Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
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JCPP Annual Research Review 2020
Free access to the articles included in the JCPP Annual Research Review: “Something new: What’s next for child psychology and psychiatry?”, until the end of February 2020.
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Autism, a parents guide with Dr. Ann Ozsivadjian and Dr. Marianna Murin. Episode 2 ‘Discovering Strengths – how to empower your autistic child’
Ann and Marianna look at a strength-based model for autism, what types of strengths can be built upon and who can play a key role in helping children and young people with autism.
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Most cited CAMH paper #7 of 25: Measurement Issues: Screening and diagnostic instruments for autism spectrum disorders – lessons from research and practise
Tony Charman, Katherine Gotham.
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Key Practitioner Message includes; Screening and diagnostic instruments help clinicians least in the cases where they are most in want of direction as their accuracy will always be lower for marginal cases -
Autism, a parents guide with Dr. Ann Ozsivadjian. Episode 1 ‘Identifying Autism – getting the right diagnosis’
Ann looks at the types and behaviours in children may get parents/carers to question if their child could be autistic, and what they can do to. This podcast series is supported by the Autism Diagnostic Practice at Clinical Partners.
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders
This edition of The Bridge concentrates on Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Research, particularly on treatments in children within the neurodevelopmental arenas is limited and in many ways behind general mental health research for children or adults.
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Autism Spectrum Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Editorial
This edition of The Bridge focusses on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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Most Popular Content of 2019
We’ve collated the most popular online content, from our website, of 2019. We would like to thank all of our collaborators who are helping us in ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’.
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December 2019 issue – The Bridge
Summaries include; if parental consanguinity predicts the severity of Autistic symptoms; study the transmission of intergenerational anxiety in families; systematic review into the effectiveness of available interventions to treat PTSD; the efficacy of teacher assessments vs exams to assess performance in UK schools; relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and extreme demand avoidance in young people with Autism; and how fluctuations in external environmental noise affect the developing Autonomic Nervous System in babies.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and emotions: are we missing something?
A higher prevalence of mental health difficulties for autistic people has been demonstrated, we need to ask ourselves why. Increasingly research is highlighting the differences between autistic and neurotypical (NT) emotional development.
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Intolerance of uncertainty underlies demand avoidance behaviours in children
Researchers in Newcastle have conducted one of the first studies to conceptualise and understand the behavioural features of the pathological demand avoidance (PDA) profile — a proposed subtype of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) — in children and young people.
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