From the monthly archives: May 2011
Introducing solid foods to your baby can be an exciting adventure. I know that it was for me, the spit out food, screwed up faces, and the eventual gusto with which my son ate. When to introduce solids appears to be very important, according to a recent study in the journal Pediatrics that [...]
Continue Reading →Hi all! In the last post I started summarizing a series of studies that look at the scientific evidence for the effectiveness of specific treatments for symptoms of autism. I began by discussing research that suggests that Secretin is not an effective treatment for autism. This week I’m discussing 3 additional medications (or classes of medications): [...]
Continue Reading →Are parents’ attempts to keep their teens sexually safe having unintended consequences?
I came across an article in the December, 2010 issue of the Journal of Family Psychology that looked at adolescent sexual behavior and consequences, and then related these to a variety of parenting factors. What may surprise some is that the talks that [...]
Continue Reading →Hello all, today’s post is going to be the first of a series of 3 short weekly posts discussing 3 autism-related studies recently published in the Journal Pediatrics. All 3 studies are systematic reviews of the effectiveness of specific interventions for autism. That is, all 3 studies merged the results of all previous studies that [...]
Continue Reading →Hello everyone!
Some of you have been asking what I have been doing during these past weeks as child-psych has been quite quiet. Well, here is the answer: A completely revamped child-psych.org!
Child-psych has been growing greatly during the last 2 years and for a while I’ve been thinking carefully about the next step. I [...]
Continue Reading →And the argument continues…time-out versus corporal punishment. I could do a lengthy review of the research on both, but my bottom line will still be this: if you can utilize time-out and get desired (and better) results why hit your kids? (See Nestor’s 9/27/10 post for a discussion on spanking.)
That being [...]
Continue Reading →Over the past many years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have been left wondering what is being done to support, really support, our military families that remain behind as well as our soldiers that have gone through and continue to go through military deployment. I came across this study and was both delighted and hopeful [...]
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