Mental Health

Research findings do not support multisystemic therapy over management as usual for adolescents with moderate-to-severe antisocial behavior, with no significant difference observed in the proportion of participants in out-of-home placement between treatment groups.

Girls born to women who used acetaminophen during the first 3 months of pregnancy were more likely to experience language delay at 30 months, according to findings recently published in European Psychiatry.

Although preterm birth and household poverty were each independent predictors of cognitive scores in children, the two factors were independent of each other, according to published study results in Pediatrics.

Adolescents who engaged in online tobacco marketing were at increased risk for tobacco use, according to recently published study results in Pediatrics.

Findings published in Lancet Public Health showed that parental homelessness increased the risk for psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents.

Researchers found that the rate of antidepressant use among children from 2008 to 2011 returned to the rate seen before the FDA black box warning issued in 2004 regarding a possible link between antidepressants and suicidal ideation. The results, according to the researchers, raise concerns about the warning’s long-term impact.

Childhood maltreatment and its subtypes, with the exclusion of childhood emotional neglect, were linked to nonsuicidal self-injury, according to data published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Children of men who used selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors before conception are 26% more likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder later in life, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

Children who experience an increase of zero to three adverse childhood events, including poverty or traumatic events, were 25% more likely to have physical health problems and increased depression in adolescence.

Although benefits of short-term Enhanced Milieu Training were observable in an analysis of toddlers with language delays — especially for those with receptive-expressive delays at 6 months —  these benefits were not sustained after 12 months due to the likelihood of reactivity and spontaneous recovery of children with expressive-only delays, according to findings published in Pediatrics.