{"title":"Keep your eye on…","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30791","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 6","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844768","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":"Suspending suspensions: A way to re-envision subjective causes of suspensions","authors":"Yvorn Aswad MD, Kristin Knapp-Ines PhD, BCBA-D, Alicia Ead LCSW","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30789","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An elementary student was eating an orange in class. Noting that it was not lunch time, her teacher asked her to put the orange away — multiple times. The student was concerned about getting in trouble but was more worried about the hunger she felt. She persisted in eating her orange. The teacher found this to be “deliberate disobedience” and threatened disciplinary action due to non-compliance. The student, feeling nervous, and frightened, eloped from her classroom. Immediately, the teacher now in a state of alert herself, panicked and called for the support team reporting that she eloped with “something she should not have in her hand.”</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 6","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844796","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":"Helping addicted women and their newborns stay together and recover","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30795","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sometimes it seems there's little hope for pregnant women who are addicted to drugs, or for their families. But in fact, there is a robust literature proving that family-based care helps keep mother and child together, and federal grants are supporting such programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 6","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844970","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":"Because trauma matters: School suspension","authors":"Margaret Paccione-Dyszlewski Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30794","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During my years as the director of mental health services for the Delaware Department of Corrections, I had the privilege of talking with many individuals as they reflected on their road to incarceration. School suspension was frequently an early stop on the journey.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 6","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844969","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":"Autism in girls: ‘Camouflaging,’ social functioning, and diagnostic dilemmas","authors":"Karen Cammuso, Kristin Knapp-Ines","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30790","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The subject of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis in girls has become an important area of clinical and research focus. For years, the male:female ratio of ASD has been estimated as approximately 4:1, with affected girls historically presenting with a higher likelihood of significant intellectual impairments. Clinicians and researchers have increasingly questioned this ratio, with findings indicating that girls with average or higher intellectual and/or verbal functioning have a different phenotype than males affected with ASD.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 6","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844797","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":"Stop drinking alcohol: A pathway to abstinence from all drugs","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30792","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The problems caused by excessive alcohol consumption begin at a young age. So do, tragically, overdoses from drugs, and increasingly, drug addiction in general. In Japan, it's illegal to use drugs. But a recent study there has found that what really contributes to abstinence is residential treatment (something many parents wish they could afford for their children) and the cessation has resulted in increased abstinence rates from drugs in general.</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 6","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844798","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 Cass report, gender identity, and where to go next","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30793","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Child and adolescent clinicians in the United States have to be paying attention to what has happened to gender medicine in the United Kingdom. The highly respected service at the Tavistock Clinic has come under intense criticism — confusing as that may be — and in April Hilary Cass released her report to the UK's National Health Service expressing concern for gender medicine, saying it is “built on shaky foundations.” Coupled with recent lawsuits against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and gender-affirming care, the standard in the United States, clinicians are left pondering their next steps. An editorial in the <i>British Medical Journal</i> following the release of the Cass Report gives a balanced summation. (For the report, go to Download the Final Report). The editorial is subtitled “an opportunity to unite behind evidence informed care in gender medicine.”</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 6","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844968","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":"More than 11% of high school seniors use delta-8, the unregulated THC","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30785","url":null,"abstract":"<p>About 11% of 12th graders have used delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the past year, according to an analysis of last year's Monitoring the Future Study, which is conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 5","pages":"5-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140340435","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":"Who knows how much kids are sleeping? And why it matters","authors":"Kelsey B. Sutton, Justin Parent Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30782","url":null,"abstract":"<p>According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, children from the ages of 6 to 12 should be getting 9–12 hours of sleep every night (Paruthi et al., 2016). However, many children are not getting enough sleep. The National Survey of Children's Health found that 38.4% of 6–12-year-olds in the United States had short sleep duration according to parental report (Wheaton & Claussen, 2021). This sleep deficit may increase with age, as the CDC found that around six in 10 middle schoolers and seven in 10 high schoolers self-report not getting the recommended amount of sleep on school nights (Wheaton et al., 2018). In addition to age, this difference in the percentage of kids with insufficient sleep may also be due to the differences in informant between those two surveys. One study found that while both children and parents overestimated total sleep time compared with the polysomnography, the child report was slightly more accurate (Combs et al., 2019).</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 5","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140340434","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 importance of parental education and cultural humility when addressing co-sleeping with infants","authors":"Anne S. Walters Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/cbl.30787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbl.30787","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Last October, an Indiana woman was charged with two felonies for her infant's death related to co-sleeping, after she had lost another infant to the same cause in 2020. The rationale for her indictment was that she should have been cognizant of the risk. This was also the case with an Ohio woman early this year for the same set of tragedies, and a FL woman in January as well, also two infants. A quick search yields a concerning number of these cases, and indeed the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) notes that approximately 3500 infants die annually of sleep related factors (Moon et al, 2022).</p>","PeriodicalId":101223,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter","volume":"40 5","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140340482","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}