"Building" the Twenty-First Century Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.

Authors

Deepika Shaligram
Bettina Bernstein, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic MedicineFollow
Sandra M DeJong
Anthony P S Guerrero
Jeffrey Hunt
Mandar Jadhav
Say How Ong
Paul Robertson
Asilay Seker
Norbert Skokauskas

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1-2022

Abstract

About 20% of children in the United States (US) have a diagnosed mental health disorder; half of them did not receive treatment from a mental health professional pre-pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing mental health burden and healthcare disparities. Improving pediatric mental health outcomes positively impacts educational and judicial systems, family functioning, and future employment, and decreases caregiving costs. But access to care has been partly limited by the workforce shortage in child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP). We describe some possible solutions to this workforce shortage including introducing innovative shortened training pathways and tapping global trends in CAP training that efficiently address population needs.

Publication Title

Academic Psychiatry

Volume

46

Issue

1

First Page

75

Last Page

81

PubMed ID

35119681

Comments

This article was published in Academic Psychiatry, Volume 46, Issue 1, pages 75-81.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-022-01594-4.

Copyright © 2022 Academic Psychiatry.

Recommended Citation

Shaligram, Deepika; Bernstein, Bettina; DeJong, Sandra M; Guerrero, Anthony P S; Hunt, Jeffrey; Jadhav, Mandar; Ong, Say How; Robertson, Paul; Seker, Asilay; and Skokauskas, Norbert, ""Building" the Twenty-First Century Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist." (2022). PCOM Scholarly Papers. 2170.
https://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/scholarly_papers/2170