The JAACAP family of journals aims to promote the well-being of children and families globally by publishing original research and papers of theoretical, scientific, and clinical relevance to the field of child and adolescent mental health.

JAACAP Open is a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry that aims to provide outstanding peer review and efficient dissemination of articles to our global readership. Building on the values and prominence of its companion journal, JAACAP Open promotes dissemination of scientific work from a broad array of original hypothesis-testing and hypothesis-generating, and mixed methods investigations, meta-analyses, reviews, and pre-registered reports in domains relevant to child, adolescent, and family mental health such as basic, translational, clinical, epidemiologic, health policy, population science, and global health research.