TED TALKS MEET PERSPECTIVE:(CLINICAL)IDEAS WORTH SPREADING

• Published in: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 55; no. 10; p. S41
• Main Author: Martin, Andrés
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Elsevier BV 01-10-2016
• Subjects: Assistants; Celebrities; Child & adolescent psychiatry; Clinical medicine; Clinical research; Dissemination; Entertainment; Mental disorders; Mental health; Paging; Power; Psychiatrists; Psychiatry; Reminder effects; Scholarly publishing; Spreading; Technology; Therapeutic applications; United States > US
• ISSN: 0890-8567; 1527-5418

Objectives: The goal of this session is to bring Clinical Perspectives and the eponymous JAACAP column "into life" by casting content from recent and forthcoming installments of the series into the popular TED (technology, entertainment, design) Talk format. Clinical Perspectives are pithy articles in JAACAP that address novel, unexplored, overlooked, or unusual aspects of everyday practice. For over two decades, Clinical Perspectives have been bringing to light aspects of our work that are relevant and practical and that provide a reminder of the excitement and promise of our profession. Methods: Following the format first established at AACAP's 61st Annual Meeting (October 21-26, 2014, San Diego, CA, USA), this will be a 120-minute session co-moderated by JAACAP Editor-in-Chief Andres Martin and Assistant Editor for Clinical Perspectives Laura Prager. The authors of five published or forthcoming Clinical Perspectives will each present a 15-minute TED Talk of their respective articles. The session will end with overarching concluding remarks and an invitation for new submissions. Results: The order of speakers will be as follows: 1) Craigan Usher on "Paging Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists: Reviewing the Developmental Canon"; 2) Stuart Copans on his cartoons in a long career in CAP; 3) David Rettew on "Celebrity Psychiatrists and Science: Time to Close the Gap"; 4) Matia Finn-Stevenson on "The Transformative Power of the Dog: The Growing Use of Canine Assistants in Therapeutic Interventions and School Settings"; and 5) Denis Embry on McDermott on a new prevention-based paradigm of child mental health. Conclusions: CAP is grounded in solid clinical practice, and it is from this clinical substrate that important research questions and hypotheses first arise. Clinical Perspectives provides a forum to consider and revisit clinical phenomena anew, a platform from which to reclaim the excitement that first drew us into our chosen field. The TED Talk format, which has been so successful in the global dissemination of TED ideas, can be successfully borrowed to reveal that CAP does indeed have (clinical) "ideas worth spreading."