Topics: Antidepressants | Anxiety Disorder | Free Articles | Psychotherapy | PTSD

In the US, 60% of children report exposure to violence, abuse or other trauma in the past year. Traumatized children like Karina can present to treatment with a range of symptoms, including anxiety, irritability, disruptive behaviors, mood dysregulation, and developmental regression.

Topics: Anxiety Disorder | Child Psychiatry | PTSD

First line treatment of PTSD should always consist of psychotherapy but medications are often used in the hopes of further improving symptoms.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Psychotherapy

EMDR stands for “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.” Created by psychologist Francine Shapiro in 1989, EMDR was first used for posttraumatic stress symptoms associated with military combat and sexual assault, and the treatment has a strong base of support.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Neuroscience in Psychiatry

If a child has been neglected, abused, subjected to domestic violence, or developed an attachment disorder from parents who may not have been abusive but angry, critical, reactive, and in other ways frightening to the child, the child’s mind and body have, within a relatively short time, become adapted to those conditions.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Psychotherapy | PTSD

TF-CBT has strong evidence of improving a wide variety of problems, including PTSD, depression, anxiety and fear, behavior problems, and trauma-related shame, as well as improving parental functioning.

Topics: Child Psychiatry

Research has shown that regular routines can benefit kids in numerous ways. However, little research has been done specifically on bedtime and nighttime routines.

Topics: Child Psychiatry | Eating Disorders | Research Updates

Clinical trials of both antidepressants and the antipsychotic olanzapine (Zyprexa) have yielded disappointing results, with no clear benefit of medications over placebo for the core symptoms of anorexia.