Mental Health
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Anxiety (part 2): Treatment
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Remodeling broken systems
Meaningful improvement in children’s mental health will require remodeling broken systems to ensure that children are supported early, effectively...
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Nurses maintain more stigma toward pregnant women with OUD
Clinical experience and training may affect differences in attitudes toward women who use opioids during pregnancy.
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Child assault tied to triple the risk for mental illness within 1 year
“Our study highlights that there is a critical opportunity for health care clinicians to support children in the first year following physical...
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Telehealth visit helps reconnect adolescents lost to follow-up
A small pilot study finds positive results in a hybrid model: The first visit is telehealth with in-person follow-up as needed.
Child Psychiatry Consult
Nutritional psychiatry: Does it exist?
While few would argue with the foundational importance of nutrition for healthy childhood development, how to apply nutrition to mental health...
Behavioral Consult
Too old for time out. Now what? Oppositional behavior in school-age children
Reversing oppositional behavior requires consistent strategies for reinforcing appropriate behavior.
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Autism tied to higher rates of self-harm, suicide
For both females and males, final models showed autism per se was not significantly associated with suicide death, but certain correlates were...
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Reassuring data on stimulants for ADHD in kids and later substance abuse
Experts hope the study findings will quell the stigma surrounding stimulant use by children with ADHD.
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Exercise program boosted physical, but not mental, health in young children with overweight
Body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness improved with a combination of aerobic and resistance exercise.
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Nonstimulants: A better option for ADHD?
The findings could represent “a paradigm shift for the field” because “we always think of starting ADHD treatment with stimulants, but perhaps...