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Behavioral & Mental Health News from CHOP

Behavioral & Mental Health News from CHOP

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The latest news from CHOP about behavioral and mental health.
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Shyness in Kids

Worried your child’s shyness will hold them back? A CHOP pediatrician and psychologist offer tips to encourage brave practices – and when to seek additional support.

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers Find New Protocol to Help Stabilize Youth Boarding in Emergency Rooms

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) researchers successfully reduced the number of youths needing to be admitted to psychiatric facilities through a stabilization protocol designed to address psychiatric boarding, the practice of maintaining patients with psychiatric emergencies in the Emergency Department (ED) or other temporary settings due to a lack of available inpatient psychiatric beds. The report was published recently in the journal Pediatrics.

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Mental Health: It Takes a Village

A Q&A with Tami Benton, MD, who has led the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences since 2010.

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