| New Guidelines Proposed for Preschoolers on Antidepressants
With the number of preschool-age children being prescribed stimulants, antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs on the rise, a group of researchers has suggested a standardized approach to treatment. Child mental health professionals from Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center in Rhode Island and 11 other institutions have developed recommendations for specific disorders to help clinicians who are considering medications for children ages 3 to 6. The guidelines are published in the December issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Click here for the full study (subscription required) "These guidelines emphasize the importance of a family-focused assessment by clinicians with experience working with young children, the use of psychotherapy as the first line treatment for young children with severe psychiatric disorders, and the value of careful monitoring of symptoms and side effects when treating young children," said lead author Dr.
SAFETY SCHOOL Bucking Privacy Concerns, Cornell Acts as Watchdog
ITHACA, N.Y. -- For 19 years as a custodian at Cornell University, Sue Welch has been taking out the garbage and mopping the floors of residence halls. Recently, she added a new responsibility: trying to prevent student suicide. Ms. Welch noticed during a recent semester that she was repeatedly having to clean up after a particular student's apparent bouts of nausea, and told her supervisor she feared the young woman had an eating disorder. The supervisor told the residence-hall director, who encouraged the student to go to the university health center. Counselors there arranged for her to get treatment for bulimia nervosa. Ms. Welch credits the training sessions that she and other custodians attended on how to spot students with mental-health problems. "These kids are looking to us to provide care," she says.
Socialization May Be Key To New Treatment For Anorexia Nervosa
Understanding how individuals with anorexia nervosa interact with others may lead to entirely new approaches to treating the disease which affects up to 10 million adolescents.Current treatments focus primarily on managing symptoms like starvation and low body weight. Although that's important, it is not always enough to result in lasting health, says Nancy Zucker, Ph.D, Director of Duke University Medical Center's Eating Disorders Program.In a comprehensive review of data published in the November issue of Psychological Bulletin, Zucker pinpoints many patterns of social dysfunction among individuals with anorexia nervosa. She and her colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill believe treatment focusing on these areas may help patients engage better with their family, friends, and health care providers.
Best Answers to Sunday Question ...
I was tempted to publish a short report about the suicide here. What do you think? Let folks find out through the grapevine. Or stonewall the unexpected death? (With that, I'm headed for the couch because the pain meds are kicking in. Miss you guys today. I'll be back later.) DFO .
Brown feels heat as Libdems and Tories seek answer to West Lothian ...
It would give a sense of fairness and complete the devolutionary process. Having English MPs voting on laws that only pertain to England would address that sense of unfairness English MPs had when the Labour government got its way on tuition fees and foundation hospitals, only because Scottish MPs were able to vote on that, even though those laws would not apply in Scotland." Senior Labour politicians and Northern Ireland Unionists attacked the idea, which is likely to play into Mr Salmond's hands as he tries to wrest more power for Scotland from Westminster. Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, warned that Sir Malcolm's proposals - first floated almost a decade ago in 1998 - threatened the unity of the United Kingdom. She said: "I don't think it is right to break up the United Kingdom, and that's where ultimately the suggestion of the Conservatives would go." Mr Salmond dismissed Sir Malcolm's plan, saying it did not go far enough.
Dr. Carlos Vargas seeks to provide perpetual health to the uninsured ...
Acupuncture therapy training helped Vargas expand his vision of the kinds of treatment that could help his patients. When he left the family practice he started incorporating acupuncture therapy in with his family practice medicine. "I just had to take a dose of my own medicine," he said. He started his own practice, called New Mountain Medicine, where he offers integrative health care for his patients. The Model St. Luke's family practice in California, the model Vargas is trying to emulate, serves patients who are insured and uninsured. The clinic takes on patients who have health insurance and provides them with the services that one would receive from a family physician. The clinic calls these people benefactors because they pay a set fee for a year of care.
Redesign, day 2
The syndicate that provided the feature to us, decided rather abruptly a week or so ago to stop carrying it, and unable to find an alternative source, features editor Pia Hansen opted to drop it. Amid the uproar, Hansen looked more closely and discovered that one of our other syndicate services does carry the Jumble, and we'll resume publication tomorrow. Oh, and we also redesigned the whole newspaper What we haven't heard this morning is complaints about the newly redesigned Spokesman-Review. There was some talk on the Mark Fuhrman show about it this morning, including a complaint from Fuhrman himself that we "never" have Iraq news in the paper. There were some issues with the press run - some readers reported "bleedthrough" (when wet ink from one page blots onto another, making the page unreadable) and other legibility issues.
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