«You could be changing that child's life, and
clinicians saying to the parents — let's see how he is in six months, is absolutely careless because six months in the life of a developing infant's brain is a long time.
Not exact matches
«
Clinicians,
parents, and coaches should make concussion education and awareness a priority, and address factors
to provide a more optimal concussion - reporting environment,»
says Johna Register - Mihalik, Ph.D, LAT, ATC, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lead author of the one of the recent studies on underreporting.
«Both
parents and
clinicians have
to be trained
to avoid overuse and inappropriate use [of antibiotics],» Coles
said.
«
Clinicians may not be aware that some of their male patients are so preoccupied with their weight and shape that they are using unhealthy methods
to achieve the physique they desire, and
parents are not aware that they should be as concerned about eating disorders and an excessive focus on weight and shape in their sons as in their daughters,»
says Field.
«
Parents, educators, and
clinicians should understand that girls» greater exposure
to interpersonal stressors places them at risk for vulnerability
to depression and ultimately, depression itself,»
says Hamilton.
School of Public Health researcher Akilew Adane
said this and other maternal health research added
to the evidence that
parents and
clinicians should think of pre-pregnancy health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.»
When deciding whether
to put a child on stimulant medications, both
clinicians and
parents should weigh the seriousness of the situation,
says Gould.
Other
clinicians believe that Gardner, being psychoanalytically oriented as most psychiatrists, overlooked the importance of family dysfunction in which neither
parent can be
said to be psychologically healthier than the other.
Professor Jaap Oosterlaan, principal investigator of the Child Study Group at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and the Emma Children's Hospital AMC, the Netherlands,
said: «Now that we have firmly established children with psychiatric disorders as a high - risk group for later substance - related disorders, the next step is
to make
parents,
clinicians, and the government aware of these risks and work together in reducing the risks for addiction and its debilitating consequences.»