It is with great pleasure and pride that I welcome readers to the new Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Over the past year, much planning and preparation have gone into designing the Academy’s official publication for its unveiling this month. For those of you who were able to attend the recent joint meeting of the American and Canadian Academies of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, you may have seen the new cover posted in the exhibition hall and hallways of the conference area. I appreciate the input that people have given in this process. It appears that during that time, the journal name took on its own nickname, and has become known affectionately as the “the Indigo journal” amongst Academy Board Members.
The editorial staff and the Academy continue to strive towards publishing a clinically relevant journal that is of high academic quality. In doing so, it is important that our editorial staff is enhanced to meet that need. To this end, I am pleased to introduce with this new issue, our new assistant editor, Dr Amy Cheung. Dr Cheung is on the faculty with the University of Toronto. The primary focus of her research is in health services delivery for adolescents with mood disorders. I am sure that readers will join me in welcoming Dr. Cheung to the Journal. Again it is my pleasure to have Drs. Reebye and Moretti guest editing their second theme issue. This month’s focus is on New Perspectives on Intervention for Conduct Disorder. This follows on their first theme issue published in February 2005 entitled “Pathways to Aggression” in Children and Youth.
Mary Kay Nixon MD FRCPC, Editor