4.6 Co-Occurring Medical Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

The goal of this session is to review articles chosen by AACAP's Lifelong Learning Committee highlighting topics important for child and adolescent psychiatrists in the integrated management of patients with co-occurring medical and mental health issues. Important topics include the following: 1) eating disorders; 2) hormonal contraception; 3) sports-related concussion; 4) delirium in pediatric critical care; 5) autoimmune encephalitis; and 6) PANS. 5) Child psychiatrists must be familiar with the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune encephalitis, because they may be the initial evaluators of children presenting with symptoms otherwise misconstrued as purely mental and may follow these patients longitudinally outside of the acute phase of illness. [Extracted from the article]