Tag: adolescents
Parent Handbook on Childhood and Adolescent Depression
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SECTION ONE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE
CHAPTER ONE: a few facts about depression
CHAPTER TWO: getting help
- where to begin
- finding the right help
- getting treatment
CHAPTER THREE: at home
Directions on How to Fill Out the NIMH Mood Chart
Steps to take to complete NIMH mood chart
Bipolar Disorder and Comorbid Conduct Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence
Reprinted with permission of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Lipincott Williams & Wilkins, publishers.
OBJECTIVE: To report on the rate and associated features of comorbid conduct disorder (CD) in 26 bipolar (BP) youths and examine whether comorbidity affects clinical course.
Girls with Bipolar Disorder: Special Concerns
What remedy is there for the teenage girl with bipolar disorder who suffers suicidal depression for several days before each menstrual period? How do bipolar illness and its treatments affect a girl’s sexual feelings, fertility, and unborn children? What can parents do to keep a risk-loving daughter safe as she passes through adolescence? Kerachel Cross (Used by permission)
Clinical Course of Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
This article, by Boris Birmaher, M.D. et al, addressed concerns related to the course of Bipolar illness in youths, including differences that might occur with the different subtypes. In addition, comparisons across the age and socioeconomic spectrum were studied.
Elevated Thyrotropin in Bipolar Youth Prescribed both Lithium and Divalproex Sodium
Study on the effects of lithium and divalproex sodium on thryoid-stimulating hormone (THS) levels in children and adolescents with bipolar disorders and risk factors associated with lithium-induced hypothryoidism.