TY - JOUR
T1 - JAACAP's Role in Advancing the Science of Pediatric Mental Health and Promoting the Care of Youth and Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Novins, Douglas K.
AU - Althoff, Robert R.
AU - Billingsley, Mary K.
AU - Cortese, Samuele
AU - Drury, Stacy S.
AU - Frazier, Jean A.
AU - Henderson, Schuyler W.
AU - McCauley, Elizabeth
AU - White, Tonya J.H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - As we pen these words, the COVID-19 pandemic is having profound impacts on human society. Based on decades of research, we know that the accompanying illness,1 death,2 social isolation,3 , 4 and malnutrition5 will have deep and lasting impacts on our children and adolescents, their families, and the communities in which they develop. The pandemic is exposing, with terrible clarity, the disparities in human society—racism,6 poverty,7 , 8 domestic violence,9 , 10 and child maltreatment and neglect11—and tragically will likely amplify the negative impacts that each has on child development and mental health.
AB - As we pen these words, the COVID-19 pandemic is having profound impacts on human society. Based on decades of research, we know that the accompanying illness,1 death,2 social isolation,3 , 4 and malnutrition5 will have deep and lasting impacts on our children and adolescents, their families, and the communities in which they develop. The pandemic is exposing, with terrible clarity, the disparities in human society—racism,6 poverty,7 , 8 domestic violence,9 , 10 and child maltreatment and neglect11—and tragically will likely amplify the negative impacts that each has on child development and mental health.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084616996&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.05.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.05.001
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 32389695
AN - SCOPUS:85084616996
SN - 0890-8567
VL - 59
SP - 686
EP - 688
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
IS - 6
ER -