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"What this study shows is that you need good sleep to have good mental health, period." -- Karen Pierce, MD, of Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, about the connection between poor sleep and worse #mentalhealth among kids and adolescents. medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/sle… MedPage Psychiatry Michael DePeau-Wilson
"Until we have anti-racist staff, who truly treat all children with empathy and compassion, Black children will continue to lack informative diagnoses." --Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH Read the #OpEd: bit.ly/3KsRl5w MedPage Psychiatry
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Many teens who died by firearm suicide grew up in gun-owning families, reported Paul Nestadt of HopkinsPsych at #APAAM23. "I think this is a really vital discussion." -- Howard Liu, MD MBA #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth MedPage Psychiatry bit.ly/421Yq3J
Of all mental health facilities that serve youth in the U.S., only 28% offered #LGBTQ-specific #mentalhealth services in 2020. "I would have expected to see us doing better... but that was not actually the case." -@kristenrchoi MedPage Psychiatry bit.ly/3NtQnsj