Clinical Practice Guidelines, Clinical Updates, Practice Parameters, Principles of Care and Resource Centers
AACAP Parameters, Principles, and Guidelines are clinical practice guidelines developed by the AACAP Committee on Quality Issues to encourage best practices in child mental health. They are designed to provide clinicians with assessment and treatment recommendations for child and adolescent psychiatric disorders and with principles guiding the general and special assessment of children, adolescents, and their families, and the management of children and adolescents with special mental health needs.
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As states, governmental entities and the health care industry seek to control program costs, they often look to where to eliminate or cut programs. To assist decision-makers in designing high quality programs AACAP has developed information on what principles make up safe, quality care for children and adolescent with mental illnesses.
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AACAP Resource Centers empower consumers through patient education. Each AACAP Resource Center contains consumer-friendly definitions, answers to frequently asked questions, clinical resources, expert videos, and abstracts from the JAACAP, Scientific Proceedings and Facts for Families relevant to each disorder.
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