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The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report

Transitional Age Youth (July/August) | 2012

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Mid-Teens Is Peak Age for Prescription Drug Abuse

July 1, 2012

It’s been a growing trend for quite some time now for teens to abuse prescription drugs such as pain relievers and stimulants for recreational use. Read More

Failure to Launch Syndrome

July 1, 2012

There was a time not too long ago when young adults who lived at home were seen as somehow developmentally stunted and “failures to launch.” But the Great Recession and changing social norms have diminished much of the negative stigma associated with living with parents into adulthood. Read More

Medication and Transitional Age Youth

July 1, 2012

At first glance, treatment of the young adult seems comparatively easy: their metabolisms have slowed to the normal adult pace, most medications are FDA approved, and they (finally) tend to present with symptoms of just one or two diagnoses at a time. However, nature gets in the way, and the normal developmental tasks of transitional age youth (TAY) make the situation much, much harder than merely writing the prescription. Read More

Helping Your Patients Succeed in College

July 1, 2012

Of 2.4 million students who went to college in 1993, 1.5 million never made it past their first year and 1.1 million never went on to get a degree. Dr. Alvarez discusses how to beat the odds and help kids stay in college; especially those with serious mental illness. Read More

Programs to Help Transition Patients to Adulthood

July 1, 2012

Dr. Davis talks about developing interventions that assist young people with serious mental health conditions to succeed in schooling, training, and their early launch into adult work lives during the transition to adulthood. Read More