The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter articles from December 2005

The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter archives from December 2005

Expert discusses alternative treatment options for ADHD in children.(Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder)
December 1, 2005... Interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in pediatrics has increased tremendously during the last few years. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has estimated that between 20% and 40% of healthy children and over 50% of...

Latest research presented at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annunal Conference.(Disease/Disorder overview)
December 1, 2005... The following poster presentations of new research were given during the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, which took place October 18-23, 2005, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Comorbid OCD and BPD...

... New program to train child MH providers.(Mental Health)(Brief article)
December 1, 2005... The growing need for child mental health services has led to a new School Psychology Specialist program at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP). The program, to be launched in September 2006, will offer training to help...

... Suicide and depression film released.(.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2005... The American Foundation for Suicide prevention (AFSP) has just released a film on suicide and depression in college students. The 27-minute film, "The truth about suicide: real stories of depression in college," is intended to encourage...

... Child witness statements on sexual abuse in daycare.
December 1, 2005... Evaluating alleged sexual abuse at daycare centers often has to be based primarily on children's statements about their own victimization. However, a new study suggests that other sources of information can be used to assess sexual abuse in...

... Decline in pediatric antidepressant prescribing.(.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2005... Two-year data from NDC Health Inc. indicate that the number of antidepressants prescribed to patients 18 years and younger has declined nearly 20% since March 2004. Since the FDA's public health advisory of a possible association between...

Swiss study looks at homeopathic treatment for ADHD.(Attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder)(Disease/Disorder overview)
December 1, 2005... In a new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study by H. Frei, M.D., and colleagues, carried out in Switzerland among 62 children with ADHD, examined whether homeopathy may be effective as a treatment for attentiondeficit/...

Study looks at teen smoking-cessation media campaign.
December 1, 2005... A smoking-cessation media campaign, GottaQuit.com, appears to be an effective internet source to help adolescents who want to stop smoking. According to a telephone survey evaluating the results of the media campaign, nearly all teen smokers...

Complementary & alternative treatments for pediatric ADHD.(Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)(Brief article)
December 1, 2005... Neurotherapy EEG biofeedback * Provides feedback through audio and visual stimuli on subject's psychophysiologic processes (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate) which are often outside the subject's control; EEG biofeedback training helps to...

Homeopathy: background and ongoing debate.
December 1, 2005... One of the underlying principles of homeopathic medicine, first described by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), is Similia similibus curentur or "Let like be cured by like." This principle, which is still the mainstay of homeopathy today, is...

Adoption of children--are practices and prejudices changing?(Editorial)
December 1, 2005... Practices and prejudices regarding the adoption of children in the United States are changing. Open adoption, cross-cultural and cross-racial adoption, adoption of children previously thought to be unadoptable (adolescents, sibling groups, and...