The Great ADHD Myth: What you Need to Know About Channel 4’s “Most Controversial...
The Great ADHD Myth: What you Need to Know About Channel 4’s “Most Controversial Show of the Year”
Treatment Involving Patient’s Family Cuts Mental Health Hospital Admissions, Study Finds
Treatment Involving Patient's Family Cuts Mental Health Hospital Admissions, Study Finds
Is ADHD Really a Brain Condition? Five Experts Debate the Evidence
From the Teachers Talk Radio podcast. "Is ADHD best understood as a brain condition, a useful diagnostic construct or a label for a collection...
Rising Number of People Seeking ADHD Diagnosis Without Treatment, say Experts
From The Guardian. “People are increasingly seeking to an obtain an ADHD diagnosis without pursuing treatment, according to experts who have called for more...
Why I no Longer Think Autism is a Spectrum
From the Times Educational Supplement Magazine. "The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in...
Troubled Teen Industry Rocked by Lawsuits, Sexual Assault Charges
From MindSite News by Art Levine. "Universal Health Services Inc., one of the largest operators of behavioral health facilities in the country, was pulled...
Prozac ‘No Better Than Placebo’ for Treating Children with Depression, Experts Say
From The Guardian: "Clinical guidelines should no longer recommend Prozac for children, according to experts, after research showed it had no clinical benefit for...
Controversial Paxil “Study 329” Earns Expression of Concern After Critic Sues Publisher
From Retractionwatch.com:
"After more than 20 years of criticism and calls for retraction, a journal has placed an expression of concern on a study of...
NEW LAW Pushes Kids Onto Psychiatric Drugs
From Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring's YouTube channel: "Illinois just became the first state in the U.S. to roll out universal mental health screenings for students...
Teen Killed Himself After ‘Months of Encouragement from ChatGPT’, Lawsuit Claims
From The Guardian: "Adam, from California, killed himself in April after what his family’s lawyer called “months of encouragement from ChatGPT”. The teenager’s family...
FDA Expert Panel on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and Pregnancy
An FDA expert roundtable on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and pregnancy to facilitate discussions on the safety of the developing child. Held on...
Court Gives Approval of Settlement Providing Better Mental Health Care for Iowa Children
from KCRG.org: On Friday, a federal court gave its approval of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit against the Iowa Department of Health and...
NY Times Finally Figures out ADHD Critics May be Onto Something
From The New York Times: "From 2012 to 2022, the total number of prescriptions for stimulants to treat A.D.H.D. increased in the United States...
Video: Origins of Mental Disturbance in a ‘Normal’ Family – Like Mine – Peter...
ABSMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds presentation by Neuroscientist Peter Sterling, PhD on December 2, 2024. In this video, Peter Sterling talks of his family experiences...
Nearly a Third of Adolescents Getting Mental Health Treatment, Federal Survey Finds
From CBS News: This works out to around 8.3 million young people between the ages of 12 and 17 getting counseling, medication or another treatment.
Paris Hilton Testifies She Was ‘Force-Fed Medications and Sexually Abused’ While Institutionalized as a...
From The Guardian: The socialite has called on lawmakers to pass the Stop Institutional Child Abuse act and is an advocate for a “Bill of Rights” for children in youth facilities.
I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d...
From The Guardian: When I sought help for crippling invasive thoughts, I was told I had a disease like any other. But I wasn’t able to recover until I understood the fallacy at the heart of mental healthcare.
Mom’s 911 Call for Her Son’s Mental Health Ends With His Death After Police...
From MedPage Today: Taylor Ware's August 2019 death was among more than 1,000 over a decade after police used common use-of-force tactics that are meant to stop people without killing them.
Parents Must Reclaim the Central Role If Growing Crisis Among Children Is to End:...
From Irish Examiner: "Parents must surrender their point of view that there’s something wrong with the child and see that it’s the relationship that’s in trouble and the child’s behaviour is just a function of that," says physician Gabor Maté, who works with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness.
Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting
But parents are still sending children away to board, and it’s still dangerous.
Discussing the ‘Obsession’ With Childhood Disorder Labelling
From Sociology Lens Insights: In recent decades, we have too often passed the buck of social problems to children who lack the power to say no to stigmatizing psychiatric labels.
Call for Intervention in Case of Boy Left in Windowless Hospital Room for 56...
From RTE: The child is among those impacted by failings in the North Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, with the public health service last year apologising for 'deficits in care' he received, including the inappropriate prescribing of heavy anti-psychotic medication.
How Early Relationships Can Define Reality – For Better or Worse
From Jay Reid Psychotherapy: Kids will do an amazing amount of shape-shifting to get their parents to be willing to care for them.
The FDA Warned an Asthma Drug Could Induce Despair. Many Were Never Told.
From The New York Times: Singulair, now a generic, is still used by millions of Americans even after thousands of patients and dozens of studies have described harm. Children face the greatest risks of the drug's ill effects.
The Infant as Reflection of Soul: The Time Before There Was Self
From World Association for Infant Mental Health: By the time most of us reach adulthood, we have not only lost the capacity to regularly access states that we achieved routinely as infants, but we have also lost awareness of that loss.
