This is an odd note to write. Like most publications, we had a topic before the virus happened. Rapidly responding to current events, we added a pandemic piece and devoted two podcasts to the topic. Catch those online by searching for “Carlat” on your podcast store.

Topics: Coronavirus | COVID19 | online therapy | pandemic | Telehealth | Telemedicine | Telepsychiatry

The COVID19 pandemic has transformed child and adolescent psychiatry overnight. How do we manage telehealth? What about medications? What are the new rules and boundaries and what can we expect from our patients? Most important, how do we support parents to help their children?

Topics: air pollution | asthma | Particulate matter

While air pollution has lifted a bit with the global pause for the pandemic, this merely underlines the problems created by particulate matter, injuring children and causing both psychical and direct mental health sequelae. This article reviews the impact of air pollution on children and gives practical suggestions on mitigating those effects.

Topics: Child and adolescent | Prodrome | Psychosis

How do we understand the range of psychotic disorders in children and adolescents and how does this understand impact treatment in a more differentiated way? This interview helps clinicians to sort through what kinds of psychotic processes are at play and how to approach them in a more nuanced manner, while giving practical and realistic advice for patient management.

Topics: Cognition | cognitive impact | Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) | Psychosis

Psychotic disorders in children and adolescents include a range of neuropsychiatric problems related to the multitude of underlying neurophysiological differences and the problems created by these differences. Chief among these are cognitive impacts. This interview helps outline and give guidance for managing these cognitive problems related to both psychosis and to the medication treatments that themselves can add to these problems.

Topics: adolescents | Sleep | teens

Can parents impact teen sleep in a helpful manner? Teens are notorious for staying up late and having trouble getting up in the morning. We are often asked to opine on this problem. This research review looks at the effect of such intervention, including the consideration of the difference between a ‘significant finding’ and one that is clinically meaningful.

Topics: CME Post-Test

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