Hello everyone! It has been a while since my last posts and I have a few updates before I share with you some thoughts on a recent study on parental emotions and teen depression.
I wanted to start by thanking Dr. Anita Schimizzi, who has done an incredible job keeping child-psych running throughout the summer. [...]
Continue Reading →We all know how subjective most aspects of life are. One’s perceptions carry an immeasurable amount of weight as we work to understand and interact with this world around us. A recent study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry demonstrated the importance of perceptions in looking at how kids view their parents.
Young [...]
Continue Reading →The scene: Jamie, a fourth-grader, knows that he is responsible for remembering to put his lunch in his backpack for school. He has forgotten it today for the umpteenth time, which his mom does not notice until the school bus is pulling away. She sighs and puts the lunch in her car, again. On her [...]
Continue Reading →While many of us are fortunate enough to have healthy children, not all families are so lucky. They must confront the chronic illness of a child on a daily basis. What are some key factors that can help them do this successfully? Read on about an article that I came across.
March’s APA Monitor included an [...]
Continue Reading →There has been a lot of research done on maternal depression and we know that it can have a big impact on children. We don’t know as much about paternal depression because, quite frankly, there just hasn’t been the same focus on this issue. I was excited to come across an article by Davis and [...]
Continue Reading →The New York Times recently published an article about Junior Kumon, a Japanese developed tutoring program brought to the U.S. The author sets the scene with a three year-old that is practicing writing double-digit numbers for which she gets a sticker when completed correctly. Most students attend the program a couple of times a week [...]
Continue Reading →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): [...]
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