AACAP's Strategic Plans to Enhance the Diversity of the Child Psychiatry and Child Mental Health Workforce Across all Mission Areas.

Autor: Brown TR; David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: TashaleeBrown@mednet.ucla.edu., Benton TD; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, HUB - Center for Clinical Collaboration, 3501 Civic Center Bolevard, 12th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA., Ng WYK; Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 3959 Broadway, MSCH 6 North, New York, NY 10032, USA; Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America [Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am] 2024 Jan; Vol. 33 (1), pp. 95-109. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 19.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2023.09.002
Abstrakt: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) promotes the healthy development of children, adolescents, and families through advocacy, education, and research. This requires effectively meeting the mental health needs of historically minoritized communities. A diverse clinician workforce is an essential component of meeting those needs. This article will discuss AACAP's strategic plan for diversifying the workforce, this will be done with 3 main points: promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across all mission area, creating a pipeline of child and adolescent psychiatrists, and monitoring DEI activities and progress on an organizational level.
Competing Interests: Disclosure T.R. Brown, W.Y.K. Ng, and T.D. Benton declare no financial conflicts of interest. There was no funding for this article.
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Databáze: MEDLINE