Measurement-Based Care & Diagnosis at AACAP Annual Meeting 2026

145 sessions on measurement-based care & diagnosis · October 26–31, 2026, Atlanta, GA. Compare measurement-based care & diagnosis at other meetings →

Monday, October 26

Tuesday, October 27

Wednesday, October 28

Posters (21)

  • Comparison of Anxiety Symptom Severity and Change Across Treatment Between Parent- and Child-Reported Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) Scores — Paris A. Nix et al.
  • Developmental Visual Spatial Disorder: Initial Evaluation of Criteria for a New Disorder Using Vignettes — Hillary D. Litwin et al.
  • Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) in Adolescents and Adults With Anorexia Nervosa: Developmental Differences in Underlying Constructs — Pablo Del Sol Calderon et al.
  • Burnout in Youth Athletes: Identifying Youth at Risk of Quitting Their Sport Using a Novel Screener — Andrea Murez et al.
  • Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Version of the System of Care Questionnaire — Masaki Kojima et al.
  • Developmental Visual Spatial Disorder: Clinical Utility, Comorbidity, and Accommodations and Service Use/Needs — Prudence W. Fisher et al.
  • Impact of COVID-19 on Child Mental Health Functional Outcomes: A Natural Experiment — Katherine E. Grimes et al.
  • Comorbidity Profiles in Pediatric Integrated Primary Care: Patterns of Mental Health Diagnoses and Their Impact on Care — Xiaotong Li et al.
  • Electronic Intake Questionnaire Increases Access to Care — Leticia J. Sefia et al.
  • Parent Version of the Nationwide Quality of Life Scale (P-NQLS): National Norms and Psychometrics — Yinuo Liu et al.
  • Validating the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) Emotional Control Scale as an Index of Emotional Dysregulation — Athena G. Nooney et al.
  • Exploring Adolescent-Reported Quality of Life in a National Administration of the Nationwide Quality of Life Scale — Elizabeth A. Nienaber et al.
  • Improving Equity in Pediatric Behavioral Health Screening: Age- and Diagnosis-Related Disparities in Clinical Practice — Akshayaa Sriharan et al.
  • Negative Symptoms Dimensions and Their Association With Clinical and Demographic Variables in Adolescents With Schizophrenia — Omar Hanun et al.
  • Examining the Predictive Value of the Early Psychosis Screener-9 in Pediatric Populations — Lena A. Wood et al.
  • Fear of Missing Out Across Developmental Stages: Validation of a Cross-Cultural Measure in a Large Asian Sample — Mayank Gupta et al.
  • Exploring the Interconnectedness of Mental Health Symptoms and Functioning in a Pediatric Clinical Sample: A Network Analysis Approach — Dylan Johnson et al.
  • DMDD, Bipolar Disorder, and Borderline Features in Childhood: Findings From a Naturalistic Sample — Cicek N. Bakir et al.
  • Measuring Nonviolent Discipline in the Population: A Pilot Study in the Dominican Republic — John D. McLennan et al.
  • Psychosis-Related Symptom Dimensions in the Child Behavior Checklist/6-18: Exploratory Factor Analysis in 557 Mexican Children and Adolescents — Andrea Fernanda Guerrero Medrano et al.
  • Parental Psychological Distress and Mental Health Conditions (Kessler-6) and Social-Emotional Screening Among US Children Under 2 Years — Parinita Aroori et al.

Thursday, October 29

Posters (20)

  • Establishing the Validity and Reliability of the Institute of Living Homicide and Violence Assessment Tool — Salma Malik et al.
  • From Screening to Support: Piloting the International Olympic Committee Sport Mental Health Assessment Tool 1 Mental Health Assessment Tool in Collegiate Athletics — Joshua Eric Martin et al.
  • Self-Report of Irritability in Autistic Children and Adolescents: Reliability and Validity — Edmund B. Fanslau III et al.
  • Lonely but Not Isolated: Loneliness Peaks in Transitional-Age Youth Across 13,685 Ohioans — Kevin G. Wu et al.
  • Developmental Stability of Mullen Scales of Early Learning Scores and Their Relationship to Autism Diagnosis — Cheryl Klaiman et al.
  • Shifts in ADHD and Autism Co-Occurrence Following the DSM-5 ’s Release: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis — Maura O'Sullivan et al.
  • Predicting Outpatient Aggression in Adolescents: Comparative Validity of Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents vs School Safety Scale — Drew H. Barzman et al.
  • Distinct Clinical Profiles of Adolescents With ASD and Social Communication Disorder — Seong Hee Park et al.
  • When Documentation Misses Development: Standardizing Age-Appropriate Mental Status Examinations — Laura Handal Abularach et al.
  • Who Gets Diagnosed With Autism Later? Demographic and Psychiatric Correlates of Age at Autism Diagnosis in a Nationwide, Population-Based Cohort — Hadar Sadeh et al.
  • Chronic Irritability Comes Under the Microscope: How Different Is Disruptive Mood Regulation Disorder From Bipolar and Oppositional Disorders? — Maria A. Arias-Pineda et al.
  • Beyond PANDA-monium: Diagnostic Attribution in a Multidisciplinary Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Referral Clinic — Kyle McKenna et al.
  • Relationship Between Psychiatric Symptoms and Quality of Life in Adolescents: A Multidimensional Investigation — Omer Ucur
  • Clinical Predictors of Quality of Life and Parent-Child Rating Discrepancy in a Nationally Representative Sample — Yinuo Liu et al.
  • Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Youth Mental Health Diagnoses: Findings From a Large, 2-Phase, Population-Based Canadian Cohort — Andrew Dissanayake et al.
  • Cumulative Disability-Weighted Burden of Mental Disorders From Childhood to Early Adulthood — Luana T. Resende et al.
  • Validation of an Eye-Vergence–Based Diagnostic Test for ADHD in Children and Adolescents (Ages 7–17) — Paloma Varela et al.
  • Do Eye-Vergence Markers Change After ADHD Treatment? A 12-Month Longitudinal Study Using a Posner-Based Eye-Tracking Paradigm — Paloma Varela et al.
  • Prevalence of Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (Sluggish Cognitive Tempo) in a Sample of Turkish Middle School Students — Dilara Çetinkaya Özdemir et al.
  • Benchmarking AI Safety Guardrails for High-Risk Pediatric Psychiatric Presentations Using the Child and Adolescent Service Intensity Instrument (CASII) — Rahul Tyagi et al.

