Can we improve attachment or attachment-related outcomes in young children?

Summary of attachment-related research, interventions and outcomes from Professor Jane Barlow, ex-Editor-in-Chief of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal.

1 May 2018

Adoption and attachment: A parent’s perspective

Guest blog from Dr Taylor: “I am grateful for the opportunity to recount my experience of inviting a traumatised child into my family. If I can persuade those working in children’s services to change this experience, even for just one family, I will have achieved something worthwhile.”

1 May 2018

A harsh parenting team?

Guest blog from Dr Rachel Latham, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College London on whether high quality coparenting can buffer children’s behaviour from the negative impact of harsh parenting.

1 May 2018

Detaching RAD from DSED: the rationale and research requirements

1 May 2018

School-based interventions

Children and young people spend a great deal of time at school, so it has an important role to play in their development. Time spent in school impacts not just on academic and cognitive progress, but also on social interactions, peer relationships, emotional regulation and behaviour. All these areas affect, and are affected by, mental health (Fazel et al, 2014).

1 May 2018

Sleep

Children and adolescents who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health also often struggle with their sleep. Indeed disrupted or altered sleep has been associated with most psychiatric disorders (Gregory & Sadeh, 2016). Although a range of sleep difficulties can co-occur with mental health problems, a common difficulty is insomnia. As such this guidance will primarily focus on difficulties with getting to sleep and staying asleep.

1 May 2018

Trauma

Most children and young people experience at least one traumatic event before age of 18 years.

1 May 2018

Autistica highlights strong evidence for new communication therapy

Autistica, UK’s autism research charity, are recommending that all local areas should have healthcare professionals accredited to deliver a new form of communication intervention called PACT.

29 March 2018

Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference 2018 – Focusing on Adolescent Mental Health

6 March 2018

With Parents in Mind: Can shared decision making support parents at CAMHS?

Exploring shared decision making as a triad relationship between clinicians, children and parents where clinicians and service users (i.e. children and parents) share the information when faced with the task of making decisions, and where service users are supported to consider options to achieve informed preferences, may be of value.

6 March 2018