Child Mind Intitute

JULY 29, 2025

In kids, things can be more rapid, more chaotic, and harder to pin down, explains Mary Fristad, PhD, an expert in mood disorders in children at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and professor emerita at The Ohio State University. “A Getting help early doesn’t necessarily prevent the condition, which runs in families, from developing. “If

Bipolar disorder

Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

I n Part 1 , I looked at the longer-term inefficacy of ‘maintenance treatment’ with antipsychotics, and also at some ‘disappointing’ outcomes for ‘early intervention in psychosis’ (EIP). Psychosocially focused interventions may foster better engagement. Patients were generally enthusiastic about its minimal medication approach.

Early intervention

Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

I was still under the “care” of the Early Intervention Service as an outpatient but after my treatment in hospital I didn’t want my life to be intervened in by mental health professionals. Unlike after my first admission I internalised my new self-image as a bipolar psychiatric patient and it ended up literally disabling me.

Sleep and mental health

Behavioral Collective Podcast

MARCH 7, 2023

There needs to be an understanding of each other’s work “We need to be more aware of each other’s professions and respect that. Like if that’s, you know, one of the tools you use for your early intervention clients, then your OTs, BCBAs, other staff are kind of thinking in that way of like, we work together, this is how we do it.

Autism spectrum