by Stephen Grcevich MD | May 2, 2017 | Advocacy, Controversies, Culture of Life, Mental Health
There are no words. I direct our readers to this post from last weekend by Wesley Smith on the National Review’s website describing the decision of a religious order in Belgium that operates 15 psychiatric hospitals with a combined 5,000 beds to permit...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Mar 20, 2017 | Controversies, Key Ministry, Spiritual Development, Strategies
I’ve been a follower of Rod Dreher’s blog for a long time. Rod’s a journalist who writes extensively about religion in the public square. He has written and served as an editor for the New York Post, the National Review, the Dallas Morning News, and...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Dec 14, 2016 | Autism, Controversies, Key Ministry, Mental Health
Gina Jacobs/Shutterstock.com We commemorate today the fourth anniversary of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT in which 20 children and six adult staff were brutally murdered by a young man who had been diagnosed at various times with an autism...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Dec 12, 2016 | Advocacy, Controversies, Culture of Life, Key Ministry
Count me among a very small number of child and adolescent psychiatrists very troubled by the proliferation of “safe spaces.”In the last few years, the idea has proliferated that students on college campuses are entitled to protection from speakers,...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Oct 19, 2016 | ADHD, Advocacy, Controversies
Editor’s Notes: The FDA announced plans to rescind the approval of generic versions of Concerta manufactured by Kremers Urban Pharmaceuticals and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. The drug companies have until mid-November to file a request for a hearing to appeal the...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Oct 18, 2016 | Adoption, Advocacy, Controversies, Key Ministry, Mental Health
Using data from the 2011-12 National Survey of Children’s Health, a new study featured in the November 2016 issue of Pediatrics seeks to compare parent-reported mental and physical health outcomes of children placed in foster care to those for children who have...
