• By Dartington SRU
  • Posted on Thursday 02nd February, 2012

Contagion: nothing spreads like crime

As any parent of a teenager knows, the peers their child hangs out with have a major influence on what their child gets into, and certain neighborhoods make child-rearing harder than others. Now research suggests that living in a neighborhood that has a lot of repeat offenders not only increases the chances that teenage boys who have committed a crime will re-offend, it can also act to “speciali…

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  • By Dartington SRU
  • Posted on Wednesday 01st February, 2012

Small kids, big problems: can we treat depression in preschoolers?

A new treatment offers tentative hope to families of depressed preschoolers, a pilot study has found. When the evidence-based intervention Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) was recently adapted to treat preschool depression, the results of a small preliminary trial were promising.Psychiatrists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, added a new, third module…

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