Children, Youth and Families

• Executive Summary: Report of healthy development from the summit on young children's mental health

• Changing frames and expanding partnerships to promote children's mental health and social/emotional development

• 2012 Annual Report for the Committee on Children, Youth and Families (PDF, 664KB)

• Dr. Keita's July 2011 issue — Twenty-five years of serving children, youth and families

• Psychotropic Medications Report (PDF, 1.2MB)

• Developing Adolescents (PDF, 798KB)

• Advertising and Children

• Early Mental Health Interventions (PDF, 167KB)

• CYF Activity Summary (PDF, 670KB)

Child Welfare

• United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 

• APA Resolution on UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention's Optional Protocols 

• APA Activities at the UN

• Resilience of Refugee Children After War

• Head Start's 11th National Research Conference 

• All Children Matter

• What Do Family Caregivers Do?

• Children, Youth and Families & Socioeconomic Status Fact Sheet 

• APA Interdivisional Task Force on Child and Adolescent Mental Health

• Center for Psychology in Schools and Education

• APA Help Center

• Books From APA

• SAMHSA: Caring for Every Child's Mental Health

• NIMH: Child and Adolescent Mental Health

• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health

• Annie E. Casey Foundation