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These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse.

Mad in America

Most teen girls—57 percent—felt ‘persistently sad or hopeless’ in 2021, up from 36 percent in 2011. From 2007 to 2016, pediatric emergency-room visits for mental-health disorders rose 60 percent. That figure is a still-not-great 29 percent among teen boys.

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The Troubled-Teen Industry Offers Trauma, Not Therapy

Mad in America

In a 2008 congressional hearing, a parent described how her child was subjected to attack therapy — brutal emotional assaults and public humiliation aimed at breaking down problematic personalities at the school, which was shut down in 2011 after a lawsuit helped bankrupt it. But until Ms.

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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

Mad in America

Even though I had an A average in college at Colorado State University, I dropped out of CSU in 2013, and having tried over 20 different antidepressants and mood stabilizers since 2011, ECT was recommended to me. I was told that only temporary, minor memory loss was possible, in rare cases, before starting ECT in 2013.

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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

Mad in America

In 2011, Favas effort came to a notable conclusion. Baldessarini also weighed in again, publishing an article in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics , urging the field to investigate this possibility.

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Student Notebook: Is the Clinical Psychology PhD Admissions Process Scientific?

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

2011; Woo et al., ETS Research Report Series, 2011 (1), i133. Research suggests that it may be effective to replace the GRE with personality measures, relevant skill evaluations (i.e., teamwork, perseverance), and weighted rubrics (Kyllonen et al., Training and Education in Professional Psychology , 15 (3), 211218. Kyllonen, P.

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Beyond Pills: UK Parliament Must Support Social and Psychological Services Instead

Mad in America

million in 2011 to 85.6 And this has created a vast gap in our provision, which ever increasing prescribing has come to fill. For instance, antidepressant prescriptions have almost doubled in England in the last decade, rising from 47.3 million in 2022/23, and these figures are set to continue to rise.

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Study: Vitamin D Insufficiency Worsens Sleep Problems in Children with ADHD

ADDitude

[link] 4 Hvolby A. Associations of sleep disturbance with ADHD: implications for treatment. Atten Defic Hyperact Disord. doi: 10.1007/s12402-014-0151-0 5 Spruyt, K., Sleep disturbances in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. <em>Expert <em>Expert Rev Neurother.</em> </em> [link] 6 Miller, M.C.,