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New Manual Helps Physicians Diagnose Mental Health of Children
Classification of mental health of children in primary care settings
The American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove, Ill., developed a new mental health classification system for primary care clinicians to facilitate the understanding, coding, treatment and referral of child and adolescent mental health conditions.
Key Results
- The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) completed and published in 1996, The Classification of Child and Adolescent Mental Diagnoses in Primary Care: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Primary Care (DSM-PC) Child and Adolescent Version.
- AAP established a DSM-PC project advisory committee to facilitate the dissemination, training, and implementation of the manual. By the grant's end, it had developed a training module for pediatricians and other primary care clinicians.
- By late 1997, AAP had sold more than 5,000 copies of the manual, mainly to individual physicians.
Funding
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported the project with a grant of $113,359 between August 1992 and July 1996.