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Nov 02, 2021

Today the American Psychiatric Association joined “Sound the Alarm for Kids” as a national partner committed to helping raise awareness about the mental health emergency affecting children and adolescents.

“In this pandemic, children and adolescents are faced with many factors detrimental to their mental health. For most, this has meant the isolation of not being in school every day with their peers, and for some, this has meant the loss of family members,” said APA President Vivian Pender, M.D. “With the mental health system already stretched thin, we are joining this important effort to call attention to the national emergency around children’s mental health and urging policymakers to act.”

Nationally:

• Before the pandemic, 1 in 5 children – anyone under age...

Oct 21, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 21, 2021 – With a National Mental Health Emergency declared for our nation's children in light of the pandemic, American Psychiatric Association Publishing has released the third edition of Dulcan's Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a foundational resource for clinicians in the field. Edited by Mina K. Dulcan, M.D., the new edition includes the most up-to-date research and clinical advances, including expanded chapters on telehealth and working with primary care and subspecialty pediatrics in mental health treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Each chapter has been updated and 12 chapters are entirely new. The textbook offers two completely new chapters on pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry, addressing its history, clinical practice models, consultation strategies and...