Researchers Challenge Evidence for Antidepressants in Youth
Researchers shed light on the precarious nature of evidence from efficacy trials of antidepressant medication to treat symptoms of major depressive disorder in children and adolescents.
Class of 2020 Students May Face Traumatic Loss Due to Coronavirus
From The Conversation: Emerging adulthood is a critical developmental stage. Combined with the transition into an uncertain future, existential despair can result.
Generation Sedated: Why Record Numbers of Our Children Are on Antidepressants
From The Telegraph: "Looking back now, I wanted someone to listen to me," said Sam Taylor, 19. "It was guidance I needed, not a prescription."
NHS Data: 41% Rise in Antidepressant Prescribing to Children Aged 5-12 Since 2015
From The Pharmaceutical Journal: The majority were males, and peaks in antidepressant prescribing to young people in England coincided with periods of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Call for Retraction of Fraudulent Trial Reports of Antidepressants in Children
From Institute for Scientific Freedom: Peter GĂžtzsche and 10 people who lost either a child or spouse to suicide after being prescribed an antidepressant have written an open letter to JAACAP and JAMA Psychiatry.
Study: Teens Who View Parents as Loving and Supportive Less Likely to Be Cyberbullies
From the Daily Mail (UK): Teenagers who see their mum and dad as loving caregivers are less likely to be cyberbullies than children with...
6-Year-Old Girl Baker Acted Without Parent Consent
From NBC News: The Florida girl was committed for two days to a mental health facility and given anti-psychotic drugs after allegedly throwing a temper tantrum at school.
Punching, Predators, Neglect: Traumatized NC Children Suffer Inside Dismal Psychiatric Centers
From The Fayetteville Observer: "We are ruining peopleâs lives, and weâre doing it in the most expensive way possible," said State Rep. Verla Insko. "Itâs inhumane and irresponsible. It is a government failure."
Arizona Farm Gives Refuge From Pain, for Man and Beast Alike
From AP News: There is no talk at Selah Carefarm of ending the pain of loss, just of building the emotional muscle to handle it.
Why Parents Should Be Concerned With âEQ,â Not Just IQ
From The Washington Post: Weâve long underestimated and ignored emotional intelligence, especially in kids, instead focusing on academic success and testing them to measure it.
This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. Sheâs Not Alone.
From The New York Times: The problem of multiple medication use, or polypharmacy, that first emerged a decade ago among young people in foster care and low-income settings, has now gone mainstream.
Simplifying Childhood May Protect Against Mental Health Issues
From Raised Good: Suffering with a "cumulative stress reaction" as a result of the snowballing effect of "too much,"Â children develop their own coping strategies to feel safe.
Infancy and Early Childhood Matter So Much Because of Attachment
From The Conversation: What we learn throughout infancy and childhood are a set of behaviours and ways of thinking and feeling about ourselves and others, or what psychologists call a working model of the world.
As Conservatorship Abuse Gains More Attention, More Activists Speak Out Against It
From The Daily Kos: "Saying that youâre going to remove someoneâs rights in order to protect them doesnât make any sense," said activist Marian Kornicki. "People need support, but you donât remove their rights to do that."
Seclusion and Isolation Rooms Misused in Illinois Schools
From the Chicago Tribune: Children are being locked away, alone and terrified, in schools across Illinois. Often, it's against the law.
We Have Ruined Childhood
From The New York Times: Children today are more depressed than they were during the Great Depression and more anxious than they were at the height of the Cold War.
âRestraint and Seclusionâ Harms Kids. So Why Is It Used in Schools?
From The Washington Post: What if you went five days a week to a school that regularly locked you up or physically held you down? Most of us would walk in ready for a fight, not to learn.
A Young Black Mother Died During Treatment for Postpartum Depression. Her Family Demands Answers
From The City: Denise Williams's family still doesn't know why the 29-year-old mother of two died after going to New York's Queens Hospital Center last month.
Concern as Proportion of Children in England on Antipsychotics Doubles
From The Guardian: Although the overall percentage who were prescribed antipsychotics was relatively small, experts consider it a worrying trend since these powerful drugs carry serious safety risks.
Civil Rights Advocates Call U.S. Child Welfare System a ‘National Problem’
From The Imprint: A new report says the child welfare system fails to adequately address the needs of families and often harms the very kids it's designed to protect.
Teenage Hockey Player Working to Destigmatize ‘Mental Health Issues’
From ESPN: "No one with mental health issues should be called a burden," said Morgan Urso. "And that is the stigma I am trying to end."
Beyond Drugs: The Universal Experience of Addiction | Gabor Maté, MD
From drgabormate.com: Most addicted people use no drugs at all, and addiction cannot be understood if we restrict our vision of it to substances, legal or illicit.
Dramatic Decline in Californiaâs Use of Antipsychotic Drugs on Its Foster Children
From The Imprint: Youth and Family News: A new study indicates statewide reforms have freed thousands of abused and neglected children from the lasting effects of the most powerful psychiatric drugs, but concerns about other medications persist.
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...
Reducing Mental Health Detention of People with Autism and/or Learning Disabilities
From Doughty Street Chambers: People with learning disabilities and/or autism who have experienced and survived institutionalisation often carry the psychological scars for many years.
