CFFC Staff, Author at The Centers for Family Change

CFFC Staff

70 posts

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Is Alan Sroufe Ph.D. right? Do Stimulant Medications actually fail to benefit children with ADHD?

14 years ago

In an Op-Ed piece in this Saturday’s (January 28, 2012) N.Y. Times, professor L. Alan Sroufe, Ph.D, professor emeritus, of psychology at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development,…

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Do Fish Oil Supplements Help with ADHD? A warning to not jump to conclusions!

ADHD

14 years ago

This month (January 2012) Consumer Reports posted an article on their website “Is fish oil right for you?”. In this article the authors suggest that “Although the evidence isn’t overwhelming,…

Does Working Memory Training Work?

ADHD

14 years ago

What is working memory?: For those unfamiliar with the concept working memory is a higher order, or more complex cognitive ability, involving the capacity to hold ideas or concepts or…

What makes us better? A new study calls into question our understanding of change

On Psychotherapy

15 years ago

A recent study about a so called “honest placebo” has received a good deal of attention. This study is particularly intriguing because unlike other studies of placebo interventions the participants…

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Thoughts on a New ADHD Medication

ADHD

16 years ago

Intuvin: A new ADHD medication Intuvin is a new medication for ADHD, that is being marketed by Shire. Intuvin is an extended release guanfacine. Guanfacine is an anti-hypertensive agent. Shire…