Almost a quarter has passed since I visited this platform. There’s no better time than the festival of Diwali to reconnect when we illuminate our hearts. Wishing everyone a joyous Diwali filled with moments of positivity, and well being and good health! 🪔

Children and teens don't have the luxury of waiting years for us to protect them from the potential harms of social media. My new Advisory outlines the steps we can take TODAY to mitigate the risks to their #MentalHealth : surgeongeneral.gov/ymh-social-med…

#mentalhealth
#SUD

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Howard Liu, MD MBA Victor Pereira-Sanchez, MD, PhD 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇸🗽 Jessi Gold MD MS Candida Fink MD she/her Miranda van Tilburg John Ackerman Jeff Shahidullah Arya Soman, MD (she/her) Child & Adol Psych Med Students & Residents Victor Armstrong, MSW Umbereen S Nehal, MD, MPH Barbara Robles Ramamurthy, MD Lipi Roy, MD, MPH, FASAM Adam J. Sagot, D.O., FAPA (He/Him) ⚕ Solome Tibebu Rasu Shrestha MD MBA Petros Levounis, MD, MA Arpan Waghray Dr Nagina Khan

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Major and Persistent Depressive Disorders. #JAACAP #mentalhealth #AACAP American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month! You can show your support by wearing Lime Green all month long!

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#MentalHealthAwareness

Earth 🌏 day! Let’s make a pledge to care for our earth and our future generation - kids! It’s time to prioritize kids #mentalhealth and #Wellbeing .

Javeed Sukhera MD PhD Howard Liu, MD MBA Barbara Robles Ramamurthy, MD Ginger Lerner-Wren Miranda van Tilburg Candida Fink MD she/her Dr. Ellen Fink-Samnick James Rachal MD @MelissaMaras

Join IACAPAP 's webinar on World Infant, Child, and Adolescent Mental Health Day ( #WICAMHD ). Topics include 'Earthquake's Traumatization of Children and Adolescents on Multiple Levels,' and more.
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“The longer you aren’t accepted someplace, then how do you feel about yourself? You are developing that inside sense of who you are. That’s a really powerful message. Something needs to be done for these youth.” - Dr. Sandra Fritsch, AACAP Member

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On #WorldHealthDay , we want to emphasize the importance of #mentalhealth and well-being for everyone, including young people, and recommit to our mission of promoting the healthy development of children, adolescents, and families.

#HealthForAll #MentalHealthMatters #psychtweet

Happy World Health Day! Remember your mental health is health!!

We honor #autismacceptancemonth by celebrating diversity and practicing inclusion and acceptance.
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April is autism awareness month! We are now seeing increased prevalence of 1 in 36 kids and it affects all communities.
Don’t just be aware, be informed..

Check out:
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry : aacap.org/aacap/Families…
general: autismspeaks.org
Professional: autism-insar.org

After yet another tragedy, we offer our resource library on #gunsandviolence to aid children, families, and communities as they cope with this traumatic event.bit.ly/40cP4Su

#Nashville

Our parent's #medicationguide for #ADHD is now available in Spanish! Click the link below to access it.
#MentalHealthMatters

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If we rely on cookie cutter tools without clincal context, the likelihood of missing #depression diagnosis is high.

The psychosocial, cultural contexts must be included in multiple inputs for diagnostic formulation.
#mentalhealthishealth #healthequity news-yahoo-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/news.yahoo…

To those who matched this week - congratulations!
- Be curious
- Be humble
- Be hungry to learn
- Be and advocate
- Look ahead but also look up!

Most importantly have fun!

If you matched in CAP/Psych #CAPtweet #Psychtwitter community is here!

Pic : my curious kids