Topics: Child Psychiatry

Childhood sleep problems are common, and most practitioners wind up prescribing or recommending something for sleep for a significant portion of their patients.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Depressive Disorder

Insomnia and sleep disturbance are common symptoms of depression in adults, but this is not always the case in adolescents. In fact, a group of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh who studied insomnia in depressed teens found that, compared to adults, insomnia in adolescents is different—very different.

Topics: Child Psychiatry

This table can help you determine the normal sleep requirements of patients of all ages, birth through 18.

Topics: Child Psychiatry

Sleep is something that really affects all walks of life and all stages of a child’s development.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Depressive Disorder | Women's Issues in Psychiatry

The Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS) taught us that fluoxetine (Prozac) plus cognitive behavioral therapy was superior to medication alone or placebo for short-term recovery from major depressive disorder (MDD). But TADS didn’t tell us anything about long-term recovery.

Often, adolescents most at risk of problems with violence and alcohol abuse are the hardest to reach through traditional means.