Thanks to Irina Ibraghimova and the LRC Network I have just learned about this new online IACAPAP Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. It looks very impressive; it is free to download and use offline; and it includes PowerPoint slides for teaching. Furthermore the publication is *open-access*. And it includes a quote from HIFA on its title page. Congratulations to the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions for their generous contribution to child and adolescent mental health.

(By contrast, we have been trying unsuccessfully for several years to persuade the Royal College of Psychiatrists to make their publication Where There is No Psychiatrist freely available to all. This book is still needed as it is specifically for primary health workers in low-resource settings, yet ironically it is out of reach to most of those who would benefit from it, thereby failing to benefit the millions of people worldwide whose mental health depends on such health workers.)

You can freely access and download all chapters and PPTs of the new textbook here: http://iacapap.org/iacapap-textbook-of-child-and-adolescent-mental-health

Comments on IACAPAP textbook:

“A work that rivals standard textbooks in scope; takes full advantage of its online format to include an array of color pictures, graphics, and video links; and gives voice to a medley of specialists, patients, and commentators from Amsterdam to Ankara, Beijing to Berlin…”

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

“Each chapter is scholarly written, clinically oriented and of immense relevance to the practice of child and adolescent mental health… Some striking features set this work apart from traditional textbooks.”

Australasian Psychiatry

With best wishes,

Neil

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