Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 60, Issue 02, February 2019
“Closing in on causal links between environmental exposures and human development using observational data – “confound those confounders!”” by Pasco Fearon
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Sleep Edition
This edition of The Bridge concentrates on sleep, a poignant reminder that I am editing this on a 6am train to London having shortened my own sleep cycle and feeling rather sleep deprived on this dark winter morning.
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Sleep partially mediates the link between adverse childhood experiences and delinquency
A recent study has now investigated the mechanisms underlying the apparent link between ACEs and high rates of delinquency in children in foster care, with a specific focus on sleep.
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In Conversation… Parental Mental Illness
In this podcast, Dr Alan Cooklin and Jessica Streeting discuss the impact of parental mental illness, how family psychiatry has developed, how everyone has a key role to play, and the power of explanation and understanding as a protective intervention.
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Early adversity impacts on associative learning
Exposure to adversity during childhood negatively impacts on behavioural development due to suboptimal associative learning, according to data from a new study.
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‘Helping Young People in Crisis’ – Slides for 2019 Jack Tizard Memorial Lecture & Conference
Slides available for delegates to download
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