Showing papers in "Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America in 2010"

TL;DR: The article concludes by offering recommendations for improvement that acknowledge the importance of understanding preferences and attitudes toward treatment, ensuring that screening and diagnosis is appropriate to minority youth, and ensuring that evidence-based programs are available at multiple levels to best service children and succeed in addressing their needs.

TL;DR: The epidemiology, etiologic risk and protective factors, and evidence-based approaches that have been found to be most effective in preventing adolescent substance use and abuse are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this article, cultural influences on the prevalence of autism and the diagnostic and treatment processes are reviewed and synthesized through a consideration of the developmental context and through clinical practice suggestions.

TL;DR: The potential impact of pathological gambling and problematic Internet use in youth, the relevance of subsyndromal levels of participation, and how prevention and treatment strategies may be considered and tested within a developmental framework are reviewed.

TL;DR: Why it is crucial, from a clinical and public health perspective, to better understand the development as well as risk and protection processes for the mental health of immigrant children and specific aspects of the dual language development of immigrantChildren are highly relevant to their mental health and adaptation.

TL;DR: The deviance prone model is presented as an important tool for testing possible relationships among the various risk factors and their sequencing that leads to early adolescent alcohol use and drug initiation and for an examination of the complex interplay of risk factors that lead to the development of alcohol use problems in late adolescence and young adults.

TL;DR: The genetic origins of adolescent substance use problems and the potential this field of research offers for prevention are reviewed.

TL;DR: Although the research base for CM with adolescents is in its infancy, there are multiple reasons for high expectations and a discussion of implementation successes and challenges.

TL;DR: The findings from this article underscore the value of individual and group behavior therapies and motivational interviewing in helping reduce mild to serious AOD use among adolescents.

TL;DR: The authors review the neurobiology of adolescent substance use disorders and the implications of these findings for prevention and treatment are considered.

TL;DR: A developmental perspective is applied to describing the psychosocial factors affecting psychological adjustment and health-related behaviors relevant to infants, preschool and school-age children, and adolescents with CF.

TL;DR: Current trends indicate that tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana are the most frequently used substances among American adolescents and the greatest risk factors for using these substances are being male, being White, being an older adolescent, engaging in sexual risk behaviors, having a family history of substance abuse, and associating with peers who abuse substances.

TL;DR: This article reviews the literature on EDs and examines problematic use and potential negative consequences in young people, special emphasis is devoted to safety concerns following combination of EDs with alcohol, which gives the user a false sense of control.

TL;DR: The concept of identity formation is discussed and how the stresses of immigration and acculturation and the factors of resiliency and risk affect immigrant children, adolescents, and their families, so that clinicians treating these populations can be prepared to understand divergent, and often well-hidden, world views.

TL;DR: MDFT is uniquely suited to address adolescent substance abuse and related disorders given its comprehensive interventions that systematically target the multiple interacting risk factors underlying many developmental disruptions of adolescence.

TL;DR: An overview ofPrematurity outcomes in the domains of prematurity relevant to practicing child psychiatrists is provided and evidence-based treatment modalities involved in prevention and management are explored.

TL;DR: The present research evidence suggests that several interventions have been found to be effective in ethnic minority populations without a need for major adaptations of the original interventions.

TL;DR: The best evidence of efficacy is for family behavioral cognitive treatments, but for especially severe cases a multidisciplinary, carefully coordinated approach has been found to be clinically helpful.

TL;DR: The authors address the psychosocial and treatment- related issues that arise in children with cancer, with attention to the adjustment to cancer at different developmental stages, mood and anxiety issues, treatment-related psychiatric sequelae, and the challenges faced by childhood cancer survivors.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of clinical considerations unique to the population, including intricacies of assessment and special treatment considerations, is presented, and recommendations based on practice parameters promote integration of treatment modalities versus serial or concurrent treatment of co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders.

TL;DR: The diagnosis and treatment of asthma as well as the correlation between asthma and psychiatric illness in children in children is reviewed in an effort to improve management and treatment strategies for this prevalent disease.

TL;DR: This article addresses less developed areas of clinical research that are of great importance for better understanding the therapeutic process along the continuum of care in youth with alcohol and other substance use disorders (AOSUD).

TL;DR: Basic genetic testing and 11 of the most common genetic disorders are reviewed, including the evidence base for treatment, and child psychiatrists are well positioned to integrate cognitive, behavioral, social, psychiatric, and physical phenotypes, with a focus on functional impairment.

TL;DR: A substantial body of evidence supports the concepts and practices of family-driven care congruent with wraparound principles and practices, such as mentoring, team decision making, and community-based services and supports.

TL;DR: This article reviewed pharmacotherapies used for aversion, substitution, anti-craving, and detoxification of alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, and opioids dependence in adolescents with substance use disorders.

TL;DR: What is known about psychiatric syndromes among HIV+ youths, their treatments, and other psychosocial factors of concern to the psychiatrist when treating children and adolescents with HIV disease are reviewed.

TL;DR: By working in collaboration with pediatric primary care providers, child and adolescent psychiatrists have the opportunity to address significant levels of unmet need for the majority of children and teenagers with serious mental health problems who have been unable to gain access to care.

TL;DR: The conceptual basis for the role of culture in human development, particularly psychosocial and cognitive development, is reviewed, evidence and support from field observations of children in diverse cultures are presented, and the emerging evidence from the field of cultural neuroscience is discussed.

TL;DR: This review of pediatric obesity assesses the epidemic's background, delineates the challenges of clinical care, and appraises the therapeutic recommendations for this population of patients and their families.

TL;DR: The authors present an approach for incorporating culture within the clinical setting termed the cultural sensibility model and its philosophical basis and present brief case examples and a sample curriculum in support of this model.