Welcome! The Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology is Division 53 of the American Psychological Association. Our purpose is to encourage the development and advancement of clinical child and adolescent psychology through integration of its scientific and professional aspects.
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Our mission is to serve children, adolescents and families with the best possible clinical care based on psychological science. SCCAP strives to integrate scientific and professional aspects of clinical child and adolescent psychology, in that it promotes scientific inquiry, training, and clinical practice related to serving children and their families.Quick Links
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Award Announcement – Abidin Early Career Award and Grant
The Richard “Dick” Abidin Early Career Award and Grant is intended to recognize an early career psychologist who has established a program of empirical research that has had a major impact on the field’s understanding of psychopathology, prevention, assessment, treatment, ...
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Updated Training Program Database
The Education and Standards Committee is proud to be able to provide its members with a database of child and adolescent focused programs ...
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List of resources for Hurricane and Flood
Dear Colleagues, A group of students has been working with the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology listserv to build a list of tips and suggestions for getting ready for the storm, staying safe during it, and regrouping after ...
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Practice Corner: Predicting Future Suicide Attempts Among Adolescent and Emerging Adult Psychiatric Emergency Patients
Many studies focus on the suicidality of adolescents in a general outpatient setting, while this study targets a subset of young people who present to the hospital for a psychiatric emergency. Not only does this article examine risk factors associated ...
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Website Maintenance
Certain functions on sccap53.org will be frozen while we upgrade the site's servers. The anticipated dates are between August 22nd and mid-September. Members will not be able to access the Forums, post new jobs in the Career Center, or renew ...
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Miami Child Mental Health Conference – Save the Date!
SCCAP IS PROUD TO CO-SPONSOR THE MICAMH CONFERENCE The Miami International Child and Adolescent Mental Health (MICAMH) Conference (formerly known as the Niagara-in-Miami Conference) is a leading interdisciplinary conference presenting state-of-the-art, evidence-based prevention and treatments for mental health and educational problems in children ...
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Psychology and Ethics: Strengthening Diverse Relationships Across Psychology 9/14/2018
his webinar will provide a basis application of the APA Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct to specific ethical dilemmas in research and practice involving diverse populations. The information will be useful in better understanding how to engage in multicultural ...
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SSCP Continuing Education Task Force
The above link is part of an initiative to report Continuing Education programs that fail to fully meet APA’s Standards and Criteria for Approval of Sponsors of Continuing Education for Psychologists, despite the sponsors of these CE programs having APA ...
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2018 SCCAP Award and Grant Recipients
2018 Award and Grant Reciptients ...
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Career Spotlight: Erin Hambrick, Ph.D.
Erin Hambrick, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri – Kansas City ...
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Practice Corner: Disseminating Evidence-Based Practices for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Web-Based Initiative.
This article describes the SCCAP’s efforts to increase dissemination of EBPs for youth via a web-based initiative (INDICES). The authors outline practical recommendations for youth-serving professionals to capitalize on the benefits of INDICES in their work with youth and families ...
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Call for Papers: Special issue of Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice
This special issue will examine the available research on potentially harmful therapies, broadly defined. Such treatments encompass interventions or therapist styles that are harmful to many who receive them across a variety of target problems, as well as harmful treatments ...
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JCCAP Future Directions Forum (June 28th-29th, 2019; Washington, DC)
Held annually in June in Washington, DC, the Forum is the premier, gala science event specifically designed to meet the needs of early career scientists ...
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APA Elections 2018 (Updated)
APA 2018 Elections ...
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Recording Available Online: Applying to Clinical Internships: Insider Tips for Maximizing Your Success
If you missed the live webinar, you can now view a full recording on sccap53.org. Click here to view. Webinar Overview: The pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship can be one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of a psychologist’s career ...
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Future Directions Forum (FDF) Remarks
Remarks given by Andres De Los Reyes, Ph.D. at the 2018 Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (JCCAP) Future Directions Forum (FDF). http://jccapfuturedirectionsforum.weebly.com/ ...
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Student Mentorship Program
SCCAP’s mentorship program aims to consistently develop future leaders in the field of psychology who will strive to uphold the values of scientific excellence and a commitment to the well-being of children and adolescents across a variety of research and ...
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2018 Professional Development Series
Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Professional Development Series Serving the community of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, teachers, pediatricians, public health and all those dedicated to improving the mental health of children, adolescents and families. Life-long learning made easy ...
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Psychometrics of the Child PTSD Symptom Scale for DSM-5 for Trauma-Exposed Children and Adolescents
This article describes two newly validated versions of the Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS) that can be administered quickly to reliably screen for probable PTSD diagnosis ...
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InBalance, Volume 34, Issue 2, Summer 2018, COR Report Supplement
The APA Council of Representatives update, written by Council representatives Mary Fristad and Timothy Cavell, is included in the summer 2018 issue of InBalance ...
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