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• Disaster: Helping Children Cope
• News and Children
• Talking to Children about Natural Disasters
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
The week in Review
A lot has happened this week. On Thursday, a group of 145 executives from some of the US's largest companies sent a letter to senators advocating for stronger gun control. The same day, the Trump administration called for a ban on non-tobacco flavored vaping products after a 6th person died due to a vaping-related illness.
As well, tomorrow marks the last day of Suicide Prevention Week. If you'd like to get involved, but don't know where to start, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has a list of events scheduled for the rest of the month.
If you'd like to know more about depression, check out our Depression Resource Center. There, you can find pertinent information for parents, youth, and clinicians. We Recently added the Parents' Medication Guide, made in partnership with the American Psychiatric Association.
Have a happy Friday and a great weekend!
Reilly Polka
rpolka@aacap.org
@AACAP
aacap.org
Catherine Martin, MD & CDC
Dr. Catherine Martin participated in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Interagency Committee Meeting on Smoking and Health on September 9 in Washington, DC. She shared ger expertise regarding vaping and nicotine use for adolescents and provided strategies for decreasing its use.
Suicides of Two Mental Health Advocates in a Week Serve as a Grim Reminder
NBC
Elizabeth Chuck
This week, the community experienced a great loss with the death of Gregory Eells, the head of counseling and psychological services at the University of Pennsylvania. AACAP mourns his loss. This week was National Suicide Prevention Week.
All the experts said regardless of what position a mental health advocate or professional is in, taking care of his or her own mental health is critical to helping others.
For more information on suicide, visit AACAP's Suicide Resource Center
Conversion Therapy Associated with Severe Psychological Distress in Transgender People, Study SaysWashington Post
Lindsey Bever
Alogical distress than transgender people who were not treated with conversion therapy, a new study shows. Researchers analyzed surveyACAP Member Jack Turban was a lead author on the study covered in this story
Transgender people exposed to conversion therapy to change their gender identities, particularly as children, are at a greater risk of psycho responses from more than 27,000 transgender adults across the United States and U.S. territories and military bases, roughly evenly divided between those who had been identified as boys at birth and those who had been identified as girls. People who said they had undergone conversion therapy at any point during their lifetime were twice as likely to have attempted suicide than those who had never undergone such therapies. And those who were subjected to conversion efforts during childhood were four times as likely to have tried to take their own lives, the researchers said.
For more information on transgender youth, check out AACAP'S Fact for Families page: Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
Lots of Time on Social Media Linked to Anxiety, Depression in Teens
US News and World Report
Dennis Thompson
Teens who spend more time with social media are more likely to suffer from social withdrawal, anxiety or depression, a new study says. Twelve- to 15-year-olds who spent more than six hours a day on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media were nearly three times more likely to have these types of "internalizing" mental health issues, researchers report in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. The study was published online Sept. 11.
For more information on the impact of screens on children, check out AACAP's Facts for Families page: Screen Time and Children
Seeking Relief From Nicotine Addiction, Some E-Cigarette Users Turn to SmokingCNN Health
Ana B. Ibarra
One Juul pod, which provides about 200 puffs, contains as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. On stressful days, McClain could finish a pod in three hours — and as he and others figure out just how potent these and other e-cigarettes are, many want out.
"Juul made my nicotine addiction a lot worse," says Lucas McClain, who is now back on cigarettes. "When I didn't have it for more than two hours, I'd get very anxious."
Some are turning back to combustible cigarettes — or taking them up for the first time — in a dangerous bid to lower their nicotine intake and ultimately get off their vapes.
For more information on this issue, check out AACAP's Facts for Families page: Tobacco and Kids as well as our Policy Statement on Electronic Cigarettes
A lot has happened this week. On Thursday, a group of 145 executives from some of the US's largest companies sent a letter to senators advocating for stronger gun control. The same day, the Trump administration called for a ban on non-tobacco flavored vaping products after a 6th person died due to a vaping-related illness.
As well, tomorrow marks the last day of Suicide Prevention Week. If you'd like to get involved, but don't know where to start, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has a list of events scheduled for the rest of the month.
If you'd like to know more about depression, check out our Depression Resource Center. There, you can find pertinent information for parents, youth, and clinicians. We Recently added the Parents' Medication Guide, made in partnership with the American Psychiatric Association.
Have a happy Friday and a great weekend!
Reilly Polka
rpolka@aacap.org
@AACAP
aacap.org
Catherine Martin, MD & CDC
Dr. Catherine Martin participated in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Interagency Committee Meeting on Smoking and Health on September 9 in Washington, DC. She shared ger expertise regarding vaping and nicotine use for adolescents and provided strategies for decreasing its use.
Suicides of Two Mental Health Advocates in a Week Serve as a Grim Reminder
NBC
Elizabeth Chuck
This week, the community experienced a great loss with the death of Gregory Eells, the head of counseling and psychological services at the University of Pennsylvania. AACAP mourns his loss. This week was National Suicide Prevention Week.
All the experts said regardless of what position a mental health advocate or professional is in, taking care of his or her own mental health is critical to helping others.
For more information on suicide, visit AACAP's Suicide Resource Center
Conversion Therapy Associated with Severe Psychological Distress in Transgender People, Study SaysWashington Post
Lindsey Bever
Alogical distress than transgender people who were not treated with conversion therapy, a new study shows. Researchers analyzed surveyACAP Member Jack Turban was a lead author on the study covered in this story
Transgender people exposed to conversion therapy to change their gender identities, particularly as children, are at a greater risk of psycho responses from more than 27,000 transgender adults across the United States and U.S. territories and military bases, roughly evenly divided between those who had been identified as boys at birth and those who had been identified as girls. People who said they had undergone conversion therapy at any point during their lifetime were twice as likely to have attempted suicide than those who had never undergone such therapies. And those who were subjected to conversion efforts during childhood were four times as likely to have tried to take their own lives, the researchers said.
For more information on transgender youth, check out AACAP'S Fact for Families page: Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
Lots of Time on Social Media Linked to Anxiety, Depression in Teens
US News and World Report
Dennis Thompson
Teens who spend more time with social media are more likely to suffer from social withdrawal, anxiety or depression, a new study says. Twelve- to 15-year-olds who spent more than six hours a day on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media were nearly three times more likely to have these types of "internalizing" mental health issues, researchers report in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. The study was published online Sept. 11.
For more information on the impact of screens on children, check out AACAP's Facts for Families page: Screen Time and Children
Seeking Relief From Nicotine Addiction, Some E-Cigarette Users Turn to SmokingCNN Health
Ana B. Ibarra
One Juul pod, which provides about 200 puffs, contains as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. On stressful days, McClain could finish a pod in three hours — and as he and others figure out just how potent these and other e-cigarettes are, many want out.
"Juul made my nicotine addiction a lot worse," says Lucas McClain, who is now back on cigarettes. "When I didn't have it for more than two hours, I'd get very anxious."
Some are turning back to combustible cigarettes — or taking them up for the first time — in a dangerous bid to lower their nicotine intake and ultimately get off their vapes.
For more information on this issue, check out AACAP's Facts for Families page: Tobacco and Kids as well as our Policy Statement on Electronic Cigarettes