When someone presents for evaluation and treatment of ADHD, what does your treatment plan look like? Sure medications are often considered, and hopefully also some parent behavioral coaching too. Anything else? A new meta-analysis, recently published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, provides some strong evidence about the […]
Vermont Center for Children, Youth and Families
Welcome to a new format to assist Vermont primary care clinicians and the general community to access new and quality information to help improve child mental health assessment and treatment. We know the problem all too well: emotional and behavioral problems are extremely common, affecting at least 1 in 5 children. Vermont like every […]
Tags: child mental health, child psychiatry, mental health, pediatric psychiatry, psychiatry, wellness
Baby Steps to Exercise
by Eliza Pillard, LiCSW We all know by now that exercise improves mental health and physical wellness, yet how many times have we told ourselves “I will start exercising regularly tomorrow”, then, inevitably tomorrow comes and there just isn’t enough time or you are not feeling 100% so decide to wait. A great strategy, […]
Tags: child wellness, exercise, wellness
Prescribing Exercise
By Eliza Pillard, LiCSW One of the most important components to our Family Based Treatment Approach to child psychiatric issues here at the VCCYF is to “prescribe” our patients engagement in physical activity. Often this takes the form of recommending that a child be enrolled in a team sport, ideally every season. For some families […]