Child Mental Health

It's National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week: Know the Signs, Make a Difference

Tamar Chansky | Posted 05.10.2012

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Tamar Chansky

It's National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week -- and with it, the opportunity for parents, teachers, coaches and troop leaders to make a difference in a child's life by keeping on the look out for signs that a child is struggling with a mental health issue.

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Tackling One of the Biggest Threats to Our Children: Suicide

Richard Attias | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Suicide, Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, Dr. Kelly Posner, Teenagers, Teens Suicide, Prevent Suicide, Preventing Suicide, Children Suicide, Mental Health, Preventing Child Suicide, Preventing Teen Suicide, Child Mental Health, Healthy Living News
Richard Attias

While I usually speak about economic issues or geopolitic or global issues, today I would like to discuss an issue that's about care for our kids, about the next generation and about a specific danger they are facing: suicide.

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Why Bébé Doesn't Have ADHD

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Bringing Up Bebe, Adhd, Child Mental Health, ADHD Treatment, ADHD in Children, Add Adhd, Adhd Medications, ADHD Children, Mental Health, ADHD Medication, Adhd Disorder, Healthy Living News
Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.

How come the epidemic of ADHD -- which has established itself firmly in the United States -- has almost completely passed over children in France?

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How to Help Young Men? Start When They're Children

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Child Mental Health Care, African Americans Mental Illness Stigma, Minority Mental Health, Latino American Mental Health, Urban Youth, Child Mental Health, Impact News
Dr. Harold Koplewicz

We have every reason to believe, however, that early intervention is the cheapest and the most effective way to ensure that black and Latino boys can take advantage of education opportunities and be prepared for the job market.

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D.C.'s Youth Deserve a Less Violent Future

David Catania | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Parole, Gun Violence, Youth Violence, Dc Youth, South Capitol Street Tragedy Memorial Act of 2011, Dc Impact, Dc Violence, Mental Health Care, Child Mental Health, Guns, Truancy, DC News
David Catania

On March 30, 2010, four young people lost their lives in a hail of gunfire on South Capitol Street S.E. All District residents deserve better than to live in a city where this sort of unspeakable violence is possible.

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Don't Let Your Marriage Be A Casualty Of Your Child's Mental Illness

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Parenting, Child Custody, Anxiety, Marriage Tips, Marriage Advice, Marriage, Child Mental Illness, Child Mental Health, Kids Mental Health, Children Mental Illness, Kids Mental Illness, Children Mental Health, Healthy Living News
Dr. Harold Koplewicz

If couples with typically developing children need things like "date nights" to keep their relationships alive, parents of children who are unusually needy or disruptive need and deserve it even more.

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Understanding Why Teens Love Disaster, Distress And Dystopian Lit

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Depression, Young Adult Literature, Youth, Parenting Mental Health, Books, Fiction, Parenting, Teenagers, Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Mockingjay, Dystopia, Child Mental Health, Suzanne Collins the Hunger Games, The Hunger Games, Mockingjay, Teenagers Mental Health, Healthy Living News
Dr. Harold Koplewicz

These books that deal with anorexia, cyber-bullying, self-mutilation, alcoholic parents, and vampiric sex strike a nerve with teenagers because of the intense developmental and social changes they're experiencing.

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Two Tragically Lost Children: Christina Taylor Green and Her Killer

Noel Irwin Hentschel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Noel Irwin Hentschel

Christina Taylor Green's activism and passionate concern for her country is something we can all embrace to help save other lives from being lost. The critical condition of mental health care is the "real" elephant in our shared house.

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Will The FDA Whitewash Electroconvulsive Therapy?

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychiatric-Therapy, Child Mental Health, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Ect, Home News
Dr. Peter Breggin

For decades the FDA has allowed electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to be used without requiring any proof of safety or efficacy. The machines and the tre...

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Why Are People So Divided When It Comes To Children's Mental Health?

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Harold Koplewicz

There are many important and complicated issues in child mental health. We're only beginning to understand healthy brain development and what happens in the brain when psychiatric disorders emerge.

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Changing How We Think And Talk About Child Psychiatric Disorders

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Child Mental Health, Mental Health Resources, Mental Health in Children, Kids Mental Health, Mental Health Disorders, Mental Health Issues, Home News
Dr. Harold Koplewicz

Children's lives can veer off course due to the maladaptive coping and biological processes that underlie psychiatric disorders; and their lives can be improved with effective treatment and support.

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Kids Of Deployed Soldiers Face More Mental Health Woes

Yahoo! News | Maureen Salamon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Children of deployed military face numerous stressors, including frequent moves, prolonged parental absences and the risk of a parent's death, the stu...

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The Age of Autism

Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Autism Vaccine Mercury, Children, Psychiatrist, Health, Environment, Mercury, Autism, Autism Vaccines, Green Living, Child Mental Health, Medicine, Children's Health, Vaccines, Healthy Living News
Deirdre Imus

Authors Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill have for the first time traced the roots of autism beginning in the 1930s. What they found is electrifying and suggests the debate is about to heat up again.

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Mental Health And The Family Tree

Craig Garner | Posted 11.17.2011

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Craig Garner

Unlike cancer or heart disease, psychiatric disorders continue to stand as an enigma to much of the modern world. This often leaves those closest to the patient wondering both how to feel and what to do.

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7 Myths About Child Mental Health

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Child Mental Health, Children's Mental Health, Child Psychology, Health, Child Psychiatry, Children Mental Health, Psychiatric, Healthy Living News
Dr. Harold Koplewicz

Debunking myths about child mental health is critical to getting more children the help and understanding they deserve.

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Solving the Mental Health Crisis for Our Children

Rosalynn Carter | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Children's Health, Health Advice, Rosalynn Carter, National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day, Children Mental Health, Children's Mental Health, Foster Care, Child Mental Health, Foster Care for Children, Healthy Living News
Rosalynn Carter

Today we need to acknowledge that too many children in our nation are left to struggle with a host of stressful circumstances--violence, divorce, poverty, war, to mention just a few, without effective supports.

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Normal Anxiety, a Disorder, or Both?

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Mental Health, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Dsm-Iv, Anorexia, Parenting, Anxiety, Bulimia, Child Mental Health, Health, Healthy Living News
Dr. Harold Koplewicz

While some anxiety is a normal reaction to stress, the anxiety that interferes with one's ability to function, to handle everyday situations, is a debilitating disorder.

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Give Children a Chance Before Abandoning

Suzan Song | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Russian Adoption, Child Abuse, Mental Health, Child Mental Health, Impact News
Suzan Song

Though most adoption agencies work to support families and children, there are outliers that do not. Mental health treatment can help.

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Strengthening Ties Between Research And Clinical Communities

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Harrison Ford, Mental Health, Medical Research, Medical-Breakthroughs, John Crowley, Brendan Fraser, Extraordinary Measures, Psychiatric Research, Child Mental Health, New York, Scientists, Health, Healthy Living News
Dr. Harold Koplewicz

I feel so strongly about the need for stronger ties between the research and clinical communities that my new organization, The Child Study Center Foundation, has made these partnerships its central mission.

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