Stronger Together
April 15-16, 2024 Washington, DC
AACAP-PAC supports congressional candidates who support advancing children’s mental health and the child and adolescent psychiatry profession.
For 40 years, the AACAP Committee on Quality Issues (CQI) has been charged with the development of documents intended to inform clinical practice in child and adolescent psychiatry. Since the early Practice Parameters series, the development process for these documents has become increasingly rigorous and transparent, and for the new Clinical Practice Guideline series, the development process is consistent with recommendations of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) regarding "trustworthy guidelines".
Practice Parameters (now discontinued), authored by topic experts and the CQI, were intended to inform the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry in a wide variety of topic areas. By standard convention, Practice Parameters, Clinical Practice Guidelines, and Clinical Updates become outdated after 5 years, as they have not been updated to reflect current knowledge and practice, and as such should be accessed for historical purposes only.
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ADHD
Antipsychotics
Anxiety
Autism
Bipolar Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Depression
Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Eating Disorders
Intellectual Disability
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
PTSD
Schizophrenia
Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
Tics / Tourette’s
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Clinical Updates, authored by AACAP Committees and the CQI, are intended to address three topic areas: the psychiatric assessment and management of specific populations of children and adolescents; the psychiatric assessment and management of children and adolescents in specific settings; and the application of specific psychiatric techniques to children and adolescents. The Clinical Update development process can be accessed here.
Aggression
Child Welfare
Collaborative Care
Cultural Competency
Disaster Preparedness
ECT
Enuresis
Family Assessment
Forensic Assessment or Forensic/Correctional Psychiatry
LGBTQ Youth
Mental Health Mobile Applications
Mindfulness-Based Interventions
Nonpharmacological Interventions
Pharmacology
Physically Ill Children
Psychotherapy
Psychotropic Medication
School Consultation
Screening & Counseling
Sexual Abuse
Suicide
Systems of Care
Telepsychiatry
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