The Handbook of Evidence-Based Inpatient Mental Health Programs for Children and Adolescents is officially in print! Co-edited by Alysha Thompson, PhD and Shannon Simmons, MD, MPH, this multi-year effort reviews multiple aspects of inpatient psychiatric hospital (IPH) and acute mental health services for youth. The book offers insights into program development, implementation, and measurement-based care with chapters describing interventions designed to enhance the well-being of youth and their families who are experiencing a range of mental health concerns. Key topics covered in the book include:

• Developing and constructing the physical environment of an IPH unit.
• Setting and monitoring treatment goals and discharge criteria.
• Equity, diversity, and inclusion considerations in psychiatric inpatient units.
• Program operations and therapy on a psychiatric inpatient unit for youth diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Disaster preparation and impact on inpatient psychiatric care.
• Clinical guidance on managing specific diagnoses including eating disorders, psychosis, mood disorders, and more.

This book is an excellent resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in school psychology, social work, public health, child and adolescent psychiatry, family studies, pediatrics, and all related disciplines. Chapter authors include many current and former faculty, trainees, and staff from the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital, including faculty members Eric Boelter, PhD, BCBA-D, Sheena Friesen, PhD, Connor Gallik, PhD, Kyrill Gurtovenko, PhD, Jack McClellan, MD, Nick Meinhardt, MD, Ravi Ramasamy, MD, Miriam Rubenson, PhD, Sina Shah-Hosseini, MD, and  Eileen Twohy, PhD; current and former trainees China Bolden, PhD, Richelle Clifton, PhD, and Gabrielle Curry, MD; and staff members Jonathan Castro, Sarah Caufield, Sutton Lowry, and Avery Wade. Congratulations too all on a great accomplishment!