Child-psychiatry - Articles - Page 7

Promoting Children’s Gender Health: A Guideline for Professionals

November 1, 2016

Diane Ehrensaft, PhD

More and more children are expressing to their parents questions, worries, or declarations about their gender. Dr. Ehrensaft's experience at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center is that medical, mental health, educational, and legal expertise all contribute to optimal care of gender patients. In this article she describes that care.

Gender Dysphoria Diagnosis in Children and Adolescents

November 1, 2016

Jack Drescher, MD

Jack Drescher, MD

Clinical professor of psychiatry & behavioral sciences at New York Medical College; member of DSM-5 work group on sexual and gender identity disorders; member ICD-11 World Health Organization working group

Dr. Drescher has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

What do we know about how gender identity forms for the average person? When does it emerge, and is there a developmental component to gender identity? Dr. Drescher discusses these questions and the current state of gender dysphoria in DSM-5.

Promoting Children’s Gender Health: A Guideline for Professionals

November 1, 2016

Diane Ehrensaft, PhD

Diane Ehrensaft, PhD Director of mental health, Child and Adolescent Gender Center, associate professor of pediatrics, University of California San Francisco Dr. Ehrensaft has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

More and more children are expressing to their parents questions, worries, or declarations about their gender. Dr. Ehrensaft's experience at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center is that medical, mental health, educational, and legal expertise all contribute to optimal care of gender patients. In this article she describes that care.

Metformin Use in Autistic Children Taking Atypical Antipsychotics

November 1, 2016

Bret A. Moore, PsyD, ABPP

Atypical antipsychotics are commonly used to reduce irritability and agitation in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Although effective, these medications lead to weight gain and other metabolic problems. Strategies like tailored diet plans and exercise can help, but they are often not enough. If not interrupted early, for many, continued weight gain will lead to diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease later in life.

Gender Dysphoria Diagnosis in Children and Adolescents

November 1, 2016

Jack Drescher, MD

Jack Drescher, MD Clinical professor of psychiatry & behavioral sciences at New York Medical College; member of DSM-5 work group on sexual and gender identity disorders; member ICD-11 World Health Organization working group Dr. Drescher has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

What do we know about how gender identity forms for the average person? When does it emerge, and is there a developmental component to gender identity? Dr. Drescher discusses these questions and the current state of gender dysphoria in DSM-5.

Helping Families Use Screen Media Sensibly

September 1, 2016

We are all aware that media and technology have fundamentally changed our day-to-day lives, but there is a lot of confusion and misinformation about what an “always connected” lifestyle actually means. Dr. Robb describes the addictive effects of technology on children and adolescents in this interview.

Parent-Focused Therapy Outperforms Conjoint Therapy for Anorexia

September 1, 2016

Bret A. Moore, PsyD, ABPP

Few disorders frustrate clinicians as much as anorexia nervosa (AN). In the June 2015 issue of TCPR, we interviewed James Lock, who guided us through one of the few effective AN treatments, family-based therapy (FBT). In FBT, a family therapist works with the entire family to come up with a weight restoration plan for the patient.

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder: A Primer

July 1, 2016

Ellen Leibenluft, MD

Chronically irritable children are not at increased risk to develop manic episodes as they age; instead, they are at increased risk for anxiety and unipolar depression later in life. Moreover, unlike children with bipolar disorder (BD), chronically irritable children do not tend to have unusually strong family histories of BD. Rather, there are both genetic and familial links between chronic irritability and unipolar depression.

Treating Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Children

July 1, 2016

Peter Parry, MBBS

Child & adolescent psychiatrist; medical director, child & youth mental health services at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; senior lecturer, University of Queensland, visiting senior lecturer, Flinders University Dr. Parry has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Disruptive behavioral disorders are the most common preadolescent disorders in child psychiatry and behavioral pediatrics. Dr. Parry discusses the landscape, diagnosis, and treatment of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD).

Evolution of Childhood Bipolar Disorder in the United States

July 1, 2016

Many clinicians are still unclear about how bipolar disorder got to be such a common diagnosis, most specifically in the United States. Dr. Carlson describes a historical perspective on bipolar disorder as a diagnosis in children.