The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter articles from August 2008

The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter archives from August 2008

A case of alleged food allergies: the benefits of multidisciplinary collaboration.(Case study)
August 1, 2008... In cases where a patient's physical symptoms do not fit into the medical framework of a recognized illness, clinicians are sometimes forced to think outside the routine of their specialty. The following is a case in which a young adolescent has...

Reactive attachment disorder in young children: current perspectives on diagnosis and treatment.(Attachment Disorder)(Case study)
August 1, 2008... Case study Joseph is a 4-year-old Asian-American boy residing in a group home, removed from his parents care due to repeated exposure to violence and neglect of basic physical and emotional needs at the age of 3. He frequently hit and...

... poor sleep linked to suicidal behavior in depressed teens.(Keep your eye on ...)(Brief article)(Clinical report)
August 1, 2008... A recent study suggests that poor sleep is linked with suicidal behavior in children and adolescents with depressive episodes. Maria-Cecilia Lopes, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher with Sao Paulo University in Brazil, interviewed 300 children and...

... pilot study supports sensory integration for autism.(Keep your eye on ...)(Brief article)(Clinical report)
August 1, 2008... With sensory integration methods now becoming a standard approach to treating children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), researchers with Temple University say it is important that more controlled trials are designed to scientifically...

... bipolar teens at increased risk for drug abuse.(Keep your eye on ...)(Brief article)(Clinical report)
August 1, 2008... A study published in June supports previous reports that adolescents with bipolar disorder (BPD) are at an increased risk for smoking and substance abuse, independent of psychiatric comorbidity. Lead researcher Timothy Wilens, M.D., director of...

Family-based CBT for OCD in very young children: a pilot study.(What's New in Research)(cognitive-behavioral therapy)(Clinical report)
August 1, 2008... Jennifer Freeman, Ph.D., with the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center and her colleagues recently published a pilot study of a family-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) approach for treating early childhood Obsessive Compulsive...

No medication/substance abuse link found in ADHD study.(What's New in Research)(attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders)(Clinical report)
August 1, 2008... A study published this spring in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that children who take medications to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) are no more susceptible to substance abuse than those who do not. Joseph...

How the foster care system fails our children.(Editor's Commentary)(Editorial)
August 1, 2008... As a child mental health professional, one of the things I dread is encountering a child in the emergency room or on an inpatient unit who has a history of multiple out-of-home placements in foster care and residential treatment centers. An...