An Ounce of Prevention: “COPEing with Toddler Behaviour”

An ounce of prevention: "COPEing with Toddler Behaviour".

Immediate and short-term outcomes of the 'COPEing with Toddler Behaviour' parent group.

BACKGROUND Controlling, uninvolved, and rejecting parenting in early childhood are strong predictors of later disruptive behavior disorders. However, there have been no evaluations of non-targeted groups for parents of very young children, despite their potential advantages. METHODS We randomly assigned 79 mothers of 12- to 36-month-olds to an 8-session parent training program (called 'COPEin...

An ounce of prevention with a calcium score scan?

The past 2 decades have witnessed great progress in the treatment of advanced cardiovascular disease. Mortality of revascularization is close to or below 1% among cardiovascular centers of excellence, time for reperfusion has been dramatically shortened in acute coronary syndromes, and a larger segment of the population has gained access to advanced cardiovascular care. Yet the burden of cardio...

An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure.

“An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure”

767 J Clin Psychiatry 68:5, May 2007 he future of child and adolescent psychiatry lies in the identification of prodromal presentations and risk factors associated with the onset and progression of psychopathology. Only once we begin to understand the early clinical manifestations of psychiatric disorders and the risk factors, genetic and environmental, associated with illness onset and outcome...