Child Adolescent Psychiatry
A look into longer-term clinical and psychosocial outcomes of depressive disorder in early adulthood. Details here.
Child Adolescent Psychiatry
The high rate of recurrence of depressive symptoms and ongoing psychosocial challenges point to the need for a longer-term view of the management of adolescents with depressive disorders.
In just 20 years, rates of ADHD have tripled and autism and childhood bipolar disorder have increased forty fold. The last thing our kids need is to be misdiagnosed with “Sluggish Cognitive Tempo” and bathed in even more stimulant meds. More in this opinion piece.
Podcast: Experts summarize effective treatment options for patients with eating disorders and discuss common features, medical components of anorexia and bulimia, behavioral features, and psychological symptoms.
The results of the study featured in this infographic showed that compared with men without childhood ADHD, men with childhood ADHD had higher rates of ongoing issues in adulthood.
During the first year of her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, this psychiatrist received an invaluable lesson regarding the importance of “treating the whole patient” in this case, a 16-year-old patient who is pregnant.
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.
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The bullying prevention program is very popular but not very effective because bullying is an inevitable part of life.
Podcast: Experts summarize effective treatment options for patients with eating disorders and discuss common features, medical components of anorexia and bulimia, behavioral features, and psychological symptoms.
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.
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