Families and Youth
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Facts For Families

AACAP's Facts for Families provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. 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.

             
   

 

 
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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. 

 
   

 

 
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Resource Libraries

AACAP has created Resource Libraries for parents, patients, and clinicians to help with the impact of relevant issues such as COVID-19, natural disastres, war, and anti-racism..

 

 
   

 

 
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Parents’ Medication Guides

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) have developed Parents’ Medication Guides to help individuals make informed decisions about treating mental disorders in children and adolescents. 

 

 
   

 

 
CAP Finder  

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (CAP) Finder

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Web site includes a convenient, online research tool called the “Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Finder,” which is designed to help parents and other adults who are seeking psychiatric care for their children to locate psychiatrists who have reported to AACAP that they are providers of psychiatric care for children and adolescents.

 

 
 

The information on this website should not be taken as medical advice, which can only be given to you by your personal health care professionals.