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Oftentimes, according to Thomas, videoconferencing can reduce the anxiety of office visits for children and adolescents. "It's much easier to talk via a screen, especially with issues like anxiety disorders and sexual abuse," he says. "Students feel safe...
...telepsychiatry has come largely out of need. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), between 7 million and 12 million youths suffer from mental, behavioral or developmental disorders. And a new nationally representative survey, funded in part by NIMH, indicates that 50% of the children in the U.S. who have certain mental disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder and depression are not being treated by a psychiatrist or other mental-health professional...
...Seattle, Myers is heading up the NIMH study that is specifically designed to determine whether expert psychiatric care through telemental health is more effective than treatment in a typical primary-care setting for children ages 6 to 12 who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder...
...anecdotal evidence indicates that virtual psychiatry visits work just fine for children and adolescents. Perhaps it's a sign of the times, an era in which teens feel more comfortable in front of a camera than they do face to face. "Videoconferencing is part of their everyday existence - it's like texting or Skype," says Drell...
...latest clash in a decades-long sectarian rift resulted in the March 7 massacre of several hundred Nigerians, including unarmed women and children. The killings took place mainly in villages around Jos, a city that sits on a cultural fault line that runs between the Muslim north and Christian south. Conflicts between the two groups have killed thousands over the past decade. This time, the dead were mainly Christians, targeted in retaliation for some 300 Muslim deaths near Jos in January...