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Ecological Crisis and the Impact on Mental Health
The ecological crisis is having a significant impact on our mental health, in particular young people. There is an ongoing debate whether this topic should be front and centre for mental health professionals, and those that work with children. What do they need to be doing? What do young people think? How can we work together? As the world focuses on COP26, we’ll be discussing the mental health implications of climate change with leading mental health professionals and young people.
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‘Increased mental health difficulties in vulnerable children during lockdown’- In Conversation with Dolapo Adegboye
The third in our JCPP Advances podcast series that focus on the papers and editors featured in the publication is with Dolapo Adegboye, research associate in the Neurodevelopment Assessment Unit (NDAU) at Cardiff University.
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Mental Health in schools: learning lessons from the past
Whilst the pandemic may be a contributory factor, the increase in mental health problems from one in eight to one in six between 2017 and today is alarming and needs addressing urgently. Unfortunately, it seems that recent changes in education have impacted negatively YP emotional wellbeing.
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Investigating the interplay of genetics and environment on development – Prof Cathryn Lewis
Professor Cathryn Lewis, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology & Statistics, Head of Department, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King’s College London, discusses the work of her research group and how determining the polygenic component of mental health disorders can be accurately measured, and how to use genetics to assess people’s risk of mental disorder.
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‘Hearing voices, and unusual sensory experiences’ In Conversation with Dr. Sarah Parry
In this podcast, Dr. Sarah Parry, Clinical Psychologist, researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, discusses what the term hearing voices means, its prevalence, and its manifestations in childhood and adolescence.
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CAMH Editorial: Volume 25, Issue 4, November 2020
Editorial: Social media use in children and adolescents – on the good or the bad side of the force? Prof. Michael Kaess
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Insufficient sleep might affect children’s emotional health
Data from a new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry suggest that insufficient sleep can affect emotional health in children. The study, conducted by Candice Alfano and colleagues, assessed the impact of sleep duration on different aspects of emotion in a cohort of 53 children aged 7-11 years old.
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Emotional functioning in the transition from childhood to adolescence, and beyond – In Conversation with Professor Nick Allen
In this podcast, Professor Nick Allen, Director of the Centre for Digital Mental Health at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon talks about developmental transitions from childhood to adolescence.
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A machine learning approach identifies unique predictors of borderline personality disorder
Researchers in the USA have identified critical predictors of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in late adolescence, using a machine learning approach. Joseph Beeney and colleagues harnessed data from a large, prospective, longitudinal dataset of >2,400 girls who were evaluated yearly for various clinical, psychosocial and demographic factors.
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