Children's emotional wellbeing

We also look at the importance of preventing and treating anxiety problems early in life, and the costs to children if we do not. [...] IN PRACTICE Out of the journals and into children’s lives Jane Garland is a child psychiatrist, clinical professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and head of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital. [...] Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. [...] The universal Friends program notably reduced new cases of anxiety disorders by 8% for program participants overall and 54% for at-risk children.2 (See the first issue of the Quarterly where we highlighted outcomes of the Friends program and described its implementation in BC schools.) The six effective treatment programs identified in our previous report also used cognitive-behavioural therapy (C [...] Putting research into policy and practice These review findings supporting the effectiveness of E/RP are consistent with our previously published report Preventing and Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children and Youth and a well-regarded practice parameter.4,5 In our report we recommended medication only be used for the most severe OCD cases due to safety concerns.