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Policy Statements

2025

  • Policy Statement on Youth Access to Residential Treatment Facilities
  • Policy Statement on Solitary Confinement in Juvenile Carceral Settings
  • Policy Statement on Transgender Youth in Juvenile Legal and other Correctional Systems
  • Policy Statement on Electroconvulsive Therapy
  • Co-occurring Psychiatric Conditions in Autism Spectrum & Intellectual Development
  • 2024

  • Policy Statement on Mental Health Care for Transition Age Youth
  • Policy Statement on Access to Gender-Affirming Healthcare
  • Policy Statement on Climate Change
  • Policy Statement in Implementation of 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
  • Policy Statement on Psychotherapy as a Core Competence of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
  • 2023

  • Policy Statement on the Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
  • Policy Statement on Prevention of Bullying
  • Policy Statement on Mental Health and Substance Use Parity
  • Policy Statement on Behavioral Healthcare Workforce Shortage
  • Policy Statement on the Jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court System
  • Policy Statement on Vaping and Electronic Cigarettes
  • 2022

  • Policy Statement on Coercive Interventions for Attachment Disorders
  • Policy Statement on Access to Reproductive Health Education
  • Policy Statement on Access to Reproductive Health Services
  • Policy Statement on Autism and Vaccines
  • Policy Statement on Children and Guns
  • Policy Statement on Increased Suicide Among Black Youth in the U.S.
  • 2020

  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment for Youth
  • Clinical Use of Pharmacogenetic Tests in Prescribing Psychotropic Medications for Children and Adol
  • 2019

  • Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents
  • Use of Medical Marijuana in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder for Core Autism
  • Prior Authorization for Psychopharmacology
  • Depression Screening
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Mental Health Screening in Primary Care
  • 2018

  • Off-Label Prescribing
  • Conversion Therapy
  • Separating Immigrant Children From Their Families
  • Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
  • Appropriate Use of Psychiatric Medication for Youth in Foster Care
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