Care setting overview
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
BH-CAPDevelopmentally informed psychiatric assessment and treatment that integrates the young person’s perspective with family, school, medical, cultural, and community context.
- Care model
- Developmentally informed outpatient specialty care
- Typical pace
- Scheduled evaluations and follow-up with urgent pathways when safety or function changes
- Population
- Children, adolescents, transitional-age youth, and their families or caregivers
Common presentations
- Anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms, and self-harm
- ADHD, learning concerns, disruptive behavior, and school impairment
- Eating, sleep, substance-related, developmental, and emerging psychotic or bipolar presentations
PMHNP priorities
- Interpret symptoms in developmental and family context
- Seek youth, caregiver, school, and medical collateral with appropriate consent
- Address assent, confidentiality, safety, medication monitoring, and functional goals
Care team
PMHNPs, child and adolescent psychiatrists, therapists, pediatricians, nurses, social workers, school professionals, psychologists, and family support partners