Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
The first issue of JIACAM was published on 01st January 2005 under the guidance of Prof. Indira Sharma as its Editor comprising various articles contributed by mental health professionals from India and abroad.
JIACAM is indexed with, or included in, the following: EMBASE (Excerpta Medica Database), SCOPUS and UGC Care List. Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with "Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals" developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (October 2008). All manuscripts are peer-reviewed by 2 anonymous referees. The journal does not charge for submission, processing or publication of an article. JIACAM follows the policy of Open Access to Scientific literature. Articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.
The Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (JIACAM) is a peer-reviewed quarterly publication of the Indian Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (IACAM), whose mission is to publish original manuscripts in all areas of child and adolescent mental health (from age 0-19 years), focusing on public health, clinical epidemiology, basic science and mental health problems. To achieve these aims we publish original scientific studies, review and educational articles, and papers commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting child and adolescent mental health from all areas across the world. Manuscripts are accepted for consideration for publication by the JIACAM with the understanding that they represent original material, have not been published previously, are not being considered for publication elsewhere, and have been approved by each author. Manuscripts can be submitted under various headings viz. Original Research, Review Articles, Perspectives/Commentary/Debate, Brief Communication, Case Reports/Case Series, Management Guidelines, Letter to Editor, Book Review, Film Review, Point of View, Obituary, etc. The journal caters to mental health professionals and trainees, including psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, and psychiatric nurses, as well as other medical professionals (e.g. paediatricians) and paraprofessionals.
| Nitin Gupta | Consultant Psychiatrist, Gupta Mind Healing and Counselling Centre, Chandigarh |
| Jitender Aneja | Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, Bathinda |
| Nidhi Chauhan | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh |
| Nishant Goyal | Professor, Department of Psychiatry, K.S. Mani Centre for Cognitive Neurosciences & fMRI Centre, CIP, Ranchi |
| Prerna Sharma | Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, IHBAS, New Delhi |
| Jasmin Garg | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College & Rajindra Hospital, Patiala |
| Preethy Kathiresan | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, New Delhi |
| Hiral Kotadia | Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Sri Aurobindo Medical College & PG Institute, Indore |
| Eesha Sharma | Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bengaluru |
| Hitesh Khurana | Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Pt BD PGIMS, Rohtak |
| Vivek Agarwal | Professor, Department of Psychiatry, KGMU, Lucknow |
| Savita Malhotra | Ex-Professor & Head, Department of Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh |
| Kavita Arora | Consultant Psychiatrist, Children First Institute of Mental Health, New Delhi |
| Rachna Bhargava | Professor, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, New Delhi |
| Deepak Gupta | Consultant Psychiatrist, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi |
| Uma Hirisave | Ex-Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS, Bengaluru |
| Manju Mohanty | Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh |
| Sujata Sethi | Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Pt BD PGIMS, Rohtak |
| Henal Shah | Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry, TNMC and Nair Hospital, Mumbai |
| Chhitij Shrivastava | Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College, Allahabad |
| Kishor Gujar | Consultant Psychiatrist, Pune |
| R. C. Jiloha | Ex-Director Professor & Head Psychiatry, GB Pant Hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College University of Delhi |
| Adarsh Kohli | Ex-Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, PGIMER, Chandigarh |
| Devasish Konar | Consultant Psychiatrist, Mental Health Care Centre, Kolkata |
| Manju Mehta | Ex-Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, AIIMS, New Delhi |
| Jitendra Nagpal | Consultant Psychiatrist, VIMHANS, New Delhi |
| Naresh Nebhinani | Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, Jodhpur |
| Rajesh Sagar | Professor, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, New Delhi |
| Shekhar Seshadri | Former Senior Professor and Former Head, Dept. of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bengaluru |
| Pratap Sharan | Professor & Head, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, New Delhi |
| Prabhat Sitholey | Ex-Professor, Department of Psychiatry, KGMU, Lucknow |
| Vincenzo Di Nicola | Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Addictions, University of Montreal, Canada |
| Bruno Falissard | Professor of Biostatistics, Paris-Saclay Medical University, Paris, France |
| Mohammad Ghaziuddin | Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, USA |
| Vinesh Gupta | Consultant Forensic Child Psychiatrist, Royal Perth & Bentley Group of Hospitals, Australia |
| Basant Pradhan | Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Cooper University, USA |
| Andres Pumariega | Professor of Psychiatry, University of Florida, USA |
| Eugenio Rothe | Professor of Psychiatry, Florida International University, USA |
| Paramala J Santosh | Head and Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital, London, UK |