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2008 ASAP Annual Meeting
The 2008 ASAP Annual Meeting will be held
on March 27-30, 2008 at the Boston Waterfront
Hotel, 606 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210, 800-468-3571
Click here for Brochure/Registration Form:
(PDF)
Click here for Exhibitor Prospectus :
(MS-Word):
(PDF)
Summer 2007 Newsletter
is now available here .
PDF membership form now available
The 2006 ASAP membership form is now available as a PDF document. Visit our
membership page
or
download it directly.
(127 KB PDF)
Have You Read Our Mission Statement?
Read it
here.
Have You Read Our
By-Laws?
Read them
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The American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry has served the psychiatric profession since 1967. Focusing on teen, adolescence, and young adult issues, ASAP acts both as a professional network for its members and a specialized community dedicated to education development and advocacy of adolescents and the adolescent psychiatric field.
Membership in ASAP puts psychiatrists in touch with an informed cross-section of the profession from all over North America. There are currently fifteen constituent societies covering the entire continent. These include specific regional societies and a general society-at-large covering all other areas.
Please follow the links below for more information about ASAP and its members and programs.
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Adolescent Psychiatry and the Law
U.S. Supreme Court votes 5-4 in adolescent death penalty case
On March 1, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of Simmons in Roper v. Simmons, a case testing the constitutionality of administration of the death penalty to defendants who were under 18 at the time of their crime. Documents related to this case are below:
ASAP signs onto briefs for appellate court case
ASAP members recently signed onto briefs for Aid for Women v. Foulston, a case regarding sexual abuse of minors. Read the amicus brief here (375 KB PDF) and the appendix here (1.9 MB PDF).
ASAP signs onto briefs for U.S. Supreme Court case
ASAP recently signed onto briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court regarding 8th Amendment rights of defendants accused of committing crimes before reaching adulthood. Read the Supreme Court brief here. (PDF)
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Online Resources from ASAP
- Newsletters: ASAP produces a quarterly newsletter for its members. Download a PDF version here.
- Book Reviews: Read reviews of selected books relevant to adolescent psychiatry and teen issues here.
- Teen Troubles: Now you can read informative new articles written by ASAP members about teen issues. Click
here for more details.
- Annals of Adolescent Psychiatry: Vol. 27 & 28 Read the contents of Volumes 27 & 28 here
- Annals of Adolescent Psychiatry: Read the contents of Volume 24 here
- By-Laws
: Read
the ASAP By-Laws here here.
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