Mental Health
Conference Coverage
Weight bias against teens: Understand it and combat it
Weight-based discrimination can occur whatever a person’s size or body shape, but it’s most often targeted at youth who are overweight or obese....
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Are doctors really at highest risk for suicide?
Close look at the data behind these claims reveals the difficulty of establishing reliable statistics.
Conference Coverage
What to do when stimulants fail for ADHD
Conference Coverage
Get familiar with evidence on these supplements
NEW ORLEANS – Because parents may be interested in complementary and alternative medicine options, you should be aware of the evidence for popular...
From the Journals
Bariatric surgery lacks impact on teens’ long-term mental health
Young people who underwent bariatric surgery for obesity used more mental health services than their nontreated peers, and their degree of weight...
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Pubertal suppression reduces risk of later suicidal ideation in transgender people
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Family-focused therapy linked to longer remissions in youth at risk for bipolar disorder
For young people with mood symptoms and a family history of bipolar disorder, 4 weeks of intensive family sessions meant more time between mood...
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Actor Alan Alda discusses using empathy as an antidote to burnout
The practice “kind of opens people up to one another, which inspirits them,” the iconic actor said.
Behavioral Consult
Anxiety may be a part of healthy development, sometimes
A developmental mismatch of relative cognitive maturity with emotional immaturity can lead to anxiety and distress.
From the Journals
Runaway youth: Knowing the risk factors and care needs
You can help youth who are considering running away or already have.
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Cognitive screening of older physicians: What’s fair?
A new report leads to questions about how to standardize the process rather than have a piecemeal institutional approach and whether to focus less...