Sunday, March 11, 2007

Anxiety: choosing a child-friendly therapist



Health 24 - BT/CBT helps children and adolescents suffering from anxiety disorders by decreasing children's anxiety symptoms and increasing children's ability to cope more effectively. As part of BT/CBT, children are helped to gradually confront or enter into
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Post-disaster mental health worse in smokers
Zee News - Victims who smoked at the first evaluation were more than twice as likely as those who did not smoke to have severe anxiety symptoms, nearly twice as likely to have severe hostility symptoms, and close to three times as likely to have a diagnosis of
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A large, double-blind, randomized clinical trial of methylphenidate in
Medscape News - We conducted a randomized, 6-week, placebo-controlled, parallel study of MPH in 146 adult patients with DSM-IV ADHD using standardized instruments for diagnosis, separate assessments of ADHD, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and a robust average oral
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What is social anxiety disorder (SAD)?
Health 24 - There is growing awareness of social anxiety symptoms in children. One possibility is that early intervention for children with such symptoms can prevent the development of full-blown SAD. However, at present this is a theoretical idea. For more
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