Are children of any age susceptible to suicidal behaviour?

Mei-Sing Ong and colleagues in the USA and Canada have investigated the risk factors for suicide attempt in a large cohort of children, adolescents, and young adults with mental health disorders.

9 November 2020

Does having both ADHD and irritability symptoms in childhood predict mental health outcomes in adolescence?

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms combined with high levels of irritability during childhood is a significant predictor of subsequent mental health problems and suicidality in adolescence, according to findings from a new study.

3 November 2020

‘Understanding developmental cognitive science from different cultural perspectives’ – In Conversation with Tochukwu Nweze

Tochukwu Nweze, lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and, PhD student in MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge talks about his recent paper on parentally deprived Nigerian children having enhanced working memory ability, how important is it to study cultural differences in cognitive adaption during and following periods of adversity, and how can mental health professionals translate this understanding of difference into their work.

23 October 2020

The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies

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Help for teachers handling of disclosures of abuse and trauma

In this five minute film David Trickey, consultant clinical psychologist at the Anna Freud Centre, offers techniques and advice for teachers who find themselves faced with a child disclosing experiences of a traumatic nature.

9 October 2020

Young people’s ‘neural fingerprints’ might permit a precision-medicine approach to depression

Precision medicine has been discussed in medical research since the late 1990’s. Only recently, however, has this concept aroused interest and inspired relevant research in psychiatry, particularly in adolescents.

25 September 2020

A history of abuse increases the risk of suicide attempts in youth

Researchers in Belgium and the USA have conducted one of the first investigations into whether a history of various forms of abuse and the presence of mood disorders and psychotic symptoms can predict suicide attempts in psychiatrically hospitalized children.

4 August 2020

July 2020

In this issue, we summarise recent studies on a wide range of topics – including sleep, sensory symptoms, emotional symptoms, disinhibition, alcohol misuse, complex PTSD symptoms, and self-harm – which reveal new insights helping us to better understand and address psychopathology in young people.

19 July 2020

Is neurocognitive functioning linked to a family history of a suicide attempt?

Jones et al. matched 501 participants (aged 8-21 years) who had a family history of a suicide attempt with ~3,000 participants with no such family history.

15 July 2020

Suicidal ideation in children: is it written all over their face?

A study recently published in the JCPP, has investigated how suicidal thoughts might develop in childhood, focusing on the parent–child relationship.

12 June 2020