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Clinical Care and Quality Improvement

Resources for Clinicians and Professionals

Practice Parameters

AACAP Clinical Practice Guidelines, Clinical Updates, Practice Parameters
The AACAP Practice Guidelines, Updates, and Parameters are designed to assist clinicians in providing high quality assessment and treatment for children and adolescents that is consistent with the best available scientific evidence and clinical consensus.

Clinical Topics

Clinical Topics
Resources created by AACAP and its members on a variety of topics designed to give insight to and provide tools for the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry.

Rating Scales

Rating Scales
To assist you with clinical assessments and diagnosis you will find standardized rating scales at your finger tips. This includes AACAP's own CASII and ECSII.

Outcomes and Quality Measures

Principles of Care
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.

Resources for Patients and Families

 

Facts for Families

Facts for Families
The AACAP developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. The AACAP provides this important information as a public service and the Facts for Families may be duplicated and distributed free of charge as long as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is properly credited and no profit is gained from their use.

Parents Med Guide

Parents Medications Guides
The American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry have developed two medication guides, ADHD Parents Medication Guide, and The Use of Medication in Treating Childhood and Adolescent Depression: Information for Patients and Families. These guides are designed to help patients, families, and physicians make informed decisions about obtaining and administering the most appropriate care for a child with ADHD or depression. The guides have been endorsed by many national medical, family and patient advocacy organizations.

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Resource Centers
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.

Additional Resources

Additional Resources
In this section you will find information pertaining to a variety of topics such as working with youth, psychotherapy and seclusion and restraint.

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