Addressing the Adolescent Behavioral Health Crisis

• By: Jorge R. Petit, MD Dr. JPetit Psychiatry Services
• April 29th, 2024
• access to care, behavioral health, BIPOC youth, community, family, LGBTQ+ youth, stigma
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Over the last year I have been writing about the growing public health crisis of behavioral health challenges among adolescents and young adults, especially BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth. The United Hospital Fund (UHF), in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), recently released The...

LGBTQ Parenting Issues

• By: Santo Barbagiovanni, LMSW Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)
• October 1st, 2016
• adolescence, family support, identity development, LGBTQ+ youth, mental health, parents and caregivers, stigma, transgender youth
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Adolescence is a time for growth and exploration. In the best of circumstances, children are encountering new experiences, making new friends, pushing limits and testing boundaries, and withdrawing from family to be with friends during this time of rapid development. They are learning social skills...

The NYSPA Report: Conversion Therapy

• By: Barry B. Perlman, MD NY State Psychiatric Association (NYSPA)
• January 1st, 2016
• adolescent mental health, conversion therapy, evidence-based care, LGBTQ+ youth, mental health, professional ethics, public policy, sexual orientation
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Primum non nocere, “first do no harm,” is a maxim well known to physicians and might be one that should be taken to heart by state decision makers. It is with this dictum in mind that NYSPA urges the NYS Senate to finally pass during its 2016 session the bill defining the practice of “Sexual...