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"How's Your Child's Mental Health?"

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NEWS AND FEATURES

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Plus Sertraline (Zoloft) Helps Kids with Anxiety

According to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, both cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and sertraline (Zoloft) reduce the severity of anxiety in children with anxiety disorders. However, a combination of the two therapies has a susperior response. Click here to view an MSNBC article summarizing the NEJM findings.

FDA Issues Warning of Increased Suicide Ideation for Patients Taking Antiepileptic Drugs


What is the Children's Behavioral Health Initiative?


HELPFUL RESOURCES
New CRAFFT toolkit! The CRAFFT screens for substance abuse in adolescents. Click here for the CRAFFT Toolkit (acronym) for Car, Relax, Alone, Forget Friends, Trouble) toolkit.

Help your patients' families navigate the Massachusetts special education system by directing them to the Concord SPED PAC Sped Parent Basic Toolkit at http://www.concordspedpac.org/toolkit.htm
TOOlKIT SPOTLIGHT

Primary Care Behavioral Health Toolkit


This toolkit includes guidlines on implementing behavioral health screenings in primary care settings, guidance on clinical issues related to screening, and information on four screening tools: M-CHAT, PSC, PEDS, and PHQ-9.

Click here to download the 73-page toolkit. (The toolkit may take a few minutes to download.)

SPOTLIGHT

CBT for the Primary Care Clinician: Is my patient reveiving cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?

  • Learn the skills to discern whether or not your patient is receiving true CBT here.