Cognitive behavioral therapy response rates in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder may be related to avoidance and impairment recognition, but not to poor insight.
Youth at risk for depression could benefit from prevention efforts that target the student’s ability to manage environmental stressors like school transitions.
Associations were observed between sexting and sexual activity, multiple sexual partners, anxiety/depression, and substance use in adolescents.
For children presenting to the emergency department with a mental health disorder, the likelihood of transfer is increased for those without insurance.
Youth who completed a computer-based intervention reported longer time to first postvisit cannabis use and a lower rate of riding with an impaired driver.
Prenatal opioid exposure (POE) is negatively associated with neurocognitive and physical development in offspring from the age of 6 months into school age.
Youth who are readmitted for inpatient psychiatric care share such factors as foster care, comorbid conditions, and prior psychiatric hospitalizations.
Children’s school performance and attitudes decline as their adverse childhood experiences increase.
Synthetic cannabinoid exposure is associated with increased odds of neuropsychiatric morbidity versus cannabis exposure among adolescents presenting to the emergency department.
The risk for mental illness was 51% greater in youth with physical illness compared with US youth without chronic physical health conditions.
