by Stephen Grcevich MD | Oct 21, 2019 | Key Ministry, Mental Health
While I was away this week at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Annual Meeting, a report was issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control describing a 56% increase in the suicide rate over the last ten years among...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Jul 22, 2019 | Controversies, Mental Health
Photo from National Review Allan Josephson is one of the most highly regarded child and adolescent psychiatrists in America. He headed up the child psychiatry division at the University of Louisville for the past fifteen years. He is the principal author of the...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | Aug 26, 2018 | Key Ministry, Mental Health
As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, I frequently encounter parents and skeptics who freely share their opinions that much of the reported crisis in children’s mental health is fabricated…a marketing scheme of the pharmaceutical industry, a consequence of poor...
by Stephen Grcevich MD | May 20, 2018 | Advocacy, Key Ministry
A study published this past week in the journal Pediatrics shed light upon the growing mental health crisis among American youth. Between 2008 and 2015, the study documents a nearly three-fold increase in the percentage of pediatric hospital emergency room visits...
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...
