Mental Health

Youths who received outpatient mental health follow-up within 1 week of psychiatric hospital discharge appeared at reduced risk for suicide in the immediate period after discharge, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, particularly phthalates, was linked to ADHD-related behaviors among adolescents, according to results of a cross-sectional analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

Mental health during childhood and adolescence was linked to adolescent health behaviors, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Escitalopram treatment was linked to reduced anxiety symptoms among adolescents, according to results of a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

The Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will shift from an in-person to a virtual format for 2020, organizer Healio LIVE announced.

A modular therapy intervention for children increased clinicians’ adherence to empirically supported treatments but did not improve clinical outcomes, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open.

Measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 may be having a significant negative impact on the mental and physical well-being of parents and their children, according to results of a survey study published in Pediatrics.

LGBTQ youth appeared to experience negative mental health outcomes associated with frequent social media use, according to results of a survey study published in Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health.

An early parenting intervention appeared to enhance child brain regions associated with social cognitive development, according to study results published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

Children with disruptive behavior disorders and callous-unemotional traits may have reduced neural activation in reward and cognitive-control regions, according to study results published in American Journal of Psychiatry.