The issues of involuntary treatment in psychiatry have been the subject of a new round of legal, ethical and clinical discussions both within the professional community and in society since the publication of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities authoritative interpretations. The symposium will present general data on the involuntary admission procedures of patients with mental disorders in 40 European countries, but also focus on what changes early career psychiatrists can make in their clinical practice to implement alternatives to coercion in mental health care, as well as efficacy of interventions to reduce coercive treatment in mental health services. The symposium will also focus on the less studied topic of involuntary hospitalization in children or adolescents, and will attempt to answer the question of whether the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about changes in the use of involuntary treatment in psychiatry. As an outcome of the symposium, attendees will become more familiar with both the general aspects of current involuntary psychiatric practice in Europe and those practical changes that clinicians can implement in their practice to continue the efforts to reduce coercion in psychiatry.

" Early career psychiatrists often face the choice of devoting their careers to clinical practice or to academic practice. Meanwhile, in recent years, more and more educational projects have been initiated by early career psychiatrists, which makes improving scholarly communication skills especially important, and will attract new early career psychiatrists to the Academia. While the benefits of working in the clinic are obvious, this symposium will focus on the aspects of research and academic practice that every early career psychiatrist who turns to the academy faces. The symposium will successively cover several important aspects of building an academic career in psychiatry - the productive use of available resources; the challenges an early career psychiatrist may face in academia and how to deal with them; useful tips on how to begin to prepare a publication; and the importance of building a network of academic contacts and using digital technologies for doing cutting edge research. The knowledge gained in this symposium will greatly improve the basic training of early career psychiatrists with little experience in research, and will hopefully inspire those who are still inexperienced to begin their own research."