Access to gender-affirming care is associated with improvements in mental health symptoms among transgender and nonbinary (TNB) youths, according to a study published online Feb. 25 in JAMA Network Open.
Mar 1, 2022
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Depression in young people is vastly undertreated. About two-thirds of depressed youth don't receive any mental health care at all. Of those who do, a significant proportion rely on antidepressant medications.
Feb 16, 2022
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says he can imagine a future where Americans don't have to contend with mask requirements. But pulling back safeguards too quickly, Murthy warns, risks more avoidable suffering, especially ...
Feb 11, 2022
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The news is horrifying—a list that seems to keep growing of high-profile African Americans believed to have died by suicide in the last few weeks:
Feb 3, 2022
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School closures. Family strains. Isolated and quarantined friends. Even when young people haven't directly experienced COVID-19, the pandemic has strained their mental health. Often severely.
Feb 2, 2022
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Compared to their peers, youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to experience significant impairment in school functioning and mental health. Mix in the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruptions ...
Jan 18, 2022
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CAMH has launched a new free online tool to help improve the standard of care for youth living with depression. The first-of-its-kind Cundill Centre Online Tool for the Treatment of Youth Depression summarizes best care practices ...
Oct 26, 2021
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Hispanic/Latinx youth have had their say: Staying at home during the pandemic has had a tremendous impact on their mental health and well-being, and has revealed hardships for young people. The new study, published in Child ...
Oct 13, 2021
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Let's start with the obvious. Canada's youth are experiencing disruptions to their lives like few others in recent history. And the present school year has not started off in the direction we had hoped, with unstable COVID-19 ...
Oct 13, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Some youth subpopulations had a higher risk for suicide-related emergency department encounters during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but after shelter-in-place, overall rates were similar to those in 2019, ...
Sep 23, 2021
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