What's What
This syndrome is manifested by tearfulness and mood lability in the days following delivery. It typically resolves within 2-3 weeks.
What is "postpartum blues"?
What are 4 weeks?
When screening for mental health in the adolescent population, it's important to screen for this. Some eat too much, and some eat too little!
What is appetite?
This is a common tool used to identify women at risk for postpartum depression and has very high sensitivity and specificity!
What is the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale?
SSRIs are potentially activating and it is important to counsel patients to be vigilant for this during the initiation phase of these antidepressant medications.
What is suicidality?
This syndrome includes poor sleep, appetite, difficulty concentrating, feelings of hopelessness, and even suicidality within 6 weeks postpartum.
What is Postpartum depression?
By 16 years of age, this percentage of youth will have been diagnosed with a behavioral or emotional disorder including behavioral problems, anxiety, and mood disorders.
What is 40%?
In the absence of clearly poor sleep hygiene, a problem with this may be a symptom of underlying depression.
What is insomnia?
This type of therapy focuses on understanding the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and actions. This is also the most effective psychotherapy for youth with anxiety.
What is Cognitive behavioral therapy?
This SSRI has FDA approval for treatment of depression in children 8 years and older.
What is fluoxetine (Prozac)?
This syndrome includes paranoia, delusions, or hallucinations in the postpartum period. This is a medical emergency as thoughts of harming the infant are common!
What is Postpartum psychosis?
In one study, it is estimated that nearly this percentage of youth with recurrent abdominal pain had a pre-existing anxiety disorder.
What is 80%?
It's important to create a safe space for patients to share about their mental health, so be sure to form a therapeutic this!
What is alliance?
This is a useful tool for depression screening in adolescents as it can be used for both establishing depressive disorder diagnoses as well as grade depressive symptom severity.
What is the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9)?
This SSRI has FDA approval for treating depression in youth aged 12 years and older.
What is escitalopram(Lexapro)?
This is the leading cause of death for individuals ages 10-24 years.
What is suicide?
This percentage of youth with depressive symptoms will respond to initial treatment of an anti-depressant.
What is 60%?
By responding to emotions during a patient interview regarding mental health, you do this to their concerns.
What is validate?
This tool can be used to help differentiate depressive symptoms from ADHD symptoms as there is often overlap.
What is the Vanderbilt Scale?
This RCT study published in 2004 was the landmark study that showed the effectiveness of SSRI's in treating depression in adolescents. It specifically showed that SSRI's in combination with CBT showed the greatest reduction in depressive symptoms compared to each intervention alone.
What is the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS).
This diagnosis must be made before the age of 10 but not before the age of 6 and requires severe and chronic irritability that manifests in both temper outbursts and persistent angry mood between outbursts.
What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?
This percentage of adolescents in the US suffer from depression.
What is 8%?
It's very important not to do this to any parental concerns, even if it is a recurrent problem: there may be an underlying mental health issue or traumatic experience under the surface.
What is minimize?
This can be a faster tool to efficiently screen new mothers for postpartum depression. One of the questions includes, "during the past month, have you often been bothered by feeling down, depressed, or hopeless?
What is the "two-question screener"?
This digital tool published by the AAP is an excellent resource that has a drug lookup section with dosing, monitoring, and safety information for commonly prescribed medications by condition.
What is Pediatric Psychopharmacology for Primary Care?