Children and Adolescents

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Writing Therapy both reduce PTSD symptoms in children who experienced a single traumatic event.

Researchers find that support and self-care were helpful for users during discontinuation, but that mental health professionals were not very helpful.

Scientific evidence indicates that antidepressants do not help children. In light of such high risks to the child’s wellbeing, these psychiatric chemicals are clearly doing more harm than good. What kind of society would permit this assault on its children?

Hearing Voices Network self-help groups are an important resource for coping with voice hearing, study finds.

Even though it is extremely unlikely that in France we would reach the kinds of percentages we see in the USA, where in some states nearly 10% of children are treated with methylphenidate or other psychostimulants not used in France, overprescription is highly probable. Why?

The researchers found that, of those who were initially prescribed both antidepressants and benzodiazepines, approximately 12% went on to engage in long-term benzodiazepine use.

A large longitudinal study finds once more that being prescribed antipsychotics significantly increases the risk of diabetes.

“These interventions also have the potential to increase rumination and negative affect, and potentially self-harm repetition, by serving as unhelpful reminders of negative experiences in the lead-up to the index self-harm event or during hospital treatment.”

Study examines racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of care for Medicaid-enrolled children starting ADHD medication.

An article presents new screening tools for pediatric depression and anxiety—but fails to answer its own questions about efficacy.

After a few weeks it became clear to me the complete lack of comprehension that I faced as a person claiming to have been cured of psychosis. Being a schizophrenic claiming to no longer suffer from schizophrenia only made me seem more schizophrenic due to the current culture of psychiatry.

Data demonstrate an overreliance of non-representative and non-diverse sampling biases in psychological research.

It now looks as if the U.S. approach to mental health is fast gaining purchase in a country that formerly boasted a great, perhaps too sophisticated (Lacan et al.) psychoanalytic tradition, but also a holistic psychosocial tradition when dealing with psychological disturbance in children.

A study examines the variables correlated with low levels of physical activity in persons diagnosed with psychosis in low and middle-income countries

The Commission was addressed by organizations engaged with various aspects of addiction treatment. Much of the input seemed apropos, but one voice was missing. Speakers failed to include even one practicing physician or advocate for the pain patients who have been blamed for the so-called “opioid epidemic.”

Individuals with lived experience and clinicians share about barriers and facilitators to guided self-help CBT for voice hearing.

A new article examines the usefulness of the ADHD diagnosis and suggests alternatives

Surveyed doctors overestimate pharmacological effects of antidepressants and underestimate placebo effects.

Pilot study finds school-based humanistic counseling reduces emotional symptoms in students.

A new article explains common misconceptions about ADHD that are held by teachers and mental health professionals and may lead to overdiagnosis and overmedication in schools.

A new study explores sexual violence and intimate partner violence in college women with mental health related disabilities.

A review of academic textbooks finds that they often leave out effect sizes and molecular genetics findings, both of which suggest minimal impact of genetics on ADHD. Instead, textbooks focus on overblown conclusions from behavioral studies.

New research shows that having a strong sense of personal meaning and purpose can reduce the negative effects of social media use.

Higher levels of sedentary behavior are associated with poorer cognitive functioning in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Amid calls for a retraction, Lancet Psychiatry publishes articles criticizing the original finding and a response from the authors.