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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

  • Separating Immigrant Children From Their Families
  • Conversion Therapy
  • Off-Label Prescribing
  • Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
  • Appropriate Use of Psychiatric Medication for Youth in Foster Care
  • 2017

  • Marijuana Legalization
  • Psychologists Prescribing
  • Delivery of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services Through Telepsychiatry
  • 2016

  • Jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court System
  • Transgender Youth in Juvenile Justice and other Correctional Systems
  • Coercive Interventions for Reactive Attachment Disorder
  • Autism and Vaccines
  • Children and Guns
  • 2015

  • Electronic Cigarettes
  • Mandatory Shackling in Juvenile Court Settings
  • 2014

  • Psychotherapy as a Core Competence of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
  • Direct File of Juveniles
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