- iphone CBT apps: Review of Moodkit
Mood Kit is the slickest of the CBT apps, and it has some nice features that make it easy to use and to personalize. The app is made by Thriveport and the authors are psychologists. The app is based around CBT ideas and functions much like a Daily Thought Record. The four main functions of [...]
- CBT iphone apps: CBT Referee
CBT Referee is a basic (and fairly bare bones) iphone app that enables you to be able to write down your thoughts and evaluate the validity of the thoughts through the “referee” feature. The actual referee is a list of general cognitive distortions (all or nothing thinking, labeling, etc) that are explained. The user checks [...]
- CBT iphone apps
Typing “CBT” into the itunes app store pulls up a number of applications designed to teach and/or implement Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques. Over the next few weeks I will review some of the apps I have found more useful in my practice with kids. I will focus on the more general CBT apps first [...]
- Your teen’s drinking behaviors most influenced by….
the peer group of their significant other. This is confusing but fascinating research that looks at the role of peers in influencing how much a teen drinks. It seems that the group your kid is a part of is not the group that most influences their drinking, rather the group their boyfriend/girlfriend (and not the [...]
- Friday Sept. 30th: Catherine McCarthy, MD on Fox News to discuss teen suicide prevention and research
For readers local to the DC Metro area, Dr. Catherine McCarthy, a leading child and adolescent psychiatrist, will be speaking at 9:15am on Fox 5 on the latest research regarding adolescents and suicide. The warning signs, risk factors, and preventive steps will all be featured as well as local resources. This is worth checking out!
- Marshmallow study holds up for adults
In the 60’s and 70’s researchers at piloted studies that explored whether the ability to delay gratification as a young child (4 year old) would be a consistent trait as the children aged. The researchers had the kids sit down by themselves with a marshmallow right in front of them. There were no adults in [...]
- Kids with ADHD have more difficulty with writing, grammar and spelling than peers.
Many of us knew this anecdotally, but a new study in the journal Pediatrics finds that kids diagnosed with ADHD have a greater likelihood of having difficulty with writing than their peers. This difficulty may be even more prevalent in girls with the disorder. Some of the statistics discussed in the article include: almost 2/3 [...]
- Overuse of bipolar diagnosis in kids
I remember when the 1999 book The Bipolar Child (D. Papolos and J. Papolos) was published. Parents began to ask about the diagnosis and frequently refer to the lengthy checklist in the book that theoretically described a bipolar child (and in fact described most children at varying points). The next decade brought a huge increase [...]
- Atlantic Article “How to Land Your Kid in Therapy”
This article is a must read for parents: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/07/how-to-land-your-kid-in-therapy/8555/ The author, Lori Gottlieb , is a practicing psychologist who explores the culture of self-esteem and happiness for our kids above all else. She interviews some of the leading researchers on topics ranging from narcissism and social theory to look at how we got to this place [...]
- Less Sleep in Preschool May Increase Likelihood of ADHD
No pressure, but new research suggests that preschoolers who get less sleep are more likely to meet clinical for criteria for ADHD as children. Preschoolers who slept less than their peers had significantly greater behavioral problems. Interestingly, being a hyperactive preschooler did not predict less sleep in kindergarten. The best positive predictor for good developmental [...]
