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Medical > Psychiatry
The Hidden Mental Health Crisis: Why Teenagers with Disabilities Need Psychiatric Care (And How to Access It)
...condition. They're treatable mental health disorders occurring alongside...than a quarter receive mental health care. That gap is the crisis....disability-related behavior, typical adolescent mood swings, and clinical...close that gap. Why Mental Health Conditions Are More Common...developmental stressors as any adolescent: identity formation, peer...
Health > Mental Health
A Growing Epidemic for Kids: Help Your Child Stop Cutting
...correlated with a history of sexual abuse, substance abuse, eating disorders, and obsessive- compulsive behaviors. The statistics are one in every 200 adolescent girls between the ages of 13 and 19, regularly cut. Even though cutters are primarily teenage females, the disorder also affects males.People who...
Health > Mental Health
Teen and Preteen Girls Are at Risk For Developing Eating Disorders: Adolescent Eating Disorders
Young girls increasingly face eating disorders due to media, diet culture, parental influence, and peer behaviors.
Parenting > The Early Years
Children’s Medical Records: 5 Things to Watch
...wrong about whether or not their children are at a healthy weight, highlighted by a study released December...December 2011 in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. We are so familiar with our kids that...– Even more important than where your child's health is right now, in many...
Parenting > Adulthood
Successfully Transitioning Special Needs Kids
...American Academy of Pediatrics as "the purposeful, planned movement of adolescents and young adults with chronic physical and medical conditions from child-centered...physical and medical conditions from child-centered to adult-oriented health care system.'" So, "transition" refers to the process of preparing a child...
Health > Treatment
Ask the Developmental Doc: Psychotropic Medication
...self-awareness and control. At Center for the Developing Mind, the multidisciplinary facility that I run in West Los Angeles for children and adolescents with developmental and/or regulatory disorders, I personally prescribe to a developmental/relational therapeutic intervention...
Health > Treatment
Behavioral Problems and Medication in Kids
Behavioral problems in children can range from mild mischievousness to serious misconduct that can interfere with normal development. Children and adolescents with extreme behavioral problems, more than typical childhood misbehavior, should be evaluated by their physician for oppositional defiant disorder...
Medical > Orthopedics
Protecting Bone Health in Non-Ambulatory Children: A Parent's Guide to Preventing Fractures
...lying down, their skeleton doesn't receive the mechanical stress that drives bone formation. Over time, bone density drops. Fracture risk climbs. By adolescence, many non-ambulatory children have bone mineral density comparable to adults with osteoporosis. This isn't a problem you can prevent entirely, but...
Legal > Government Benefits
Navigating the Age 18 Disability Benefits Transition: What Changes, What Stays, and How to Prepare
...gainful activity due to a medically determinable impairment expected to last at least 12 months or result in death. The shift isn't semantic. An adolescent who qualified...
Education > K-12
How to Stand Up to Bullying at School
...between two children, it is victimization where there is intentional, repetitive abuse within a power imbalance. The most effective way for a child/adolescent to stay safe in the face of bullying is: *Find friends and/or supporters that he can hang out with as part of a group. Children who bully often...
Research > Brain Science
Advancements in Autism Science
...want results now. However, researchers do suggest that their findings from these brain studies will also help individuals with autism even in their adolescent years. Some recent research also points to the idea of "late bloomers," meaning many children with autism "outgrow" their symptoms or show improvements...
Education > Early Intervention
Activities for Kids: Rhythm and Movement
...moves for a toddler, while an infant might benefit more from a Hokey Pokey variation in which the parents move the child's limbs. Older children and adolescents might benefit from a dance to their favorite song. Rhythm Feeling a strong pulse is important for children, and enhancing movement activities...