The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter articles from January 2002

The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter archives from January 2002

What's at stake in high stakes testing? (Standardized Testing).
January 1, 2002... In recent years, the education reform movement in the United States has focused increasingly on developing new standards and assessments for students. In the last decade, 47 states have adopted new standards for student learning and most have...

Understanding the trauma of bedwetting. (Enuresis: Advances in Treatment).
January 1, 2002... Each year, millions of children and adolescents worldwide suffer with the symptom of enuresis or "bedwetting." Though regarded by some as one of the most chronic and prevalent of all childhood disorders, studies to date have failed to produce...

Keep Your Eye On ... Rising multiple-victim school violence.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Multiple-victim school violence rose between 1994 and 1999, according to research by Mark Anderson, M.D., M.P.H., of the National center for Injury Prevention and control, Centers for disease control and Prevention, and colleagues. In an...

Keep Your Eye On ... A possible link between ADHD and food allergies.(attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder)
January 1, 2002... A small, preliminary study has found that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are seven times more likely to have food allergies than children in the general population. According to Joseph A. Bellanti, M.D., of the...

Keep Your Eye On ... High teen birth and pregnancy rates in U.S.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... A study comparing the sexual and reproductive behavior of teens in Sweden, France, Great Britain, Canada and the US found that US teens have the highest birth rate, lowest contraceptive use and least ease of access to reproductive health...

IDEA discipline amendments scrapped; funding falls short.(Individuals with Disabilities Education Act )
January 1, 2002... U.S. House and Senate negotiators, agreeing last week to the final details of President Bush's education bill, dealt children's advocates a mixed hand. Lawmakers effectively killed two discipline-related amendments opposed by advocates,...

Parental disapproval helps prevent smoking. (What's New in Research).
January 1, 2002... A recent study conducted in rural Vermont reveals that adolescents are less likely to smoke cigarettes if their parents strongly disapprove. James D. Sargent, M.D., and Madeline Dalton, Ph.D., both of the Department of Pediatrics at Dartmouth...

Is methylphenidate's mode of action similar to cocaine? (What's New in Research).
January 1, 2002... Nora Volkow, M.D., psychiatrist and imaging expert at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, and colleagues used advanced imaging techniques including postitron emission tomography (PET) to better understand how methylphenidate acts...

Stimulant treatment may reduce SA risk. (What's New in Research).(substance abuse )
January 1, 2002... Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who receive treatment with a stimulant such as methylphenidate (Ritalin) may be less likely to develop a substance abuse disorder, according to findings presented at the 48th annual...

BHT magazine's special report on Responding to Crisis. (Resources).(Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow )
January 1, 2002... A special report on Responding to Crisis in the December issue of Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow magazine is now available on our Manisses Communications Group Web site. Visit www.manisses.com/bht and see the December issue's table of...

Web site offers free PTSD resources. (Resources).(post-traumatic stress disorder)
January 1, 2002... The Madison Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit mental health resource center, is providing a free educational Web site, www.PTSD.factsforhealth.org, on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Free resources for clinicians include a CME course on...

Child and adolescent tobacco use. (Commentary).
January 1, 2002... Over two thousand children and adolescents are estimated to begin smoking every day. The CDC predicts that there will eventually be over 5 million premature deaths from smoking in the group who are now aged 0 to 17 years if current levels of...

All about bedwetting.
January 1, 2002... Wet the bed? Wait a minute! Millions of kids and teenagers from every part of the world wet the bed every single night. It's so common that there are probably other kids in your class who do it. But most kids don't tell their friends. So...