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Restoring Mental Health in Veterans with PTSD

Something exciting is happening at The Salvation Army Bell Shelter in Los Angeles. It started this past May with a small group of veterans who volunteered to be part of a neurofeedback pilot study.

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A Mom’s Journey Through ADHD

Lorrie acted as a surrogate reader for her son, who suffered nightly crises over homework. He stretched 45 minute assignments into hours. Incentives didn’t work. She regularly burned the midnight oil finishing work for him because his stamina had drained out long before he could produce all the work due the next morning.

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American Academy of Pediatrics Recognizes Neurofeedback for ADHD

In October of 2012 the American Academy of Pediatrics gave neurofeedback their top rating in application to the behavioral symptoms of ADHD. This means that neurofeedback has met the highest standards currently being applied to the appraisal of psychosocial interventions.

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Parent Training Strength of Floortime™ Play Intervention

After the parents added home-based DIR® Model and Floortime™ Play Intervention at an average of 15.2 hours/week for three months, the intervention group made significantly greater gains in all three measures employed in the study.

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The Power of Floortime™ Play Intervention

Preliminary results from an ongoing randomized controlled trial suggest that children in the DIR® Model and Floortime™ Play Intervention treatment group made significantly greater gains in social interaction skills in comparison to the community treatment group.

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Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health

A new paper, prepared for the Climate Institute in Australia, reports that rates of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change.

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10 Tips to Grow “In-Sync” Kids

Want to raise a confident, competent child? The kind of kid who loves to learn and play? Who actively participates in the world around her? Who thinks independently while still considering others’ points of view? In three decades of working with young children and their families, Carol S. Kranowitz, M.A. the author of The Outof-Sync Child and The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, found these 10 tips most helpful for raising “can-do” kids.

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Impact of Parental Military Deployment on Children

New research looking at children with at least one parent deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom shows that the length of deployment also has an impact on the mental health diagnoses of their children.

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SSRIs and Autism

SSRI use, before or during pregnancy, is associated with a modest increase in the risk of developing an Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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Autism Spec­trum Dis­or­der and Risk of Wandering

Autism is a diagnosis that can lead to serious health and safety risks. Wandering-related factors, e.g. drowning and prolonged exposure, are believed to be among the main causes of death for the autism population.

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