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Publication date: Available online 18 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Kaiyuan Zhang, Fuyou Guo
Publication date: Available online 18 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Jesse D. Hinckley
Publication date: Available online 21 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Casey Berson
Publication date: Available online 24 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): JAACAP Journals
Publication date: Available online 24 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Ariane Cartigny, Corentin J. Gosling, Georges Chatzis, Ophélia Godin, Ariel Frajerman, Elise Humeau, Paola Atzori, Sara Ramos Pereira, Pierre E…
Publication date: Available online 25 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Lukas S. Schaffer, Amir Sariaslan, Jeremy M. Lawrence, Sophie Breunig, Isabelle F. Foote, Michel G. Nivard, Anna Gui, Angelica Ronald, Pekka Ma…
Publication date: Available online 29 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Jasmin Wertz, Margherita Malanchini
Publication date: Available online 29 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Kevin M. Cook
Publication date: Available online 29 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Rajeev Krishna
Publication date: Available online 30 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Jui-Chun Chang, Ming-Jer Chen, Wei-Szu Lin, Ching-Heng Lin, Tsuo-Hung Lan
Publication date: Available online 30 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): John D. McLennan
Publication date: Available online 30 September 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): James Lock, Brittany Matheson, Booil Jo, Cara Bohon, Nandini Datta, Aileen Whyte, HaLi Boyce, Hazal Y. Gurcan, Ainsley E. Cogburn, Bohye Kim
Publication date: Available online 1 October 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Author(s): Allison C. Goodman
Publication date: October 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 65, Issue 10 Author(s):
Publication date: October 2026 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 65, Issue 10 Author(s):
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took an important step last month when it released a new toolkit for states on applied behavior analysis, or ABA, services for people with autism. The need for greater scrutiny is clear. Medicaid and CHIP spending on ABA has grow…
BCG vaccination curbs tau tangles in mice by boosting microglial cleanup, fueling hopes for human trials to reduce dementia risk.
Nearly five months after California’s psychiatric nurse staffing ratios took effect, the state’s Medicaid agency is weighing a plan to send money that providers have sought to help absorb the mandate’s costs to programs further downstream. One psychiatric hospital CEO told Becker…
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs may worsen eating disorders or mask symptoms; experts urge careful screening, specialist referral, and monitoring before, during, and after use.
Calls to the Washington Poison Center involving kratom and one of its active compounds, 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, rose 433% over the past three years, with the sharpest increase in 2026, CBS affiliate KIRO 7 News reported Oct. 29. The center logged 176 kratom- and 7-OH-relat…
The share of U.S. children and adolescents ages 5-17 who have ever received an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis rose from 9.9% in 2019 to 13.8% in 2025, according to CDC data published Oct. 29. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics released the finding…
Sabirnetug phase 2 Alzheimer trial misses cognitive endpoint despite lowering amyloid, prompting Acumen to halt development and open-label extension plans.
California has the most professionally active psychiatrists while Wyoming has the fewest, according to KFF data as of September 2026. KFF tallied active MDs and DOs in each state and the District of Columbia using a special data request of state licensing information from Redi-Da…
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Psychedelic trials often exclude real-world comorbidities; clinicians must weigh blinding limits, dosing durability, support needs, safety risks, and uneven system readiness.
Administrative burdens in behavioral health push intake and paperwork onto clinicians, driving burnout and longer patient waitlists.
HHS updates its national dementia plan, prioritizing risk reduction, early detection, biomarkers, and faster diagnostics and treatments through new FDA, CMS, and ARPA-H initiatives.
Neflamapimod misses its main DLB endpoint, but biomarker and subgroup signals suggest IL-1β pathway impact and may justify a phase 3 trial.
A systematic review and meta-analysis compares pharmacological agents with nonpharmacologic approaches to identify the most effective interventions for insomnia in peri- and postmenopausal women.
