Here you can explore our updated collaborations, partnerships, and joint initiatives with organisations, researchers, and professionals across Europe and beyond. These collaborations help strengthen knowledge exchange, research, education, and best practice within child and adolescent forensic mental health and youth justice.
Collaborations
GIRAF (Group of International Researchers in Adolescent Forensics) is a sustainable, transdisciplinary, international research community. GIRAF focuses on children and young people who face, make, or take the highest levels of risk of violence and are (at risk of being) deprived of their liberty.
These young people have had a range of adverse childhood experiences, currently suffer from mental and/or physical health problems and they often belong to a group that has experienced racialisation, marginalisation, and exclusion.
GIRAF bridges gaps across jurisdictions, between young people, practitioners, policy makers and academics, across disciplines, between early career and senior professionals, and the often split, secure care systems.
GIRAF members from academia, policy and practice regularly meet and talk to share ideas, practice and research, informally and internationally, to stimulate debate, share understanding and set up international research projects.
The International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions (ISSBA) is an international scientific society dedicated to advancing research, education, and professional collaboration in the field of behavioral addictions. Bringing together researchers, clinicians, educators, and other professionals from around the world, ISSBA promotes the exchange of knowledge and the development of evidence-based approaches to understanding, preventing, assessing, and treating behavioral addictions.
ISSBA supports high-quality scientific research, encourages international and interdisciplinary collaboration, and provides educational and training opportunities for professionals working in addiction and mental health. The society also promotes the dissemination of research through scientific publications, conferences, and public engagement, while working with academic institutions, healthcare services, professional organisations, and non-governmental organisations to improve awareness, prevention, and treatment initiatives worldwide.