Stan Kutcher

Summary

Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi Screening for adolescent depression: comparison of the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale with the Beck depression inventory
    John C LeBlanc
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 12:113-26. 2002
  2. ncbi An integrated program to train local health care providers to meet post-disaster mental health needs
    Stan Kutcher
    Department of Psychiatry, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Training and Policy Development, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Rev Panam Salud Publica 18:338-45. 2005
  3. ncbi Mentally ill youth: meeting service needs
    Stan Kutcher
    CMAJ 176:417, 419. 2007
  4. ncbi Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and youth suicide: making sense from a confusing story
    Stan Kutcher
    Department of Psychiatry and the World Health Organization Pan American Health Organization Collaborating Center, Halifax, Canada
    Curr Opin Psychiatry 21:65-9. 2008
  5. ncbi International consensus statement on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and disruptive behaviour disorders (DBDs): clinical implications and treatment practice suggestions
    Stan Kutcher
    Dalhousie University Department of Psychiatry, QE II Health Sciences Centre, Abbie J Lane Building Suite 9212, 5909 Veterans Memorial Lane, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 2E2, Canada
    Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 14:11-28. 2004
  6. ncbi Application of a needs-driven, competencies-based mental health training program to a post-disaster situation: the Grenada experience
    Stan Kutcher
    Department of Psychiatry, WHO PAHO Collaborating Center in Mental Health Training and Policy Development, Dalhousie University, AJLB H Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Am J Disaster Med 3:235-40. 2008
  7. ncbi The Kutcher Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder Scale for Adolescents: assessment of its evaluative properties over the course of a 16-week pediatric psychopharmacotherapy trial
    Sarah J Brooks
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, 5909 Veterans' Memorial Lane, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2E2, Canada
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 14:273-86. 2004
  8. ncbi Mental health and the school environment: secondary schools, promotion and pathways to care
    Stan Kutcher
    IWK Health Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Curr Opin Psychiatry 25:311-6. 2012
  9. ncbi Data safety monitoring boards and other study methodologies that address subject safety in "high-risk" therapeutic trials in youths
    Carlo Carandang
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:489-92. 2007
  10. ncbi Use of school-based health centres for mental health support in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
    Magdalena Szumilas
    Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Can J Psychiatry 55:319-28. 2010