Tulsa, Okla.-based OSU Medicine launched OSU Maternal and Addiction Recovery Care, a program that offers prenatal care, addiction treatment and mental health counseling in one location to pregnant and postpartum patients with substance use disorders. The program held a ribbon-cut…
The number of U.S. specialty behavioral health hospitals rose to 667 in 2024, an increase of 22 since 2020, according to the American Hospital Association’s 2026 Fast Facts: Behavioral Health infographic. Specialty behavioral health hospitals made up 11% of all U.S. hospitals. Th…
Stimulants were involved in 46.2% of drug use-associated infective endocarditis hospitalizations in 2022, up from 37.3% in 2016, according to a study published Oct. 27 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Washi…
Portland, Ore.-based Central City Concern will permanently close the Letty Owings Center, Oregon’s largest residential addiction treatment center for pregnant and parenting women, at the end of October, InvestigateWest reported Oct. 29. The 29-bed center opened in 1989 and allowe…
This is an exclusive BHB+ article. 2026 hasn’t been a standout year for behavioral health deal volume, but it has produced some of the most interesting transactions in recent years. The digital health sector is finally starting to make headlines with major transactions. From Spr…
Houston-based PsychPlus has acquired Precision Psychiatric Services, a California psychiatric group, adding more than 100 psychiatrists to its clinical network. PsychPlus announced the deal Oct. 23. Financial terms were not disclosed. Precision, founded in 2018, is a physician-le…
Mikia Antoneice Noble, co-owner and COO of Advancing Communities Everywhere, a mental health provider in the Richmond, Va., area, was arrested Oct. 28 on federal charges alleging the company billed Virginia Medicaid more than $49 million for crisis services it did not deliver as…
New York will receive $10 million in federal funding over five years to expand behavioral health services in primary care settings, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Oct. 27. The state Office of Mental Health will administer the grant through a new initiative called Advancing…
The final deadline for the 2026 Aspect Marketing & Advertising Awards is Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 11:59pm CDT. The Aspect Marketing & Advertising Awards recognize outstanding creativity, innovation, and impact in marketing and advertising campaigns across the healthcare, pos…
National survey shows most US adults don’t know AUD medications exist, and safety concerns plus racial disparities shape hesitation toward treatment.
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has given $15 million to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland to build a behavioral health wing that will include the hospital’s first dedicated inpatient psychiatric rooms. The 21,300-square-foot wing will have 20 private inpatient psy…
Federal health officials have proposed loosening a ban on mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, or MGPI, a potent opioid compound found in some kratom products, to allow the substance at certain levels, The New York Times reported Oct. 28. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the p…
The Chicago-based American Medical Association and eight other physician organizations joined a legal challenge to CMS regulations that could make it harder for individuals with substance use disorders and other serious medical conditions to qualify for an exemption from Medicaid…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services reached a tentative agreement in August to resolve all outstanding claims in lawsuits tied to alleged sexual abuse of patients at its New Kent, Va.-based Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, according to the system…
GLP-1 drugs may quiet cravings by reshaping brain reward and satiety signals, reducing food-seeking drive and binge-like eating, while long-term effects remain unclear.
This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Employee assistance programs were once table stakes in workplace benefits packages in the early 2000s, but widespread availability has consistently outpaced useage. In 2026, only 4-5% of employees used EAPs at most companies. A standard EAP offeri…
In-person visits let Erin Crown read incongruence between what a patient says and how they present, and one encounter years ago showed her exactly why that matters.
A vague sense of 'blah' is often the last symptom to lift. Dr. Harding and Dr. Citrome examine why anhedonia and disrupted sleep persist longest, and how tracking them closely reveals early warning signs.
Houston, Texas-based PsychPlus has acquired Precision Psychiatric Services Inc. The move adds more than 100 psychiatrists to PsychPlus’ growing national practice, which focuses on partnerships with hospitals and other facilities. The company partners with over 200 hospital system…
This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Sober living facilities are critical pieces of the addiction treatment care continuum, where demand often outpaces supply. Yet, they are more commonly at the center of fraud investigations than other areas of treatment and are much harder to regul…
Breakthrough Alzheimer updates: UK adaptive platform trial tests repurposed drugs, new phase 2/3 therapies advance, and sleep disruption emerges as a treatable risk factor.
