Sentences with phrase «says child psychiatrist»

«This is not a cure,» says child psychiatrist Jonathan Green of the University of Manchester, and an investigator on the study.

Long - term nursing can prevent children from learning to comfort themselves, said child psychiatrist Pierce, a crucial developmental need at about 18 months to 2 years.

Not exact matches

«Leading academics, the former Children's Commisioner for Wales, the present Children's Commissioner for Wales, and psychiatrists are all saying that it's totally unacceptable for us to have the argument that it's reasonable to hit a child.

Dr. R. Dean Coddington, a child psychiatrist in New Orleans, and a team of researchers say that serious injuries to high school football players have a definite relationship to the degree of discord in the player's family.

It's not just the practical how - to's that are so frightening, however, says child and adolescent psychiatrist Arnold Kerzner, founder of the Boston Institute for the Development of Infants and Parents.

Edward Hallowell, psychiatrist and author of The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, says over-indulged children — whether showered with toys or shielded from emotional discomfort — are more likely to grow into teenagers who are bored, cynical, and joyless.

People going through a divorce look for ways to soothe themselves, says Mark Banschick, a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and author of «The Intelligent Divorce» book series.

Sebastian Kraemer, child psychiatrist at London's Whittington Hospital, said: «It is possible that, in prehistoric societies, this was a normal way of fathering.

Psychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine says, «In addition to the hormonal swings that accompany our children's tween years, women's hormones are shifting as perimenopause begins.»

Most pediatricians and child psychiatrists say that ADHD is a real disease.

«The pram is the ultimate in pushing the baby away from you,» said Frank Njenga, a child psychiatrist in Nairobi, Kenya's bustling capital.

«You have to watch what you do,» says Paul Ballas, DO, a child psychiatrist and medical director of the Green Tree School Clinic in Philadelphia.

«You can think of it as showing which connections in the brain are on speed dial and which ones aren't,» says Michael Milham, a psychiatrist at the Child Mind Institute in New York City, who led the study.

Doctors who discover that patients have committed a criminal offense, such as downloading child pornography, must often report them to the police, so «few people will come forward» to seek help, said forensic psychiatrist Donald Grubin from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom.

«With all due respect to cardiologists,» the brain «is a very, very complex organ,» says Jacob Vorstman, a Dutch pediatric psychiatrist who relocated this fall to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

«Each one occurred in a different spot in the genome,» says University of Washington child psychiatrist Jon McClellan, a coauthor of the paper.

The pattern correlates with a child's IQ scores, says psychiatrist Jay Giedd of the National Institute of Mental Health.

John Constantino, a child psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, says that the results are «monumentally important», because there has been little evidence showing that interventions for autism at an early stage are effective — even though researchers already broadly endorse the idea.

For now, prospective parents might want to rethink their plans about when to have children, says Herbert Meltzer, a psychiatrist and widely recognized schizophrenia expert at Vanderbilt University.

But participating in the program was clearly better than nothing, says Danny Pine, a child psychiatrist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

The study populations may also explain in part why weight gain appears to be less common in studies than in the real world, says Stephen Grcevich, MD, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and a professor of psychiatry at Case Western University.

«I'm married to a child psychiatrist,» he said.

They have to walk a fine line in order not to worry their children too much, causing them to feel insecure and anxious,» says Carole Lieberman M.D., Psychiatrist.

It's easy to mistake adolescent depression for something else, child psychiatrists say; the signs can include misbehavior, eating problems or sleep trouble.

«This study suggests there's a sensitive period when the brain responds more to maternal support,» said first author Joan L. Luby, MD, a Washington University child psychiatrist at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

As Associate Professor Helen Milroy, the first Aboriginal medical graduate in Australia, and now a practicing Child and Adolescent Health Psychiatrist in Western Australia has said, «Aboriginal [and Torres Strait Islander] children can and should be proud of their truly unique identity.

«Children who have a number of severe or sustained risk factors are much more at risk of poor developmental outcomes than those children who might have exposure to one or two risks, which are either short or intermittent,» says Dr Sarah Mares, Consultant Infant, Child and Family PsychChildren who have a number of severe or sustained risk factors are much more at risk of poor developmental outcomes than those children who might have exposure to one or two risks, which are either short or intermittent,» says Dr Sarah Mares, Consultant Infant, Child and Family Psychchildren who might have exposure to one or two risks, which are either short or intermittent,» says Dr Sarah Mares, Consultant Infant, Child and Family Psychiatrist.

«Early childhood mental health is almost surprisingly important in the early years, because it's a foundation for so much of what constitutes emotional health and social wellbeing thereafter,» says Dr Nick Kowalenko, Consultant Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.

But she said, «Lots of our children, especially in juvenile justice and foster care, certainly receive those services,» such as therapy with a psychologist or psychiatrist.

Tuohy doesn't believe we are over-subscribing Ritalin — child psychiatrist Emeritus Professor John Werry says we are under - diagnosing and under - prescribing psychiatric drugs for children — but for children who have behaviour problems there are good, non-drug treatments available.

In addition, your child therapist should help you interpret and understand what the psychiatrist is saying, and really break it down for you.