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When children are admitted to intensive mental health treatment, whether it be inpatient or partial hospitalization programs, the entire family can be impacted, especially parents or caregivers. In our multidisciplinary experience on a med-psych inpatient unit, we often see that parents desperately want to help their distressed and ill children, but sometimes need to help themselves first. We, as a treatment team, have the opportunity to help them.

Psychopathology is associated with the development of gaming disorder among adolescents, according to a cohort study of young adolescents. In particular, depression, anxiety, social problems, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Addressing these underlying issues may reduce the severity incidence of gaming disorder, the researchers concluded, noting that psychopathology seemed to come first.

Almost one third of adolescents who use social media, video games, and mobile phones become addicted to their screens. Furthermore, addictive screen use is associated with mental health problems, including suicidal behaviors and suicidal ideation. The higher the addictive trajectory, the more likely suicidal behaviors are.

It all happened just before the 4th of July, as Congress passed by the narrowest of margins the tax bill which slashed Medicaid, among other things.

Sarah is a patient we encountered while working in a medical and psychiatric partial hospital program (PHP) for children and adolescents (name and details have been altered for confidentiality). She identified as an 11-year-old, white, cisgender female. She was referred to the program by her gastroenterologist for treatment of somatic symptom disorder (SSD) and rumination disorder. (In rumination disorder, despite a functioning stomach and esophagus, the brain sends signals that cause undigested food to come back up, even though the person is not trying to vomit). For Sarah, rumination was triggered by anxiety, feeling unsupported, and emotional distress. At the time of admission, Sarah was vomiting several times a day and reported multiple somatic complaints, including blurred vision, dizziness, and musculoskeletal pain. These symptoms had a profound impact on her functioning — she was unable to attend school and could not participate in social or extracurricular activities.

The World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidelines in July recommending the use of injectable lenacapavir (LEN) twice a year as an additional pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) option for HIV prevention. The landmark policy could help reshape the global HIV response, according to WHO. The guidelines were issued at the 13th International AIDS Society Conference (IAS 2025) on HIV Science, in Kigali, Rwanda.

Limb paralysis/weakness/numbness, syncope, seizures, blindness, developmental regression, memory loss, difficulty speaking; these are all symptoms of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), which is when a person experiences real sensory/cognitive/motor symptoms that have no underlying structural or anatomical abnormality.

It's back to school for the nation's youth, but for some, it is only partially so. Spikes in student absence reflect one thorny legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chronic absenteeism (commonly defined as missing 10% or more of school days) has peaked in the past few years. Nearly twice as many students (28%) hit the chronically absent mark in 2022 (Return to Learn, 2025) as in pre-pandemic years (roughly 15% of students in 2018 and 2019). In 2023, rates began to fall, but remain high — approximately 26% of students nationwide. The pattern persists here in Rhode Island, including a shocking 43% of high schoolers being chronically absent (Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook, 2025). Sadly, it is predictable that although absentee rates are elevated for all, they were significantly higher in schools with a high percentage of nonwhite students, students in poverty, and in rural and urban (compared to suburban) schools. Although slightly higher in schools with the most masking or least in-person instruction in 2021–22, the growth in chronic absenteeism appears to be a global phenomenon, cutting across nations with very different approaches to the pandemic and schooling (Wallace-Wells, 2024).

On July 17 the federal government officially terminated specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth calling the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Although there may well still be such services available if young people call in, the option to “press 3” to reach specially trained counselors for this group was eliminated. CABL interviewed a source who said that if such callers do ask for help for their specific issues after calling 988, they will still get it.