The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter articles from April 2004

The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter archives from April 2004

Experts, parents discuss safety of antidepressant medications.(Update on SSRIs/Suicide Controversy)
April 1, 2004... The Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) and Pediatric Subcommittee of the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee (Peds AC), held a public hearing on February 2nd in Bethesda, Md. Convened by the Food and Drug Administration...

Multicultural prevention curriculum found to reduce student drug use.(School-Based Prevention Effort)
April 1, 2004... Middle school students participating in a multicultural curriculum intervention either prevented or delayed their first-time use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana, and had better behavioral outcomes related to substance use, according to...

... CHADD launches Online ADHD library.(Keep Your Eye On)
April 1, 2004... Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) has launched an online library dedicated to research and science-based resources and materials on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The library includes...

... Autistic children receiving alternative treatments.(Keep Your Eye On)
April 1, 2004... According to a research team from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a significant number of children recently diagnosed with autism receive complementary or alternative medicine treatments (CAM), some of which are potentially harmful....

... Lawsuite over specialized care for children.(Keep Your Eye On)
April 1, 2004... New York City is suing New York State in an effort to force the state to expand housing for severely mentally retarded and developmentally disabled children, the New York Times reported. The city has about 200 children waiting for placement by...

Bullying intervention more effective for older students.(What's New in Research)
April 1, 2004... Researchers in Rome, Italy, evaluated an intervention program to reduce bullying, violence and victimization in their schools, and found that while it worked well for older students, younger students reported more victimization after the...

Bullying: what can parents do?
April 1, 2004... Your son's being called names at school... Your daughter says she's got no friends and the others won't play with her... Someone is hitting your child... This behaviour is not a normal part of growing up--it is bullying. Bullying is...

Child conduct problems linked to adult violence, depression.
April 1, 2004... Researchers designed a study to examine childhood behavior problems at ages 10 and 11 to see how that might predict depression, social phobia, and violence at age 21. Their findings suggest the potential value of intervening to reduce childhood...

Sexual abuse impacts outcomes of depressed teens.
April 1, 2004... A group of investigators at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center set out to assess the impact of sexual abuse on clinical presentation and treatment outcome in depressed adolescents. They found that adolescents with a history of sexual...

Scientists retract study linking vaccine, autism.
April 1, 2004... Ten of the 13 scientists involved in a widely discredited 1998 study suggesting a link between childhood vaccinations and autism have renounced the conclusion. The retraction came after the recent revelation that the main author, Dr....

Is there an autism epidemic?(Guest Commentary)
April 1, 2004... A number of stories in the media recently have breathlessly discussed the "epidemic" of autism, raising concern about risks for autism at the same time the public is worried about avian flu and mad cow disease. Several recent epidemiological...