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ParentsMedGuide.org Resource

Coalition Launches ParentsMedGuide.org: "Helping Parents Help Their Kids" Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005 Washington, D.C. – Today a large coalition of medical and family/patient advocacy organizations launched ParentsMedGuide.org, a new resource center for parents of children...

FDA and Antidepressants in Children

FDA Statement on Recommendations of the Psychopharmacologic Drugs and Pediatric Advisory Committees September 16, 2004 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) generally supports the recommendations that were recently made to the agency by the Psychopharmacologic...

Depression in children warning signs

Dr. Chris Petersen, a psychiatrist at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, cited these symptoms of depression in a recent article. Symptoms of child and teen depression: Social withdrawal: A desire to remain isolated or restricted to a narrow peer group for...

Childhood Depression and Adult Obesity

Childhood Depression – Link to Adult Obesity? Waterfield Penn State College of Medicine 2004 Epidemiology 65% of Americans are considered overweight and 18% are considered obese with a body mass index (BMI) > 30 kg m2 (Flegal 2002) 10% of Americans are thought...

Depressive disorder in children and adolescents – An update on assessment and treatment

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Medicating Children with Psychiatric Drugs

Published Online Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:00:00, To the Best of My Knowledge at WPSU Public Broadcasting, Penn State University Penn State President Graham Spanier’s monthly call-in program featured this program on medication involving children. "Both the number of...

Childhood Schizophrenia Brain Findings

Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia: Structural Brain Abnormalities Courtney Dawson Penn State College of Medicine 2003 Basic information regarding childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS): Onset of psychosis by age 12 (2) Rare à 1/50 the prevalence of later-onset disease...

Childhood Schizophrenia Summary

Childhood Schizophrenia Contributed by Melissa Yates Penn State College of Medicine Definition: - Same diagnostic criteria apply to children, adolescents, and adults - Based on characteristic symptoms, deficits in adaptive...

Sexual Abuse Evaluation

The evaluation of child sexual abuse is to determine whether abuse has occurred and if the child needs treatment for medical or emotional problems. The evaluator and the child’s or adolescent’s therapist should be two different individuals.

Brain Injury and Misdiagnosis

Misdiagnosis of Psychiatric Disorders Secondary to Brain Injury: ODD, OCD, ADHD Robyn Smith Penn State College of Medicine 2002 I. Traumatic Brain Injury: General information Prevalence: Traumatic Brain injury in children and adolescents is a major public health...

Teens Contemplate Suicide

3 million U.S. Teens Contemplate Suicide WASHINGTON (Reuters) --Three million American teens have thought seriously about or even attempted suicide, a government survey released Sunday showed. More than 13 percent of young Americans between 14 and 17 years of age...

Mania or ADHD: Assessment with CBCL

Differentiating Mania from ADHD in Prepubertal Children Using the Child Behavior Checklist Augusta Czysz Penn State College of Medicine 2002 Background: Child Behavior Checklists (CBCL) were first published in 1978 and 1979 by Achenbach and Edelbrock. They consist...