Through her charitable foundation, sends Spanish fellows to study child psychiatry in England and the U.S. at places like Columbia University's medical center.
In child psychiatry in particular, it is often said that children must not have read the DSM, because their symptoms so rarely seem to fit neatly into one of the diagnoses, often straddling several.
This opinion was published in the Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in July 2001.
Kids are impressionable, said Michael Brody, chair of the media committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
That rate increased to 1.59 by 2007, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Medication for mental illnesses is the cornerstone of treatment, especially when patients are aggressive and manic, said Pavuluri, an American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry spokeswoman.
King is the director at the Seattle Children's Autism Center and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital.
Understanding sex differences is important to getting the right diagnosis and treatment, said Christopher Gillberg, a child and adolescent psychiatry professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
In the latest work, published Jan. 15 in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Dr. Fein said the researchers sought to exclude children in whom the original diagnosis was questionable.
When Hurricane Katrina struck, many displaced families were left wondering how to explain the changes to their children with autism, said Lynda Geller, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York University's School of Medicine.
Cyberbullying, which has received the most attention of late, may represent a particularly insidious form of abuse, partly because it can occur anywhere and anytime, says Dr. Victor Fornari, the director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, in New Hyde Park, New York.
In a study of 2, 500 students who went through the Fond du Lac program at six public high schools between 2005 and 2009, published last week in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, nearly 20% were identified as at risk, of whom 73.6% were not receiving treatment at the time of screening.
"I've been working in psychiatry for 20 years and I've never seen psychotropic medications turn a child around as quickly as I've seen antibiotics turn a Pandas child around, " says Tanya Murphy, director of the Rothman Center for Pediatric Neuropsychiatry at the University of South Florida.
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