Adriana Weisleder is using her APF Koppitz grant to explore ways Spanish-speaking parents can enrich their children’s learning.
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be able to focus not just on efficacy, but efficiency of treatment delivery,” he says. Assessing suicide risk Temple University psychology student Kelly A. O’Neil was studying youth with anxiety disorders at Temple’s Child and
Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic when she spotted a trend. “Some of my clients who had an anxiety disorder, but not depression, were talking about suicide,” she says. “These were 8-, 9- and 10-year-olds talking about wanting to die or wishing they were dead.”
O’Neil is using her Koppitz grant to study whether anxiety disorders put children and teens at an increased risk for suicidal ideation. She’s also hoping to pinpoint potential predictors of suicidality in anxiety-disordered youth. The preliminary findings indicate that
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