children and adolescents
Children and young people’s social prescribing: new evidence review
‘Growing crisis’: Thousands more 12 to 15 years olds being prescribed antidepressants
Mental health hospitals are ‘making children worse’, leading charity warns
Childhood Trauma Is Not a Mental Illness
The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD
This transcript of a talk by Dr. Gabor Maté has been published by Sustainable Human . It begins: “In the realm of child development, I just wish we’d actually look at the evidence. But we don’t. I worked in family practice for…
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The Medicalization of Childhood Behaviors Does More Harm than Good
This article by Samantha Lilly has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “In a new article for a leading Brazilian sociology journal, Fernando Freitas and Luciana Jaramillo Caruso de Azevedo argue that psychiatry and psychology are medicalizing the normal parts of…
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Physical Activity Interventions to Alleviate Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
This research review paper has been published in JAMA Pediatrics. Key Points: Question: Can physical activity interventions alleviate depressive symptoms in children and adolescents? Findings: This systematic review and meta-analysis included 21 studies involving 2441 participants. The results indicate that physical activity interventions were associated…
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