Bradley Peterson, MD, discusses when pediatricians should consider adding a second treatment for pediatric anxiety and why improvement may continue well beyond the first 3 months of therapy.

Bradley Peterson, MD, discusses how treatment preferences, access, tolerability, and patient characteristics can guide pediatric anxiety care when CBT and medication provide similar overall benefits.

CBT and fluoxetine both reduced pediatric anxiety, while starting with CBT before adding medication showed advantages on several outcomes.

Sleep specialist Rashi Kochhar, MD, explains how consistent bedtimes and wake times can support adequate sleep and daytime functioning during the school year.

Consistent sleep schedules can ease the back-to-school transition for children and teens

Adding questions about routines and predictability may provide pediatricians with a broader picture of childhood adversity and mental health risk.

Researchers found that childhood unpredictability provided additional information about mental health risk beyond conventional ACEs screening.

Suicide-related pediatric ED visits rose 74% from 2016 to 2022; about half occurred at EDs with lower pediatric volume, a national analysis found.