The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology® has reviewed and updated the content for the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Boards.*
The expected 2025 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Certification and Continuing Certification exams topics are:
*Beginning in 2023, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) will be utilizing two-dimensional content specifications for the child and adolescent psychiatry certification examination. Within the two-dimensional format, one dimension is comprised of disorders and topics, while the other is comprised of competencies and mechanisms that cut across the various disorders of the first dimension. Questions for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Certification examination will conform to these content specifications.
Please note that no single examination tests everything on the content specification blueprint.
| Percent of Exam | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Certification Board Exam Topics |
|---|---|
| - | Dimension 1: Psychiatric Disorders and Topics |
| 10-14% | Developmental processes and development through the life cycle |
| 6-8% | Neurodevelopmental disorders |
| 5-7% | Substance-related and addictive disorders |
| 3-5% | Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders |
| 7-9% | Depressive disorders |
| 3-5% | Bipolar and related disorders |
| 7-9% | Anxiety disorders |
| 1-2% | Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders |
| 5-7% | Trauma- and stressor-related disorders |
| 1-2% | Dissociative disorders |
| 2-4% | Somatic symptom and related disorders |
| 2-4% | Eating disorders |
| 8-12% | Development |
| 1-3% | Elimination disorders |
| 1-3% | Sleep-wake disorders |
| 1-2% | Sexual dysfunctions |
| 1-3% | Gender dysphoria |
| 5-7% | Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders |
| 4-6% | Personality disorders |
| 1-2% | Paraphilic disorders |
| 6-8% | Other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention |
| 1-3% | Neurocognitive disorders |
| 3-5% | Neurologic disorders |
| 4-6% | Dimension 2 topics without a corresponding Dimension 1 topic |
| - | Dimension 2: Physician Competencies and Mechanisms |
| 8-10% | Neuroscience and mechanisms of disease |
| 8-12% | Behavioral/social sciences and psychosocial mechanisms of diseases |
| 17-23% | Clinical aspects of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders |
| 8-12% | Diagnostic procedures |
| 25-35% | Treatment |
| 3-5% | Interpersonal and communication skills |
| 3-5% | Professionalism, ethics, and the law |
| 2-4% | Practice-based learning and improvement |
| 8-12% | Systems-based practice |
| Percent of Exam | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Continuing Certification Board Exam Topics |
|---|---|
| 4-6% | Applications of basic science to clinical practice |
| 13-17% | Issues in practice |
| 4-6% | Prevention |
| 8-12% | Diagnostic methods |
| 23-27% | Psychopathology (differential diagnosis, classification, clinical course |
| 18-22% | Treatment |
| 8-12% | Consultation |
| 3-5% | Professionalism, ethics, and the law |
| 2-4% | Practice-based learning and improvement |
| 8-12% | Systems-based practice |
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