Opinion
Family dinners are good medicine
Families who frequently eat together promote good physical and mental health, high self-esteem, and well-being.
Opinion
Failure to launch can happen to college students
Asking college students questions about their academic challenges, social lives, self-care, and sleep on campus will help you get them back on...
Opinion
How to manage school failure
If a child experiences school failure in many areas, it is time for an assessment.
Opinion
How to bring behavioral care into your office
You can begin coordinated or colocated behavioral health care in your office now.
Opinion
Detached parents: How to help
Evaluate a detached parent for depression, overwhelming stress, or traumatic stress.
Opinion
Engaging skeptical parents
With skeptical parents, resist the urge to tell, and listen instead.
News
Anxiety in teens
Consider sleep deprivation and substance abuse as mitigating factors.
Opinion
Preventing substance use
Parent education and early recognition in pediatric practice are among the most effective and cost-effective interventions for these disorders.
Opinion
Alternative therapies
Some alternative therapies have demonstrated efficacy for pediatric psychiatric disorders, others not so much.
News
Depression in adolescence
Depression is very treatable, but this takes time.
Opinion
Adolescents and sleep, or the lack thereof
Do your adolescent patients know how sleep deprived they are?
News
Self-injury
Tips for how to talk with adolescents about “cutting.”
News
50 years of child psychiatry, developmental-behavioral pediatrics
Dr. Susan D. Swick, Dr. Michael S. Jellinek, and Dr. Barbara J. Howard offer a look back over more than 50 years of child psychiatry and...
Article
Stress management for ambitious students
Dr. Susan D. Swick and Dr. Michael S. Jellinek offer strategies for helping young people deal with the stress that often accompanies drive and...