In this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Tami D. Benton, Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, and Wanjiku F.M. Njoroge bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Bringing the Village to The Children: Addressing the Crisis of Children’s Mental Health. In this biannual AACAP presidential issue, top experts in the field discuss how child and adolescent psychiatrists can leverage strategic partnerships to shape the future of children’s mental health by advancing policy, practice, and research in health care innovation; promoting school and community-based interventions and community partnerships; and reimagining their role from clinicians and researchers to public health experts.
Contains 18 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the declaring of the children’s mental health crisis and the role of health care partnerships to address children’s mental health; strengthening support for community mental health programs through partnerships and collective impact; collaborative approaches to universalize suicide prevention; workforce initiatives to advance health equity and diverse representation; media and innovation; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on the crisis of children’s mental health, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
The Declaration of the National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: It Takes a Village Widening Our Lane: How Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists Can Embrace the Full Spectrum of Mental Health Creating an Equitable System of Care for Minoritized Youth and Addressing Systemic and Structural Barriers Using Advocacy to Address the Crisis of Children’s Mental Health Serving Families Where They Live: Supporting Multigenerational Health During Infancy and Early Childhood Through Community-centered Approaches Engaging Youth Voice and Family Partnerships to Improve Children’s Mental Health Outcomes Strengthening Support for Community Mental Health Programs Through Partnership and Collective Impact Re-Imagining Child Welfare to Support Children and Families The Role of School-based Interventions and Communities for Mental Health Prevention, Tiered Levels of Care, and Access to Care Advancing Youth Justice: The Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist’s Role Mobilizing Meaning: Religion and Spirituality Among Future Generations Suicide Prevention Takes a Nation: Collaborative Approaches to Universalize Suicide Prevention Workforce Initiatives to Advance Health Equity and Diverse Representation Preparing Trainees for Public Health Advocacy Through Community Partnerships Financing the “Village”: Establishing a Sustainable Financial System for Child Behavioral Health Identifying Precise Targets to Improve Child Mental Health Care Equity: Leveraging Advances in Clinical Research Informatics and Lived Experience Peril and Promise: Teens, Tech, and America’s Mental Health Crisis Global Mental Health and Immigrant Families