Thomas Pollmächer
Germany
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Prof. Jerzy Samochowiec
Poland
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Prof. Sam Tyano
Israël
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Prof. Simavi Vahip
Türkiye
Activities
The EPA Committee on Ethical Issues is conducting the following activities:
- Participation in lectures, interactive seminars or courses during National Psychiatric Associations’ local conferences
- Organisation of Ethical CME Courses during EPA European Congresses of Psychiatry
- Creation and dissemination of the EPA Code of Ethics
- Publications:
- “Compulsory admissions of patients with mental disorders: State of the art on ethical and legislative aspects in 40 European countries“, European Psychiatry Journal, 63 (1), e82, 1–9”
- In June 2022, the EPA and the Committee on Ethical Issues issued a statement and call for action to raise awareness on the mental health consequences of the war in Ukraine: “The war in Ukraine: Raising the attention for mental health consequences and call for action“
- Surveys:
- Survey on Ethics in Psychiatric Practice to collect information from inpatient treatment settings of individual wards in psychiatric hospitals Europe-wide.
- Online Webinars on Ethical Principles and Dilemmas in Psychiatry