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Treatment Trends & News

Treatment Trends & News

Treatment Trends & News

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Parents

Trends in Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment of Children and Teens Post-Pandemic

Did Pediatric Mental Hospitals Admit More Teens During COVID Than Before COVID? When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S. in early 2020, very few people knew what to expect. Among experts and laypeople alike, almost no one had any confidence in making long-term projections about what would happen. Here’s a list of the primary questions everyone wanted answers to: How long would it last? How many people would die?

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March 8, 2022

Identifying Suicide Risk in Adolescents: The Role of the Primary Care Physician

Can the Family Doctor Help Identify Suicide Risk and Prevent Teen Suicide? Teen mental health is on the mind of every parent in the country right now. And if it’s not, it’s our position that it should be. We say that not only as professionals working in adolescent mental health, but also as concerned parents, uncles, aunts, and members of our various communities, all of which include teens we know

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March 3, 2022
Parenting

Outcomes for Adolescents in Long-Term Residential Mental Health Facilities

Does Long-Term Residential Treatment Help Teens? When your teenager has problems in school, at home, and with friends, you know it’s your job to help them work through those problems. When you do that, you know you have to get to the root of the problem. You have to find out what’s causing it. That’s how you help: you identify the source of the issue and work to resolve it.

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March 2, 2024
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Therapy and Medication Better than Medication Alone in Treating Bipolar Disorder

Family Participation Improves Outcomes Bipolar disorder (BD) is a mental health condition characterized by alternating cycles of mania/hypomania and depression/depressive mood that have a significant impact on typical daily function and impair overall emotional and psychological wellbeing. Bipolar disorder can be debilitating. It can prevent adolescents from participating in family life, school life, social life, and the extracurricular activities popular among adolescents. The most common evidence-based treatment for bipolar disorder

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February 27, 2022
teen with therapist on couch
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Finding the Top Adolescent Residential Treatment Centers

A Checklist for Parents Seeking Residential Treatment for Teens When your child crossed the threshold from pre-teen to full-fledged teenager, you probably braced yourself for the changes you knew were coming. You expected a range of physical, emotional, social, and psychological growth known as differentiation. The experts told you your teen would develop their own personal identity and their own sexual identity. They told you to expect changes in appearance,

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February 15, 2022
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Parents

How Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive (MBCBT) Therapy Help Teens With Addiction?

Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery Teens diagnosed with alcohol use disorder (AUD) or substance use disorder (SUD) often need professional treatment and support to achieve sobriety and maintain long-term abstinence. If a full psychiatric evaluation administered by a mental health professional indicates the presence of AUD or SUD, the assessing therapist may recommend treatment at one of the following levels of care: Outpatient Treatment Outpatient treatment typically involves office visits of

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February 10, 2022
teens wearing masks during covid
Family & Home Life

Delaying Gender-Affirming Treatments in Teens During Covid: What to Consider

Gender-Affirming Treatment for Transgender Teens When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S. in March 2020, we all quickly became aware of a variety of new phrases. We couldn’t avoid them. Print, TV, mobile, and online media repeated them daily, over and over, in all our public discourse regarding COVID-19. We learned about: Shelter-in-place orders Social distancing Hand hygiene on a new level Masks Vulnerable populations Essential and non-essential services

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February 9, 2022
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

San Diego Teens and Mental Health

Does the San Diego Area Have Enough Mental Health Programs for Teens? Last summer, Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego shared a startling statistic with reporters from local radio station kpbs. At the midpoint of 2021, they’d seen a 25 percent increase in emergency room visits for acute mental health emergencies. As mental health professionals, this caught our attention: we’re both alarmed and concerned. However, if we’re being completely honest,

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February 8, 2022
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Education

Research Report: Study Defines Stages of Engagement in ADHD Treatment 

Helping Families Navigate the ADHD Treatment Process ADHD is one of the most common behavioral disorders among children and teens in the U.S. Data from the Centers for Disease Control published in 2016 and 2019 show the prevalence of ADHD among children age 3-17 increased between 2003 and 2011, then decreased between 2011 and 2019: ADHD Diagnoses in Children: 2003-2019 2003: 4.4 million 2007: 5.4 million 2011: 6.4 million 2016:

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January 20, 2022
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Association Between Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents

Childhood Anxiety May Precede Adolescent Bipolar Disorder The relationship between anxiety disorders and bipolar disorder is well established in peer-reviewed scientific journals that publish articles on child, adolescent, and adult mental health. Research shows that in most cases of co-morbid – a.k.a dual diagnosis – anxiety disorders and bipolar disorders, an anxiety disorder appears first, during childhood or early adolescence. Bipolar disorder most often appears second, typically during late adolescence

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January 14, 2022