{"title":"Positionality","authors":"David P. Lichtenstein Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30862","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In physics, the “observer effect” describes how the act of measuring something subtly alters that something. Werner Heisenberg and colleagues found this (also called the “uncertainty principle”) as they measured atomic particles, finding their method precisely read a particle's position, but interfered with its motion — making the two dimensions (position and motion) impossible to accurately measure simultaneously. Or as one Wikipedia author noted, checking the pressure in a tire causes air to escape, thereby changing the amount of pressure.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 4","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143533972","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":"SAMHSA approves CM incentives of up to $750 a year per patient","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30852","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contingency management (CM) — paying patients in treatment for addiction for negative drug tests — is the best method for treating stimulant use disorders, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and researchers. Because there is no other effective treatment for stimulant use disorders, CM is particularly important. However, the federal government has required that these payments be very low (no more than $75 a year) in order to avoid “kickbacks.” The idea that treatment providers would use the payments as incentives to get patients kept this effective protocol from being included in treatment or even in research. However, finally the federal government has upped the amount. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced that its grant programs which authorize CM can now provide values of up to $750 a year per patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 3","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112059","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":"Link between psychiatric symptoms and cognition","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30853","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Researchers have found both positive and negative associations between mental symptom severity and general cognition. Prior studies showed mixed findings. But this study, by noting that the associations were nonlinear, reconciled those prior studies, which assumed that symptom severity tracked with cognitive ability. In fact, the association between cognition and symptoms may be the opposite in low vs. high symptom severity samples. The study shows that it's necessary to use clinical information in studies of cognitive impairment. Because mental illnesses are a leading cause of disability, and cognitive impairments often play a role across psychiatric disorders. The researchers wanted to determine if the association between general cognition and mental health symptoms diverges at different symptom severities in children. For the study, researchers used the ongoing Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study to assess 5175 children at ages 9 to 11 years. They evaluated aggregate cognitive test scores (general cognition) in relation to total and subscale-specific symptoms reported from the Child Behavioral Checklist. Linear models showed differing associations between general cognition and mental health symptoms, depending on the range of symptom severities queried. Nonlinear models confirm that internalizing symptoms were significantly positively associated with cognition at low symptom burdens and significantly negatively associated with cognition at more severe symptoms. [Pines, A., Tozzi, L., Bertrand, C., et al. (2024, Dec). Psychiatric symptoms, cognition, and symptom severity in children. <i>JAMA Psychiatry</i>, <i>81</i>(12), 1236–1245. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.2399.]</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 3","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112060","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}
Emma Jenkins B.A., Josh Kemp Ph.D., Kristen Benito Ph.D., Erin O'Connor Ph.D., Lesley A. Norris Ph.D., Jennifer Herren Ph.D., Jennifer Freeman Ph.D.
{"title":"Who calls, who engages? Families seeking treatment for anxiety and OCD","authors":"Emma Jenkins B.A., Josh Kemp Ph.D., Kristen Benito Ph.D., Erin O'Connor Ph.D., Lesley A. Norris Ph.D., Jennifer Herren Ph.D., Jennifer Freeman Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30849","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pediatric anxiety is among the most common mental health diagnoses for American youth, yet few youths diagnosed with anxiety/obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) receive treatment. The majority of parents nationwide report at least some difficulty accessing mental health care for their child. Within the state of Rhode Island, where 12.7% of youth experienced anxiety concerns during 2021, 59% of caregivers reported difficulty accessing mental health care of any kind (Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, 2021-2022). Access to exposure-based CBT (exposure therapy), despite strong evidence as a frontline treatment for anxiety/OCD, is especially limited.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 3","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112061","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":"Looking forward","authors":"David P. Lichtenstein Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30854","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Greetings to you, readers, from me, taking over editorial duties of the <i>CABL</i>. Many thanks to Dr. Anne Walters for her years of professional mentorship as well as support during this transition. There are many topics I'm anticipating over the coming year of <i>CABL</i> publication. But, as this is my inaugural column, I thought I would start with a brief reflection on the very process of looking forward.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 3","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112120","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":"Lockdown's effect on memory and mental wellbeing based on age and gender","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30850","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lockdown under COVID-19, involving children in an effort to prevent transmission of the virus, had negative effects on the children's emotional wellbeing afterward, even though they didn't remember all of the details. It turned out that the younger the child, the less likely depression was to ensue due to the way memory works at different ages, and also due to having less information about the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 3","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112062","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":"Importance of childhood vaccines: Saving lives","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30855","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It's almost unbelievable that there is still argument from some parties against vaccination. For children and adolescents 6 months through 17 years, rates of vaccination are less than 40% for the seasonal flu vaccine and less than 10% for the updated COVID-19 vaccine, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reports. This is worrying for pediatricians.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 3","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110551","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.30851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30851","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The need for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging</p><p>The FDA's labeling recommendation for higher doses for buprenorphine</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 3","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112063","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":"Final commentary for this editor: Musing about mental health in children and families","authors":"Anne S. Walters Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30847","url":null,"abstract":"<p>After 8 years of sharing monthly thoughts about child and adolescent mental health, this will be my last commentary. I retired last winter, so I'll turn this over to an editor still active in the scholarly and clinical world. It's the daily practice that creates opinions and ideas to research and write about. I'm looking forward to seeing what the following newsletters bring.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 2","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118790","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":"Youth tobacco survey results released","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30846","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released data from the 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) on youth tobacco use in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: “Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2024.”</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"41 2","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118788","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}