Managing Co-Occurring Disorders on Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Units

Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2025 Jan;34(1):105-118. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2024.06.001. Epub 2024 Jul 24.

Abstract

The contemporary management of the adolescent patient on the psychiatric inpatient adolescent unit in the twenty-first century entails a new type of comprehensive and wide ranging familiarity with several types of clinically challenging co-occurring disorders including cannabis use disorder and eating disorders. In this article, there is a delineation of current understanding of the prevalence of these diagnoses in addition to a review of prevailing expert opinion as to principles of evaluation and management of these conditions in patients stabilized on the adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit.

Keywords: Adolescent eating disorder; Anorexia nervosa; Bulimia nervosa; Cannabinoid; Marijuana.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Comorbidity
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders* / epidemiology
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders* / therapy
  • Humans
  • Inpatients
  • Marijuana Abuse / epidemiology
  • Marijuana Abuse / therapy
  • Mental Disorders / epidemiology
  • Mental Disorders / therapy
  • Psychiatric Department, Hospital*