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A new University of Washington study found that, according to parent reports, while having routines, disengaging at a natural stopping point or simply having a battery die made for an easier transition when it came time for kids to turn off a screen, giving a two-minute warning actually made kids more upset when the screen was shut off: http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/05/05/two-minute-warnings-make-kids-screen-time-tantrums-worse/ […]

This study shows that involvement of both parents in behavioral interventions leads to better results: http://helpingfamilieschange.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A2-Frank-Keown-Sanders-Dittman.pdf  

A new study found that managing medications for ADHD via telepsychiatry was more effective than the more common practice of transferring med management to primary care: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26258927  

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A new paper by Murdoch University suggests that teens experience similar feelings of happiness and lower levels of sadness, jealousy and worry when with friends on social media and other online forums as they do when they are actually in the company of their friends than with their families http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-03/online-friends-equally-potent-teenagers-murdoch-university-study/7380810