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The National Instititute of Mental Health has completed en evaluation of research and the effectiveness for mental disorders for children. Please see NIMH site and below.. Reviews of the current research on psychosocial and behavioral therapies, or psychotherapies, for children and adolescents found a number of "well established" and "probably efficacious" treatments for many mental disorders. For example, six were "probably efficacious" for anxiety disorders, and two were "well established" for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to scientists funded by NIMH and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, divisions of the National Institutes of Health. The results were published in a special issue of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and cover the current state of research psychotherapies for children and adolescents with mental disorders. NIMH grantees Wendy Silverman, Ph.D., of Florida International Uni...

(AP) -- A rare genetic variation dramatically raises the risk of developing autism, a large study showed, opening new research targets for better understanding the disorder and for treating it. Research into the causes of autism has focused on genetic causes because so many families have multiple children with the disorder. Thus far, only about 10 percent of autism cases have a known genetic cause. Boston, Massachusetts-area researchers estimate the gene glitch they've identified accounts for an additional 1 percent of cases. They found that in people with autism, a segment of a chromosome that has genes linked to brain development and various developmental disorders was either missing or duplicated far more often. The defect was inherited in some cases, but more often the result of a random genetic accident. The results from the Autism Consortium study, released online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, confirm those of smaller studies by U.S. and Canadian research ...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

A brief overview of Interface Consultation Services ( ICS ) current endeavors: I. PESI Seminars by ICS : High Risk Callers: Responding to Psychiatric Emergencies Over the Phone. New and exciting sorely needed seminar designed specifically for clinicians, call centers, triage nurses who provide efficient assessment and treatment over the phone. Psychiatric Emergencies over the phone line are DIFFICULT and extremely anxiety provoking. General Medical Clinics are seeing more psychiatric patients. Learn the skills you didn't learn in school to assist these patients. II. Telemental Health Triage - We continue our day-to-day service commitment to Riverwood Center to provide professional triage services so their consumers are assured efficient and timely access to mental health services, appropriate level of care assignments and expert telephone crisis triage. III. Utilization Management - We continue to provide acute care authorization for Riverwood Center, a community mental heal...

Provided by: Canadian PressWritten by: Sheryl Ubelacker, Health Reporter, THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 15, 2008 TORONTO - Children whose mothers suffer prolonged depression or anxiety appear to have a higher rate of asthma than other youngsters, independent of other risk factors for the increasingly common respiratory condition, a Canadian study suggests. The study, which analyzed seven years of health records for almost 14,000 Manitoba children born in 1995, found that kids whose mothers were chronically distressed during those childhood years had a 25 per cent increased risk of developing asthma. The finding, reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, was independent of other factors associated with childhood asthma, such as genetic predisposition, household income, being male or female, or living in an urban or rural environment. Lead investigator Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj, an associate professor of pharmacy at the University of Manitoba, said she and her colle...

Collaborations Between Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems for Prisoner Reentry Amy Blank Wilson, L.S.W. and Jeffrey Draine, Ph.D., M.S.W. OBJECTIVE: This study assessed reentry programs throughout the nation for people with mental illness who were leaving prisons or jails and developed a classification of service strategies based on practices that are emerging in the field in response to this need. METHODS: A national survey identified service strategies that assist people who are incarcerated in prisons or jail and have a mental illness reenter the community. Data were used to develop a typology of reentry service strategies. RESULTS: Fifty-eight reentry programs were identified. Program descriptions were developed for 50. Findings supported the use of a 2x2 typology of initiatives, with one factor being whether the criminal justice or mental health system initiated the program and the other being the degree of collaboration between the two systems. CONCLUSIONS: If the funding...

The characteristics of young patients who commit acts of deliberate self-harm vary widely, but the risk of suicide is very high in this population, UK investigators report. "Deliberate self-harm and suicide are both major problems in young people," Drs . Keith Hawton and Louise Harriss , of the University of Oxford, point out. "Rates of deliberate self-harm, the term used for the intentional self-poisoning or self-injury in many European countries because of the mixed motivation that is often involved, are highest in young persons," the researchers write in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. The researchers collected information on consecutive deliberate self-harm patients between the ages of 15 and 24 years who were seen at a general hospital over a 20-year period (1978 to 1997). National mortality registers were used to identify deaths recorded up to the end of 2000. Read this important article by linking to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_57882.h...