Friday, October 30

Posters (7)

  • ADHD Assessment Through Objective Measures: POV Glasses and Machine Learning Approach — Hakan Kayış et al.
  • Diagnostic Accuracy of Depression Measures in Children and Adolescents: Preliminary Findings From a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis — Cristian Alcaino et al.
  • Filling the Screening Gap: Preliminary Findings on the Communication Perception Estimate Scale-Pragmatic for Identifying Communication Disorders in School-Age Youth — Miette Ogg et al.
  • Surveying Common Medications and ADHD Symptoms: Potential Mimics — Douglas A. Russell et al.
  • Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Early Behavioral Symptom Trajectories: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Baby Pediatric Symptom Checklist Domains — Vaishnavi Siripurapu et al.
  • Bridging Early Identification and Timely Diagnosis: The Early Childhood Autism Diagnosis Project — Hallie I. Geller
  • Latent Neurocognitive Factors Can Discriminate ADHD in Inpatient Adolescents With or at Risk for Bipolar Disorder — Rasim Somer Diler et al.

Saturday, October 31

  • 09:00–10:30 · Symposium

    Postpandemic Pediatric Mental Health Crisis: Evidence From a National Federated Database

    Isaac Abraham · Molly McVoy · Elizabeth Abraham · Michael Goldberg · Ghaneb Javed

    Symposium presenting findings from a national federated health database on pediatric mental health trends after the pandemic.

    Child & Adolescent

  • 09:30–11:30 · Lecture

    Enhancing Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Outcomes Through an Innovative Measurement-Based Care Initiative

    Claudia Welke

    Describes a measurement-based care initiative aimed at improving outcomes for adolescents with depression and anxiety in intermediate levels of care.

    Child & Adolescent · Depression

  • 09:30–11:30 · Lecture

    Integrating Idiographic and Global Progress Indices Into Measurement-Based Care for a Child Partial Hospitalization Program

    Benjamin Schneider · Galen McNeil

    Covers combining individualized and global progress measures into measurement-based care in a child partial hospitalization program.

    Child & Adolescent

  • 09:30–11:30 · Lecture

    Measurement-Based Care in Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)/ Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs): Improving Outcome Completion and Supporting Recovery-Oriented, Personalized Treatment

    Shikha Verma

    Discusses improving outcome measure completion and personalized, recovery-oriented care in adolescent PHP and IOP settings.

    Child & Adolescent

  • 09:30–11:30 · Lecture

    Integration of Measurement-Based Care (MBC) into Newly Launched Mid-Levels of Care at an Academic Health Center: Lessons Learned From a Teen Intensive Outpatient (T-IOP) and Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program (CA-PHP)

    Christina Laitner · Joanna Quigley

    Shares lessons from implementing measurement-based care in new teen intensive outpatient and child/adolescent partial hospitalization programs at an academic center.

    Child & Adolescent

  • 09:30–11:30 · Symposium

    Innovating for Impact in the Youth Mental Health Crisis: Data-Driven Care in Intermediate Levels of Care Across Academic, Community, and Multi-State Systems

    Joanna Quigley · Claudia Welke · Benjamin Schneider · Galen McNeil · Shikha Verma · Christina Laitner

    Symposium on using data to guide care in intermediate levels of care (such as partial hospital and intensive outpatient programs) for youth, drawing on academic, community and multi-state systems.

    Child & Adolescent · Practice, Policy & Workforce

Posters (6)

  • Measurement-Based Care Outcomes: Evaluating Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents in a Partial Hospitalization Treatment Setting — Kimberly Senko et al.
  • Multicamera Depth Sensing to Objectively Measure Motor Activity in Young Children: Correlation With Parent-Rated Restlessness — Hamidreza Komaki et al.
  • Predictors of Clinical Outcomes Following Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization — Paige Marie Kramer et al.
  • Suicide Risk Screening in Indigenous Youth, a Pilot Study in Guatemala — Laura Sofia Soler Nunez et al.
  • Beyond Average Effects: Generalized Additive Mixed Models Identify Latent Menstrual Cycle Trajectories of Psychiatric Symptoms in High-Risk Adolescents — Ashley Ross et al.
  • Transdiagnostic Psychopathology Factor Predicts Psychiatric and Functional Outcomes From Childhood to Adulthood in a Brazilian Sample — Jônatas Magalhães Santos et al.

Other topics at this meeting

Child & Adolescent 1361Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders 272Diverse & Underserved Populations 231Practice, Policy & Workforce 171Psychotherapy 166Education & Training 156Digital Psychiatry & AI 149ADHD 135Neuroscience & Mechanisms 124PTSD & Trauma 114Suicide & Self-Harm 110Collaborative & Integrated Care 102

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