Mental Health
Behavioral Consult
Postpartum depression
Dr. Susan D. Swick and Dr. Michael S. Jellinek discuss the often untreated condition of postpartum depression and how to screen for it.
Conference Coverage
Teens’ self-injury rates rise by 45%
Key clinical point: Self-inflicted injuries are rising among teenagers, increasing their odds of death. Major finding: Teen self-inflicted injury...
Conference Coverage
IHCC: Childhood migraine hurts school performance
Conference Coverage
AAS: New approach underway to ID teens at high suicide risk
A federally funded effort to develop a screening tool designed to prevent youth suicide is underway.
News
Mental health care becoming more accessible to teens
News
Association found between pyrethroid pesticide exposure and ADHD
Link between the metabolite of pyrethroid pesticides and ADHD is found and is stronger in boys than in girls.
News
Newborn’s pulmonary hypertension risk up slightly after SSRI exposure in pregnancy
Key clinical point: Exposure to SSRI therapy in the last trimester may raise the risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, but...
Behavioral Consult
Tips for assessing, managing temper tantrums
Dr. Barbara J. Howard offers her advice on how to help parents manage their child’s temper tantrums.
Letters from Maine
More mental illness?
Dr. William G. Wilkoff muses on the mental health status of children in the United States, citing a recent study and his own observations. .
Commentary
Tips for assessing, managing temper tantrums
Tantrums occur when a child’s emotions go beyond that child’s control, often occurring when a child is making developmental spurts in abilities or...
Conference Coverage
AAS: Acute suicidal affective disturbance proposed as new diagnosis
Acute suicidal affective disturbance is a proposed diagnostic entity aimed at capturing suicides that cannot be attributable to depression,...