Unlike most of healthcare, behavioral health is not an episodic business. Most of healthcare produces revenue in discrete intervals. A cardiologist’s revenue is produced in bounded events: the catheter threaded, the stent placed, the echocardiogram read and reported. Cost follows…
Gus Alva, MD, DFAPA, joins Erin Crown to discuss how regional meetings, industry exchange, and emerging treatments can help clinicians avoid burnout and better serve patients.
Behind the scenes at a psychiatry conference, Gus Alva, MD, DFAPA, and Erin Crown share practical insights on burnout, industry, and emerging treatments—turning continuing education into better patient outcomes.
American Psychiatric Association (APA) Publishing has recently released three new titles. The new books are intended for use by psychiatrists, psychiatric residents and medical students, social workers, and other behavioral and mental health professionals.
Dealmaking across the behavioral health industry continues to face challenges. However, no single thing explains the relative disquiet in behavioral health dealmaking. Several industry sources are also looking at the dealmaking environment and seeing its underlying strengths and…
U.S. Department of Justice officials in the Central District of California have charged a father-son duo in what officials say is the largest substance abuse treatment fraud scheme in U.S. prosecution history, which encompasses $1.6 billion in alleged false claims. David and Nath…
Trauma-informed leadership examines how authority is used, how systems feel to staff, and whether working conditions support quality care.
This is an exclusive BHB+ article. Outpatient mental health services have been the investor darling for nearly a decade. And I don’t see that trend necessarily changing any time soon. Still, it’s a competitive, crowded environment and a slew of established market leaders already…
Revelstoke-backed Family Care Center announced it closed a minority equity sale led by Apogem Capital and additional investors. The provider said the new funds will support its growth and community-based model. The outpatient behavioral health provider has 50 locations across fi…
This is an exclusive BHB+ story. In 1969, the term “psychedelics” conjured images of San Francisco’s historic Hippie Hill, the Grateful Dead and Woodstock. Close to 60 years later, that stigma lingers despite a multitude of advancements and research showcasing the drug class’s po…
This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Many adult seniors have been locked out of accessing residential addiction treatment for the sector’s entire history. Still, around 1 in 15 adults over the age of 65 have had a substance use disorder in the past year. Despite decades of advances i…
Lewisville, Texas-based BayMark Health Services announced Monday that it completed its new-money recapitalization and a debt-for-equity exchange. The deal, revealed earlier in the year, marks a notable stumble among scaled, private equity-backed addiction treatment providers. And…
Learn how embedding behavioral health in women’s healthcare can reduce burnout, improve access to care, and support families.
Therapist enablement platform Headway is once again facing backlash from its clinician pool on its platform over a lengthy new contract the company rolled out last Thursday asking them to sign and agree to several new terms with a deadline. However, Headway quickly reversed its d…
Learn how restorative justice helps keep Florida youth out of detention while promoting accountability and reducing repeat offenses.
Behavioral health providers can prepare for rising Medicaid scrutiny with stronger data, payer diversity, technology, and staff retention.
Explore how Westchester County uses behavioral health diversion models to connect people with services across the criminal justice system.
Accreditation, Medicaid changes, and stronger handoffs can improve continuity of substance use treatment after incarceration.
ADHD can increase school discipline, disengagement, and justice-system involvement, highlighting the need for stronger support.
CCBHCs can reduce justice involvement through behavioral health access, crisis response, and coordinated community care.
New York City's mental health crisis response system still lacks peer leadership – here's why trained peers must be front and center in 2026.
Community-based behavioral health programs can reduce justice-system involvement by providing flexible, ongoing care before and after crises.
"Behavioral Health and the Justice System"
Dr. Isaac Adusu is named 2026 Community Leader of the Year for advancing disability inclusion and community services.
Youth deflection connects adolescents to behavioral health care before charges, helping reduce trauma and avoid detention.
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