Child & Adolescent Related Content

On March 21, 2024, McLean Hospital hosted Anxiety and OCD in Kids and Teens, a course aimed at health care professionals, educators, and parents. Experts Lisa W. Coyne, PhD , Fairlee C. Fabrett, PhD , and Jeff Szymanski, PhD , weighed in on topics including the fundamentals of anxiety and OCD, how...

Anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use has become a major worldwide substance use disorder that threatens the health of tens of millions of individuals. Thus, it is important to understand the factors that lead certain people to start using these drugs. Researchers at McLean Hospital reanalyzed data...

Three new initiatives within McLean’s child and adolescent division are getting a financial boost from Rite Aid Healthy Futures (RAHF), a public charity dedicated to uplifting communities served by the Rite Aid pharmacy chain. The initiatives supported by the charity are: A group for parents of...

“The numbers are stark,” said Daniel P. Dickstein, MD, FAAP , chief of the Nancy and Richard Simches Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. In 2021, suicide was the second highest cause of death for young people 10-24 years of age, Dickstein said, citing data from the...

Every child deserves and must have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential…” Started in 2000, McLean Hospital’s Pathways Academy is a year-round, 216-day school designed to meet the social, emotional, and academic needs of students, aged 6 to 22, with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)...

Many students know their career path from the day they enter college, if not before. But for those who find themselves pondering their next steps as graduation approaches, McLean Hospital now offers an opportunity to road test some of their ideas. The Post-Baccalaureate Child and Adolescent Clinical...

“Compassionate curiosity.” It’s a philosophy that has guided Sophia L. Maurasse, MD , along her journey from a 10-year-old in war-torn Liberia—who was trying to understand why some soldiers could be helpful while others were threatening—to her current role working with children and adolescent girls...

Irritability is the most common reason children are brought for psychiatric evaluation. It is a diagnostic criterion or associated symptom for multiple diagnoses listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). Over the past 20 years, much has been learned...

You need only turn on the nightly news to be reminded of the mental health crisis facing today’s young people. According to Daniel P. Dickstein, MD, FAAP , chief of McLean’s Nancy and Richard Simches Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, providing access to care in an efficient, affordable...