I have written before about the greater prevalence of suicide in rural youth (Runkle et al. 2023) and the value of telemedicine in working with rural clients (Kaur et al., 2022). Here, I speak to substance abuse and telepsychiatry. First, Kopak & Raggio (2023) published “Substance Use Disorder and Rural Detention Center Readmission: Results from a 3-year prospective cohort study” in Journal of Rural Mental Health. Here are the impact statement and abstract, edited with some information in bold:

This is a long post because it contains information that may well apply to other marginalized groups. Poteat et al. (2023) published “Gender-Sexuality Alliance Meeting Experiences Predict Weekly Variation in Hope among LGBTQ+ Youth” in Child Development. Here’s the highly edited article with some information in bold:

Increasingly, clinicians report seeing young people with symptoms of psychosis. Karcher, Merchant, Rappaport & Barch (2023) published “Associations with Youth Psychotic-Like Experiences Over Time: Evidence for trans-symptom and specific cognitive and neural risk factors” in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Here’s the abstract and impact statement with some information in bold: