The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter articles from December 2003

The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter archives from December 2003

Preventing and reducing social aggression among girls.(Expert Speaks Out)
December 1, 2003... Girls can be extraordinarily mean. Although it is rare for girls to fight physically, girls more often harm one another by engaging in social or relational aggression. Social aggression consists of behaviors intended to harm friendships or...

New research: recognizing and treating children in a multitude of settings.(AACAP Conference News)(American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry )
December 1, 2003... The following new research posters were presented during the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) in Miami October 2003. Community intervention benefits emotionally disturbed children A home...

Keep your eye on ... sports supplements and drugs.(preventing teen athlete performance drug abuse)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Approximately 1.1 million U.S. teens between the ages 12 and l7 have used potentially dangerous performance-enhancing sports supplements and drugs, according to projections from a nationally representative survey released by the Blue Cross and...

Keep your eye on ... school suspensions, expulsions.(American Academy of Pediatrics' Out-of-School Suspension and Expulsion paper)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently issued a new policy statement on the subject of school suspensions and expulsions. The statement, Out-of-School Suspension and Expulsion, offers specific recommendations for health care...

Keep your eye on ... back to school initiative.(National Institute on Drug Abuse initiative on juvenile drug abuse prevention)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, recently announced a new back-to-school initiative aimed at providing students and teachers with informative, accurate information about addiction and drug abuse. Among...

Keep your eye on ... bipolar study launched.(Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation (JBRF) has funded a major genetics study to search for genes that cause early-onset bipolar disorder. The study design--called the "affected sib pair" strategy--will involve mapping the genes of two or...

Behavior problems linked with overweight in children.(What's New in Research)
December 1, 2003... New research reported in the November issue of Pediatrics suggests a significant relationship between clinically meaningful behavior problems and overweight in children. The research also found a relationship between behavior problems in a...

New MRI detects developmental delays in children.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... A new magnetic resonance imaging technique--diffusion-tensor MRI--may be able to detect abnormalities in the brains of children with developmental delays missed by other standard imaging techniques. In a recent study published in the October...

Racial/ethnic disparities in Medicaid-covered youth.(What's New in Research)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Racial and ethnic disparities exist in the prevalence and treatment of diagnosed depression among Medicaid-covered youth, according to a report published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Previous...

High-school hazing: what a parent can do.
December 1, 2003... Recent coverage of high school hazing events has brought the ritual of hazing to the attention of parents now that it is no longer only as sociated with military and college incidents. While anti-hazing laws and policies do exist in most...

Experiment ties poverty to child psychopathology.(What's New in Research)
December 1, 2003... Relief of poverty appears to be associated with improvement of some psychiatric disorders in children, but not with improvement in anxiety and depression, according to new research published in the October 15 issue of the Journal of the...

Research suggests autism, immune system link.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... New findings suggest that the immune system may be activated in some children with autistic disorder. The study, published in the September issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, involved 3l autistic children and 28 age- and...

Characteristics of psychiatric ER visits studied.(What's New in Research)
December 1, 2003... As many as half of pediatric psychiatry emergency visits may be suitable for treatment at a lower level of outpatient care, according to the results of a systematic retrospective chart review. In the study, researchers examined data for a...

Child, parent interview data for bipolar disorder compared.(What's New in Research)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Researchers investigating the necessity of using child informants in pediatric bipolar disorder found poor parent-child concordance and conclude that both parents and children need to be interviewed for symptoms of mania. In the study, 93...

Anxiety symptoms among elementary school children.(What's New in Research)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... A study investigating anxiety symptoms among elementary school children found that symptoms appear to diminish with increasing age, and that teachers are able to identify anxiety in their students. Included in the study were 453 2nd through...

Functioning of maltreated foster care children examined.(What's New in Research)
December 1, 2003... Nearly 70 percent of children in long-term foster care with histories of trauma showed a range of anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders, according to recently reported research. The findings are consistent with prevalence rates reported in...

Young children tuned into media.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... A new survey conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reveals that American children six and under spend an average of two hours a day watching TV and videos, using computers and playing video games--well over the amount of time they...

Inhalant abuse among children and adolescents: more common and more dangerous than we think.(Commentary)
December 1, 2003... Parents and professionals are increasingly aware of the magnitude of the problem of drug abuse among adolescents. Stories about cocaine use progressing to crack addiction, the prevalence of ecstasy at "raves", and easy access to marijuana in...