April is Counseling Awareness Month and is a great time to learn more about the different types of counseling that is available to kids who need help.
When kids have a mental health problem, whether it is depression, anxiety, or a behavioral problem, counseling from a Licensed Professional Counselor, Psychologist, or even a Psychiatrist, can be helpful.
Neuroimaging has indeed revolutionized and continues to revolutionize our understanding of mental disorders, because it is based on learning about how the brain grows, develops and functions.
This is so far removed from earlier ideas about how “society” or “the environment” or “culture” or “religion” or “monsters” created mental illness, that some people whose beliefs or other investments are Continue reading ‘A Neuroimaging Revolution’
It seems like there is no shortage of stories in the news about accidents and tragedies that involve young children.
Just recently, in Texas there were stories about:
a 7 month-old infant who died after being left overnight in the family car a 7 month-old infant who died after being mauled by the family’s pit bulls after being left alone with them for a minute while his grandmother prepared him a bottle
Even as we continue to deal with the salmonella outbreak from peanut butter and other peanut containing products, there is a new case of salmonella contamination, that this time is thought to be linked to pistachios.
Specifically, the FDA is investigating salmonella contamination in pistachio products sold by Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc, Calif. Since Setton Pistachio’s processed pistachios are found in many Continue reading ‘Salmonella and Pistachios’
The battle against chronic illness is long, expensive and can involve a lot of guesswork. But closer monitoring of our body in real time is improving chances for better long-term health – and, ultimately, quality of life.
Over the past decade, the evolution of medical technology has produced sophisticated, hi-tech and non-invasive tools. Devices like advanced brain scans and semi-invasive Continue reading ‘The promise of real-time health care’
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fisher-Price are recalling about 24,000 high chairs because the seat can fall backwards from the high chair frame if the booster seat release is unlatched and the seat back can detach if it is not fully snapped in place.
Parents who have this 3-in-1 High Chair to Booster with product number P5369 should stop using it until they can fix it with a free repair kit.
The persons who always watchful about their surroundings are surely heard about the amazing fruit called the Acai Berry with mystical benefit for health. The Acai berry is at the present being required after for its outstanding antioxidant power and health qualities.
Where it founds The acai berry is an inch long reddish, plum fruit that comes from a special Amazon palm tree that is harvested in the rainforests Continue reading ‘Why is Acai so Good For You?’
Just like adults, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) can affect children and may be catastrophic and life threatening incident that leads to high morbidity and mortality.
Paediatric renal disease accounts for approximately 5-7 percent of hospital admissions in a pediatric unit of tertiary hospitals in Bangladesh. Statistics says that about 2 crore population have been suffering from kidney related problems and a significant number of the Continue reading ‘Chronic kidney disease in children’
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, there have been five cases of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infections in Pennsylvania since October 2008, resulting in two deaths. This follows the small Hib outbreak in Minnesota last year, which also resulted in a death.
Although now a vaccine preventable infection, before the routine use of the Hib vaccine began in 1988, about 20,000 children had Hib infections Continue reading ‘Pennsylvania Hib Outbreak’
Recently, The Chronicle Herald published a story titled “Young people need more access to mental health services – volunteer.” While I agree with this message, we must also begin to think about how we can better provide mental health care, and not just keep applying a model of mental health services that does not appropriately meet the needs of young people and their families.
