If your child needs psychiatric medications, AACAP has your back — and your child's

Abstract

Alarm bells rang through the clinical world when the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ordered an investigation critical of some psychiatric medications for children. The time frame for the assessment was brief, and will be completed by the time this issue comes out. However, as soon as the announcement came out from the HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in February, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) issued a statement that provided reassurance to families.