Behavioral Consult
Behavioral Consult
Did you know these things about nicotine? Your patients don’t
We need to inform youth that using e-cigarettes actually reduces rates of success in quitting.
Behavioral Consult
Pediatric depression and parents
Parents are your natural partners as they are concerned about their children’s health and safety and eager for guidance on how to best support...
Behavioral Consult
Don’t give up on relentless youth depression
Even when patients are willing and able to go, mental health specialists are in short supply or have months-long waiting lists.
Behavioral Consult
A pediatrician’s guide to screening for and treating depression
At annual checkups with patients 12 and older or at sick visits of patients with emotional, sleep, or vague somatic concerns, it should be...
Behavioral Consult
Sorting out the meaning of misbehavior: The invisible culprit
Throughout life, putting feelings into words is the main way meanings that are contributing to misbehaviors or parenting dysfunction can be...
Behavioral Consult
Marijuana and LSD guidance for pediatricians
There is an emerging impression of safety with both; however, policy changes and for-profit marketing may not reflect the actual scientific...
Behavioral Consult
No more encopresis!
While constipation has consequences besides functional fecal incontinence that are physical, emotional, and social, we can be supportive and...
Behavioral Consult
Are there some things we might want to keep from the COVID experience?
The kind of family time that COVID restrictions forced on families is a reward in itself, but it also deepens a child’s connections to everyone in...
Behavioral Consult
Is your patient having an existential crisis?
COVID-19 has reduced or blocked access to old and new friends and the ability to fulfill Erickson’s stages of “mastery” and “productivity.”
Perspectives
Perinatal depression and the pediatrician’s role
By screening, tracking, and connecting affected mothers to care and services, you can truly provide “two-generational care” for your youngest...
Perspectives
I sent my suicidal teen patient to the ED: Whew?
We now know that certain kinds of psychotherapy have evidence for preventing subsequent suicide in teens at high risk due to suicidal ideation and...