Detail Information

Publications20

  1. ncbi Screening for adolescent depression: comparison of the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale with the Beck depression inventory
    John C LeBlanc
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 12:113-26. 2002
    ..The six-item KADS may prove to be an efficient and effective means of ruling out MDE in adolescents...
  2. ncbi An integrated program to train local health care providers to meet post-disaster mental health needs
    Stan Kutcher
    Department of Psychiatry, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Training and Policy Development, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Rev Panam Salud Publica 18:338-45. 2005
    ..This approach is in contrast to the largely ineffective and costly vertical whole-population psychosocial counseling activities that have often been used in the Caribbean following natural disasters...
  3. ncbi Mentally ill youth: meeting service needs
    Stan Kutcher
    CMAJ 176:417, 419. 2007
  4. ncbi Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and youth suicide: making sense from a confusing story
    Stan Kutcher
    Department of Psychiatry and the World Health Organization Pan American Health Organization Collaborating Center, Halifax, Canada
    Curr Opin Psychiatry 21:65-9. 2008
    ..This review provides an update on use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and youth suicide, and describes an informed examination of the social and professional dimensions of this issue...
  5. ncbi International consensus statement on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and disruptive behaviour disorders (DBDs): clinical implications and treatment practice suggestions
    Stan Kutcher
    Dalhousie University Department of Psychiatry, QE II Health Sciences Centre, Abbie J Lane Building Suite 9212, 5909 Veterans Memorial Lane, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 2E2, Canada
    Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 14:11-28. 2004
    ..and Johnson (sponsor), 11 international experts in child and adolescent psychiatry were selected by Professor Stan Kutcher (chair) to address these concerns...
  6. ncbi Application of a needs-driven, competencies-based mental health training program to a post-disaster situation: the Grenada experience
    Stan Kutcher
    Department of Psychiatry, WHO PAHO Collaborating Center in Mental Health Training and Policy Development, Dalhousie University, AJLB H Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Am J Disaster Med 3:235-40. 2008
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  7. ncbi The Kutcher Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder Scale for Adolescents: assessment of its evaluative properties over the course of a 16-week pediatric psychopharmacotherapy trial
    Sarah J Brooks
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, 5909 Veterans' Memorial Lane, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2E2, Canada
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 14:273-86. 2004
    ..The K-GSADS-A also demonstrated good sensitivity to changes in severity. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the K-GSADS-A is a valid measure of treatment outcome in adolescents with DSM-IV social phobia...
  8. ncbi Mental health and the school environment: secondary schools, promotion and pathways to care
    Stan Kutcher
    IWK Health Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Curr Opin Psychiatry 25:311-6. 2012
    ..This review describes literature during the past year on school-based mental health programs addressing mental health promotion, prevention, early identification and intervention/treatment...
  9. ncbi Data safety monitoring boards and other study methodologies that address subject safety in "high-risk" therapeutic trials in youths
    Carlo Carandang
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:489-92. 2007
  10. ncbi Use of school-based health centres for mental health support in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
    Magdalena Szumilas
    Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Can J Psychiatry 55:319-28. 2010
    ..To determine whether students with self-reported needs for mental health support used school-based health centres (SBHCs) for this purpose...
  11. ncbi Child and adolescent mental health policy and plans in Canada: an analytical review
    Stan Kutcher
    IWK Health Centre and Dalhousie University Department of Psychiatry, 5850 5980 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Can J Psychiatry 55:100-7. 2010
    ..As services should be based on policies and (or) plans, we analyzed the availability and content of child and adolescent mental health policies and plans in all provinces and territories...
  12. ncbi Teen suicide information on the internet: a systematic analysis of quality
    Magdalena Szumilas
    Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Can J Psychiatry 54:596-604. 2009
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  13. ncbi Evidence review and clinical guidance for the use of ziprasidone in Canada
    David M Gardner
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
    Ann Gen Psychiatry 12:1. 2013
    ..Key challenges in practice include the need for dosing on a full stomach and managing its early onset adverse effect of restlessness. Addressing these issues are critical to its long-term success...
  14. ncbi The feasibility of a mental health curriculum in elementary school
    Bianca A Lauria-Horner
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Can J Psychiatry 49:208-11. 2004
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  15. ncbi Diagnosis and measurement of anxiety disorder in adolescents: a review of commonly used instruments
    Sarah J Brooks
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 13:351-400. 2003
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  16. ncbi The Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale: assessment of its evaluative properties over the course of an 8-week pediatric pharmacotherapy trial
    Sarah J Brooks
    Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 13:337-49. 2003
    ..CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the 11-item self-rated KADS is a sensitive measure of treatment outcome in adolescents diagnosed with MDD...
  17. ncbi International school mental health: global approaches, global challenges, and global opportunities
    Yifeng Wei
    IWK Health Centre, 5850 University Avenue, PO Box 9700, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3K 6R8
    Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 21:11-27, vii. 2012
    ..Currently, a paucity of evidence-based and cost effective child and youth global mental health policies/programs exist, limiting school-based mental health programs being developed, implemented, or sustained...
  18. ncbi A randomized trial of a specific adherence enhancement program in sertraline-treated adults with major depressive disorder in a primary care setting
    Stan Kutcher
    Department of Psychiatry Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 26:591-6. 2002
    ..We conclude that the application of RHYTHMS in a primary care setting has a substantial role in improving satisfaction with sertraline treatment by patients with MDD...
  19. ncbi Maintenance study for adolescent depression
    Amy Cheung
    Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 18:389-94. 2008
    ..This study examines the benefit of maintenance treatment with sertraline in adolescents aged 13-19 years with major depression using a multi-site randomized placebo controlled discontinuation design...
  20. ncbi Paroxetine treatment in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder: a randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
    Graham J Emslie
    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75390 8589, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:709-19. 2006
    ..To assess the efficacy and tolerability of paroxetine in pediatric major depressive disorder...