Child Adolescent Psychiatry
Child Adolescent Psychiatry
Notwithstanding sparse treatment data, recent efforts are beginning to provide clinicians with some clear treatment guidelines for medically unstable adolescents with anorexia nervosa.
Research is now making progress in understanding what happens before and during the illness and how this behavior can be explained.
Global child mental health in low- and middle-income countries faces all of the challenges of Western society and many more. This article examines the issues.
Although social anxiety can be a challenge at any point across the lifespan, it can present a unique set of challenges during the teenage years. More in this podcast.
What factors are involved in parents’ decision to begin medication treatment for a child with ADHD? Here, an overview of studies that provide clinically relevant information related to the course and treatment outcomes of ADHD in children and adolescents, including issues related to criminal behavior, smoking, nonstimulant treatment options, and concerns for parents.
Child-parent psychotherapy has been shown to be an effective treatment in helping caregivers and their children when they have experienced significant life trauma, often domestic violence. More in this podcast.
Evidence suggests that co-occurrence with ADHD is a marker of preadolescent-onset mania. This article provides some of this evidence so that you may be able to decide whether this form of very early-onset mania represents a developmental subtype of the disorder.
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The bullying prevention program is very popular but not very effective because bullying is an inevitable part of life.
Although social anxiety can be a challenge at any point across the lifespan, it can present a unique set of challenges during the teenage years. More in this podcast.
Child-parent psychotherapy has been shown to be an effective treatment in helping caregivers and their children when they have experienced significant life trauma, often domestic violence. More in this podcast.
Which CPT billing codes should you use when working with adolescents if there's a need for a clinician to meet with parents separately? Here to discuss is Dr Saundra Jain.
In this final of a 3-part podcast series, Brian Smith, MD, discusses the how’s, the why’s, and the treatment options for adolescents who harm themselves.
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