{"title":"Irritability in children: Promising advances in measurement and treatment","authors":"Anne S. Walters Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30813","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Extreme irritability is a challenging quality for children and adolescents and those that live with them; one that often brings them into treatment due to the impact on others. Further, it also leads to a cycle of interpersonal rejection from others based on the unpleasantness of interaction with such an individual. For these reasons, both anger and irritability have received increasing attention from researchers and clinicians in recent years, yet conceptualization is still murky, as is measurement. Is it temperament? Is it a sign of pathology? Specific to mood disorders or a cross-sectional symptom? Stable and enduring, or not?</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 9","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Under-Diagnosing ADHD in Young Females","authors":"Darya Long M.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30808","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When I was in adult psychiatry residency, I was shocked by the frequency of which young adult female patients would request evaluation for potential ADHD. Many of these young women presented as well with mood and anxiety symptoms, and it was imperative to determine whether the predominant impairment was secondary to untreated ADHD or other psychiatric conditions. In full disclosure, I was unfortunately primed to be skeptical of these college-aged students who were seeking a diagnosis of ADHD, and I naively felt that their presenting concerns of inattentiveness, difficulty with concentration, and reduced motivation was more likely attributed to untreated depression in this population rather than an undetected ADHD. After all, I wondered, how would ADHD have gone unnoticed for all of their childhood and only now manifest in young adulthood? Oddly enough, I encountered very few young adult males with signs concerning for untreated ADHD; if anything, I saw more males on stimulants for ADHD than women, despite encountering more young women reporting concerns for untreated ADHD.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 9","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CDC: Many teens say they don't receive emotional support, but parents say they do","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30814","url":null,"abstract":"<p>According to the federal National Health Interview Survey and National Health Interview Survey–Teen, there's a big gap between the emotional support parents think their adolescent children are getting, and the support the teens say they're getting. In 2021–2022, 58.5% of teenagers reported always or usually receiving the social and emotional support they needed. Differences were seen by several demographic characteristics including sex, race and Hispanic origin, sexual or gender minority status, highest parental education level, and family income level. Teenagers who always or usually received support were less likely to report poor or fair health, anxiety or depression symptoms, very low life satisfaction, and poor sleep quality. Parents consistently reported higher perceived levels of their teenager's social and emotional support compared with the teenager's self-report.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 9","pages":"9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical population of teens is adversely affected by social media use","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30811","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There are widespread concerns about the influence of social media on the mental health of adolescents, but the backdrop to this is that most research has not looked at clinical groups, but only the general population. For this study, research reviewed the literature to look at the association between social media use and internalizing symptoms — anxiety and depression. They found that clinical, as against community, samples show an increased risk of internalizing symptoms related to social media use, and that this is correlated with the amount of time spent on social media.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 9","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI be used in medicine? Not in MI, SUDs, CPDD panelists suggest","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30812","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While artificial intelligence (AI) may have utility in some medical practices such as reading X-rays, it is not going to be useful in diagnosing or treating conditions with nuances — notably, substance use disorders (SUDs) or mental illness — experts suggested in a panel on the topic at the June College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) annual conference in Montreal.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 9","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parent-guided early intervention for preterm babies improves motor skills","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30809","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Researchers have concluded, unsurprisingly, that preterm infants randomized to enhanced developmental support had better developmental outcomes than infants whose caregivers did not receive the training. The researchers started with the very safe hypothesis that enhanced developmental support provided by caregivers — mothers, mainly — would improve the outcomes of infants born preterm to families with low income. The used an intervention which included training was provided by a multidisciplinary team with specialized knowledge of early intervention and infant development. The training began in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and continued after the infant was discharged.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 9","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keep your eye on…","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30810","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 9","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cognitive ‘stuckness’ in children","authors":"Anne S. Walters Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30806","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This month, I read a commentary on “Eight ways to give yourself a pep talk when you feel stuck” (Turow, 2024), which was distributed in “Six Things Psychologists are Talking About” by the American Psychological Association (May 2024). Although the commentary was geared toward adults, for me it raised thoughts about how often we address “stuckness” among children in treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 8","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachna K. Iyer, Esther E. Palacios-Barrios, Leslie A. Brick Ph.D., Nicole R. Nugent Ph.D.
{"title":"How powerful is a family?","authors":"Rachna K. Iyer, Esther E. Palacios-Barrios, Leslie A. Brick Ph.D., Nicole R. Nugent Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30802","url":null,"abstract":"<p>If you've listened to the news recently, you may have been struck by a sense of impending doom. This is perhaps especially true for adolescents, who have faced a global pandemic and the constant threat of school shootings and gun violence. Persistent feelings of hopelessness are experienced at alarming rates by adolescents. Hopelessness (defined as the negative expectation toward oneself or the future) has been widely reported to play a major role in the development of depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and unsafe behaviors (Berardelli et al., 2022; Stoddard et al., 2011).</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 8","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Short sleep and inflammation linked to increased rate of psychosis","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30805","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It's known that short sleep duration, prolonged, can have a detrimental impact on long-term mental health. One of the protections of sleep is against the development of psychosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 8","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}