The Summer Treatment Program SIG Updates

The Summer Treatment Program SIG Updates

By Katie Hart, PhD & Sarah Tannenbaum, PsyD, ABPP
Co-Chairs, STP SIG

Summer! Summer! Summer! We love summer and all the excitement it brings for our programs. We hope those of you who ran an STP had a successful season and are feeling ready for back to school. Before you know it, we will all be back to summer planning. If you are like us, you think about summer all year long.

Our goals for this fall are to increase subscribers to our listserv and increase connections between STP communities. We hope you take advantage of the rich exchange of information between our members about best ways to prepare for your STP. If you have a question or have opportunities to share, please feel welcome to post them. We also plan to organize quarterly outreach to members around common topics that come up in gearing up for summer.  For more information about our SIG, including how to join (and access the listserv) visit our SCCAP website.

Of special note, Evidence Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health is publishing a special issue on STPs, which is even more meaningful this year in the wake of STP Trailblazer Dr. William E. Pelham, Jr.’s tragic death. A few of the papers have already been published online and are available on the journal’s homepage. Please check them out!

We are planning to have a meeting of STP directors during the ADHD SIG pre-conference meeting at ABCT. If you will be in Philadelphia, please join us. The pre-conference meeting is scheduled for November 14th, 9am-4:30pm.

For those of you interested in joining, the primary goal of the STP SIG is to provide a professional forum that supports clinicians, researchers, students/trainees, and administrators in the successful implementation of STPs. We invite you to join our listserv and share emerging or promising practices and interventions that can enhance the STP by increasing access, promoting equity, increasing diversity, improving training practices for the next generation of child mental health practitioners, and incorporating more family/stakeholder feedback and voice into intervention strategies.

As we have said before, an STP takes a village, and we are here for you! Please join us in connecting around the world through this program that has changed our lives and so many others. We welcome all your feedback, questions, comments, and insights about STPs! Let’s keep STPs and Dr. Pelham’s legacy going.