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The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report

Adolescents (November/December) | 2017

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CME Post-Test - Adolescents, CCPR, November/December 2017

November 1, 2017
The post-test for this issue is available for one year after the publication date to subscribers only . By successfully completing the test you will be awarded a certificate for 2 CME credits. Read More

Does Guanfacine Affect Tic Severity in Children With Chronic Tic Disorders?

November 1, 2017
Arian Ayon Verduzco, Pharm.D candidate (2018)
Tic disorders, including Tourette’s, often co-occur with ADHD, OCD, and anxiety disorders. Guanfacine is often tried for all of these conditions. Randomized placebo-controlled trials of immediate release guanfacine have been mixed, with one showing 31% improvement in tics but another showing no significant improvement. Read More

Does Methylphenidate Use in Children and Young Adults Increase Risk of Suicide?

November 1, 2017
Arian Ayon Verduzco. Pharm.D candidate (2018)
Some studies have indicated that patients with ADHD may be at an increased risk of suicide. While these studies have shown associations between methylphenidate use and suicide, it is not clear whether the stimulant actually causes suicidality or whether patients taking stimulants are suicidal for other reasons. Read More

Tips on Managing Medications With Adolescents

November 1, 2017
Jess Shatkin, MD
Discussing medications with adolescents can be challenging. Because there is so much variation in family structure and the problems that kids and families face, it’s important to maintain some flexibility in how clinicians evaluate adolescents. Read More

Understanding Risk-Taking in Adolescents

November 1, 2017
Jess Shatkin, MD
In this interview, Dr. Shatkin talks about how the adolescent brain works, and how we can use this understanding to work more effectively in our practices with both adolescents and their parents. There’s a misconception that dopamine equates to pleasure. It’s not pleasure; it’s the promise of pleasure. Dopamine is the idea that something great might happen. And so high dopamine levels drive kids into high-risk situations with high amounts of potential pleasure. This is aggravated by the fact that the frontal cortical areas are not well myelinated yet and not well connected to the limbic system. So, when kids are younger, they have less control over those impulsive drives. Read More

Learning Objectives, Adolescents, CCPR, November 2017

November 1, 2017
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Joshua Feder, MD

Dr. Joshua Feder studied mathematics and medicine at Boston University, Psychiatry at Naval Regional Medical Center San Diego, serving the first Gulf War in child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, and eventually became Chief of Child Psychiatry at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Feder now practices in Solana Beach, California, and serves as Executive Medical Director at Positive Development, providing relationship-based support for families, with research at UCSD, SDSU, Fielding Graduate University, An Najah National University, Quicksilver Software, Autism Is inclusion program, and Programmatic Lead for the International Networking Group on Peace Building with Young Children, with projects in the US, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East. Dr. Feder co-authored the first American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Practice Parameter on Autism and serves as Co-Chair of the Disaster & Trauma Committee at AACAP. Dr Feder was founding policy chair for the California Association for Infant Mental Health and advocates worldwide on access to care, climate policy, and peacebuilding. His recent books include Child Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition (2023) and Prescribing Psychotropics (2021).

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