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Conduct Disorders and Aggression edition
Children and young people with conduct disorders often have additional comorbid learning difficulties, neurodevelopmental or mental health disorders, so it is important to be able to assess, recognise and offer appropriate interventions. The effects on a young person’s future and society may be significant if not managed well.
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Child anxiety could be factor in school absences, research concludes
New research has concluded that anxiety can be a factor in poor school attendance among children and young people.
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Early cognitive therapy for traumatised young people works and is also cost-effective
More than half of children and adolescents will experience traumatic events like vehicle accidents, house fires, or violence. However, brief counselling for young people in the immediate aftermath of an acute traumatic event has not be shown to be any more effective than not intervening and allowing natural recovery to take its course.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 60, Issue 01, January 2019
“‘It’s a family affair’ – the social drivers of child and adolescent resilience” by Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke
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Access to evidence-based behavioural interventions needs improving for children affected by Tics
In 2016, Chris Hollis and colleagues compiled a Practitioner Review for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry evaluating the most effective and well-supported interventions for children and young people affected by Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder. Here, they discuss the key findings from their systematic review, and highlight that children and young people affected by tics require improved access to evidence-based behavioural interventions.
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Improvements of adolescent psychopathology after insomnia treatment: Results from a randomized controlled trial over one year.
Many adolescents experience sleep problems, which can be caused by hormonal changes during puberty, and social changes with increasing complexity of daily life while growing up.
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The Importance of Representing Dissociative Identity Disorder in Fiction and Media for Children
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a condition that most of us have heard about, but when we break it down, many of us don’t quite understand what it truly is and how it can affect individuals.
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Research issues for children, young people and adults with learning disability and/or autism and their families – some personal reflections
One of the most positive experiences I have ever had was being part of the Childhood Disability Research Priority Setting Partnership through the British Academy of Childhood Disability, the James Lind Alliance and others.
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As a therapist, how should I grieve after a patient’s suicide?
Social worker Beth lost her patient Toby to suicide, but didn’t feel entitled to process it as a personal loss. Why do we treat personal and professional grief differently, and how can we support professionals who suffer traumatic losses?
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CAMH Editorial: Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2018
“Antidepressants and the depressed adolescent” by Ian M. Goodyer
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