Acute, Intensive, & Residential Services Special Interest Group Update

Acute, Intensive, & Residential Services Special Interest Group Update

By Jarrod Leffler, PhD, ABPP & Aaron Vaughn, PhD
Co-Chairs, AIRS SIG

Over the past several months, the Acute, Intensive, and Residential Service (AIRS) SIG has welcomed new members and leaders and completed several initiatives. In October, the 2nd special issue focused on acute care settings will be published in Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.  The issue highlights interventions to improve care in acute settings (adapting DBT, implementing measurement-based care), a scoping review of practice in the acute settings, and examining factors related to re-admission and adverse child events.  Within the AIRS SIG, we have provided a number of virtual “coffee hours” to increase dialogue around hot topics including virtual day treatment programs and developing specialty clinics/programs. Our early-career psychologist leaders have created a monthly virtual mentoring meeting to share ideas and learn from each other which has had a meaningful impact! We recently held a Q&A session at APA in the SCCAP suite.  Finally, as the year ends, new elections will be held for leadership positions in the SIG to continue the work that has been started!

For more information about the AIRS SIG, please visit our website here.