Honest, Open, Proud for adolescents with mental illness: pilot randomized controlled trial.

Background: Due to public stigma or self-stigma and shame, many adolescents with mental illness (MI) struggle with the decision whether to disclose their MI to others. Both disclosure and nondisclosure are associated with risks and benefits. Honest, Open, Proud (HOP) is a peer-led group program that supports participants with disclosure decisions in order to reduce stigma's impact.

[Psychopharmacological treatments in childhood and adolescence].

Compared to adults, the use of psychopharmacological substances in childhood and adolescence is significantly more controversial. Often sensation-seeking media reports on the negative effects of psychopharmacological treatments of children and adolescents intensify this controversy on a regular basis. In addition, even pharmacologically trained experts--though frequently without expertise in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry--question the seriousness and thus the demands for treatment of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence.

[Docs'n Drugs--an E-learning program for medical students; feasibility and evaluation of the acceptance in student training in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University Hospital in Ulm].

Objective: Increasingly widespread is the use of modern media such as E-learning in medical education. The Medical Faculty of the University of Ulm, being the Competence Center of E-learning, and the Competence Network in Medical Education in Baden-Württemberg have been developing a web based multimedia educational program since 1998.

Methods: In 2004 a grant for modular teaching projects sponsored by the Medical School was obtained in order to incorporate cases from Child and Adolescent Psychiatry into the Docs'n Drugs E-learning Module.

[Introduction of the module "Evidence-based Medicine" in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry into the psychiatry block practicum at the University of Ulm].

Objective: The essential need for the timely availability of additional relevant information has resulted in a focus on "Evidence-based Medicine" (EBM) in medical practice. In Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) training it is essential to impart knowledge of how to effectively use the available literature, since the evidence for many therapies is still poor.

Method: We modified the "Duke Model" for teaching EBM in CAP to better attune it to the educational needs of a German university.