Hats Off: Journal Awards 2018

Every summer, your president, your editor, and last years' Journal award winners are challenged with selecting 3 new award-winning articles. To be eligible, articles must epitomize scholarly excellence in a key area of our discipline and have been published in the Journal between July of the previous year and June of the current year by a lead or senior author who is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and an American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) member. Each of the Academy's prestigious Journal Awards acknowledges the need for more and better mental health research and funding and for improving mental health in children and adolescents. By supporting and collaborating with other organizations to provide these awards, the Academy encourages innovative research that contributes to improving the care and treatment of young people. Here, Novins et al detail the 2018 AACAP awards.